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THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE The Bruce Golding adminis - tration has made an apparent about-turn in a bid to end the controversy surround - ~ Dozens of nations ing a United States request to extradite Jamaican don and organizations Christopher “Dudus” Coke, pledged almost page 6. $10 billion in immediate and Jean long-term aid to Caceres- help Haiti recover Gonzalez is from January’s founder and executive devastating director of earthquake, North page 2. Miami’s His House Children’s Home, which has been a refuge for Haitian children affected by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated the Caribbean island, page 7.

Is crime in Jamaica out of control? Asafa Powell, Tyson Gay, Usain The Caribbean country’s new Police Commissioner Bolt, and the three fastest humans of all-time, are sched - Owen Ellington insists it’s not; and he came all the way uled to face the starter in the to South Florida to try and convince a worried diaspora, men’s 100 meters at the IAAF page 3. Diamond League athletics meet in Aug. 27, page 23. 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Governments, the mate change,” Préval told the pledged almost $10 billion in countrymen. business community and pri - gathering. immediate and long-term aid “The international com - vate citizens have all mobi - “International aid must be to help Haiti recover from the munity has done their part,” lized to assist the people of coordinated upstream if it is January’s devastating earth - he said. “Now it is up to the Haiti. to be effective.” quake. Haitian people to do theirs.” “If this solidarity and Préval, United States The pledge came after fraternity, which we have Secretary of State Hillary U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki- APPEAL experienced since the 12th of Clinton, and U.N. Special moon opened the day-long Opening the conference, January doesn’t evaporate but Envoy for Haiti Bill Clinton donors’ conference on Mar. 31 Ban appealed to donors to rather broadens, deepens, it is co-hosted the conference, by calling for the wholesale provide money over the next because the dream of each entitled “Towards a New rebuilding of the French-speak - 10 years to help the Caribbean country, each nation belonging Future in Haiti”. They noted ing Caribbean country. The nation recover and rebuild Préval and the rest of Haiti can be happy to a global partnership can the courage and solidarity U.N. said, of that amount, more after the quake. knowing the world has come to the come about in the future,” he shown by the Haitians in the than $5 billion has been pledged “What we envision, today, country’s aid. said, noting that there was midst of the unprecedented for the next 18 months, well is wholesale national renewal, displaced persons are at risk also a need to take stock and suffering resulting from the above the $3.9 billion sought for a sweeping exercise in nation - of flooding. Heath and sanita - learn lessons from the Haitian quake and the outpouring of that period. al-building on a scale and tion issues are growing more disaster. generosity and support from “Today, the international scope not seen in genera - serious,” Ban explained. “This Haitian earthquake the country’s international community has come together, tions,” he told delegates from Addressing the represen - has shown us that the generos - partners. At the same time, dramatically, in solidarity with more than 130 nations attend - tatives of more than 130 coun - ity of nations must also be they underscored that Haiti’s Haiti and its people,” Ban said ing the high-level meeting. tries gathered for the confer - more disciplined. The oppor - road to recovery will be a long in a closing press conference at Ban said reconstruction ence, Préval reiterated the tunities afforded me here to one and one which will U.N. Headquarters in New work must move in tandem need for the international underscore, as I have done in require continued global sup - York. with emergency relief and community to find ways to the past, to the Secretary port. “Today, the United urged donors to provide fur - better respond to disasters General, the need for the cre - Nations are united for Haiti,” ther support to the revised across the world, as he ation of a Humanitarian HEAVY DAMAGE he added. “Today, we have humanitarian appeal for Haiti. thanked donors for the sup - Emergency Response Force The January quake struck mobilised to give Haiti and its That appeal is calling for $1.4 port given to his country in under the aegis of the United close to the capital, Port-au- people what they need most: billion, but is currently only 50 the aftermath the quake. Nations to coordinate the Prince, and resulted in the hope for a new future. We percent funded, the U.N. said. responses to the various disas - deaths of approximately have made a good start, we “The rainy season is fast ‘GENEROSITY’ ters which undoubtedly will need now to deliver.” approaching. Some camps for Aid of varying forms has occur in the future - earth - (Continued on page 4) Free at last: Haitians detained in U.S. after earthquake released from detention MIAMI, Florida - United were still being held because Florida just after the quake onto military transports or U.S. federal officials said States federal authorities say they refused to sign the depor - that reduced much of his other planes by U.S. Marines, those detained were not med - they have released three tation order or had no spon - home city to rubble. only to be detained for lack of ical evacuees who suffered dozen Haitian earthquake sur - sor. Matt Chandler, a “I lost everything. I’m visas when they landed. injuries in the quake; nor was vivors from Florida detention spokesman for the U.S. happy to be here now,” he Cheryl Little, director of anyone detained who accom - centers after more than two Department of Homeland said. Florida Immigrant Advocacy panied a victim. They said months in custody of the Security, said a total of 65 Center, said her lawyers discov - those without valid papers Immigration and Customs Haitians had been detained in TRAUMA ered the detained Haitians dur - were detained and placed in Enforcement (ICE). Florida and other states. Lawyers at the Florida ing routine visits to the deten - deportation proceedings, as Officials said the evacuees “I’m free now! That’s all I Immigrant Advocacy Center tion facility. Little said she had part of the U.S. policy to dis - were placed in detention after can say,” Fratzo Isna, 23, told here had been pressing for the written to the Department of courage Haitians from trying arriving in the United States reporters, as he left the release of the Haitians. They Homeland Security on Mar. 19, to make the dangerous trek to without proper paperwork fol - Broward Transitional Center said that in the chaotic days pleading for the Haitians’ the U.S. lowing the catastrophic earth - in Pompano Beach in south - and with the aftershocks that release. quake that struck Haiti on ern Florida. followed, Haitians had been Æ Jan. 12. Isna, of Port-au-Prince, seeking security, food or treat - Up to press time, authori - the Haitian capital, had been ment at the Port-au-Prince Ex-Antigua cop wants to defend ties said three of the Haitians in detention since arriving in airport when they were waved criminal charges against him U.S. ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - ed to the U.S. pending the A man wanted in the United decision from Prime Minister States to answer to charges Baldwin Spencer in his capaci - including attempted murder, ty as minister of external has waived his right to extradi - affairs. tion proceedings, saying he In addition to the attempt - wants to go to the U.S. to ed murder charge, Gordon, an defend charges against him. ex-policeman, has been slapped Weston Gordon appeared with four counts of aggravated before Senior Magistrate assault and one count of being Asquith Riviere here last month in possession of a weapon for when his attorney George Lake unlawful purposes. notified the court of his decision. The U.S. government is Director of Public Prosecutions alleging that in Sept. 2005, in Anthony Armstrong did not New Jersey, Gordon allegedly oppose Gordon’s waiver of his stabbed Earl Matthias twice in extradition rights. the stomach. Gordon was Riviere said he is satisfied arrested and was granted bail, that the offenses for which but failed to show up for his Gordon is charged are extra - trial on July 17, 2006. He sub - ditable crimes under Section 9 sequently left the U.S. for his of the Extradition Act No.12 homeland. of 1993. The judge later com - mitted Gordon to be extradit - Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 3 NEWS Jamaica’s top cop asks diaspora for help in island’s crime fight

