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www.caribbeantimesnyc.com | March 9-22, 2017 

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Jamaican woman refused entry to US, visa revoked 

HOUSTON, Texas — A Jamaican woman 

was whisked back on a flight to Jamaica 

and her visa revoked after she arrived at 

the Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas on 

Wednesday night. 

The woman’s family members sought 

answers from US media outlet KHOU 11 

News, who aired their story. 

Veronica Gaubault, who was sent back 

to Jamaica, told the Houston media that US 

Customs and Border Protection revoked 

her visa after customs agents inspected her 

iPhone, iPad and other belongings. 

Her cousin, paediatrician Kareen Smith 

said she waited for approximately four 

hours before customs agents told her that 

Gaubault would not be allowed to enter 

the country. They “just decided they were 

not going to let her in”, she told KHOU 11 

News. 

A statement from the US Customs and 

Border Protection said that “It is important 

to note that issuance of a visa or a visa waiver 

does not guarantee entry,” adding that “a 

CBP officer at the port of entry will conduct 

an inspection to determine if the individual 

is eligible for admission into the US”. 

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Jamaica police 

using Whatsapp 

to tackle sexual 

exploitation of 

children 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica Constabulary 

Force (JCF) is using WhatsApp to 

tackle the sexual exploitation of children via 

social media. 

Speaking at a JIS 

‘Think Tank’ recently, 

Head of the Corporate 

Communications 

Unit of the 

JCF, Superintendent 

Stephanie Lindsay, 

said the WhatsApp 

group was created 

to encourage citizens 

to send all sexual videos and images of 

children directly to the police, in order to 

prevent undesirable sharing. 

“Once the content is sent to the police, we 

will use our electronic devices to track the 

source and the persons who share the information 

and make our arrests. We have the 

technology that will allow us to identify the 

origin of the message,” she noted. 

Superintendent Lindsay urged citizens to 

add the JCF WhatsApp number – 564-6840 

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Changes in 

petroleum prices 

in Barbados 

Barbadians will see a change in petroleum 

prices. The price of gasoline will decrease 

while the prices of diesel and Liquefied 

Petroleum Gas (LPG) will increase. 

The retail price of gasoline will fall from 

$2.98 to $2.96 a litre, a decrease of two 

cents. The price of diesel will increase by 

four cents from $2.17 to $2.21 per litre, 

while the price of kerosene remains unchanged 

at $1.13 per litre. 

The new retail price of the 100 lb cylinder 

of LPG will move from $147.04 to 

$153.85. The 25 lb cylinder will cost $43.56, 

up from $41.86, while the price of the 22 

lb cylinder will be $38.50, up from $37. 

The price of the 20 lb cylinder moves from 

$33.64 to $35. These amount to increases of 

$6.81, $1.70, $1.50 and $1.36 respectively. 

The adjustments in retail prices are due 

solely to changes in the CIF (cost, insurance, 

freight) of these refined products. 

A look at territorial 

expansion in Haiti 

The border control treaties between the 

two island Nations have benefited Haiti to 

the detriment of the Dominican Republic. 

Thus, since 1929, the territory of Haiti has 

expanded by 6,200 km2, stresses the historian 

and former secretary of the armed 

forces Jose Miguel Soto Jimenez, in his 

book “Geopolitikeando, compendio de 

geopolítica para presidentes”. 

“What we can verify is that over the 

years, Haiti has gained territory and that 

the Dominican Republic has lost.” He explains 

that from 1492 to 1697 Spain maintained 

the sovereignty of the whole island, 

or 76,192 km2. 

From 1697 to 1777 the territory was re- 


Former US missionary in Haiti 

accused of child sexual abuse 

MIAMI, authorities have charged an Arkansas 

man with sexually abusing children 

while working as a missionary in Haiti. 

Daniel Pye became well-known among 

missionaries in Haiti as he helped coordinate 

relief efforts in Jacmel after the January 

2010 earthquake. He was jailed for about 

five months in Haiti in 2011 amid a dispute 

with members of his U.S.-based mission 

over property belonging to their home for 

children. 

Following a two-year investigation, federal 

prosecutors in Miami have charged Pye 

with four counts of traveling from South 

Florida to Haiti to engage in sexual conduct 

with children. 

Pye was arrested Tuesday in Arkansas, 

where he lives with his wife and was working 

as a counselor at a behavioral center for children, 

according to court documents. 

A judge in Texarkana, Arkansas, ruled that 

Pye, who has no criminal history, could be released 

on $5,000 bond after surrendering his 

passport. But a prosecutor in Miami filed a 

motion Thursday to have that order reversed, 

noting that the former missionary faced up 

to 30 years in prison on each count and had 

previously attempted to commit suicide. 

The judge ordered responses to the motion 

by March 16, effectively keeping him 

in custody for now. Pye is expected to be 

transferred to Florida to be arraigned on the 

charges. 

A public defender appointed to represent 

him in Arkansas did not respond to a telephone 

message seeking comment. 

The investigation began in April 2015 

with a call to a Homeland Security Investigations 

tip line alleging that Pye had sexually 

abused female minors at a home for children 

in Haiti from 2008 to 2012, according 

to the court documents. (AP)

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...it was my BLACK Friday... 

Readers, most writers tend to 

frame their next few articles in 

advance. 

Well, I have been striving to 

follow that pattern, but I am not 

being allowed to stick to that 

sequence, primarily because of 

the rapidity with which breaking-news 

has been ERUPTING 

on the political front. 

NUCLEAR FEARS 

(i)..Black-Friday normally 

occurs when the thirteenth day 

of a particular month falls on a 

Friday. 

However my Black Friday descended 

on January, 27th., when 

I read that former Soviet Union 

Leader-Mikhail Gorbachev had 

warned that”the world may be 

on the brink of war”. 

Gorbachev who rose to power 

in the final years of the Cold 

War and was the President of the 

Soviet Unionwhen it dissolved in 

1991, wrote an opinion-piece in 

Time magazine saying”he’s worried 

about world leaders’ militaristic 

tones, and the rate at which 

Nations are ramping up their 

weapons’ arsenals”. 

Perhaps, just as dangerous as a 

nuclear war, is 85 year-old Gorbachev’s 

observation that “once 

nuclear weapons exist, there is 

a danger that they will explode 

as a result of human error, an 

accident, technical failure, or 

because of the evil intent of an 

insane person. 

--{{ Relevant to the immediate 

paragraph above, is an announcement 

from Gov.Cuomo’s 

Office on Sunday, January 29 th., 

that as the Indian Point nuclear 

plant (Downstate New York) is 

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operation.}} 

Mr.Gobachev, who won the 

Nobel Peace prize in 1990, called 

for an urgent stopping and reversing 

of the ruinous (new) 

arms race, because”none of the 

problems that the world faces, 

mainly poverty, can be solved by 

wars”. 

My most instant fear around a 

Third World War, is that it is going 

to involve the use of Nuclear 

weapons, and as former President 

Obama pointed out in one 

of his farewell interviews,” The 

end is the end, there is nothing 

after the end” 

....In 1985, President Ronald 

Reagan and Mr.Gorbachev 

agreed that a nuclear war could 

never be won by either country, 

and thus should never be fought. 

