OUT WITH THE OLD
IN WITH THE NEW
HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL
ONE LOVE
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas
It's hard to believe that the year is almost over and the holidays are with us once again. This is a great time of year, when there's excitement everywhere and the prospect of miracles is in the air.
We faced a number of significant challenges from time to time, but we're a great nation of and with hard work and dedication, we can achieve any, and everything.
We did it together, and we'll continue to do so together. I have every confidence that we work together, will make next year our very best ever.
Meanwhile, we have the holidays to celebrate and it's incumbent on all of us to make the most of them, just as we made the most of opportunity each and every day. So I want to show my gratitude to all of you in a very special way. I will try to post almost everyday and keep you up to date with everything positive in our society. Have fun and relaxation. And this year, I want you to dedicate the holidays to those three most noble purposes.
So by all means, take off and have a blast.
Here's a something for you all before I go:
You're a wonderful bunch of ladies and gents,
Your spirit is sure divine.
A year of your very best efforts,
Is truly exquisite and fine.
Santa knows all about it.
He surely knows the ropes.
His spirit will be yours awaiting
When you open your pay envelopes.
A little Christmas or Chanukah cheer,
For everyone, one and all.
So party now and listen
For Santa's sleigh bell call.
He'll send his elves a calling,
And give you a nice, sweet lift.
'Tis the season to thank you, everyone,
With a special holiday gift!
The Day of Good-will
The Cold Weather with-out and the Warm Hearts within
The Christmas Tree, which grows in a Night and is plucked in the Morning by the gladdest of fingers
The Day in which Religion gives sweetness to Social Life—Christmas Gifts; may they bless the Giver not less than the Receiver
The Oldest of our Festivals, which grows mellower and sweeter with the passage of the centuries
St. Nicholas [or Santa Claus], the only saint Protestants worship
A Merry Day that leaves no heart-ache
A Good Christmas, may sleighing, gifts, and feasting crowd out all gambling and drunkenness.
We faced a number of significant challenges from time to time, but we're a great nation of and with hard work and dedication, we can achieve any, and everything.
We did it together, and we'll continue to do so together. I have every confidence that we work together, will make next year our very best ever.
Meanwhile, we have the holidays to celebrate and it's incumbent on all of us to make the most of them, just as we made the most of opportunity each and every day. So I want to show my gratitude to all of you in a very special way. I will try to post almost everyday and keep you up to date with everything positive in our society. Have fun and relaxation. And this year, I want you to dedicate the holidays to those three most noble purposes.
So by all means, take off and have a blast.
Here's a something for you all before I go:
You're a wonderful bunch of ladies and gents,
Your spirit is sure divine.
A year of your very best efforts,
Is truly exquisite and fine.
Santa knows all about it.
He surely knows the ropes.
His spirit will be yours awaiting
When you open your pay envelopes.
A little Christmas or Chanukah cheer,
For everyone, one and all.
So party now and listen
For Santa's sleigh bell call.
He'll send his elves a calling,
And give you a nice, sweet lift.
'Tis the season to thank you, everyone,
With a special holiday gift!
The Day of Good-will
The Cold Weather with-out and the Warm Hearts within
The Christmas Tree, which grows in a Night and is plucked in the Morning by the gladdest of fingers
The Day in which Religion gives sweetness to Social Life—Christmas Gifts; may they bless the Giver not less than the Receiver
The Oldest of our Festivals, which grows mellower and sweeter with the passage of the centuries
St. Nicholas [or Santa Claus], the only saint Protestants worship
A Merry Day that leaves no heart-ache
A Good Christmas, may sleighing, gifts, and feasting crowd out all gambling and drunkenness.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Zig Zag
I was at the recent 'Zig Zag' dance production by the Classique dance Company.
As usual Clive put out a wonderful show. Spectacular!
But my Gawd!!!!!!!!!! Talk about the zig zag people in there. Oh Lawddddddddddddddddddd. It was atrocious.
The went as far as cross-dressing. SMDH.
As usual Clive put out a wonderful show. Spectacular!