he Lauderhill City Constabulary Force (JCF) therefore, strategies being employed to now using GIS (Geographic Commission’s chamber boss a chance to reach out to there are fight crime in Jamaica? Information System) to map Twas packed last month as members of the diaspora and weaknesses in A: We are mainstreaming the positions of crimes so that residents from that and other address their concerns. some areas, community policing because we can pinpoint exactly where South Florida communities Caribbean Today’s freelance which are we believe that there is value we have the concentration of attended a town hall meeting writer Dawn A. Davis dis - being in engaging the citizens in crime...The Jamaican to hear Jamaica’s Acting cussed some of those issues addressed. I what we do. We are very keen Constabulary Force has a very Commissioner of Police Owen with the new chief. think that on building partnerships and sophisticated microwave com - Ellington. Lauderhill is some - Ellington once all the we are very keen as well on munications platform...We are times referred to as “Jamaica Question: Is crime in Jamaica areas have building back public confi - now going to be able to use all Hill”, due to the high percent - out of control? been strengthened then we dence in the Police Force. those secure communication - age of its residents who are Answer: No...The control of will have better results in We have policemen who video, CCTV, telephony, using linked to the Caribbean island. crime is not simply a matter of terms of controlling crime in have designed a crime and the system. The meeting, hosted by the arresting people. It has to be the country. intelligence management sys - Consulate General of Jamaica, part of a more functional tem for the Jamaica (Continued on page 4) gave the new Jamaica criminal justice system. And, Q: What are some of the Constabulary Force, and we are 4 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 NEWS Jamaica’s top cop asks diaspora for help in island’s crime fight (Continued from page 3) for law enforcement...As of any criminal activity, any act (telephone numbers: 876-383- A: We work with the military, Q: How difficult is it to gain right now, given the laws that of dishonesty, then they are 2511, we work with the Office of the trust of the community? we operate with in Jamaica, exposing themselves to danger cell; 876-920-8903, landline). Disaster Preparedness and How do you measure it? we have to pursue criminals from criminals. Once that ...How can you in the diaspora Emergency Management, we A: It’s going to take some on the basis of evidence, irre - message is across, then we are help us? We believe that the work with the of the Office of time to really get an accurate spective of whether they are going to see fewer people get - first battle to be won is the the DPP (Director of Public gauge on that. But, very early, connected to political parties ting involved in rascality and battle for information. I know Prosecutions) on prosecution we are seeing more respon - or not. fewer people being at risk to that there are activities taking issues, and I have to work siveness in terms of citizens’ criminal violence. place right here in Florida with the courts as well, the calls with information, with Q: You have been “cleaning which are instigating crime correctional institutions, the intelligence. We are seeing house” so to speak. Are you Q: What has been your and violence in Jamaica...The schools...the churches, the some form of restoration of sending a message to the citi - biggest accomplishment? JCF toll-free numbers (311, schools, the human rights confidence in terms of people zenry? A: I haven’t started to check 811, 1-800-CORRUPT) have groups...Just about every sec - coming forward to give evi - A: I am just doing my job. I on those as yet, it’s too early. never, ever been compro - tor. In fact, the partnership dence in court as witnesses. am just doing what needs to mised...Through these num - program is about really We are getting very positive be done, and dealing with the Q: What can you take from bers we have been able to get expanding that kind of inte - feedback from citizens about corruption problem is a part the United States law enforce - very, very valuable intelli - gration between agencies so the presence, the responsive - of the overall strategy...I have ment system that you think gence and information which that we can be more effective ness of the police and general - made it clear that the JCF, would work in Jamaica? we have used to either disrupt in what we do. ly commending us for some of with all the effort we can put A: There is a very well refined criminal activities, prevent the things we are doing. That’s in, with all the patrols we can community policing strategy violence and capture violent Q: What do you say to human the kind of feedback that we put out, with all the arrests here in most jurisdictions that criminals. rights activists when they think is very helpful, especial - that we can make, cannot I have visited. They do place a accuse the Force of torture, ly in the early stages. become any more effective lot of emphasis on partnership Q: What are some of the insti - etc.? unless we are able to shed the with the community. I think tutions and organizations that A: We are on the same side. Q: Is there a concern about burden of corruption and that is one area that we need you partner with in Jamaica? Æ political interference within criminality, which existed in to expand on. Another one the Jamaica Constabulary the Jamaica Constabulary has to do with integration of Force? Force...Last year we made in technology into their work U.S. Congress honors late A: Not for me; it’s not my the region of 90 arrests for programs; that will come in experience. corruption issues. Year-to- time. date, I think we have gone Rex Nettleford Q: There is concern about the over 20 already because of the Q: Many Jamaicans in the WASHINGTON, D.C. – The great, and I bestow upon connection between garrison work that is going on. diaspora are afraid of going United States Congress has you the highest honor as a criminals and politicians, can back home, even for a visit, posthumously honored Member of the 111th Session you address that? Q: What has been your because of the level of crime. Professor Rex Nettleford, the of Congress”. A: Our approach to dealing biggest challenge in your role How can you allay those late Vice Chancellor Emeritus In paying tribute to with crime is purely to investi - as acting commissioner of fears? of the University of the West Nettleford, the gate, get the evidence against police? A: We appreciate the interest Indies (UWI), for his out - UWI chancel - the offender, whoever they A: The biggest challenge real - you have in Jamaica. We standing contribution to lor described are, and put them before the ly is to get citizens to under - appreciate the concerns you Jamaica, the Caribbean and him as a man courts...Anywhere in the stand that they too have a role have about the crime problem the U.S. with a “pas - world where you have a con - to play in assuring their own out there. Our response to this A congressional sion for peo - nection between crime and safety and security. I am more is to appoint a senior officer in proclamation issued by U.S. ple, a passion politics, it undermines gover - particularly focused on getting the Jamaica Constabulary Congresswoman Yvette for perfection nance, and therefore it pres - people to understand that as Force as the diaspora liaison Clarke, was presented to UWI in whatever he ents even a greater challenge long as they are involved in officer - Mr. James Forbes Chancellor Sir George Alleyne did and a pas - Nettleford at a memorial service held last sion to perfect month at Dunbarton Chapel the perception on the Howard University of our people about their campus here. proper and rightful pride in The proclamation, states themselves and their intrinsic “on behalf of the United worth”. States House of Nettleford 76, died at the Representatives, I salute Rex George Washington Hospital Nettleford for his service and in the U.S. on Feb. 1, six dedication to our community days after collapsing in a U.S. and highlight that his positive hotel. and legendary contributions are what make our nation Æ Billions pledged for Haiti (Continued from page 2) She also emphasized the need for Haitian ownership of 300,000 people. It also left one the recovery process, with third of the country’s people in international assistance being need of aid. The total value of aligned with the country’s pri - damage and losses sustained