IMMEDIATE THREATS 

In pragmatic terms, one has 

to take note of potential nuclear 

threats. 

(a).. On December 22nd. 

last year, President(elect) Donald 

Trump declared”the United 

States must greatly strengthen 

and expand its nuclear capability”. 

NEO-Conservatives (the 

NEO-Cons) who (reportedly) 

encouraged President George 

W.Bush to invade Iraq, have 

complimented that Declaration. 

(b)..NORTH KOREA 

Perhaps, the closest that we 

have grown to nuclear collision 

is this obsession that North Korea’s 

33 year-old leader--Kim 

Jong-Un has with testing and 

launching nuclear bombs on his 

neighbors and the United States. 

It is felt that that (North Korean) 

obsession will be met with 

equal or parallel preventive or 

retaliatory action(s) from the 

U.S. and/or its allies. 

North Korea’s population is 

24.9 million persons. 

(c)..On the question of global 

provocations taking place. 

(For example) we recently 

witnessed Russian and American 

weapons coupled with manpower 

lined up side by side in Syria. 

Fortunately, (and I am not saying 

that they were right)--American 

forces did not intervene as 

the Russian forces assisted Asad 

in liquidating his opposition. 

(d)..renewed fighting in the 

Ukraine. 

(e)..We also recently witnessed 

significant numbers of 

American manpower and weapons 

being sent to former Soviet 

countries which are now part of 

NATO. and 

(f)..Iran’s provocative (ballistic) 

actions--spurring additional 

sanctions from the current 

U.S.Government, which has also 

placed “Iran on notice”--many 

are still attempting to find out 

what “notice” means. 

OTHER MATTERS 

Since President Trump’s inauguration, 

American States and 

cities have witnessed large scale 

(day-time and nocturnal) protests--The 

question is are those 

protests which are being likened 

to the Viet Nam era,--a Moment, 

or a MOVEMENT. 

{{-Journalist, Mike Lupica has 

written”the President will screa, 

and the protestors will keep 

coming and screaming back”. }} 

Whichever way, the protests 

go, the Leadership of the Democratic 

Party has to be feeling very 

fortunate, about the manner in 

which the new Government’s 

actions are fueling, mobilizing 

and galvanizing automatic and 

axiomatic opposition reactions 

and pushback(s) both at home 

and abroad. 

The curiosity now has to be 

around how the Democratic Party 

is going to make use of those unexpected 

gifts of financial, legal, 

situational and human resources. 

On the other hand, as 

Mr.Trump seeks to satisfy the 

campaign promises that he made 

to his followers and supporters, 

it is going to be interesting to see 

how far President Trump’s base 

can sustain him during these 

turbulent times, or what some 

Social-Scientists are labeling”implosion” 

IN OTHER WORDS 

I have no fear 

to shed a tear 

that I am so scared 

of anything nuclear.

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The Caribbean American Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry(CACCI) 



Commerce and Industry was Chartered in 

the State of New York in 1985....The Association 

is presently celebrating 31 years of service 

to the small business community (1985- 

2016) in New York and other Geographic 

centers in the U.S. and the Caribbean. 


Commerce and Industry, Inc. (CACCI), 

founded in August 1985, is a statewide membership 

organization, which has developed 

expertise in providing business assistance to 

small, start-up and emerging businesses, in 

areas of business planning, financing, procurement, 

preparation for certification and 

business expansion, and export/import opportunities. 

In reflecting on the history of the Association, 

its Founder and President-Roy Hastick(originally 

from Grenada) expressed a 

lot of pride over the variety of services and 

resource-assistance that the Chamber was 

able to supply to small businesses, especially 

in their start-up processes. 

Mr.Hastick added that the Chamber was 

also continuing to promote small business 

development among women and other minority 

entrepreneurs, especially through 

“business networking activities”, at local, national 

and international levels. 

SERVICE-DELIVERY 

CACCI’s extensive track record of service 

delivery includes sponsoring over 600 

business networking meetings, establishing 

partnerships with government and private 

business entities which have enabled the organization 

to continue the following initiatives: 

• Sponsor business development networking 

power breakfast and business networking 

seminars and meetings, attracting 

entrepreneurs and speakers from the public 

and private sectors, business and community 

leaders, corporate partners, elected officials, 

Caribbean-based Heads of State, CACCI 

members and other domestic and international 

leaders; 

• Manage the Flatbush Caton Market, a 

9,000 sq. ft. micro-enterprise incubator, an 

Roy Hastick 

indoor shopping mall in Flatbush, Brooklyn 

with over 40 vendors who sell a variety of African 

and Caribbean artifacts; 

• Provide weekly CACCI/SCORE free onsite 

confidential small business counseling services 

and technical assistance for CACCI members 

and the wider small business community; 

• Conduct seminars in areas of MWBE, Financial 

Literacy, and Business Services; 

• Strengthen partnerships with CACCI 

members and with public and private business 

entities which have contributed to the 

success of such annual events as: Tribute to 

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King (January), Participation 

in Black, Puerto Rican and Asian 

Legislative Conference (February), Seminar 

focusing on Certification and Procurement 

Opportunities for Minority and Women 

Business Enterprises (MWBE) (March). 

Other CACCI sponsored events include: Annual 

Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Gala; 

Celebration of Service to the Small Business 

Community; Doing Business with NYC, 

NYS and US government agencies; International 

Conference on Doing Business with 

the United States and the Caribbean focusing 

on Export/Import Opportunities; and Salute 

to Small Business Visionaries. CACCI’s 

monthly small business breakfast meetings 

have served as opportunities for members to 

network and explore business opportunities. 

Over the years, CACCI has sponsored 

numerous trade missions to the Caribbean, 

convened numerous business meetings and 

held briefing sessions on behalf of several 

Caribbean Heads of States including: Prime 

Ministers of Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent 

and the Grenadines, St Kitts and Nevis, St. 

Lucia, Barbados, Republic of Trinidad and 

Tobago, Dominica, Guyana, Antigua and 

Barbuda, Chief Minister of Montserrat and 

several other government officials and ministers 

of Haiti. CACCI has also hosted H.E. 

Julian Robert Hunte, then President of the 

58th Session of the United Nations General 

Assembly, Dr. Edwin Carrington, then Secretary 

General of CARICOM and a recipient 

of CACCI’s Roving Ambassador Award, Premiers 

of Nevis and Chief Minister of Anguilla. 

CACCI also hosted NYS Governors, NYC 

Mayors, NYS and NYC Comptrollers, NYC 

Advocates, NYS Attorney Generals, US Congressional, 

NYS and NYC Legislators NYS 

and NYC Commissioners and other business 

and community leaders. 

Trade and Culture Center 

CACCI has received considerable support 

for the development of the first ever Caribbean 

Trade and Culture Center in the East Flatbush 

40th NYC Council district in Brooklyn. In 

October 2015 NYC’s Economic Development 

Corporation (EDC) announced the selection 

of a developer to work on the development of 

the project which will include affordable housing; 

CACCI’s Trade and Culture Center; re-development 

of Flatbush Caton Market, a museum 

and community space. 