But my Gawd!!!!!!!!!! Talk about the zig zag people in there. Oh Lawddddddddddddddddddd. It was atrocious.
The went as far as cross-dressing. SMDH.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Foundation 7
I recently attended the Foundation 7 Musical Graduation and it was amazing.
The performances by graduating students were marvelous.
There was a special item on the program - The Introduction of violin classes and the teacher, was Dr. Mendez of Sri Lanka. I was so ignorant about violin. I was under the impression that is was b.o.r.i.n.g.
But I had to put a sock in my mouth when she (Dr. Mendez) played.
The way she romanced her violin, and how she played I literally thought I heard people singing. The experience, as Oprah would say, was a "aw aw" moment for me.
Following her performance, I immediately signed up for the classes.
The performances by graduating students were marvelous.
There was a special item on the program - The Introduction of violin classes and the teacher, was Dr. Mendez of Sri Lanka. I was so ignorant about violin. I was under the impression that is was b.o.r.i.n.g.
But I had to put a sock in my mouth when she (Dr. Mendez) played.
The way she romanced her violin, and how she played I literally thought I heard people singing. The experience, as Oprah would say, was a "aw aw" moment for me.
Following her performance, I immediately signed up for the classes.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
YOU BE THE JUDGE
Here beyonce's new video, single ladies.....(the first one) the second one is her and Justin Timberlake on SNL, the others are ..... well u be the judge....lol
Saturday, November 8, 2008
No laughing Matter!
Boemerang - Click here for another funny movie.
This video is in a different language, but you don’t need a translation to find it rather amusing. The man with the mini-fro has some vocal chord damage that has led to an interesting voice the host is ill prepared to handle, to say the least.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
CRAZY IN LOVE!!! MAN CRASHES HIS CAR ... CLAIMS HE WAS ON THE WAY TO MEET BEYONCE!!!
MILFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Detroit-area man faces a variety of charges after nearly hitting a patrol car and telling police that singer Beyonce was waiting to meet him in New York, authorities said. The man, 33, of Macomb Township, Mich., was detained early Sunday after driving in a "reckless manner" in a parking lot and nearly striking a parked patrol car, said police spokesman Vaughan Dumas.
The spokesman said police found a teddy bear and flowers that the man said were meant for the singer inside his car.
The man reportedly refused to leave his car when ordered and asked police for directions to Detroit before taking off again. He was arrested a few minutes later and charged with reckless driving, speeding, interfering with an officer, failure to obey an officer's signal and failure to obey a stop sign.
The man was released on $5,000 bail and taken to a local hospital for observation, Dumas said.
The man told police he was going to meet Beyonce at the George Washington Bridge in New York, Dumas said.
"He didn't threaten her or anything," Dumas said. "It was just his claim that he was going to meet her."
The spokesman said police found a teddy bear and flowers that the man said were meant for the singer inside his car.
The man reportedly refused to leave his car when ordered and asked police for directions to Detroit before taking off again. He was arrested a few minutes later and charged with reckless driving, speeding, interfering with an officer, failure to obey an officer's signal and failure to obey a stop sign.
The man was released on $5,000 bail and taken to a local hospital for observation, Dumas said.
The man told police he was going to meet Beyonce at the George Washington Bridge in New York, Dumas said.
"He didn't threaten her or anything," Dumas said. "It was just his claim that he was going to meet her."
FREAKY COUPLE: RAPPER T-PAIN CLAIMS HIS WIFE LIKES SKRIPPERS AS MUCH AS HE DOES!!!
For years we've wondered how T-Pain could be married and have such an obvious obsession with strippers and strip clubs. Well now it's making perfect sense.
Here's what T-Pain told Blender Magazine:
He got married at 18 (he proposed in a Bennigan’s), and he has two children with his wife, Amber: daughter Lyriq, 4, and son Muzyq, 1. T-Pain paints a lively picture of domestic bliss: “My wife and I download pornos together,” he says. “She goes with me to strip clubs. She’ll be tipping bitches and everything.”
More sweetly: “I love reading my daughter to sleep—she loves this one book called Ducks in Muck.”
