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Deception and the collapse of the financial markets.

It is often said that when New Yorkers sneeze it results in the flu in the Caribbean islands. But when the financial markets on New York's Wall Street collapsed in the last quarter of 2008, shock waves swept through  the globe infecting every society worldwide.  Now that the forensic reports are filtering out we see that fundamentally it was greed that motivated theft hidden behind a web of lies.  This deception was masked with technical terminology that were developed seemingly to beguile the uninitiated. Derivatives, credit default swaps, sub-prime mortgages, risk spread and technical analysis et al.  Main Street could not be faulted into thinking that these wise men must certainly know what they were doing; especially given  the ease with which their tongues rattled the special language of the financial sector [investment analysts, bankers, rating agencies, insurers, etc]. "Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice deceive?"  Being too smart by half, these self deluded fooled themselves into believing that they were too smart to fail. After siphoning millions of dollars into their pockets the day of reckoning came upon them. "Profits" were privatized but the real losses that followed were socialized.  Main Street was forced to bail  out Wall Street by mortgaging the future of their great, great, great grandchildren to save the present. The test for those authorized to govern the institutions of state, finance and the law is: "are these sophisticated thieves now too rich and influential to be jailed?" The videos presented below breaks it down into relatively simple terms on how this fraud was perpetrated.


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Foreign Policy: Trinidad and Tobago - the world's newest narcostate.

Foreign Policy, the prestigious international publication has just published an article that suggests that Trinidad and Tobago's Government should look at protecting its own state rather than trying to deploy the country's Coast Guard to patrol the Antilles for drug smugglers.   The article, Trouble in Paradise, published in the March 11 edition of the magazine, is required reading for everyone because it outlines what the international community is hearing about Trinidad and Tobago. This is more bad news for Prime Minister Patrick Manning currently besieged at home with a full blow corruption scandal.  As the usually fragmented opposition in Trinidad tempt the electorate with visions of creating a united front, PM Manning has developed a sudden interest in kissing babies rather than rubbing shoulders with the political and economically powerful local and regional elites.  Read the full article in FOREIGN POLICY
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This is the story of Afro-American Muslims who served on the side of the British the Anglo American war of 1815 who were resettled in Trinidad.

Masjids and Halal Meat in Jamaica

Halal meat and foods can be found  at Central Masjid in Kingston and in the  Islamiyah Basic School Canteen.   There are 12 Masjids on the island under the umbrella organization the Islamic Council of Jamaica.  The Headoffice Address is at 24 Camp Road, Kingston 4, Kingston, Jamaica.  Telephone contact 1-876-928-1771 or 1-876-930-7756 or email islamjam@yahoo.com for further information on additional places you can find halal meat and masjid location outside of Kingston.  Information courtesy Sheikh Musa Tijani, Director of Dawah and Education.

Hosay in St Vincent

Hosay/Muharram, the Shia Muslim commemoration of the death of Hosein at Karbala  in 680 A.D., was last observed in the St. Joseph area in the 1930s. Informants can still recount the striking of brass cymbals, the beating of drums, the placing of ingredients into the taziya [imitation mausoleums] and the drowning of the taziya itself into a river (Personal interview with Dr. Earl Kirby, born 1922, St. Vincent and with Ms. Mary Ann Gopaul, op. cit.). 

Extracted from "Race retention and culture loss: South Asians/East Indians in St. Vincent By Kumar Mahabir.  This paper is based on an interview done in 1982 with a 93-year old Indian, Mr. James Woods of St. Vincent.  The interview was done with Mr. James Woods, born 1889, at his home in Richard Park, St. Vincent , on March 15, 1982 when Woods was 93 years old."
 

The Islands of the Bahamas is one of those places where the population of Muslims is less than 1%.  This size represents a huge challenge to those Muslims who are mostly converts to Islam and are striving to live by the tenets of Islam every single day.  There is one masjid (Muslim place of worship) which is still in the process of being built to completion and an effort is made to have the adhan (call to prayer) called for each salat (prayer) daily.  The website is intended as a means to communicate the Bahamian Muslim Community's activities to its national audience and to reach out to all internationally.  The website provides a history with an appendices of photos of some interesting historical documents dating to slavery times.  It keeps all informed about community activities, photos of the masjid, provides answers to frequently asked questions and where one can find halal meat.  You can visit the Bahamian Muslim Community in the virtual world by clicking the website or if your travels take you to the Bahamas why not visit the masjid.  There is a contact form on the website if you wish to obtain further information directly from the community.


The Trinidad Newsday online edition reported that Cedros, a fishing village in south-western Trinidad, held hosay festival celebrations.  Hosay is  well known  in St. James, a suburb of Port of Spain, Trinidad's capital city.  While the Guyana Chronicle laments that it is a "A Muslim custom on the verge of extinction here".

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