orities. has been calculated at about “With the necessary $7 billion, according to the resources, we can assist the U.N. Development Program government to develop effec - (UNDP). Its administrator, tive social protection to combat Helen Clark, voiced hope that extreme poverty,” Clark said. last month donor’s conference “We can help improve “will pave the way for building access to education, health back better in Haiti. services, and clean water and “With sufficient sanitation; and we can help resources, the vision present - promote food security and ed today by the Government nutrition,” she added. of Haiti on behalf of Haitian people can become reality,” Æ she said. CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 5 6 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 NEWS Jamaican court to decide on ‘Dudus’ Coke U.S. extradition matter ~ P.M. KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC - vate counsel will be retained also to clarify its dealings with Manatt Phelps and Phillips The Bruce Golding adminis - to handle the legal proceed - local attorney Harold Brady. came only hours after it was tration has made an apparent ings, the prime minister said. Golding insists that the reported that the U.S. law about-turn in a bid to end the Golding disclosed that government was not contrac - firm had publicized informa - controversy surrounding a Jamaica has been engaged in tually involved with the U.S. tion about the termination of United States request for discussions with the U.S. firm although there were dis - its contractual relationship notorious Tivoli Gardens don authorities on the extradition cussions between the two par - with the government through Christopher “Dudus” Coke. matter, but the parties have ties. Brady. In a document placed Prime Minister Golding failed to reach an agreement. “But at no on the website of the U.S. announced late last month stage during Department of Justice the US that the extradition matter CONTROVERSY those discus - law firm stated that it ceased will be taken before the local The controversy has been sions was any activities on behalf of the court, contrasting a previous deepening since Golding decision taken Jamaican government on Feb. position of his administration rejected arguments from the nor was any 8. This was done just two days that the request was being U.S. for Coke’s extradition to action taken to after the Opposition People’s denied on the grounds that Golding face narcotics and gun smug - retain their National Party (PNP), Dr the U.S. government illegally justice to prepare to seek a gling charges. Concern has services; that Peter Phillips first raised the obtained the evidence to sup - declaration from the courts of been raised in several quarters they are not Coke matter in Parliament. port its case against Coke, Jamaica, not in relation to the that the issue could result in a authorized to The public notice of the who hails from the prime min - breach of the treaty…but to major breakdown in the represent the termination of the contract ister’s constituency. seek a declaration as to Kingston’s relationship with government of Jamaica; that implies that despite repeated An application will be whether the minister has the Washington. Mr. Harold Brady was not denial by the Golding admin - made seeking the declaration authority or obligation to con - Meantime, the prime min - authorized to engage any legal istration there was a contract on the powers held by the sider breaches of our laws and ister has sought to clear the firm on behalf of the govern - between Brady and the U.S. minister of justice in dealing breaches which lead to a air on whether an American ment of Jamaica; that he is not firm to provide contract serv - with breaches of treaties breach of the treaty in coming law firm specializing in extra - a consultant to the ices on behalf of the between Jamaica and its pow - to her decision,” said Golding dition and other treaty mat - Government of Jamaica and Government of Jamaica. erful neighbor to the north. during his monthly radio call ters had a contractual rela - to make that clear and to Meanwhile, Information Golding said he was anx - in program “Jamaica House tionship with the Jamaica gov - ensure that the position of the Minister Daryl Vaz said the ious to bring closure to the Live” on Mar. 31. ernment. Golding has instruct - government of Jamaica is government expects to receive extradition saga, so the appli - He also stressed that the ed Justice Minister Dorothy clearly stated,” the prime min - a report early this month on cation will be made within a Jamaica government will Lightbourne to write to ister told his radio audience. the relationship between few days. abide by whatever declaration Manatt, Phelps and Phillips Brady and Manatt Phelps and “Based on the advice is issued by the court. and request that it clearly CUTTING TIES Phillips. that we have received, I have Additionally, in an effort states that it had no contract Golding’s comments on Æ instructed the minister of to ensure transparency, pri - with the administration and Jamaica names new top diplomats to U.S., U.K. ‘Shower Posse’ leader dies in Jamaica KINGSTON, Jamaica - The the 1980s crack epidemic, cre - portation company, and a real spokesman on a variety of 53-year-old founder of the ated a perfect storm of violent amaican businesswoman infamous Jamaican “Shower crimes for money, with the Audrey Marks has been estate sales and development subjects including education, company. She has also man - agriculture, mining, energy Posse” died at a hospital in his Posse blamed for as many as Jnamed her country’s homeland last month. 1,400 murders. aged a venture capital compa - ambassador to the United Media reports from the Shower Posse networks States. ny with diverse investments including manufacturing, trav - island indicated that Vivian were involved in the sale of Marks replaces Anthony Blake, who was returned to cocaine and marijuana in the Johnson, a former Member el and entertainment activi - ties. his native land New Jersey cities of Newark, of Parliament and university more than a East Orange, Irvington, lecturer, who will become At a national level, Marks is the deputy chairman of the year ago after Camden, Atlantic City and Jamaica’s new top diplomat serving time Vineland. at the Jamaican High Urban Development Company (UDC), director of the board in a United In Sept. 1988, a U.S. fed - of RBTT Securities Jamaica States prison, eral grand jury indicted 34 limited, Jamaica Trade and died at the members of the Shower Posse, Investment Company Limited, University including Blake and Lester Hospital of Lloyd Coke, alias Big Jim National Health Fund and the Blake University of the West Indies the West Brown, the Shower Posse (Mona School of Business), as Indies a day leader in Kingston. Blake’s after suffering a heart attack. two half-brothers, Errol well as several private and pub - Johnson lic sector bodies. Blake`s lawyer, George Hussing and Tony Bruce, who A graduate of and technology. From 1980 to Soutar, told the Associated headed the New York City Immaculate Conception and 1983 and 1993 to 2007, he was Press that prior to his client’s operations of the Shower Marymount high schools in a senator, serving as minority death, he had been working Posse, were also indicted. Jamaica, Marks holds bache - leader from 1991 to 1995. on a screenplay about the In Dec. 1988 Blake slipped lor’s and master’s degrees in Johnson has been a member Shower Posse. out of the U.S. on a cruise ship Blake also had kidney and entered Jamaica in Ocho Marks business administration from of the Jamaican Electoral the University of West Indies Advisory Committee, senior problems and was on dialysis. Rios, St. Ann. He managed to (UWI) and Nova University economist, journalist and civil He had spent eight years in U.S. remain free for five years Commission in London, prison on federal racketeering before he was arrested on an England. Johnson will replace (Florida), respectively. servant. He has also been an executive director of the and drug and was deported to extradition warrant in 1998. He Ambassador Burchell Jamaica in Jan. 2009. spent five years fighting extra - Whiteman, who retired last SPOKESMAN Private Sector Organization Johnson took up his post - of Jamaica. dition to the U.S. before he year. ‘PERFECT STORM’ was eventually handed over to Both will begin their new ing in Washington in Jan. Johnson is a graduate of 2008, succeeding Professor the University of California The Shower Posse origi - U.S. authorities and ended up assignments next month. nated in the Tivoli Gardens spending eight years in a U.S. A career entrepreneur, Gordon Shirley, principal of with a