Posts tagged Barak Obama

Everybody in the barbershop was texting everybody else: “It’s Miller time, it’s Miller time.” A baby mother came into barbershop and Professor asked her son, “How old are you?” He said, “9-years-old.” Professor asked, “What time is it?” The boy said, “It’s Miller time.” Professor said, “When Lisa Montgomery, the director of operations for the Marc Miller campaign called the barbershop, she said that she was looking for the “Rocket,” she was referred by the Mayor of Place Victor Hugo, Prof. Ed Nurse. When Lisa Montgomery told the Regulars of the Ways and Means Committee who she was: (her father …

Haiti Haitian elections come off clean The Haitian General elections went off without major incident on Sunday, October 25, less than three months after parliamentary polls that were marred by violence. Over 15,000 policemen and United Nations peacekeeping force members were deployed to prevent any incidents. CARICOM also fielded a 13 member election observation mission following a request from the Government of Haiti. Haitians voted for a new president from more than 50 candidates running for the country’s top office, as well as casting ballots for lawmakers and local officials. A runoff presidential vote will be held in December between …

Everybody in the crowded barbershop was talking about Miller Time: It’s Marc Miller Time. Everybody agreed it’s time for a change in the South West district. People that voted in the last election for a change did not get it, so they said, “I’m voting for Liberal Party candidate Marc Miller, and I’m volunteering, going from door to door. This is how much I believe that a change has to come. There is hope if we can get Marc Miller elected in the district.” Every time someone came into the barbershop, everybody said in unison: It’s Miller time, Marc Miller …

Remembering Julian Bond   Hero and charismatic are two of many descriptions encapsulating the life and times of 1960s U.S. civil rights activist Julian Bond. He died the night of Saturday, August 15, after a short illness triggered by complications of vascular disease, according to a statement released by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which he served as president from its founding in 1971 to 1979. He was 75. Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1940, Julian Bond became involved in the civil rights movement at a very young age in the 1960s, and throughout his lifetime, his commitment to …

Contact Staff Even President Barack Obama felt compelled to comment on the on-going Bill Cosby saga. At a recent press conference he waded into the whirlwind of accusations of sexual improprieties surrounding almost everyone’s once favourite comedian,. “I’ll say this. If you give a woman, or a man for that matter, a drug and then you have sex without their consent, that’s rape. And I think this country – any civilized country – should have no tolerance for rape.” Responding to specific questions from reporters,  Obama said that there is “no precedent” for revoking the Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded …

President Obama puts the nations on the road to better relations Egbert Gaye There were muted reactions in both countries as the United States and Cuba embarked on the road to normal relations by resuming diplomatic ties severed more than 53 years ago. The new phase in the broken relationship of the two hemispheric powers was launched with flag-raising ceremonies at the new Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C., and in the lobby of the State Department on Monday, July 20, which was followed by statements of cautious enthusiasm by the nations’ top diplomats. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was …

“We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history,” John C. Hayes III, a South Carolina Circuit Judge said in expunging the 30 days hard labor sentence handed out by his uncle, a lawyer and part-time municipal judge in 1961 to 14 Black civil rights activists for “[…] sitting at an all-white lunch counter…” They became known as “the Friendship Nine.” So begins a recent Internet article vis-à-vis the incremental change taking place in America. Yes, it’s slow, but contextually important. After all, it’s hundreds of years of a historical solid wall of oppression and exclusion to chip away at. …

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS The thing about political life is that among many other things politicians have to measure their words (the things that they say, publicly) for fear of mis-speaking. Plainly put, they have to adhere to their [political] party’s agenda and ideology by spinning political talking points if their objective is to have and enjoy a long political life. So, like all politicians, “staying on point” has been the trademark of President Barack Obama since his ascension to the most powerful political office in the world in 2008, which is why he was rewarded with a second …

The president of the USA Barack Obama said, “A person does not have to use the word nigger, not to be a racist, must whites just will not use the word, but they will not hire you… Everybody in the barbershop was talking about Black July 1954 when 12 of our finest (Blacks) drowned, young children day campers from S. Henri/Little Burgundy. “It all happened,” said the Professor “because of the councilors who were supposed to protect the children, could not swim when the boat that the campers were in turned over, This is part of the history of Montreal’s …

A life of football, money and politics Egbert Gaye It’s a long way from Rio Claro, a lil’ village in southern Trinidad, to the hallowed halls of power and influence at FIFA, the international controlling body of football – or soccer as they call it here in North America – but Jack Warner made it look easy. From a distance, the former teacher, university lecturer, football executive turned politician, doesn’t exude much charm, but no one can deny his obvious wit, gumption, together with his entrepreneurial and organizational skills. So it’s not by chance that his was a slow, steady …