country:trinidad

‘They were planning on stealing the election’: Explosive new tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression, manipulation and bribery | openDemocracy
▻https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexitinc/paul-hilder/they-were-planning-on-stealing-election-explosive-new-tapes-reveal-ca

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In explosive recordings that Kaiser made in the summer of 2016, excerpts from which are published exclusively by openDemocracy today, her former boss, Alexander Nix, makes a series of extraordinary claims. The onetime Cambridge Analytica CEO talks of bribing opposition leaders, facilitating election-stealing and suppressing voter turnout.

When we asked Nix to comment on this new material, he told us that many of our claims had been proven to be false, and others were completely speculative and not grounded in reality. But what we are publishing for the first time are his own words.

Nix boasts of orchestrating election black ops around the world. He reveals how in Trinidad and Tobago, Strategic Communications Laboratories (the British company behind Cambridge Analytica) engineered a highly successful grassroots campaign to “increase apathy” so that young Afro-Caribbeans would not vote. In Nigeria, evidence was found that SCL used rallies by religious leaders to discourage voting in key districts. Nix also makes a knowing reference to Brexit, although Cambridge Analytica has repeatedly denied involvement in that campaign.

In the recordings, Nix describes one of his major clients, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, as a “fascist”. And he sheds more light on the nexus of data, money and power that Cambridge Analytica deployed as it backed Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency.

Guyana rechazó la versión de Arreaza sobre los barcos de ExxonMobil
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/mundo/guyana-rechazo-version-arreaza-sobre-los-barcos-exxonmobil_266206

Enième incident de frontière entre Venezuela et Guyana : le 23/12/2018, une frégate vénézuélienne interrompt les opérations de prospection sismique d’un navire opérant sur une concession du Guyana à ExxonMobil.

La nota divulgada por Jorge Arreaza aseguraba que los capitanes interceptados aseguraron disponer de un permiso de Guyana para operar en dicho espacio marítimo

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Guyana, Carl Greenidge, rechazó hoy la versión de Venezuela según la cual el Ejecutivo de Georgetown autorizó la incursión en aguas del país bolivariano de buques de exploración sísmica de la compañía ExxonMobil.

Greenidge reiteró durante un acto público en Georgetown que los barcos noruegos contratados por ExxonMobil fueron interceptados por la Armada venezolana y rechazó la afirmación de la Cancillería de que estuvieran operando en sus aguas territoriales.

El jefe de la diplomacia de Guyana calificó además de absurdas las palabras de la vicepresidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, sobre una supuesta incursión en aguas territoriales del país sudamericano.

La Cancillería informó el pasado 23 de diciembre de que la Armada Nacional Bolivariana divisó en aguas jurisdiccionales de Venezuela dos embarcaciones, una con bandera de Bahamas y otra de Trinidad y Tobago, contratadas por la petrolera ExxonMobil.

La nota divulgada por Jorge Arreaza aseguraba que los capitanes interceptados aseguraron disponer de un permiso de Guyana para operar en dicho espacio marítimo.

Greenidge dijo que tras repasar lo que describen los medios de comunicación de Venezuela y las conversaciones con los capitanes las coordenadas descritas dejan claro que estaban dentro de la ZEE (Zona Económica Exclusiva) de Guyana.

Matizó, en concreto, sobre la embarcación Ramford Tetys que fue interceptada en la ZEE y en la plataforma continental de Guyana a una distancia aproximada de 140 kilómetros desde el punto más cercano a la línea equidistante provisional con Venezuela y unos 250 kilómetros desde Punta Playa, el punto más occidental en la frontera terrestre.

El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores dijo que Guyana no tiene nada de qué preocuparse y que su país está dispuesto a volver reiterar hasta dónde llega su territorio nacional.

Greenidge sostuvo además que su gobierno está satisfecho con el progreso del caso ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia (CIJ).

#Esequibo

For Calypso History Month in #Trinidad_& _Tobago, #metoo does a double-take on empowering tunes · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2018/10/31/for-calypso-history-month-in-trinidad-tobago-metoo-does-a-double-take-

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In honour of Trinidad and Tobago’s Calypso History Month, the Global Voices Caribbean team put together a (non-comprehensive) list of songs whose lyrics empower women. The post drew a lot of attention, sparking wonderful discussion threads in which social media users added their own favourites, or questioned why one calypso or another was left out — or, in some cases, included.