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OAKLEY! 

Dear Editor, 

The way Charles Oakley was treated (last 

month) at Madison Square Garden was disgraceful 

and embarrassing. 

In no way, shape or form, should he have 

been treated in such a disrespectful manner. 

As a player,he gave his blood for the 

Knicks, and to be treated like a criminal, is 

well, criminal. 

Former players should be treated as assets, 

like gold, especially when the Knicks are so 

downtrodden, the last thing that they need 

is bad press. 

I was hurt when I saw the replay, having 

grown up watching the Oakley Knicks fight 

for us fans every night. 

When Oakley was taken down, I felt myself 

going down with him.The Knicks should 

be embarrassed, and I have lost all respect 

for this pathetic organization. 

I will no longer root for them.They owe 

Oakley a sincere public apology, and knowing 

him, he will turn the other cheek. 

 

— John Bonano 

DISCIPLINE THE KNICKS! 

Dear Editor, 

The NBA should force James Dolan to sell 

the Knicks’ Franchise for the integrity of the 

commentary: Telling it as it is 

League. 

To have a former player of Oakley’s stature 

to be arrested especially for criminal trespass, 

is ludicrous and an embarrassment to 

the League. 

Let the League take over temporarily, and 

let Willis Reed run the operations and bring 

the Franchise back to respectability. 

 

— Richard Feleppa 

NO NUKES! 

Anti-nuclear activists slam New York 

State’s move to transfer decommissioning 

funds to energy companies. 

Both the inherent problematic characteristics 

of the nuclear power industry as a 

whole, and the dubious nature of Government 

bailouts frustrate and concern me. 

I am very unsettled by the State’s unwillingness 

to share the details of these agreements, 

particularly those carried out at the 

three power-plants Upstate. 

Under the Freedom of Information Law, 

the State is required to provide access to such 

agreements. 

Instead, misleading language and with 

held information are serving to divert concerned 

New Yorkers from the truth. 

Although it is true that nuclear power 

plants are nominally zero-emission, they are 

THE ERA OF UNORTHODOX, NON-TRADITIONAL LEADERS 

WHO SHOW AN AVERSION TO TRUTH & MEDIA SCRUTINY 

As we enter a new era of the 

election of unothodox, non-traditional 

leaders with empty 

promises, who violate and circumvent 

established disclosure 

protocols as they prey on the 

desperations and deprivations 

of hoodwinked followers, we 

see this new brand of leaders 

criticizing the past, demonizing 

and alienating all forms of opposition 

(media and a former 

President included), and doing 

little that show signs of wanting 

to properly resolve issues by engagement 

and getting to the core 

of problems. 

Ignorance of prejudice, can 

easily preclude commonsense 

and logic in the mind of elitist 

racists who confuse the innocent, 

financially challenged 

masses, leaving them stuck with 

less than they bargained for, after 

having fallen for and followed 

By Gerry Hopkin, JD 

the plausible but false explanations 

and promises of politicians 

who discombobulate the truth 

and sugar-coat the lies. 

For example, they mindlessly 

blame immigrants and minorities 

for the scarcity of better-paying 

jobs and the increases we 

see in violent crime rates around 

the nation. This they do, as if 

environmental factors (such 

as exposure to lead/gasoline), 

moral decay and degradation in 

American family life and society 

at large, along with inadequate 

mental health services, and the 

easy access and availability of 

guns without uniform gun-control 

laws, have little or nothing to 

do (correlationally and causally) 

with the problem of America’s 

violent crimes and homicide 

rates. 

Of course, the scientific studies 

prove otherwise. Studies such 

as the CATO Institute’s which 

show that, with few exceptions, 

immigrants are less crime prone 

than natural-born citizens, or 

have no effect on crime rates. 

(See a link to the CATO Institute’s 

research paper at the end of 

by no means a sustainable alternative. 

Ultimately, nuclear power plants have no 

place in the future of sustainable energy in 

New York State. 

 

— Carola Dixon 

REPAIR THE PARKS! 

Dear Editor, 

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of 

the National Park Service. 

From the Statue of Liberty to Ellis island 

to the Gateway National Recreation area, 

New Yorkers can be proud of the amazing 

pieces of our shared heritage protected as national 

park sites. 

But our country’s parks face a damning 

challenge...more than $12 billion in needed 

repairs. 

The Park System’s deferred maintenance 

backlog includes unmaintained trail, crumbling 

roads, and visitor centers in desperate 

need of updating. 

The Gateway National Recreation area 

alone requires over $621 million in repairs, 

while the Statue of Liberty requires over $160 

million in repairs. 

These are major New York landmarks, responsible 

for millions of dollars in local revenue, 

and should receive the maintenance-resources 

that they need. 

 

— Frank McGregor 

this piece.) 

It is common knowledge that 

a wide range of economic factors 

and conditions, ranging from severe, 

prolonged depression with 

high bankruptcy rates, often 

caused by loss of employment 

and major illnesses; to high unemployment 

(such as the Great 

Depressionof the 1930s and 

the recession of the 2000s up to 

2012); as well as, to a breakdown 

in normal commerce caused by 

hyperinflation, or by greed and 

irresponsible fiscal mismanagement, 

accommodated by relaxed 

deregulation -- can result in economic 

collapse and hardship. 

And when this happens, rather 

than take the blame for poor 

leadership, politicians tend to 

be the first to find someone to 

blame -- and immigrants and 

minorities tend to be seen as the 


IT’S ABOUT 

Week after week 

it’s about foreign and local leaks. 

It is about differing views 

and about fake news. 

It is about Presidential tweets 

that reach the streets 

as attempted distractions 

from actual situations. 

It is about frequent protests 

from those feeling oppressed 

with on-going stress 

from continually getting Less. 

It is not premature 

to have fears about the future 

as we scrutinize 

what’s in front of our eyes. 

It is about from campaigning 

to governing 

for all of America 

including its Media. 

 

— Carlyle Harry 

FUTURE 

What does the future hold? 

Do we have a President who is bold? 

Are we going to get tricked into 

thinking he is the one? 

Or do we have a billionaire 

businessman who was just having fun? 

He is already public enemy number one 

in every Democrat and Republican’s 

mind 

So maybe he should just quit and kiss 

my behind. 

 

— ‘Money Russ’ 

I AM YOUR CHILD 

I am the child of today, your teacher 

of tomorrow 

If you think I come bridled with your 

thoughts, think again, I am saddled 

with the vision of truth striding into the 

break of dawn 

Confident of victory 

If you think I will be muzzled, pushed 

and penned, huddled and threatened 

Think again 

I will speak in muted silence 

Defiant as the wind 

I am your child smothered with yeste 

day’s past exhumed like a cometcelestial 

I come reaching for tomorrow’s joy 

Naked as a lit candle stick 

And tall as a flame 

 

— Noel Moses

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A strong plea for reparations 


Founder/President of the Black Institute-Bertha 

Lewis made an impassioned plea 

for financial and material reparations to be 

awarded to two categories of black persons- 

-(i).. the children of former slaves; and (ii).. 

persons who have been wrongly convicted 

and incarcerated. 