And, combining the smutty and the sweet: “I’ll be at a club, just surrounded by ho’s, and I’ll literally call my wife, like, ‘I’m so, so happy I married you.’”
Hey guys whatever works ....
OBAMA'S GRANDMOTHER FIGHTING TO STAY ALIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE BARACK ELECTED INTO OFFICE
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — If Michelle Obama is her husband's "rock," his grandmother is a big part of the ground beneath it.
Madelyn Payne Dunham gave young Barack Obama a place to call home while his mother traveled the world. When he needed money for school, she went without new clothes to help pay his tuition.
And when the Illinois Senator decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Dunham provided the "Kansas heartland" pedigree he needed to appeal to conservative white voters — and a personal anecdote about racial prejudice that helped the man with the foreign name and Ivy League resume connect with the African-American experience.
The 85-year-old former bank executive is said to be "gravely ill" after falling and breaking her hip, and some reports suggest she might not live to see the results of the Nov. 4 election. Whatever happens, she's already lived long enough to see her "Barry" achieve what she'd wanted for him, her brother says.
"I think she thinks she was important in raising a fine young man," Charles Payne, 83, said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday from his Chicago home. "I doubt if it would occur to her that he would go this far this fast. But she's enjoyed watching it."
Although he made his mark thousands of miles from the Honolulu apartment where she helped raise him, Obama and others credit Dunham — whose birthday is Sunday — with instilling in him an appreciation for education and hard work, and with setting an example of thrift, practicality and tolerance.
"I think there's nobody more important than her, except his mother, in shaping his character," said David Mendell, who interviewed Dunham in 2004 for the Chicago Tribune and later wrote the book, "Obama: From Promise to Power."
Mendell said Obama got "that dreamer quality" seen in his speeches from his late mother. But when he has to decide whom to trust in politics, "that's his grandmother's practicality coming out in him."
"His grandmother was a real no-nonsense, no-frills woman who was far more skeptical of human nature than his mother," Mendell said Tuesday. "And in politics, he has to rely on both of those characteristics."
The oldest of four children to an oil company clerk and a teacher, Madelyn Payne grew up in a "company house" on the edge of Augusta, Kan. She was a good student and an avid reader, with a special fondness for a good murder mystery.
A couple of weeks before her high school graduation in 1940, without her parents' knowledge or blessing, she married Stanley Dunham — making her a maverick long before Arizona Sen. John McCain turned the term into a campaign buzz word. While her husband was away in the Army during World War II, she was home raising their daughter, Stanley Ann, and supervising a B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant in Wichita.
After the war, she followed her husband around the country as he took a series of sales jobs and got a college degree on the GI Bill — an accomplishment she always dreamed of, but was never quite able to find the time for. Despite that, she worked her way up from a bank secretary to one of the first female bank vice presidents in Hawaii.
The couple were living in Honolulu when their daughter met Barack Obama Sr., a student from Kenya. Barack Jr. was born there in 1961 and remained with his grandparents after his father left to pursue his education. Aside from a four-year interlude during which he lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather, Obama spent his childhood in Honolulu — most of it in the two-bedroom, high-rise apartment where Dunham still lives.
Obama often speaks fondly of "Toot" — his version of the Hawaiian word "Tutu," or grandparent. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he wrote of looking up from the basketball court to find her watching him practice from the 10th-floor window — and of how she took the secretarial job at Bank of Hawaii "to help defray the costs of my unexpected birth."
But an incident that occurred when he was a teenager also reminded him just how deep the mistrust between whites and blacks goes in this country.
In the book, he recalled overhearing Toot ask her husband for a ride to work, because a particularly aggressive panhandler had accosted her for money at the bus stop the day before. When Stanley Dunham refused, his grandson couldn't understand why.
"Before you came in, she told me the fella was black," his grandfather explained, according to the memoir. "That's the real reason why she's bothered."
Obama said the words were "like a fist in my stomach."
"Never had they given me reason to doubt their love; I doubted if they ever would," he wrote. "And yet I knew that men who might easily have been my brothers could still inspire their rawest fears."