Activist and cultural enthusiast Tillah Willah disagreed with the inclusion of Kitch’s “Miss Tourist” and “Flag Woman”, as she thinks “they fall into the category of men giving women instructions about what to do with their bodies.”

True, much of calypso and its spin-off, soca, is quite instructional and often zeros in on what women should and should not be doing. In the case of “Flag Woman”, though, it could be debated that the woman is the one who holds the authority:

#caraïbs #droits_humains #droits_des_femmes

Organisation des États américains, vers une suspension du Venezuela

OEA acordó iniciar proceso de suspensión de Venezuela
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/politica/oea-acordo-iniciar-proceso-suspension-venezuela_238769

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11 países se abstuvieron en la votación de la resolución planteada por la OEA para declarar ilegítima la reelección de Nicolás Maduro y la “alteración del orden constitucional” en Venezuela. 

Los países que se abstuvieron fueron Saint Kitts and Nevis, Suriname, Trinidad y Tobago, Uruguay, Antigua y Barbuda, Belice, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Haití y Nicaragua.

La resolución fue aprobada por 19 votos a favor de los 35 países miembros de la OEA. Entre los países a favor están Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Brasil, Canadá, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, México, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana y Santa Lucía.

Bolivia, Dominica, San Vicente y Venezuela votaron en contra de la resolución.

Ahora se efectuará una Asamblea General Extraordinaria, en la que se hará la deliberación sobre la suspensión de Venezuela del organismo Interamericano.

82 venezolanos fueron deportados de Trinidad y Tobago
▻http://www.el-nacional.com/noticias/sociedad/venezolanos-fueron-deportados-trinidad-tobago_231999

Varios de los deportados habrían solicitado asilo en esa nación y algunos de ellos estaban a punto de recibir el beneficio

Al menos 82 venezolanos, que estaban detenidos en Inmigración, fueron deportados desde Trinidad y Tobago este sábado.

Alfredo romero, director del Foro Penal Venezolano, informó que los ciudadanos estaban recluidos en el Centro de Detención de Inmigración de Trinidad y Tobago y pertenecían al grupo de más de 100 venezolanos con amenaza de deportación.

El Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (Acnur), Filippo Grandi afirmó que 13 de los 82 venezolanos eran solicitantes de asilo y otros 19 estaban en proceso de convertirse en solicitantes de asilo, reseñó The [Trinidad and Tobago] Guardian.

Though opposition remains, #Trinidad_&_Tobago takes a historic legal step towards #LGBT equality · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2018/04/17/though-opposition-remains-trinidad-tobago-takes-a-historic-legal-step-

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On one side of courtroom POS 09 sat a small group of pastors dressed in suits and expressions that were just as stiff. On the other were supporters of sexual and gender minorities’ rights, at least one of them sporting a T-shirt that declared details of the “homosexual agenda” in Trinidad and Tobago: “1. Buy Crix [a popular local cracker] 2. Spend time with family 3. Fight for equality”.

#homosexualité #droits_humains #droits_des_homosexuel·les #caraïbes

Venezuelan #Pirates Rule the Most Lawless Market on Earth - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-30/venezuelan-pirates-rule-the-most-lawless-market-on-earth

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#Venezuela and the island of Trinidad are separated by only 10 miles of water and bound together by the most lawless market on Earth today. Playing out at sea and on the coasts, it is a roiling arbitrage—of food, diapers, weapons, drugs, and women—between the desperate and the profit-minded. Government is absent, bandits are everywhere, and participating can cost you your life. But not participating can also mean death, because the official economy of Venezuela is in a state of collapse, and the people are starving.

#Golfe_de_Paria #Trinidad
#Bocas_del_Dragón #Boca_del_Serpiente
#piraterie

Diaspora Blackness in the Caribbean: A Radical Resource
▻https://medium.com/@janelane_62637/diaspora-blackness-in-the-caribbean-a-radical-resource-55ccb65ad6de

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The following resources and media are not by any means exhaustive, but an attempt to hold Black millennials in the Western hemisphere accountable for developing a complex, internationalist analysis as Afro-descendants. Resources will be given on Puerto Rico, Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Haiti, Suriname, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, the Virgin Islands (U.S.), Jamaica, and Trinidad.