In an address to members of the Thomas 

Jefferson club, on Thursday evening, Februrary, 

23rd., Ms.Lewis in pleading her case, 

pointed to the reparations that were handed 

out to (for example) Jews by the German 

Government following the Holocost; and to 

the Japanese after World War II, by the Reagan 

Administration. 

Ms.Lewis asked the audience to calculate 

what the offer of ‘forty acres and a mule’ 

would be today; and she further urged them 

to try to figure out how someone who had 

been wrongfully convicted and incarcerated 

could be compensated for the many years 

spent in jail and prison. 

Ms.Lewis listed some of the main deprivations 

and sufferings that those wrongly convicted/incarcerated 

persons and their family 

members had to endure. 

Ms.Lewis went on to give examples of the 

advocacies that she was involved with in her 

reparations’ efforts, and invited elected-officials 

who were present in the audience to 

join those efforts. 

Pictured above left: Ms.Bertha Lewis addressing the audience. Pictured right: In the front row is State-Senator, Roxanne Persaud; next to her is Council-Member,Alan 

Maisel; 4 seats down is Acting Brooklyn District Attorney-Eric Gonzalez. 

Ms.Lewis added that she was also involved 

in discussions and negotiations with Mayor 

Bill de Blasio, seeking to have him make bigger 

investments of money and resources to 

black and minority communities who make 

up larger proportions of New York city’s population. 

Ms.Lewis noted that she would like to see 

increased job-training and entrepreneurial 

opportunities being made available to women 

and minorities. 

At the commencement of her address, 

Ms.Lewis recapped the biased and prejudiced 

treatments that were meted out to 

blacks, especially in the Southern States, prior 

to the non-violent protests that were led 

by Dr.Martin Luther King and his colleagues. 

Several elected Officials attended the Discourse...They 

included State-Senator, Roxanne 

Persaud; Council-Members, Matthew 

Eugene and Alan Maisel; Acting Brooklyn 

District-Attorney, Eric Gonzalez; and District-Leader, 

Anne J.Stern. 

The Leadership of the Thomas Jefferson 

Democratic club--Frank Seddio; Henry Bolus; 

and Sue Ann Partnow indicated that 

they had decided to host the ‘Black History-month’ 

lecture in order to (a) stress the 

racial and nationality diversity of Canarsie; 

and (b) to draw attention to the harm(s) that 

was done to blacks and minorities in the earlier 

years. 

They also gave notice that lecture--discourses 

would be regular features of the club. 


GAPF’S Immigration forum draws a crowd 


The Guyana American Patriotic Movement 

held a public Discourse last Sunday 

afternoon, in order to share information on 

the Government’s Executive-Order pertaining 

to Immigration. 

The forum was co-sponsored by Congresswoman-Yvette 

Clarke and Councilman-Jumanie 

Williams. 

THE CONGRESS-WOMAN 

In her address to the well-attended gathering, 

Congress-Woman, Clarke expressed 

her concerns with the fears that had overtaken 

Brooklyn communities, since details 

of the (Immigration) Executive-Order were 

released. 

Ms.Clarke explained that while it was crucial 

to mount resistance and protest actions; 

Pictured left: Congresswoman Yvette Clarke. Pictured right: Attorney-at-Law, Colin Moore 

her office, and the offices of other elected-Officials 

had established Information Divisions 

in order to offer advice and assistance to residents 

who might be vulnerable. 

The Congress-Woman who represents the 

ninth Congressional District also encouraged 

Green-Card holders to apply for their 

citizenship. She provided data on Agencies 

that were assisting persons to pursue citizenship 

applications. 

Ms. Clarke also reported on 

the cultural dislocations 

that deportees were 

experiencing when they 

were sent back to their 

countries of origin. 

Ms. Clarke also reported on the cultural 

dislocations that deportees were experiencing 

when they were sent back to their countries 

of origin. 

In closing, Ms.Clarke reminded attendees 

at the Discourse that was held at the St.Stephen’s 

church on East 29th. Street that they 


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health 


Understanding food allergies 

How to effectively prevent peanut allergy and more 

Have you noticed food allergy warnings at 

restaurants? Maybe you’ve heard about peanut-free 

classrooms and flights. People who 

have serious reactions to certain foods must 

be careful about what they eat, and what others 

eat around them. There’s no cure for food 

allergies. But researchers are learning more 

about how to prevent and treat this condition. 

Allergic reactions happen when your immune 

system—your body’s defense against 

germs and foreign substances—overreacts 

to something that’s normally harmless. In 

the United States, most food allergies are 

caused by peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, 

eggs, milk, wheat, and soy. Allergies show up 

most often in children. But they can develop 

at any age. 

Food allergy symptoms can range from 

mild to severe. Some people experience a 

life-threatening reaction called anaphylaxis. 

Symptoms may include trouble breathing, 

dizziness, and fainting. When you have a 

food allergy, there’s no way to predict how 

your body will react when you’re exposed. 

You might have a mild reaction one time and 

a severe reaction the next. 

If you think that you or your child may 

have a food allergy, see your health care provider. 

Your doctor will take a detailed medical 

history and perform a physical examination. 

If a diagnosis of food allergy seems 

likely, they may recommend a blood test or 

skin prick test. These results will help determine 

if you or your child has a food allergy. 

NIH researchers have been working to 

better understand food allergies. “There has 

been a lot of research on peanut allergy because 

it is often severe, lifelong, and has a 

huge impact on quality of life,” explains Dr. 

Scott Sicherer, a pediatric food allergy expert 

at Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine. 

Scientists hope the progress they make on 

peanut allergy will help guide how to handle 

other food allergies. 

Researchers recently carried out a large 

clinical trial called Learning Early About 

Peanut Allergy (LEAP). The study looked at 

infants’ chances of developing an allergy if 

they ate peanut-containing foods at an early 

age. Six hundred and forty infants who were 

at high risk of developing a peanut allergy 

were enrolled in the trial. The infants were 

randomly placed in either a peanut-eating 

or peanut-avoiding group. They continued 

these diets until they were 5 years old. Infants 

who ate peanut-containing foods beginning 

early in life had an 81% lower chance of de- 


Making a healthier home 

Ridding your living space of dangerous toxins 

Take a look around your home. Do you 

know what’s in your household goods and 

products? Some chemicals can harm your 

health if too much gets into your body. 

Becoming aware of potentially harmful 

substances and clearing them out can help 

keep you and your family healthy. 

“There’s a range of chemicals that you 

can be exposed to in your home, generally 

at very low levels,” says Dr. Andrew Rooney, 

a toxicology and risk expert at NIH. Possible 

toxic substances can be found in building 

materials, cookware, cleaning products, 

shower curtains, furniture, carpet, and other 

common items. 

Not all chemicals are harmful. In fact, 

most substances in our environment are 

likely safe, explains Dr. Heather Patisaul, 

a neuroscience and toxicology expert at 

North Carolina State University. “Only a 

small subset is probably toxic,” she says. 