Obama revived the story in March, when comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright prompted Obama to publicly address race relations in America.
"I can no more disown him," he told an audience in Philadelphia of his former pastor, "than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Charles Payne said his sister's reaction to being made a campaign issue was "no more than just sort of raised eyebrows." Although she was too ill to travel for the campaign, she followed it closely on television — even undergoing a corneal transplant earlier this year so she could watch the coverage.
"She was almost totally blind," Payne said. "She's not physically able to" campaign, he said, "but it doesn't mean her interest has flagged."
Obama's campaign announced that he had canceled events later this week to spend some time with his grandmother. Payne said his sister was hospitalized briefly but is back home in her Honolulu apartment, where Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, cares for her.
When Payne spoke with his sister on the telephone Monday, they talked about family matters.
"We had a short and as upbeat as possible conversation," said Payne, 83, a retired university library administrator. "She's unhappy with the condition that she's in, I can tell you that."
The campaign didn't come up, and Payne wasn't sure whether his sister had cast her vote yet.
Some reports have Dunham close to death. Payne declined to speculate on how long his sister might have, and whether she had the strength to see her grandson through the election.
"I think, of course, it's been terribly important to her," he said. "And she would like nothing better than to see that."
Madelyn Payne Dunham gave young Barack Obama a place to call home while his mother traveled the world. When he needed money for school, she went without new clothes to help pay his tuition.
And when the Illinois Senator decided to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, Dunham provided the "Kansas heartland" pedigree he needed to appeal to conservative white voters — and a personal anecdote about racial prejudice that helped the man with the foreign name and Ivy League resume connect with the African-American experience.
The 85-year-old former bank executive is said to be "gravely ill" after falling and breaking her hip, and some reports suggest she might not live to see the results of the Nov. 4 election. Whatever happens, she's already lived long enough to see her "Barry" achieve what she'd wanted for him, her brother says.
"I think she thinks she was important in raising a fine young man," Charles Payne, 83, said in a brief telephone interview Tuesday from his Chicago home. "I doubt if it would occur to her that he would go this far this fast. But she's enjoyed watching it."
Although he made his mark thousands of miles from the Honolulu apartment where she helped raise him, Obama and others credit Dunham — whose birthday is Sunday — with instilling in him an appreciation for education and hard work, and with setting an example of thrift, practicality and tolerance.
"I think there's nobody more important than her, except his mother, in shaping his character," said David Mendell, who interviewed Dunham in 2004 for the Chicago Tribune and later wrote the book, "Obama: From Promise to Power."
Mendell said Obama got "that dreamer quality" seen in his speeches from his late mother. But when he has to decide whom to trust in politics, "that's his grandmother's practicality coming out in him."
"His grandmother was a real no-nonsense, no-frills woman who was far more skeptical of human nature than his mother," Mendell said Tuesday. "And in politics, he has to rely on both of those characteristics."
The oldest of four children to an oil company clerk and a teacher, Madelyn Payne grew up in a "company house" on the edge of Augusta, Kan. She was a good student and an avid reader, with a special fondness for a good murder mystery.
A couple of weeks before her high school graduation in 1940, without her parents' knowledge or blessing, she married Stanley Dunham — making her a maverick long before Arizona Sen. John McCain turned the term into a campaign buzz word. While her husband was away in the Army during World War II, she was home raising their daughter, Stanley Ann, and supervising a B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant in Wichita.
After the war, she followed her husband around the country as he took a series of sales jobs and got a college degree on the GI Bill — an accomplishment she always dreamed of, but was never quite able to find the time for. Despite that, she worked her way up from a bank secretary to one of the first female bank vice presidents in Hawaii.
The couple were living in Honolulu when their daughter met Barack Obama Sr., a student from Kenya. Barack Jr. was born there in 1961 and remained with his grandparents after his father left to pursue his education. Aside from a four-year interlude during which he lived in Indonesia with his mother and stepfather, Obama spent his childhood in Honolulu — most of it in the two-bedroom, high-rise apartment where Dunham still lives.