#Culture_noire #Caraïbe

As Siberian Gas Awaits U.S. Landing, a Second Ship May Be Coming - Bloomberg
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-25/as-siberian-gas-awaits-u-s-landing-a-second-ship-may-be-coming

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A second tanker carrying Russian natural gas may be on the way to the U.S., following in the footsteps of a ship now sitting near Boston Harbor with a similar cargo.

The Gaselys tanker, which has been sitting for two days in the waters outside of Boston, carries liquefied natural gas originally produced in Siberia, according to vessel tracking data. The ship, poised to dock at Engie SA’s Everett import terminal, would be the first LNG shipment from anywhere other than Trinidad and Tobago in about three years.

Now Engie is poised to pick up a second Russian cargo from northern France that may land in Massachusetts on Feb. 15, according to Kpler SAS, a cargo-tracking company. The tankers would arrive at a time when New England is paying a hefty premium for supplies as pipeline capacity limits flows of cheap shale gas from other parts of the country in the peak demand season.

The tanker named Provalys was sailing to France’s Dunkirk terminal to pick up LNG on Friday and unload a small amount of it nearby in Belgium before heading across the Atlantic, the cargo tracker said. Engie couldn’t be immediately reached for comment about this shipment.

Scientists confirm what women always knew: men really are the weaker sex | Global development | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jan/15/scientists-confirm-what-women-always-knew-men-really-are-the-weaker-sex

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Women are more likely than men to survive in times of famine and epidemics, research has found.

While it has long been known that women have a higher life expectancy than men in general, analysis of historical records stretching back 250 years shows that women have, for example, outlived men on slave plantations in Trinidad, during famines in Sweden and through various measles outbreaks in Iceland.

Even when mortality was very high for both sexes, women still outlived men, on average, by six months to four years, according to the report (pdf) by Duke University in North Carolina.

The datasets included seven groups of people for whom life expectancy was 20 years or under for one or both sexes. Among them were working and former slaves in Trinidad and the US in the early 1800s; people experiencing famine in Sweden, Ireland and the Ukraine in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries; and Icelanders affected by the 1846 and 1882 measles epidemics.

Lead researcher Virginia Zarulli, from the University of Southern Denmark’s Institute of Public Health, attributed the life expectancy gender gap to biological factors such as genetics and hormones, with the simple conclusion that “newborn girls are hardier than newborn boys”.

#genre

How immigration detention compares around the world

The US has the highest number of incarcerated non-citizens in the world: a population which grew from around 240,000 in 2005 to 400,000 in 2010. Since 2009, there has been a congressional mandate to fill 34,000 immigration detention beds each night. More than half of these beds are placed in privately run detention facilities, run by companies such as CoreCivic (formerly the Corrections Corporation of America), who lobbied for the passing of this mandate.
The number of detainees, according to the latest numbers, has also been growing in many EU countries since the 1990s. The UK held 250 people in detention in 1993 and 32,163 in March 2016. France detained 28,220 in 2003 and 47,565 in 2015. Sweden placed 1,167 immigrants in detention in 2006 and 3,959 in 2015. In the past ten years or so Australia’s detainee population has fluctuated. In 2009, there were 375 detainees, a number that sharply rose to 5,697 in 2013, and then dropped to 1,807 in January 2016.
Statistics for Greece and Italy, the two main first countries of entry for asylum seekers to the EU, are not readily available. In 2015 Italy detained 5,242 people, while Greece had a detention capacity of 6,290 in 2013.

▻https://theconversation.com/how-immigration-detention-compares-around-the-world-76067
#détention_administrative #chiffres #statistiques #rétention #asile #migrations #réfugiés #monde #Europe #USA #Etats-Unis

The most toxic country in the world | The Eco Experts
▻http://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/most-toxic-countries?_ga=1.9054387.702319549.1486161397

Je ne sais pas ce que ça vaut mais j’avoue que je n’avais pas pensé à ce problème sous cet angle : en tête des pays les plus pollués du monde, les monarchies pétrolières du Golfe. Dans l’ordre : Arabie saoudite, Koweït, Bahreïn, Qatar, Emirats, Oman (Tuménistan, Libye, Kazakhstan et Trinidad pour la suite du palmarès).