master’s degree in inter - UWI. He has served as minis - national trade and finance, section of Kingston, Jamaica, prison before his deportation Marks, founder and chief and its members have report - last year. executive officer of Paymaster ter of state with the ministries and a bachelor’s degree in eco - of industry and commerce, nomics. He is a past student of edly been avid supporters of Blake was featured in (Jamaica Limited), has started the Jamaican Labor Party the BET series “American and operated several busi - and agriculture during his Kingston College. stint as a Member of (JLP). The subsequent emi - Gangsters”. nesses, including a 100-acre Æ gration of battle-hardened banana exporting farm, trans - Parliament from 1983 to1993. He has also been Opposition Posse members to the U.S., - CaribWorldNews along with the sudden rise of Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 7 FEATURE ‘His House’ offers sanctuary for Haitian kids after devastating earthquake DAWN A. DAVIS the first 68 Haitian children to licensed by the Florida His House’s north Miami cam - Department of Children and orth Miami’s His pus following the earthquake. Families, was opened in 1989. House Children’s “By the end of January to Caceres-Gonzalez, a former NHome (HHCH) has the beginning of February we advertising executive, estab - been a refuge for Haitian chil - were receiving military planes lished it in her parents’ dren affected by the 7.0 mag - with the children,” said home, a sanctuary that would nitude earthquake that devas - Caceres-Gonzalez. “It was the eventually house 10 children. tated the Caribbean island responsibility of the Office of According to Caceres- early this year. Refugee Resettlement. They Gonzalez, the non-profit orga - Under contract with the also created an operation cen - nization’s first official building, United States federal govern - ter here in my conference a 2,300 square foot location in ment, “His House” is the offi - room, which is still is operating. Miami’s Doral area, was a gift cial drop-off point for children “We would be responsible from a generous citizen. It was up to age 18 who were in the for the care of the children home for His House children adoption process prior to the and many of their (adoptive) for three years. quake with already identified parents that had slept on the “It took the three years to new American families. But embassy floor for days, waiting get that building up to code and children injured in the Jan. 12 to get out (of Haiti).” with a license to operate as a earthquake and flown to His House has since residential facility for children,” Florida for urgent medical received another 12 of the 382 she explained “... In the midst of attention are being temporari - adoptees that were left in Haiti. that I took care of the 12 chil - ly placed at His House until According to Caceres-Gonzalez, dren. God brought me a home - they are well enough to return these children will come through less carpenter who was meticu - to their parents in Haiti. HHCH as they proceed through lous about his work. He reno - “I think it happened the adoption process. vated that house almost single- because the federal govern - “This is the gateway to handedly with another very spe - ment saw the excellent care Mo looks to the American flag and hope as he and Caceres-Gonzalez walk the grounds family in the United States of cial volunteer who became my that we give to children here,” of His House. America,” she said. “We are lifetime volunteer - he became explained Jean Caceres- “Proverbs 24 says by wis - such as Guatemala, Nicaragua the welcome center. We get to my husband, Mario.” Gonzalez, the house’s founder dom a house is built and by and Honduras. Too young to receive them, love them, and Since 1995 Caceres- and executive director. “We knowledge it is established, be incarcerated based on the tell them its gonna be O.K.” Gonzalez, affectionately called value them. As God has said, and its rooms are filled with Florida Settlement Act, these The U.S. government Mami Jean, and her staff at they are precious, they are a rare and precious treasures,” youth (under 18) are housed worked day and night to get HHCH, have provided help treasure.” she said. and offered an education paperwork processed, review - for more than 2,700 children. Caceres-Gonzalez The executive director through His House. Some ing documents, making sure In 2009, 144 adoptions were explained that His House noted that HHCH had already have been determined to be the adopting parents and fami - completed. Now in its 21st was founded on Christian been taking care of unaccom - eligible for asylum and will lies were screened so the chil - year, the His House continues principles and shares the bibli - panied immigrant children, stay in the U.S. dren are provided stable to take in abused, neglected, cal passage that describes the specifically young men who homes. and drug-exposed children spiritual underpinning of the cross the U.S. border from HAITIANS’ ARRIVAL from across the U.S., in addi - organization. Mexico, and other countries Military planes delivered BUILDING BLOCK His House, which is (Continued on page 8) U.S. paints bleak picture of Caribbean’s human rights practices WASHINGTON, D.C. - The detainees by security forces, police remained low”. In addi - quake as “failure to hold violence and societal discrimi - United States government poor prison and jail condi - tion, the U.S. government timely parliamentary elec - nation against women; child puts forward the view that the tions, and lengthy pre-trial agency said there were reports tions, alleged unlawful killings abuse; human trafficking; and principle that each person detention”. Other problems of corruption in the GPF. by HNP (Haitian National ineffective enforcement of possesses equal moral value is included “government corrup - The report said violence Police) officers, HNP partici - worker rights… a “simple, self-evident truth”, tion and sexual and domestic against women, including pation in kidnappings, over - The State Department but securing a world in which violence against women and domestic violence, was “wide - crowding and poor sanitation said prison conditions were all can exercise the rights that abuse of minors”. spread and crossed racial and in prisons, arbitrary threats “harsh” and that prisons and are naturally theirs is an The State Department detention centers throughout “immense practical chal - said the security forces “com - the country remained “over - lenge”. mitted unlawful killings” and crowded, poorly maintained, In its 2009 Country while the law prohibits tor - and unsanitary”. Additionally, Reports on Human Rights ture, “there were numerous the report noted that in some Practices released here recent - allegations that prison officers prisons the incidence of pre - ly, which the U.S. State tortured inmates”. It also ventable diseases such as Department boasts is the most alleged police abuse of sus - HIV/AIDS, malaria, and comprehensive record avail - pects and detainees. drug-resistant tuberculosis able of the condition of remained a “serious problem”. human rights around the POOR PRISONS The State Department world, Washington painted a The State Department also said that while the law bleak picture of human rights said prison and jail conditions provides criminal penalties for practices in some Caribbean in Guyana were “poor and official corruption, “the gov - community (CARICOM) deteriorating, particularly in ernment did not implement countries. police holding cells”. It said the law effectively, and offi - While the State the Prison Authority reported cials often engaged in corrupt Department said the region that, at the end of September, practices with impunity”. generally respects such rights there were 1,989 prisoners in of individuals, it was particu - five facilities, which had a General prison conditions in the Caribbean did not get a good grade FROM the U.S. JAMAICA’S PROBLEMS larly critical of practices in design capacity of 1,580. In its focus on Jamaica, Guyana, Haiti (prior to the The State Department socioeconomic lines”, adding and arrests, (and) prolonged the report said while the gov - devastating January earth - said “poor training, poor that “reports of physical and pretrial detention”. It said ernment generally respected quake), and Jamaica. equipment, and acute budget - sexual abuse of children were other problems comprised “an the human rights, “there were In Guyana, it said “the ary constraints severely limit - common”. inefficient judiciary, subject to serious problems in some most significant reported ed the effectiveness of the The State Department significant influence by the areas, including unlawful