Obama often speaks fondly of "Toot" — his version of the Hawaiian word "Tutu," or grandparent. In his memoir, "Dreams From My Father," he wrote of looking up from the basketball court to find her watching him practice from the 10th-floor window — and of how she took the secretarial job at Bank of Hawaii "to help defray the costs of my unexpected birth."
But an incident that occurred when he was a teenager also reminded him just how deep the mistrust between whites and blacks goes in this country.
In the book, he recalled overhearing Toot ask her husband for a ride to work, because a particularly aggressive panhandler had accosted her for money at the bus stop the day before. When Stanley Dunham refused, his grandson couldn't understand why.
"Before you came in, she told me the fella was black," his grandfather explained, according to the memoir. "That's the real reason why she's bothered."
Obama said the words were "like a fist in my stomach."
"Never had they given me reason to doubt their love; I doubted if they ever would," he wrote. "And yet I knew that men who might easily have been my brothers could still inspire their rawest fears."
Obama revived the story in March, when comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright prompted Obama to publicly address race relations in America.
"I can no more disown him," he told an audience in Philadelphia of his former pastor, "than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
Charles Payne said his sister's reaction to being made a campaign issue was "no more than just sort of raised eyebrows." Although she was too ill to travel for the campaign, she followed it closely on television — even undergoing a corneal transplant earlier this year so she could watch the coverage.
"She was almost totally blind," Payne said. "She's not physically able to" campaign, he said, "but it doesn't mean her interest has flagged."
Obama's campaign announced that he had canceled events later this week to spend some time with his grandmother. Payne said his sister was hospitalized briefly but is back home in her Honolulu apartment, where Obama's sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, cares for her.
When Payne spoke with his sister on the telephone Monday, they talked about family matters.
"We had a short and as upbeat as possible conversation," said Payne, 83, a retired university library administrator. "She's unhappy with the condition that she's in, I can tell you that."
The campaign didn't come up, and Payne wasn't sure whether his sister had cast her vote yet.
Some reports have Dunham close to death. Payne declined to speculate on how long his sister might have, and whether she had the strength to see her grandson through the election.
"I think, of course, it's been terribly important to her," he said. "And she would like nothing better than to see that."
Who's the baby daddy?
platinum selling rapper Lil Wayne is reportedly expecting a baby by R&B singer Nivea. But that may not be all.
Word on the street is that best selling author Karrine "Superhead" Steffans is telling people that she may be carrying Wayne's child too. A snitch says, "First it was Bow Wow's [child], now it's [Lil] Wayne's ... only Maury can find out who the real father is ... Assuming she's even pregnant."
Took the words right out of our mouth ....
Word on the street is that best selling author Karrine "Superhead" Steffans is telling people that she may be carrying Wayne's child too. A snitch says, "First it was Bow Wow's [child], now it's [Lil] Wayne's ... only Maury can find out who the real father is ... Assuming she's even pregnant."
Took the words right out of our mouth ....
Sunday, October 19, 2008
We'll miss you Akila
My heart goes out to her family. This is so sad, I can't even seem to do any stories today.
Akila was my high school pal.
People often say that we speak of the good things people say when they're dead. This is not the case.
Those who know Akila, knows her a VERY JOVIAL person.
I would have never thought in a million years that this is how my friend would have died.
Never in a million years thought I would never see her today.
Hear her voice.
Let us all pay tribute to person who has set a standard for us.
We was so young!!!!
But let us not question the Lord's decision.
Akila babes, this is for you.
Watch over us.
We'll miss you
Like a flaming sword that slices
at the deepest recesses of the soul
Accidental death
leaves this gaping, engulfing hole.
Sacrificial gore,
red-hot flaming anguish
Like the pool of gushing life-liquid
magnified by embodiment of ineptness.
What is the purpose?
Who is to be blamed?
Can this be forgiven,
in the Name of all Names?
Where should we go for solace?
Thios blinding hurt is crippling!
Immobilizing the mind,
challenging the spirit.
Hope for fruit
from the young Akila indeed
crushed as she's gone
in a flash of blinding speed.
