country:trinidad and tobago

‘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.

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

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

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.

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