abuses included killings by GPF” (Guyana Police Force), highlighted Haiti’s human executive and legislative killings committed by mem - police, torture and mistreat - and that “public confidence in rights problems prior to the branches; severe corruption in ment of suspects and and cooperation with the devastating January earth - all branches of government; (Continued on page 8) 8 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 FEATURE Caribbean Today’s publisher inducted into Miami Dade College Hall of Fame eter, Webley, publisher the Caribbean. proudly described the newspa - ness and community develop - the Caribbean American of Caribbean Today , is A graduate of Calabar per as a communications vehi - ment in South Florida earned Journalists and Media Pamong the latest batch High School in Kingston, cle that has contributed great - him induction into the City of Association (CAJMA) in of inductees for the Miami Jamaica, Miami Dade College ly to raising the positive pro - Miami Hall of Fame. He has South Florida. Dade College (MDC) Alumni and University of South file of the Caribbean diaspora also earned several awards, Sandra Grant Griffiths, Hall of Fame in the field of Florida in Tampa, Webley across the U.S. and the including the Caribbean Peer Jamaica’s consul general in journalism. began his career delivering Caribbean. He told JIS News Awards Lifetime Achievement Miami, in a letter of congratu - One of the pioneers in newspapers for Miami Today , that the newspaper has helped Award; the United Coalition of lations to Webley, noted that Caribbean media in South a weekly publication. He the community Minority Business Enterprises; the “recognition bestowed was Florida, Webley founded worked in several depart - to understand the Minority Enterprise for his notable achievements as Caribbean Today in 1989. He ments at that newspaper, the diverse Development (MED) Week, a son of Jamaica”, adding that said he launched the monthly including circulation and cultures that 2003; the Broward Black his “sterling contribution will newspaper realizing the need advertising. He also worked as embrace the Elected Officials Business continue to impact positively for greater and better news a reporter where he noticed various com - Leader Award, the Consulate on the Caribbean Diasporic coverage of the Caribbean the detriment caused to the munities General of Jamaica, Miami, community and the wider soci - region and of the Caribbean people of the Caribbean by across the U.S. Community Service Award in ety to the benefit of future diaspora in the South Florida the negative stories being pub - “Readers 2007. generations who can aspire, community. lished. of Caribbean Webley guided by your example”. Today, the newspaper, Webley decided to pursue Today have, ‘SON OF JAMAICA’ Miami Dade College was which is free to the public, what he thought was a voice over the years, enjoyed a Webley is also a founding started in 1960 and has a enjoys circulation of nearly for Caribbean immigrants. refreshing positive portrayal member of the Jamaica USA diverse student population of 40,000 in cities across the of minorities including our Chamber of Commerce nearly 170,000. southern and northeastern POSITIVE PROFILE Caribbean people,” said (JAUSACC) in South Florida, Æ United States and throughout As publisher and owner Webley. the Kendal South Dade chap - of Caribbean Today, Webley His involvement in busi - ter of the Kiwanis Club, and U.S. paints bleak picture of Caribbean’s human rights practices (Continued from page 7) before the court like common crimination and violence included allegations of corrup - against women, inadequate criminals’”, the State against women, and sexual tion, violence against women, services for vulnerable chil - bers of the security forces, Department noted. abuse of children”. and instances of child abuse. dren, and unsafe working con - abuse of detainees and prison - The State Department For The Bahamas, “there Use of excessive force by ditions. ers by police and prison said prison conditions were problems in some areas, police, poor prison conditions, guards, poor prison and jail remained poor, “primarily due including complaints of abuse and violence against women - CMC conditions, (and) impunity for to overcrowding and poor san - by police and prison and were the major issues in St. police who committed itary conditions”. It said detention centre guards; poor Kitts and Nevis. Æ crimes”. although the law prohibits detention conditions; a poorly St. Lucia’s human rights In addition, it said other prostitution, “it was wide - functioning judicial system, problems, according to the “serious problems” included spread, particularly in tourist leading to delays in trials and State Department, were pri - “an overburdened judicial sys - areas, and that trafficking in lengthy pre-trial detention; marily abuse of suspects and tem and frequent lengthy Street Address: women for prostitution and violence against women and prisoners by the police, long delays in trials; violence and 9020 SW 152nd Street, Miami, FL 33157 sex tourism “continued to be a children; and discrimination delays in trials and sentencing, discrimination against women; Mailing Address: P.O. 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In Antigua and Barbuda, against women and children, Tobago, the report said there Peter A Webley “The Minister of National Publisher the State Department said and adverse conditions experi - were problems in police Security referred to citizens human rights violations enced by indigenous Kalinago killings during apprehension killed by police as ‘collateral included “excessive use of (Carib) were the problems or custody, inmate illness and SAbrinA HoPkinS damage’ and vowed to ‘use force by police, poor prison highlighted in Dominica. injuries due to poor prison Production every effort’ to defend police conditions, some limits on In Grenada, the State conditions, high-profile cases officers who were ‘hauled press freedom, societal dis - Department said problems of alleged bribery, violence DorotHy CHin Account Executive

‘His House’ offers sanctuary for Haitian kids after devastating earthquake SHAron lee Account Executive (Continued from page 7) wounds, and conditions such though. Probably by the end of he chewed on a slice of pizza scabies, parasites, impetigo April some will be able to go recently. “I want to be a pilot CArmen CHAng tion to being a caring partner Account Executive that were all treated. They home and by that time, maybe when I grow up.” for the children of Haiti. undergo occupational and moms and dads back home He added that he likes to “These children are JACqueline rubiAno physical therapy and wound have been able to at least get cook and has made a lot of Accounting Manager amazed,” said Caceres- care each day. Wounded chil - some sort of shelter and meals friends at His House. Mo was Gonzalez. “They are eating, Caribbean Media Source dren who are not slated for everyday because these chil - taught English at the Haitian Media Representatives they are sleeping in real beds. adoption, but were brought to dren will need follow-up care.” orphanage where he lived They are all delighted to be in HHCH after being treated at In the meantime, HHCH before the earthquake. a safe place. No one wants to U.S. hospitals, will be cared will care for ITS new charges, Caceres-Gonzalez noted that Opinions expressed by editors and writers go back. If we sensed that a for until they are well enough and school them through His he is bright and has been assist - are not necessarily those of thepublisher. child did not want to go under to go home, or until their par - House International Creole. ing creole-speaking teachers in Caribbean today , an independent or on top of a bunk bed, we ents are stable enough to take Many are catching on fast. the classroom. Mo, it appears, is news magazine, is published every month pulled the mattresses down them back. Eleven-year-old Mo will soon well prepared for his transition. by Caribbean Publishing & Services, inc. and did it slumber party style. “They (the parents in be placed with his U.S. par - Caribbean today is not responsible It was never a problem.” for unsolicited manuscripts or photos. To Haiti) are distraught as well,” ents. An outgoing youngster, Photographs and story by guarantee return, please include a self- said Caceres-Gonzalez. “There he seems to fit in easily with Dawn A. Davis, a freelance RECOVERY addressed stamped envelope. is still a lot of instability and the other children and the writer for Caribbean Today. She said some of the Articles appearing in Caribbean confusion. Most are not ready adults around him. children came to U.S. with