Saudi Arabia is the most toxic country in the world, having the highest recorded air pollution, surpassing India and even China.

Neighbouring oil-rich countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dominate the top 10 most toxic countries in the world, and have some of the lowest renewable energy production despite having an ideal climate - low rainfall and prolonged daylight hours - for solar energy.

The research also shows that countries in the Middle East have some of the highest number of deaths attributable to air pollution; Turkmenistan witnesses 108 deaths per 100,000 every year.

▻http://www.theecoexperts.co.uk/sites/default/files/filemanager/most-toxic-countries-small-615

Mothballing the World’s Fanciest Oil Rigs Is a Massive Gamble - Bloomberg
▻http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-19/at-500-million-a-pop-it-s-an-oil-gamble-that-has-no-precedent

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In a far corner of the Caribbean Sea, one of those idyllic spots touched most days by little more than a fisherman chasing blue marlin, billions of dollars worth of the world’s finest oil equipment bobs quietly in the water.

They are high-tech, deepwater drillships — big, hulking things with giant rigs that tower high above the deck. They’re packed tight in a cluster, nine of them in all. The engines are off. The 20-ton anchors are down. The crews are gone. For months now, they’ve been parked here, 12 miles off the coast of Trinidad & Tobago, waiting for the global oil market to recover.

The ships are owned by a company called Transocean Ltd., the biggest offshore-rig operator in the world. And while the decision to idle a chunk of its fleet would seem logical enough given the collapse in oil drilling activity, Transocean is in truth taking an enormous, and unprecedented, risk. No one, it turns out, had ever shut off these ships before. In the two decades since the newest models hit the market, there never had really been a need to. And no one can tell you, with any certainty or precision, what will happen when they flip the switch back on.
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Nearly half of the world’s available floating rigs are out of work today, and most observers expect that number will climb further. Not only are the drillship operators’ customers — the likes of ConocoPhillips and Total SA — slashing spending in high-cost offshore areas and canceling work contracts early, but new rigs that were ordered in recent years keep rolling out of shipyards. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates as much as $56 billion worth of offshore rigs, capable of drilling in everything from shallow water to oceans more than two miles deep, are still under construction.

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#sous_cocon

#AFRICA_IS_A_RADIO : Episode #15 – World #carnival 2016 Special !
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/02/africa-is-a-radio-episode-15-world-carnaval-2016-special

The first Africa is a Radio episode of 2016 goes to Carnival with special guests Hipsters Don’t Dance! This month we run down some of the sounds of the #World_Carnival sound from #Trinidad to Rio to Lagos and back! Tracklist Samito – Tiku la Hina Baiana System – Playsom Buju Banton – Champion (Maga Bo […]

#Brazil #carnaval #funk #HIPSTERS_DON'T_DANCE_TOP_5 #Pagodão #reggae #samba #Soca

Climate Change Worsening Coastal Erosion in Trinidad
▻http://lacite.website/2015/11/19/climate-change-worsening-coastal-erosion-in-trinidad

As unusually heavy rainfall battered Trinidad’s east coast a year ago, a lagoon here was overwhelmed, flooding a major access road to the island’s south-eastern communities. As the flood waters poured over Manzanilla beach, they washed sand away, caved in sections of road and collapsed a seawall at a tourist beach facility. Further damages were also incurred with the flooding of homes and agricultural plots. Cet article Climate Change Worsening Coastal Erosion in Trinidad est apparu en premier sur La Cité.

Finding the Afro- in #Brazil
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Last week I wrote a post about my excitement around the African musical permutations I was hearing this year in Trinidad’s Carnival. Since this week I was in Brazil for my first #carnaval Carioca, I wanted to also write about my experiences seeking out similar connections as a newcomer to this country. It’s no secret that […]

#MUSIC #Afro-Brazilian #Axe #Bahia #Rio #Salvador #samba

Earth, Water, Woman: Community and Sustainability in Trinidad (trailer)
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/Earth_Water_Woman_Community_and_Sustainability_in_Trinidad

This new documentary tells the inspiring story of a sustainable agro-forestry community in Trinidad, West Indies, called Fondes Amandes, led by a charismatic Rastafarian woman, Akilah Jaramogi...