“Although that’s worrisome, there are many 

simple things you can do to help minimize 

your exposure.” 

Often, it’s how much you’re exposed to 

that can make a chemical harmful. The 

amount that’s “safe” varies for each substance. 

NIH-funded researchers are working 

to learn more about how chemicals in 

the environment can affect our health, so 

we can better address any issues. 

Sometimes it’s obvious when a chemical 

is hazardous. You may get a rash from spilling 

a household cleaner on your skin. Or 

you may start coughing when you breathe 

in irritating fumes. To avoid known health 

risks, be sure to read the instructions carefully 

on your household products, and follow 

any safety precautions. 

Some toxic chemicals cause no immediate 

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago 

(CMC) – Veteran calypsonian Calypso 

Rose is being honoured for her contribution 

to the twin island republic and 

her recent international achievement. 

During yesterday’s post-Cabinet media 

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Jamaican reggae 

artist Edi Fitzroy 

is dead at 62 

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican reggae 

singer, Edi Fitzroy, who made an impact 

on the industry with the hit Princess 

Black, died in hospital on Saturday. 

He was 62. 

The artiste, whose real name is Fitzroy 

Edwards, was born in the community 

of Chapleton, in the central parish 

of Clarendon. 

The son of a sound system operator, 

he later left for Kingston where he studied 

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Rihanna named Harvard’s 

Humanitarian of the Year 

Best known for her chart-topping albums, 

Barbadian singer Rihanna will be 

awarded the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian 

Award for her work supporting education 

and health care in Caribbean and developing 

countries. 

The popular singer Rihanna has been 

named the 2017 Harvard University Humanitarian 

of the Year, and came to campus 

to accept the Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian 

Award at a ceremony on Feb. 28. 

“Rihanna has charitably built a stateof- 

the-art center for oncology and nuclear 

medicine to diagnose and treat breast 

cancer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital 

in Bridgetown, Barbados,” said S. Allen 

Counter, the Harvard Foundation’s director. 

“In 2012, she founded the nonprofit the 

Clara Lionel Foundation Global Scholarship 

Program [named for her grandparents] 

for students attending college in the 

U.S. from Caribbean countries, and supports 

the Global Partnership for Education 

and Global Citizen Project, which provides 

children with access to education in over 

60 developing countries, giving priority to 

girls, and those affected by lack of access to 

education in the world today. ” 

An international musical phenomenon, 

the Barbados-born singer, actress, and 

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Rihanna Fenty — has sold more than 200 


Morgan Heritage 

Photo courtesy of www.morganheritagemusic.com/ 

Grammy Award-Winning Morgan 

Heritage announces new album 

QUEENS, New York — Following the success 

of the acclaimed Grammy Award-winning 

Strictly Roots, the globally renowned 

reggae group, Morgan Heritage, announced 

the name of their new album, yesterday, 

through a mini-documentary-style video on 

the Huffington Post. 

The album name, Avrakedabra, and its 

mystical artwork had been kept a secret leading 

up to the “Journey Into” video. Avrakedabra 

will drop on May 19, with pre-orders 

going live on March 17. 

The video touches the surface on the theme 

of the release as well as how it was made. 

Avrakedabra will feature the band’s latest two 

singles, “Selah” and “Reggae Night”, as well as 

many new tracks. Songs on Avrakedabra date 

back from the “Strictly Roots” era to the present, 

providing fans with a taste of the classic, 

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entertainment 


Harry Belafonte: 

Renaissance Man 

By Michael Derek Roberts 

“I often look at the journey, and I don’t get 

it. I really don’t. I have lasted longer than I 

understand why. I often feel that there must 

have been something that I should’ve done 

that I didn’t do. But I can’t identify what it 

is that I didn’t do. That’s the first difficulty. 

And the second is, what makes you think 

you’re it? This is not modesty. This is part 

of a bigger search for me. What was all this 

about? Why?” [Harry Belafonte to the New 

York Times on turning 90]. 

He’s quite literally done it all. He’s outlived 

his peers and rubbed shoulders with 

the greatest leaders of the 20th century 

across America and the world. He was born 

in Harlem and got his first acting role with 

Sidney Poitier and took his first acting lessons 

in a class with Marlon Brando, Rod 

Steiger and Tony Curtis. And he met Dr. 

Martin Luther King at a church basement 

through Adam Clayton Powell Jr. The great 

Paul Robeson introduced him to W. E. B. 

Du Bois. His street smarts and education 

of the poor and forgotten of New York City 

was supplied by his uncle Lenny, who ran a 

numbers racket, and introduced him to the 

elite of Harlem’s gangsters. He took Nelson 

Mandela to Yankee Stadium, planned an 

Amos and Andy movie with Robert Altman 

and, at 89, was a co-chair of the Women’s 

March on Washington in January. 

Harold “Harry” George Belafonte, Jr. was 

born on March 1, 1927 in Harlem, New 

York, to Jamaican parents. An actor, humanitarian, 

and the acknowledged “King of 

Calypso,” Belafonte ranked among the most 

seminal performers of the postwar era. One 

of the most successful African-American 

pop stars in American history, his staggering 

talent, good looks, and masterful assimilation 

of folk, jazz, and world-beat rhythms 

allowed him to achieve a level of mainstream 

eminence and crossover popularity 

virtually unparalleled in the days before the 

advent of the Civil Rights movement - a 

cultural uprising that he helped spearhead, 

lead, fashion and popularize. 

A high school drop out, Belafonte spent 

his early life “back home in Jamaica” when 

he was 8 years old with his mother and 

grandmother, before returning to the United 

States and enlisting in the U.S. Navy. After 

his discharge, he resettled in New York 

City to build a career as an actor, performing 

with the American Negro Theatre, while 

studying drama at Erwin Piscator’s famed 

Dramatic Workshop that boasted on its roster 

such acting luminaries like Tony Curtis 

and Marlon Brando. 

You could say that Belafonte was born 

at the right time and in the right era. Black 

consciousness was thrusting itself on to the 

American society as the Civil Rights struggle 

got on the way. He embraced all of his 

talents as actor, singer, and performer marrying 

them with civic activism and became 

a fearless and outspoken defender and voice 

of the oppressed in America, the Caribbean, 

Africa and the wider world. At the turn of 

the 1960s, Belafonte became television’s first 

black producer. His special Tonight with 

Harry Belafonte won an Emmy that same 

year. 

Belafonte spent the 1970s and 1980s as a 

tireless humanitarian, most noticeably, he 

was a central figure of the “USA For Africa” 

effort, singing on the 1985 single “We 

Are the World.” A year later, he was named 

Harry Belafonte 

UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador. After a 

long absence from the screen, Belafonte resurfaced 

in the mid-’90s in a number of film 

roles, most notably in the reverse-racism 

drama “White Man’s Burden” and Robert 

Altman’s ‘s jazz-era period piece “Kansas 

City.” 