today may not be reproduced without yet for the return of their chil - “I like American food,” Æ written permission of the editor. injuries such as fractured dren, they are getting there said Mo in perfect English as bones and skulls, open CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 9 VIEWPOINT Towards a new future in Haiti Gay rehab? Old Caribbean tales debate ‘cure’ he Petionville Golf our challenge in New York - recent poll Club sits upon a hillside not to rebuild, but to “build showed that Toverlooking Port-au- back better,” to create quite Aone great fear Prince, Haiti and the sea. literally a new Haiti. Under of fathers was that These days, its once-groomed the plan, a new Interim Haiti their sons would turn fairways are home to nearly Reconstruction Commission out to be gay. 50,000 people, among the 1.2 would channel nearly $4 bil - Whether it’s right million displaced by the earth - lion into specific projects and or wrong to be gay is quake and crowded together programs during the next 18 not the question, but in tents or tarpaulin lean-tos months. Over the next 10 if the polls are accu - provided by the United years, Haiti’s reconstruction rate, they show just Nations or international relief needs will total an estimated where the men are. agencies. $11.5 billion. Now, before the When I visited last Clearly, this assistance gays reading this month, the sun was shining. must be well spent and well- accuse me of gay Life went on, it seemed: chil - coordinated. It must provide bashing, please be dren played, mothers washed for continuing emergency assured that I am not, clothes in open-air tubs. Many relief: food, sanitation and, but a news report out people had set up businesses most urgently at this moment, of the United States and informal shelter. prompted me to markets sell - So far we have provided address this issue. ing food, one million people with tents The report stated that charcoal, and tarpaulins (roughly three- this high ranking gay fruit, shoes, quarters of those in need) and person had gone to a shampoo. will distribute 300,000 more therapist, spent a few In the within the next few weeks. We weeks and a lot of sunlight it now have a number of major money in rehab, then might be easy sites around Port-au-Prince to proclaimed that he to see this as which we can relocate people was no longer gay. BAN Now folks, this is a sign of KI-MOON from areas vulnerable to hope, life flooding when the rainy sea - fact, not fiction, and amid the son begins in earnest. the U.S. media, plus mascara, the plucked eye - cursed, berated and vilified by ruins. But when the rains the talk show circuit, went to brows, the the victims and also by some come, the steeply sloping RENEWAL town with the story. So based open toed gay organizations. ground will turn to mud, dan - Meanwhile, the U.N. mis - on that report and what the sandals, the Yet, the fact is, the mob gerous and diseased. For sion is taking all measures to guy said, being gay is akin to delicate whiff was intent on ‘curing’ those those trapped in the camp, maintain security and, in par - an illness from which you can of perfume, guys of their illness in no hope will seem far away. ticular, ensure that women be cured. Well, old people in the sensuous uncertain terms, shouting, On Mar. 31, world leaders and children in the camps can the Caribbean have been say - sashay as “Mek we beat it outa dem.” gathered at U.N. headquar - be safe from sexual violence. ing so for years, as whenever they shopped, The old folks say that a ters in New York for a critical As we move from emer - gay people were discovered, the feminine few well-placed licks would donor’s conference - a very gency aid to longer-term they always said, “Dem damn vocal intona - cure anything, including being reconstruction, let us recog - b-man dem, is sick dem sick to TONY tangible expression of solidar - tions, the ROBINSON gay. But violence is usually ity with the Haitian govern - nize that we cannot accept carry on so!” lisp...I do not always a negative response to ment and its people. President business as usual. What we Still, I am not here to know. any problem, so perhaps there René Préval calls it a “ren - envision, today, is wholesale judge, but merely reflect a few should be a cure, an elixir, a dezvous with history,” a com - national renewal, root to possible remedies, antidotes, MOB HUNT tonic, a tincture, a tipple of pact to build what he calls “ branch - a sweeping and cures and medicines for this But what I do know is something that could be a new Haiti,” a Haiti trans - ambitious exercise in nation perceived malady. A few that they were flushed out and administered to the newly gay formed. It is a mission to offer building. weeks ago in Jamaica, these set upon by a mob intent on to reverse what some perceive (and deliver) hope. In partnership with the gay guys were exposed in one berating those gays. In the as a disorder. It’s a thought, international community, of the popular shopping nick of time they were saved, but perhaps the gays don’t ‘ACTION PLAN’ Haiti’s leaders are committing plazas. How they were discov - but as usual, in the vein of ‘no wish to be ‘cured’. For weeks, experts have to a new social contract with ered I do not know. Was it good deed goes unpunished’ So with no panacea in been assessing the needs and their people. That means fully their earrings, the weaves in the very same cops who saved sight, you’ll simply have to costs of the Jan. 12 disaster. In democratic government, their hair, the gossamer mesh them from perhaps a very resort to home remedies and tandem, President Préval and grounded in sound economic stockings, the bleached skin, unpleasant experience, were his government have worked and social policies that the moist painted lips, the (Continued on page 10) out a strategic national address extreme poverty and “action plan” to guide the deep-rooted disparities of country’s recovery and devel - wealth. It also means fair and opment. It is, by any measure, free elections, conducted with a visionary document. the U.N.’s help, preferably by Touring his devastated the end of this year. This capital with the U.N.’s special social contract must empower envoy, former United States women - as heads of house - President Bill Clinton, one holds providing for their fami - top Haitian official pointed lies, as entrepreneurs develop - out the ruined national ing businesses, as advocates Parliament and presidential for the vulnerable, with full palace. rights as decision-makers in “We don’t want to restore evolving democratic institu - them,” he said of the col - tions and civic action organi - lapsed colonial-style land - zations. It must offer new marks. opportunities for economic He spoke of replacing advancement - above all, jobs. them with something com - The U.N.’s cash-for-work pro - pletely new, something mod - gram should be a model. At ern and more suited to Haiti’s the end of the day, only ambitions for itself as a self- Haitians can rebuild Haiti - reliant developing nation with again, build back better. genuine hope for a fresh start and prosperous future. That is (Continued on page 10) 10 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 VIEWPOINT Just say no to anonymous back-stabbing online bloggers t must have seemed like a highly emotional matters - ter to the edi - comment about the mental Sociology 101 can tell you, great idea at the time. have become havens for a tor - no one is state of a reporter’s relative, when people don’t have to I level of crudity, bigotry, mean - required to the paper decided to trace the account for what they say or There was this new medi - ness and plain nastiness that identify them - nickname. It found that the do, they will often say and do um, the Internet, and newspa - shocks the tattered remnants selves, no one postings came from Judge things that would shock their pers were posting stories on it, of our propriety. is required to Saffold’s personal e-mail better selves. That’s the story and someone decided to cre - For every person who say who they account. of the mousy, mosque-going ate a forum where readers offers some trenchant obser - are and “own” Saffold claims her 23- schoolteacher swept up in the could discuss and debate what vation on the point at hand, what they’ve LEONARD year-old daughter authored window-breaking mob during they just read. It must have there are a dozen who are so said, has PITTS JR. the comments. Sydney the big blackout. It’s the story seemed an inspiration kissed far off point they couldn’t find inspired many Saffold, who lives in another of the milquetoast accountant by the spirit of Jefferson: a their way back with a compass to vent their city, supports