A mother's womb contorts
a father's heart is squeezed
Lord please have mercy
on this family in need.
Akila was my high school pal.
People often say that we speak of the good things people say when they're dead. This is not the case.
Those who know Akila, knows her a VERY JOVIAL person.
I would have never thought in a million years that this is how my friend would have died.
Never in a million years thought I would never see her today.
Hear her voice.
Let us all pay tribute to person who has set a standard for us.
We was so young!!!!
But let us not question the Lord's decision.
Akila babes, this is for you.
Watch over us.
We'll miss you
Like a flaming sword that slices
at the deepest recesses of the soul
Accidental death
leaves this gaping, engulfing hole.
Sacrificial gore,
red-hot flaming anguish
Like the pool of gushing life-liquid
magnified by embodiment of ineptness.
What is the purpose?
Who is to be blamed?
Can this be forgiven,
in the Name of all Names?
Where should we go for solace?
Thios blinding hurt is crippling!
Immobilizing the mind,
challenging the spirit.
Hope for fruit
from the young Akila indeed
crushed as she's gone
in a flash of blinding speed.
A mother's womb contorts
a father's heart is squeezed
Lord please have mercy
on this family in need.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Ms. Diwali/ Ms. Sari
Dear Editor,
Regarding the news item `Hindu organizations call for Diwali pageant to be renamed’ (SN Oct 17), I urge the National Diwali Committee to reconsider its holding of the Miss Diwali Sari Pageant which appears to have hurt the sentiments of many Hindus. I have always supported the idea of a Diwali festival and in fact teamed with outstanding Hindu New Yorkers like Dr. Baytoram Ramharack, Vassan Ramracha and others to organize Diwali celebrations in NY in the 1980s. We also held a Miss Diwali Beauty pageant in NY but discontinued it because we recognized it hurt the feelings of many Hindus. I see nothing wrong in holding a cultural variety concert that reflects the theme of Diwali and these kinds of celebrations are routinely held in many societies I have visited including neighbouring Trinidad and far away Mauritius and South Africa. But it should be celebrated in a dignified manner.
Diwali is an auspicious celebration and it should not be celebrated in a way perceived to be vulgar. Thus, I support the efforts of the group that seeks to have the Guyana event renamed. The leaders of many Hindu groups in NY I spoke with on the subject also oppose the “vulgar celebration” of the festival which is supposed to lift us out of spiritual darkness and enlighten our lives.
I should also note that Diwali brings people together not divides them. It appears that the planned Diwali Sari pageant is pulling people apart, defeating the purpose of holding such a celebration. With rising opposition from many prominent individuals and organizations and complaints about commercialization of the event, I humbly request the organizers to change the theme (and date if practical) of the pageant.
Yours faithfully,
Vishnu Bisram
What wrong with these people eh? Is that pageant in any way perceived to be vulgar? iya got serious problem Vishnu.
BTW...I think that pageant is very boring and look at what they getting a whole car.. Ms. World and Ms. Universe Franchise Holders....step up yours games yea!
Regarding the news item `Hindu organizations call for Diwali pageant to be renamed’ (SN Oct 17), I urge the National Diwali Committee to reconsider its holding of the Miss Diwali Sari Pageant which appears to have hurt the sentiments of many Hindus. I have always supported the idea of a Diwali festival and in fact teamed with outstanding Hindu New Yorkers like Dr. Baytoram Ramharack, Vassan Ramracha and others to organize Diwali celebrations in NY in the 1980s. We also held a Miss Diwali Beauty pageant in NY but discontinued it because we recognized it hurt the feelings of many Hindus. I see nothing wrong in holding a cultural variety concert that reflects the theme of Diwali and these kinds of celebrations are routinely held in many societies I have visited including neighbouring Trinidad and far away Mauritius and South Africa. But it should be celebrated in a dignified manner.
Diwali is an auspicious celebration and it should not be celebrated in a way perceived to be vulgar. Thus, I support the efforts of the group that seeks to have the Guyana event renamed. The leaders of many Hindu groups in NY I spoke with on the subject also oppose the “vulgar celebration” of the festival which is supposed to lift us out of spiritual darkness and enlighten our lives.