So what’s the next step in his long and 

fruitful life? Belafonte admitted to the New 

York Times in February that he still has one 

last act to live out - he just didn’t know what 

it was. Here’s how he put it: 

“It’s my last chance to say whatever I feel 

the need to say. And I think I’m formulating 

what that utterance should be. What have I 

not said that needs to be said more forcefully 

and more precisely? There are times we 

mute ourselves, we censor ourselves because 

we have this false pride, this need to be 

liked. Rather than worry about being liked, 

are you telling the truth, putting your best 

foot forward? I try to, but there’s something 

missing here, and that’s what I’m looking 

for: What’s missing?” 

Photo by David Shankbone 

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million records. 

The Harvard Foundation recognizes prominent 

public-spirited leaders each year in honor 

of the late Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes. 

Past honorees include physician-statistician 

Hans Rosling; actor James Earl Jones; Nobel 

Peace Prize Committee chairman Thorbjørn 

Jagland; U.N. Secretaries General Ban Kimoon, 

Kofi Annan, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 

and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar; gender rights 

advocate Malala Yousafzai; anti-child-labor 

spokesman Kailash Satyarthi; tennis player 

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and farmworker rights advocate Dolores 

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songs in studios and hotel rooms from all 

around the world, and bringing them together 

into one collective aural experience. 

The album, which is their best work to date, 

will play host to some heavyweight featured 

appearances. With Kabaka Pyramid and Dre 

Island leading the front for the younger generation, 

Stephen and Ziggy Marley also lend 

their talents to the collaborative mix. Grammy, 

Emmy, and Dove Award-winning producer, 

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France. The award is considered the French 

equivalent of a Grammy award. 

Calypso Rose also became the first artist 

from Trinidad and Tobago to have an album 

go gold. 

Last year she was also awarded the 2016 

Artist Award by the World Music Expo (WO- 

MEX). 

Edi Fitzroy 

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poration (JBC) – a job he held for 22 years 

before pursuing music as a full-time career. 

Edi is credited as being the first radio personality 

to play reggae music on the air. 

According to his biography, at that time, in 

the early 1970s, along with a colleague, they 

locked themselves in the studio and played 

reggae all day. 

The event was recreated in the Jamaican 

movie – “Rockers”. 

Some of Edi’s best-known hits are Princess 

Black, African Queen, Prison Life and Level 

de Vibes. 

Throughout his career, he was recognized 

for his contribution to Jamaican culture. 

In 1982, he received the Press Association 

of Jamaica Award in recognition of his 

contribution to the development of Jamaica 

Reggae music. 

For three consecutive years, he also received 

the award for the Most Culture-oriented 

artiste at the annual International 

Music Awards held in the United States and 

Jamaica. 

In reacting to the news of his death, the 

Culture and Entertainment Minister Olivia 

‘Babsy’ Grange said Edwards will be remembered 

for his very distinctive style. 

“Whether he was extolling the virtues of 

his ‘Princess Black’ or warning young people 

against ‘Prison Life’ he was a one of a kind 

who will be missed,” said Grange.

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United Builders Mission Inc. is holding a 

fund-raising trip on Saturday, March 18th to 

Bally’s at Atlantic city. 

The buses will depart from Church & 

Remsen avenues at 9.00 a.m....For information, 

call Bonita Montague at 212-390-8950. 

This Organization mainly addresses 

Women’s issues. 

Is Barbados Central Bank running 

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Former Barbados’ Prime-Minister, Economist--Owen 

Arthur, who served as Prime 

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concern that the Island’s Central Bank could 

soon be running out of foreign reserves. 

Barbados’ foreign reserves have plunged 

from about Bds.$1.5 billion to just Bds$600 

million...The reserves fell by $200 million in 

December alone. 

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Chess classes 

Professional chess-instructor, Jose Villar is 

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Library every Friday from 4.00 p.m. For information, 

call 718-257-6547. 

Fundraising breakfast 

The Golden-Grove/Nabacalis/Haslingtonn 

Association is holding a fund-raising 

Breakfast on Saturday, March 18th., from 

9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. at St.Gabriel’s church, 

Hawthorne street, Brooklyn. 

For information, call Winston English at 

718-495-7416. 

One-woman show 

Ingrid Griffith is staging a one-woman 

play titled “Demerara Gold” on March 11th 

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Boro Prez hosts community events 

Borough-President Eric L. Adams is hosting 

some major events during the latter half of 

March, at Borough Hall. 

On March 28th., there is going to be a Financial 

seminar for Brooklyn’s dancers and artists. 

On March 30th., there is going to be a ceremony 

to mark Women’s History month. 

The Borough President has launched a 

‘Prom dress and suit-drive’ that is going to 

last until April tenth. For information call 

718-802-3832. 

Shifting politics 

Former Jamaican Prime Minister-Portia 

Simpson--Miller has indicated that she is going 

to be exiting her principal political positions 

on April first this year. 

Awareness Seminars 

Culture Zone Radio The Flatbush Tenant Show 

Coalition is going to conduct 

five weekly awareness-seminars from Saturday--March 

11th. to Saturday, June tenth at the 

Redeemer Baptist church, 1921, Cortelyou road. 

The Antigua and Barbuda Government 

will soon be conducting a feasibility study 

into the establishment of a Law school in that 

country. 

Program airs every Saturday from 4 PM to 9 PM with the best in American 

and Caribbean music. 

National Dance Theatre Company 

of Jamaica to perform at 

Brooklyn College 

The National Dance Theatre Company of 

Jamaica will be holding two performances on 

March 18th., and 19th., at the Brooklyn College’s 

Whitman Theatre. 

The Jamaican Company is celebrating its 

55th.anniversary this year. For information, 

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is well known for its poisonous effects. Generally, 

the more lead you have in your body, 

the more likely you’ll have health problems. 

Lead can cause high blood pressure, fertility 

problems, muscle and joint pain, and memory 

and concentration problems. As a result, 

lead is no longer allowed in paints, gasoline, 

and cans used for food. But lead can still 

be found in lead-based paint used in older 

homes, household dust, and drinking water 

pumped through leaded pipes. 

“The best way to protect yourself from 

the health effects of lead is not by treatment 

but rather by preventing exposure,” Rooney 

explains. If you live in an older home, check 

with your local health department about any 

lead that may be in the paint, dust, or drinking 

water. Local experts can guide you in 

steps you can take to prevent lead exposure. 

Young children are more vulnerable to lead 

and many other chemicals. That’s because 

their bodies and brains are still developing. 

Kids can also be exposed to toxins from normal 

childhood behaviors, like playing on the 

floor and putting their toys or hands in their 

mouths. 

“Chemicals can come out of our products 

and end up in the air and dust in the home, 

where they can enter your body,” says Dr. Ami 

Zota, an environmental and public health expert 

at George Washington University. Her 

team recently discovered 45 different chemicals 

that are commonly found in indoor dust. 

Many of the identified chemicals belong to a 

group called “endocrine disruptors.” 

When endocrine disruptors get into your 

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hormones your body makes. Evidence suggests 

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cause other harms. These chemicals may 

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to hormone disruption, including phthalates 

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Phthalates are a family of man-made 

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and fragrances. The human health effects of 

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health and developmental problems. To reduce 

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“fragrance.” 