her mom’s story. who insults the quarterback’s free public space where each and road map. For every per - most reptilian thoughts. Believe them if you choose. mother from the safety of the of us could have his or her say. son who brings up some So, some of us are Meanwhile, some crowd. And it is the story of Unfortunately, the reality telling fact, there are a dozen intrigued by what recently observers have criticized the newspaper message boards, of the thing has proved to be whose “facts” are fantasies happened in Cleveland. It paper for unmasking lawmiss, which have inadvertently something else entirely. For freshly made up to suit the seems someone using the alias and there is some merit to licensed and tacitly approved proof, see the message boards exigencies of arguments they “lawmiss” had posted that. It’s wrong to offer the worst of human nature of pretty much any paper. Or otherwise cannot win. provocative comments and anonymity, then yank it away. under the guise of free speech. just wade in the nearest scathing personal attacks on But it would’ve been “more” “Enough.” Make them cesspool. The experiences are ANONYMITY the website of the Cleveland wrong to have evidence that a leave their names. Stop giving equivalent. Far from validat - Why have message boards Plain Dealer. Some of those judge viewed an attorney people a way to throw rocks ing some high-minded ideal of failed to live up to the noble comments and attacks evinced appearing in her court on a and hide their hands. Any public debate, message boards expectations? The answer in a an unlikely familiarity with capital case as “Amos and drop off in the quantity of - particularly those inade - word is, anonymity. The fact cases being heard by a local Andy” - to use one example - message board postings will quately policed by their news - that on a message board - judge, Shirley Strickland and do nothing about it. surely be made up in the qual - papers and/or dealing with unlike in an old-fashioned let - Saffold. When lawmiss made a ity thereof. ‘LICENSE’ That’s my opinion. If you The larger point is that don’t like it, well, at least you Towards a new future in Haiti the paper should not have know who to blame. (Continued from page 9) Haiti’s over-crowded capital. solidarity to be measured in offered its message posters If Haiti is to flourish, years, long after the initial anonymity in the first place. Leonard Pitts is a columnist Haiti’s leaders are well social infrastructure and eco - shock of disaster has passed. I “No” paper should. A confi - for the Miami Herald. ©2010 aware that this new partner - nomic development must be am confident that, together, dential source necessary to The Miami Herald Distributed ship requires a commitment to dispersed from Port-au-Prince we can set Haiti on the road break the big story is one by Tribune Media Services, good governance, transparen - to regions and cities through - to a new and very different thing. But the only imperative Inc. cy and mutual accountability - out the country. That is why future. here is to deliver more eyes to between the government and Æ Haiti’s national plan contains the website. the governed, between the ample provision for environ - The above is an edited ver - As any student of public and private sectors, mental recovery, land reform sion of an article written by between Haiti and the and new investment in fish - Ban Ki-moon, United international community. It eries and agriculture. Nations secretary-general. Gay rehab? Old Caribbean tales debate ‘cure’ requires fresh approaches to Worlds leaders will rise to long-standing problems. stand by Haiti in solidarity - a Æ (Continued from page 9) shows gayness, too much Among them: the future of exposure to, and mingling bush cures and basic old time with, males may perhaps exac - common sense. erbate the condition. Nothing is wrong with male bonding, CAMPAIGN but can too much hugging and Now bear in mind that the kissing from members of the gay world has an enormous same sex lead to increased and vibrant media campaign gayness? Recently a guy wrote going. Just watch cable televi - to an advice column describ - sion, where many shows have ing how he was molested by a gay component, a character an uncle at age 11 and now his or two who are colorful, witty. sexuality is all messed up as Either that or the entire series he now desires men and not is dedicated to gayness. In women. those shows it’s okay to be So love your son yes, hug gay, and in fact being straight him, but only you as a father, is seen as staid, dull, boring, and do not have too many dif - unnatural and backward. ferent man and man all over It’s no longer shocking to the youth. Neither can you see two men or two women have him immersed in too locked in embrace on television. much feminine influence Children watch this and don’t either. Strike a balance. even bat an eye. However, some So all this, brought on will never forgive them for tar - because I saw where a gay nishing the image of cowboys man in the U.S. proclaimed he by making the movie was cured after therapy. Well, Brokeback Mountain. The they have oils for all ills in the image of John Wayne, Clint Caribbean, administered by Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and our local apothecaries, oil of those hard core on-screen cow - dis, oil of dat, oil to hold him, boys is now seen by some as oil to tie him, oil to bind him, ruined forever by that movie. oil to mek him love. Perhaps they’ll soon have an oil they’ll ‘CURE’ claim can cure gayness. So is one so-called ‘cure’ Don’t curse the messenger banning television from your now. young child if you suspect him of being gay or if he starts to [email protected] exhibit signs of gayness? One argument is that if your boy Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 11 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT U.S. revokes top Jamaican artistes’ visas ~ newspaper St. Lucia jazz fest rolling out NEW YORK - The United revoking the visas of the fol - No reason was cited for States visas of five top lowing citizens of Jamaica”. the cancellation, leaving many Grammy-winning line-up Jamaican entertainers have The names of the artistes are to speculate whether the can - been revoked, according to listed. cellation relates to gay rights rammy-winning “We are ready to host reports out of the Caribbean protest against recording artistes Ne- travelers from all corners of island. Jamaican dance - GYo, Corinne Bailey the globe who come to St. Jamaica media reports hall acts or the Rae, Shaggy and Steel Pulse Lucia to experience our leg - indicate that the visas of reg - Jamaica govern - are set per - endary spot in paradise,” said gae`s Bounty Killer, Mavado, ment’s denial of form at St. the island’s Minister of Beenie Man, Adonia and the extradition Lucia Jazz Tourism and Civil Aviation selector Ricky Trooper have request for West from May 1- Allen Chastanet. been cancelled and airlines Kingston strong - 9, 2010. have reportedly been advised man Christopher Also SCHEDULE not to allow any of the enter - “Dudus” Coke. joining the The festival’s scheduled highlights include: tainers on to flights bound for Bounty Killer Beenie Man Mavado The cancella - musical line- the U.S. tion could mean up will be 22- Wednesday, May 5 - Up to press time, repre - The apparent document the artistes will be year-old Laura Izibor at Gaiety in sentatives of the artistes have also stated: “The people men - unable to appear this summer R&B singer Rodney Bay. Izibor will said that they were unaware tioned here currently hold a in many U.S. cities where reg - Laura Izibor; appear on the same stage as of the new development. But U.S. visa that we have not yet gae and dancehall shows usu - the music of guitarist Earl Klugh, who the Jamaica Star newspaper been able to physically cancel. ally abound. Cuban returns to Saint Lucia Jazz claimed a document obtained Do not allow these passengers ensemble Ne-Yo after five years; and the Saint stated: “The Embassy of the to board any flights bound for - CaribWorldNews Buena Vista Lucia School of Music Jazz United States in Kingston, the United States in reliance Social Club; Band (Black Ants), whose Jamaica, is in the process of on this visa”. Æ Haitian repertoire includes swing, kompa band funk, reggae, calypso, salsa T-Vice; reg - and bossa-nova. gae star Maxi Thursday, May 6 - Jean- No early jail release for Buju Banton Priest, along Luc Ponty, master of violin in CLEARWATER, Florida - A Markus filed an emergency declining. with singing the arena of jazz and rock, at judge here has refused to motion in the Middle District veterans Gaiety. release Jamaican reggae star of Florida Court, citing health WEIGHT Jeffrey