I should also note that Diwali brings people together not divides them. It appears that the planned Diwali Sari pageant is pulling people apart, defeating the purpose of holding such a celebration. With rising opposition from many prominent individuals and organizations and complaints about commercialization of the event, I humbly request the organizers to change the theme (and date if practical) of the pageant.
Yours faithfully,
Vishnu Bisram
What wrong with these people eh? Is that pageant in any way perceived to be vulgar? iya got serious problem Vishnu.
BTW...I think that pageant is very boring and look at what they getting a whole car.. Ms. World and Ms. Universe Franchise Holders....step up yours games yea!
Back in Action
The University of Guyana will soon reopen it's doors to our future lawyers and doctors according to Education Minister.
It is set to reopen early next month and not in January as was previously announced.
Thank God
It is set to reopen early next month and not in January as was previously announced.
Thank God
Mek he backside an example
I am proud of the Guyana Police Force. No man is above the law and as such he is not exempt from prosecution.
Just look at this:
1.unlicensed driver
2.failing to produce a driver’s licence
3.driving an uninsured vehicle
4.driving an uncertified vehicle
5.careless driving
6.driving an unlicensed vehicle
and he rass jailing people back side for them things!!!
Kurr ya cunt Jailhouse (oops...I meant Gilhuys)
Just look at this:
1.unlicensed driver
2.failing to produce a driver’s licence
3.driving an uninsured vehicle
4.driving an uncertified vehicle
5.careless driving
6.driving an unlicensed vehicle
and he rass jailing people back side for them things!!!
Kurr ya cunt Jailhouse (oops...I meant Gilhuys)
It mek sense
Serious Times
We are now faced with the embarrassment of refusing to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement, even though this agreement was in negotiation for years and we did not, prior to September, complain that it was not a good deal for Guyana. Our neighbours are testing us, with Venezuela violating our airspace with Russian aircraft and the President claiming that he does not get involved in “big nation business”. The Air Traffic Tower confirmed that they were aware but did not have the equipment to track the movement of the aircraft. The fact that Suriname was able to seize a Guyanese vessel in our waters, once again demonstrates our lack of defence on our borders. Talking big and bad after the incident happened does not help. We should have a defence force that is prepared at all times to protect our borders. Our armed forces only have old equipment at their disposal.
THE NEEDED STIMULUS TO OUR ECONOMY
Over the years we have proposed and continue to lobby our government for key hardware elements that must be dealt with immediately. When the “Burnham Harbour Bridge” was built in the 70s, it was never meant to be in existence today. There are only so many repairs you can do to an old car before it will finally have to be replaced. No difference when it comes to the Bridge. It is criminal that there is no plan to build:
1. A high span bridge across the Demerara River to replace this old bridge
2. A deepwater harbour and export free zone at the mouth of the Essequibo River (Hogg Island) This should be high on our priority list in order to attract large shipping in anticipation of the Brazil Connection
3. A high-speed highway from Monkey Jump via Linden to Lethem (Brazil border) with the possibility of a parallel railway.
CONCLUSION
I have written many times and lobbied for the building of a free market Guyanese brand that is an essential aspect of laying a solid foundation for potential investment opportunities. Marketing Guyana as “Open for Business” is crucial to our success in expanding economic opportunity. We need global markets, businesses to buy our companies and products, and the jobs that come as a result. We need macroeconomic policies designed to transform, modernise and diversify the economy to make it globally competitive and relevant. We need governance that facilitates inclusiveness at a political level, financial integrity and a strategic leadership that is competent, visionary, open minded, non-racist and incorruptible. We must set our goals to achieve 10-12 percent annual economic growth rate, and create approximately 100,000 jobs over a 5-year period. A lot of this can be done by converting Guyana’s natural resources into exports, making Guyana a transshipment hub for Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela and creating an export driven economy while encouraging food sufficiency. These are just some elements to help eliminate the punishment that is stifling our citizens.
Good Job Peter!