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You can look for “fragrance-free” products. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

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which is used on products made with ingredients 

that are safer for human health and the 

environment. 

PFCs are widely used to make everyday 

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water. They can be found in nonstick cookware, 

stain-resistant sofas and carpets, and 

waterproofed clothing and mattresses. In animal 

studies, some PFCs disrupt normal hormone 

activity, reduce immune system function, 

or cause developmental problems. Some 

evidence suggests that certain PFCs may also 

affect human health, with possible ties to low 

birth weight, obesity, and testicular and kidney 

cancers. 

Certain PFCs, like those used to make 

Teflon, are being phased out of use in the 

U.S. But some older household items, like 

nonstick pans, may still contain them. If you 

have an older nonstick pan that is dinged and 

worn out, try to replace it. 

Flame retardants are added or applied 

to materials to slow or prevent a fire. But a 

growing body of evidence links many of 

these chemicals to negative health effects in 

animals and humans. Flame retardants can 

be found in foam, upholstery, mattresses, 

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retardant use has been declining in recent 

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instead of polyurethane foam. 

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“Help us protect our children and their future; 

make the report to the police,” she urged. 

She said reports can also be made to the 

Child Development Agency (CDA), Office of 

the Children’s Registry and the Centre for the 

Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child 

Abuse (CISOCA). 

Superintendent Lindsay explained that the 

move to introduce the WhatsApp number is to 

prevent the public from committing breaches 

of the Child Pornography (Prevention) Act of 

2009, which prohibits the production, distribution, 

importation, exportation or possession of 

child pornography and the use of children for 

pornography. 

“You will be charged and imprisoned if you 

breach the Child Care and Protection Act 2003, 

which seeks to protect the nation’s children 

from abuse and neglect, and the sentencing can 

give you up to 20 years behind bars,” she noted. 

She pointed out that each time the content 

is shared there is a breach, and each share is a 

separate offence and a separate charge. 

“So, if you send it to 20 persons, you will 

be charged for at least 20 offences/breaches or 

even more. Therefore, if you receive any video 

depicting children in a sexual light, do not send 

it to everyone in your contact list out of shock 

or concern, send it to the JCF WhatsApp number,” 

the Superintendent said. 

She added that persons would also be in 

breach if they have material of youngsters being 

sexually exploited and fail to report it to the relevant 

authorities; if they store the information 

“We have seen an increased 

number of images 

painting children in a carnal 

way being circulated 

on social media, and the 

police are taking a zero-tolerance 

approach to 

stop this breach.” 

on any device, or if they know of adults forcing 

children to perform sexual acts for leisure or 

financial gain. 

“We have seen an increased number of images 

painting children in a carnal way being 

circulated on social media, and the police are 

taking a zero-tolerance approach to stop this 

breach,” the Superintendent said. 

She said that child pornography refers to 

visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct 

involving a minor (a person less than 16 years 

old), “so whether it’s a photograph or a video, 

once it depicts the genital parts of the child, it 

can also be considered as child sexual abuse”. 

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needed to counsel their children around the 

commission of frivolous crimes. 

She went on urge personnel to become 

engaged and involved in protesting against 

unfriendly actions and legislation that were 

being introduced and legislated by the current 

Administration. 

Meanwhile, Congress Woman Clarke will 

be holding a Town Hall meeting in early 

April, in order to address Immigration and 

other issues. 

ATTORNEY MOORE 

The other principal Presenter at the 

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Attorney Moore who was aided by a 

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He reiterated the veil of fear and suspicion 

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In moving the Vote of Thanks, GAPF’s 

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easiest targets who get hit on. 

And certainly, when a non-traditional 

presidential candidate enters frontline politics 

and blames these same immigrants (as if 

America is no longer a land of immigrants) 

and minorities, he gets an easy pass, because 

he is seen as an outsider and a voice 

of change, although what he is doing is really 

no different from what all of his other elitist 

cronies have done in the past. 

Now why did so many Americans whose 

lives depend on the existence of Obamacare 

legislation (the Affordable Care Act) -- who 

based on their pre-existing conditions would 

never have been able to obtain health insurance 

but for Obamacare, decide to vote 

for Donald Trump, the man who blatently 

promised in his campaign, to immediately 

REPEAL AND REPLACE this Act, although 

it is simply only in need of modification/ 

amendment? 

It stands to reason, that the mere fact that 

Republicans, including President Trump, are 

today saying that they would keep the most 

fundamental features of Obamacare (coverage 

of preexisting conditions and of children 

expansion 

up to age 26), is proof that all that is required 

is amendment, NOT repeal. Even an elementary 

school-aged student can comprehend, 

analyse and appreciate this fact. 

I am especially astounded by the folks in 

the mining towns of middle America, who, 

but for the available guarantees of the coverage 

of Obama’s Affordable Care Act, would 

be on their death beds today, but yet voted for 

Donald Trump. 

It’s amazing what prejudice can do to commonsense 

and logic. Instead of simply doing 

what’s practical, logical and simply needed 

(improve an imperfect piece of legislation to 

create more competition, increase options 

and lower premium costs), Republicans in 

the U S. Congress have decided that they 

would obliterate the Affordable Care Act, to 

ensure that one of the legacies of a man they 

dreaded, mostly because of his skin color, 

will have no life beyond the election of President 

Donald Trump. 

But guess what? It is my reasoned opinion 

that Barack Obama’s legacies, the good 

as well as some of the not-so-good policies, 

will live on, regardless of the planned repeals 

and the rushed, irrational Executive Orders, 

because at the end of the day, truth can triumph, 

after all is said, done and seen. 


duced to 55.654 km2 then in the years 1777, 

1801, 1802, 1822 and 1844, 1829, the Dominican 

territory was reduced to 54,642 square 

kilometers. 

From 1929 to 1936, the territory of the 

Dominican Republic was again reduced to 

50,070 km2 and from 1936 to 2016 the area 

of the Dominican Republic was reduced to 

48,442 km2. Or since the separation of the 

island a series of corrections of 7,212 km2 in 

favor of Haiti. 

Words of Wisdom 

“If a man is called to be a street 

sweeper, he should sweep streets even 

as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven 

composed music or Shakespeare wrote 

poetry. He should sweep streets so well 

that all the hosts of heaven and earth 

will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great 

street sweeper who did his job well.” 

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Top West Indies batsman 

Dwayne Smith has announced 

his retirement from international 

cricket. The prolific, bit sometimes, 

“on again/off again” Smith, 33, who 

presently plays for Islamabad United 

in the ongoing Pakistan Super 

League, confirmed the decision 

before the start of the second qualifying 

final against Karachi Kings 

in Sharjah. His last West Indies appearance 

came at the 2015 World 

Cup. 

Smith made his international 

debut during West Indies’ tour of 

South Africa in 2003-04, beginning 

with the New Year’s Test in 

Cape Town in January 2004, after 

Marlon Samuels flew home with a 

knee injury. He made an impression 

straightaway, scoring a debut 

century - a run-a-ball unbeaten 

105, his only international century 

- in the second innings of the 

game, to help West Indies draw the 

match and end their streak of seven 

successive Test losses in South 

Africa. 

