For over ten years, over a span of several organisations, there have been allegations of sexual harassment against Dr Rolph Balgobin that were not seriously dealt with by various boards and officials of the organisations. Balgobin, now president of the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers Association , was allowed to resign his duties as executive director at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business in 2005 when the allegations first surfaced, and then later went on to serve as an Independent senator in the country’s Parliament.
Category: Central America
Bringing hope and healing to Haiti
As I sit to write you about my recent trip to Haiti, I am not sure where to start. The devastation I saw from Hurricane Matthew was huge but the picture that immediately comes into my mind is of the young mom with a 12-month-old babe and a three-year-old boy whom I met.
Obama Boots Russian “Spies”-but Welcomes Cuban Spies
The deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department by an enemy agent in modern history was pulled off by a spy working for the Castro regime. Problem is, the mainstream media treasures their Havana bureaus.
U.S. charges ex-Haiti coup leader with drug trafficking conspiracy
The leader of a 2004 coup that toppled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and who had been wanted for more than a decade by U.S. authorities, was charged on Friday in the United States with engaging in drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies. Guy Philippe, 48, faces a three-count indictment including conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, conspiring to launder money, and engaging in monetary transactions stemming from unlawful activity, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Whether Cuba or Key West, it’s all about having fun
After a recent, somewhat hysterical spate of Citizen’s Voice comments about the supposed misuse of the terms “drag queen” and “female impersonator” around here – which, by many, many accounts are interchangeable – I decided to excavate an old image from an interesting evening in Havana in 2008 that featured just that. An elderly writer from New York City and I became acquainted during a trip to see Raul Castro speak on the 55th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution in Santiago de Cuba, and once back in the capital, she invited me out to “dinner and a show.”
As the federal government launched Canada’s 150th birthday, PM Trudeau vacationed in The Bahamas
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew his family to The Bahamas to ring in 2017, leaving behind a videotaped message asking Canadians to join in “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity a together” as the federal government kicked off celebrations for the country’s 150th anniversary. Trudeau was already out of the country by the time fireworks lit up the sky over Parliament Hill at a $2.5-million New Year’s Eve party paid for by the federal government.
Pregnant and vulnerable on the road to freedom
Thousands of migrants are traveling in Latin America hoping to head north for a better life in the United States. But the long journey is proving to be a breeding ground for human traffickers preying on the vulnerable.
Cuba passes law banning naming sites after Castro
President Raul Castro had already announced that his older brother did not want to be immortalized with statues or public places named with his name. Photo: Getty Images Cuba’s National Assembly approved a law on Tuesday that bans erecting commemorative statues of Fidel Castro or naming public places after him, in accordance with the wishes of the revolutionary leader who died last month.
China, El Salvador ties unchanged despite Taiwan visit-El Salvador
China has not signaled a desire to change its relationship with El Salvador, El Salvador’s foreign Minister said on Monday, as his country prepares to host Taiwan’s president after she held a controversial call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to El Salvador next month comes after Trump angered Beijing by speaking to Tsai in a break with decades of precedent that cast doubt on his incoming administration’s commitment to Beijing’s “one China” policy.
French foreign minister visits Haiti city devastated by
France’s foreign minister has visited a Haitian city devastated by Hurricane Matthew two months when the Category 4 storm’s center tore through the impoverished country’s southwest. The French Embassy in Port-au-Prince says the purpose of Jean-Marc Ayrault’s visit to Jeremie on Sunday was to express France’s solidarity with its former colony as affects areas struggle to recover from Matthew’s Oct. 4 passage.
Reversing Cuba policy seen as a punch in the gut to Latin America
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, left, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa, right, and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales acknowledge supporters during a welcome ceremony for presidents attending an extraordinary meeting in Cochabamba, Bolivia, Thursday , July 4, 2013. Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, left, Ecuador’s Rafael Correa, center, and Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez gesture during the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas Presidential summit with Authorities of Indigenous and African-descent in Otavalo, Ecuador, Friday, June 25, 2010.
NWA dismisses claim that Southern Coastal Highway is a iffya
Chief Executive Office of the National Works Agency EG Hunter says that there is nothing “iffy” about the process leading up to the start of work on the proposed US$384-million Southern Coastal Highway Improvement Project. Hunter was responding to a remark by St Thomas Eastern Member of Parliament Fenton Ferguson that there was something “iffy” about the project, as Opposition members of the House of Representatives’ Infrastructure and Physical Development Committee pressed him for details about the agency’s main projects.
Teacher returns to his Bronx high school to help kids succeed
If his little brother hadn’t brought that board home and he hadn’t become obsessed with the game, he may just have failed out of high school and he certainly wouldn’t have gone on to attain a master’s degree in education. “I was going through difficult times in school.
Turks and Caicos to be led by first female premier after opposition win
The Turks and Caicos Islands will be governed by its first female premier after the main opposition party dealt a major upset to the ruling party in Thursday’s general elections. The People’s Democratic Movement , led by Attorney Sharlene Cartwright Robinson, won 10 seats including four at-large seats, while the ruling Progressive National Party won five, outgoing Premier Rufus Ewing confirmed to the Miami Herald.