We are now faced with the embarrassment of refusing to sign the Economic Partnership Agreement, even though this agreement was in negotiation for years and we did not, prior to September, complain that it was not a good deal for Guyana. Our neighbours are testing us, with Venezuela violating our airspace with Russian aircraft and the President claiming that he does not get involved in “big nation business”. The Air Traffic Tower confirmed that they were aware but did not have the equipment to track the movement of the aircraft. The fact that Suriname was able to seize a Guyanese vessel in our waters, once again demonstrates our lack of defence on our borders. Talking big and bad after the incident happened does not help. We should have a defence force that is prepared at all times to protect our borders. Our armed forces only have old equipment at their disposal.
THE NEEDED STIMULUS TO OUR ECONOMY
Over the years we have proposed and continue to lobby our government for key hardware elements that must be dealt with immediately. When the “Burnham Harbour Bridge” was built in the 70s, it was never meant to be in existence today. There are only so many repairs you can do to an old car before it will finally have to be replaced. No difference when it comes to the Bridge. It is criminal that there is no plan to build:
1. A high span bridge across the Demerara River to replace this old bridge
2. A deepwater harbour and export free zone at the mouth of the Essequibo River (Hogg Island) This should be high on our priority list in order to attract large shipping in anticipation of the Brazil Connection
3. A high-speed highway from Monkey Jump via Linden to Lethem (Brazil border) with the possibility of a parallel railway.
CONCLUSION
I have written many times and lobbied for the building of a free market Guyanese brand that is an essential aspect of laying a solid foundation for potential investment opportunities. Marketing Guyana as “Open for Business” is crucial to our success in expanding economic opportunity. We need global markets, businesses to buy our companies and products, and the jobs that come as a result. We need macroeconomic policies designed to transform, modernise and diversify the economy to make it globally competitive and relevant. We need governance that facilitates inclusiveness at a political level, financial integrity and a strategic leadership that is competent, visionary, open minded, non-racist and incorruptible. We must set our goals to achieve 10-12 percent annual economic growth rate, and create approximately 100,000 jobs over a 5-year period. A lot of this can be done by converting Guyana’s natural resources into exports, making Guyana a transshipment hub for Brazil, Suriname and Venezuela and creating an export driven economy while encouraging food sufficiency. These are just some elements to help eliminate the punishment that is stifling our citizens.
Good Job Peter!
Who the hell is this little person????????????
I couldn't help my self when I saw these vidoes....
This one is him/her acting as Sarah Plain
This here him/her acting as Hilary Clinton
This one is him/her acting as Sarah Plain
This here him/her acting as Hilary Clinton
Friday, October 17, 2008
Welcome
OK... It is a must, that I introduce myself to all my faithful readers to be. I am a "one man army" now trying a thing...
Back Yard Business is basically about events and issues affecting my Guyanese brothers and sisters. I'm open ears and not here to criticize those who have constructive criticism...like I've said before, I'm trying a thing. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.
Lively up yaself and let's all be happy
Looking Forward
G.D.
Back Yard Business is basically about events and issues affecting my Guyanese brothers and sisters. I'm open ears and not here to criticize those who have constructive criticism...like I've said before, I'm trying a thing. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.
Lively up yaself and let's all be happy
Looking Forward
G.D.
Local Police Website
Have you ever visited the local Police website? oh lawdddddddddddd that sh*t disgraceful!!!!!!!!!
They want you to get online and download local application forms for passport. Have you seen the status of those forms?
here's a peek....take note of the renewal (http://www.guyanapoliceforce.org/PassRenewal.pdf) that has one serial number and how they made corrections on the instructions forms (http://www.guyanapoliceforce.org/PassInstructions.pdf) with a scratches using a pen...lol
They want you to get online and download local application forms for passport. Have you seen the status of those forms?
here's a peek....take note of the renewal (http://www.guyanapoliceforce.org/PassRenewal.pdf) that has one serial number and how they made corrections on the instructions forms (http://www.guyanapoliceforce.org/PassInstructions.pdf) with a scratches using a pen...lol
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