But despite Smith’s efforts with 

the bat West Indies still lost the 

series 3-1. He played only nine 

more Tests, scoring a total of 320 

sports 

Dwayne Smith “Out” from 

International Cricket 

runs in this format. His last Test 

appearance for West Indies was in 

March 2006, against New Zealand 

in Napier. 

Smith had a far more substantial 

run in the limited-overs sides, 

where he also made useful contributions 

with his medium-pace, 

although his batting returns remained 

modest and inconsistent. 

Having begun in the lower order, 

Smith was promoted to the top order, 

including as an opener, after 

2014 and did much better there. 

Six of his eight ODI fifties came 

when he batted in the top three, 

and his average of 25.27 was better 

than his overall career average of 

18.57. Overall, he played 105 ODIs 

scoring 1,560 runs at a strike rate 

of 92.69. He also took 61 wickets in 

ODIs, with a career-best of 5 for 45. 

Smith was part of two World Cup 

squads for West Indies in 2007 and 

in 2015, where his final appearance 

came against UAE in Napier. Following 

West Indies’ early exit from 

the 2007 World Cup, Smith spent 

close to three years out of the ODI 

and T20I squads before making his 

return in 2010. 

He was part of three World T20 

squads - in 2007, 2012 and 2014. 

While he played only one match 

during West Indies’ title run in the 

2012 World T20, he was picked in 

the next edition as the side’s designated 

opener and scored 125 runs 

in five matches. In 33 T20 internationals, 

he scored 582 runs at 

18.18 with a strike rate of 122.78, 

although he only made three fifties. 

Dwayne Smith has been a popular 

cricketer on the T20 circuit, 

over the last few years, turning out 

to play for franchises in the Indian 

Premier League, the Caribbean 

Premier League, the Bangladesh 

Premier League and the Pakistan 

Super League, as well as the 

NatWest Blast in England. 

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Two more T20Is added on to Pakistan 

tour of West Indies 

It has been announced that 

Pakistan’s tour of West Indies has 

been extended by two T20Is with 

a total of four now scheduled between 

Barbados and Trinidad 

& Tobago to kick off the start of 

Pakistan’s seven-week tour of the 

Caribbean. The additional fixtures 

have also caused a shift in dates for 

the first of the originally scheduled 

pair of T20Is. 

Originally, the much-anticipated 

tour comprised two T20Is, 

three ODIs and three Tests starting 

with a T20I in Trinidad & 

Tobago on March 31. The tour 

will instead start in Barbados on 

March 26 with the first of the now 

four T20Is. The other additional 

T20I will take place on March 30 

in Trinidad while the third T20I is 

now pushed back to April 1. 

The WICB [West Indies Cricket 

Board] had looked into possibly 

staging both of the additional 

T20Is in Lauderhill, Florida on 

March 25 and 26. A deposit was 

placed with stadium officials at the 

Central Broward Regional Park to 

reserve the facility for those two 

dates. However, there were concerns 

over the ability of Pakistan’s 

squad to get US travel visas processed 

on such short notice, and 

the decision was made to schedule 

the additional T20Is inside the Caribbean. 

This is only the second time a 

four-match T20I series has been 

scheduled between Full Members. 

The first took place between Bangladesh 

and Zimbabwe at Khulna 

in January 2016. Misbah-ul-Haq, 

43, will lead the Pakistani Team.

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veloping a peanut allergy. 

“Based on the strength of these findings, 

an expert panel sponsored by NIH recently 

issued updated guidelines to help health care 

providers work with families to introduce 

peanut-containing foods to infants to help 

prevent the development of peanut allergy,” 

Sicherer says. 

The panel provided 3 guidelines that describe 

when and how to give these foods. The 

recommendations are based on how likely a 

baby is to develop peanut allergy. Talk with 

your doctor before you introduce any peanut-containing 

foods to your infant. The 

doctor may tell you when and how to start 

feeding peanut to your baby or recommend 

doing allergy testing first. 

“It’s important to understand that these 

guidelines are about preventing peanut allergy, 

not treating an existing peanut allergy,” 

Sicherer explains. 

The new guidelines may come as a surprise 

to some people. Almost 20 years ago, experts 

recommended that babies at high risk for 

developing peanut allergy avoid peanut-containing 

foods until age 3. But nearly 10 years 

ago, experts withdrew this recommendation. 

There was no proof that it worked. 

“The most recent change in guidance was 

prompted by the very compelling results of 

the LEAP study,” says Dr. Marshall Plaut, a 

food allergy expert at NIH. “The new guidelines 

are based on these results and the clinical 

knowledge of the expert panel who developed 

them.” 

Whether this strategy works for other food 

allergies isn’t known. “More research is needed 

to find out if early dietary introduction of 

other foods may help prevent allergy to those 

foods,” Sicherer explains. 

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When asked why the woman’s belongings 

were searched they said it was for “administrative 

causes,” KHOU 11 News reported. 

Smith said text conversations between her 

and Gaubault were also scrutinised. 

“She visits me, she visits other family we 

have in New York or Florida, and she goes 

home,” Smith said. “She never overstays her 

NIH scientists are also looking at ways to 

treat people who already have food allergies. 

One promising strategy is called oral immunotherapy. 

It involves eating small, slowly increasing 

amounts of the allergy-causing food. 

One recent study tried this approach for peanut-allergic 

preschool children. Almost 80% 

of children given the treatment could safely 

eat peanut-containing foods afterward. More 

studies are being done to improve the safety 

and effectiveness of the approach. The therapy 

is also being studied for people with milk 

and egg allergies in small clinical trials. 

There may be other ways to provide this 

type of therapy. One ongoing study is investigating 

using a skin patch to deliver small 

amounts of peanut protein to peanut-allergic 

patients. Early results have shown some 

promise among young children with peanut 

allergy. Researchers will continue to assess 

this approach. 

Food allergy studies have to be done very 

carefully because reactions can be life threatening. 

“It’s important to understand how 

much careful thought goes into ethically designing 

research studies, particularly those 

involving vulnerable populations like children,” 

Plaut says. “Sometimes answers take 

longer than we would all like. But it’s critical 

to find them in a way and at a pace that is 

thoughtful and safe.” 

For now, there are no treatments for food 

allergies. But avoiding allergy-causing foods 

can help prevent symptoms. Read food labels 

carefully. Wash your hands and surfaces you 

touch to prevent accidental contact. 

Sometimes it can be difficult to avoid exposure 

completely. Carrying an epinephrine 

auto injector can be lifesaving. This device 

delivers a hormone that maintains blood 

pressure and can open your airways. 

Talk with your health care provider to 

learn more about preventing and treating 

food allergies. 

time. She always honours her visa, and for 

some reason, this is the first time she’s been 

denied.” 

Legislation allows the US Customs and 

Border Protection Agency to take steps 

deemed necessary before allowing travelers 

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Immigration attorney George Crimarco 

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