Friday, May 7 - Ne-Yo, Buju Banton on health concerns for his client. But prosecutors presented Osborne, who has hits such as “Because grounds, saying that the singer Makus said in his motion records refuting Markus’s Freddie of You”, “Closer” and “Miss could flee the country if that Buju Banton, 36, had lost claims about Banton’s weight. Jackson, and Independent”. released. They said the singer weighed Teddyson Saturday, May 8 - British- Shaggy Magistrate Anthony 150 pounds when he was John and born singer Corinne Bailey Porcelli said he was also not booked on Jan. 5, and that he Ronald Rae, who has hits like “Put going to interfere with the is now weighing 161 pounds. “Boo” Your Records On” and “Like operations of the Pinella In addition, they said the Hinkson of a Star”. County Jail where the Jamaican singer is being St. Lucia. Sunday, May 9 - Jeffrey singer/deejay is being held. served vegetarian meals. St. Lucia Osborne, Freddie Jackson, The Grammy Award-win - His trial is scheduled to Jazz, consid - Phil Perry and Howard ning artiste, whose real name start this month. ered one of Hewett, plus before Jamaican is Mark Myrie, is being held Media reports last month the leading and Caribbean music greats on charges of conspiracy to claimed that Buju Banton had music festi - Maxi Priest and Shaggy. possess with intent to distrib - been moved to a more secure vals in the For more information, ute more than five kilograms unit in the jail as punishment Caribbean, is visit www.stluciajazz.org. of cocaine in a deal to buy Buju Banton for giving his food to another marking its Æ drugs from undercover federal inmate. 19th anniver - agents in Sarasota, Florida. 40 pounds since being jailed sary this Bailey Rae Last month his attorney David and that his mental health was Æ year. ‘To Haiti With Love’: Caribbean vibes, flavor rock South Florida DAWN A. DAVIS to sweet steel pan music belonged to Washington, from the Lauderhill Steel who gave the crowd some ersistent overcast skies Ensemble, stimulated by the old school Dennis Brown did not keep away the dance antics of Pretty Ricky, favorites as well as his own Phundreds who came out serenaded by the soothing popular hits in a signature to celebrate life and pay trib - voice of Jamaican crooner soulful, raspy voice. ute to Haiti through entertain - Glen Washington, and musi - ment late last month in South cally assaulted by some “new - ENERGY Florida. bies” to the business. With the Subsequent sets were dot - The Lauderhill wide gamut of performances, ted with rookie performers Commission-sponsored “To the audience went from bored that robbed the crowd of Haiti With Love - A Benefit to phrenetic as night fell. energy. But, all that would Concert for Life” at Lauderhill’s change with the appearance Central Broward Regional Park CONNECTION of Haitian recording artiste rocked with konpa (Haiti’s Twiggi, a petite Jamaican Sweet Micky (Michel national dance music), reggae, songstress, was perhaps the Martelly) and his band. They hip-hop, soca and R&B as first artiste to connect with the re-stimulated the audience Haitian Americans and others expectant crowd who showed with popular konpa music, helped raise funds for the belea - its appreciation for her musi - getting them ready for the guered Caribbean nation. cal homage to Haiti. Local headliners. When Tamou As patrons satisfied their band Code Red kept pace Combo, one of the most appetites with Caribbean with “wicked” rhythm and Tabou Combo’s lead singer Roger “Shoubou” Eugene takes “Miss Haiti International” famous Caribbean groups, Jennifer Lovelace for a spin. delights from the many food bass lines. took the stage, the boisterous vendors, they were constantly Jovi, another Jamaican and singing style that smacked locks flying, gave an energetic crowd was one mass of gestic - fed with musical selections female singer, also managed to of Jamaica’s own Millie Small. performance that kept up the ulating bodies. With front man from a loaded conveyor belt keep the crowd’s attention Antiguan-born singer tempo. Roger Eugene (Shoubou) with her natural soprano voice of artistes. They were treated Causion, with ankle-length But, the set truly (Continued on page 12) 12 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 ARTS/ENTERTAINMENT Broward Library unveils ‘Quiet Reflections Calypso king back in of a Haitian Painter’ through May court April 14 collection of paintings drawn from training ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - the High Court. reflecting the cross- with colorists Peter The trial of reigning king of Jacobs, 27, as well as Acultural experience of Homitzky and calypso Leston “Young Ceylon Howe, 20, and Haitian-born, New York- Leatrice Rose. She Destroyer” Jacobs has been Charlesworth Ambrose, 23, based painter Yolène Legrand fluctuates between adjourned to April 14 due to have pleaded not guilty to the opens this month at the using paint directly the unavailability of the three eight gun-related charges. The African-American Research from a tube and cre - attorneys involved in the gun three men were arrested in Library and Cultural Center ating her own and ammunition possession Nov. 2009 after two firearms in Broward County, Florida. palette, and she adds case. and more than 100 rounds of The exhibition, which will light to express bal - The case was set to ammunition were found at present more than 40 works in ance and shape. resume last month in the St. Jacob’s home in Potters on the oils, pastels, drawings and Legrand is a John’s Magistrates’ Court outskirts of the capital. intaglio prints by Legrand, is former student of before Chief Magistrate Ivan Jacobs is a former scheduled to be on display the Art Students Walters. However, the prose - Caribbean Festival of Arts through May. League of New cutor told the court that (CARIFESTA) calypso Many of her early Haitian York. She studied defense attorneys Vere Bird monarch and was the recipient pieces serve to capture and doc - anatomy and figure Jr. and Ralph Francis were of a national award - the ument Haiti’s history as the drawing with the both ill, while Steadroy Order of Princely Heritage - country began to modernize. For late Kay Hazelip “Cutie” Benjamin, was said to three years ago. example, her “Sugarcane and also attended be attending another matter in Vender”, an oil piece which is portrait-painting Æ part of the exhibition, depicts the workshops with image of a hardworking Haitian David Leffel. man who, despite a laborious The African- Mr. Vegas, Lyons ‘Bring It’ way of life, seems happy. American Research Library and LANDSCAPES Yolène Legrand’s memories of Haiti includes a “Market Cultural Center is on glitzy T20 cricket song Although she still paints scene”. located at 2650 figures, she is better known places that have been part of Sistrunk Boulevard CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC reflective of the essence of our for landscapes. Inspired by the her psyche, such as Central in Fort Lauderdale. – Popular Jamaican dancehall lifestyle and cricketing passion art of French painter Camille Park in New York City, south - For more information, artiste Mr. Vegas and in the West Indies. Jacob Pissaro and other ern France, Cape Cod, Long call 954-625-2800 . Trinidadian soca star Fay Ann “Partying and playing impressionists, Legrand’s land - Island and Haiti. Æ Lyons have teamed up to pro - cricket go hand in hand. scape repertoire consists of Her coloring technique is duce the tournament song for Music has always been an the upcoming ICC Twenty20 essential part of cricket World Championship, which matches in the Caribbean, bowls off in the Caribbean this month. The song, entitled “Bring It”, is an upbeat fusion of soca and dancehall and is named after the event’s slogan. Michelle Gibson, the tourna - ment’s regional marketing manager, said the song cap - tured the major elements of the glitzy Caribbean show - piece. “ICC World Twenty20 represents a more stimulating, Mr. Vegas fun and fast-paced version of cricket and the song fits in with that spirit and energy. whether it’s deejays or tuk It’s designed to catch younger bands or the unmistakable cricket fans, especially sound of the conch shell.” throughout the Caribbean – Featuring 12 nations which is one of our primary across four zones, the tourna - objectives,” Gibson explained. ment is scheduled to run from “This song makes you April 30 to May 16. want to move, to dance. The lyrics, the melody – they are Æ ‘To Haiti With Love’: Caribbean vibes, flavor rock South Florida (Continued from page 11) Jouci Li Jou”. No language barrier here, singing lead vocals and riling the music of konpa, mixed with up the dancing crowd with a little merengue, soca and ease, the band kept the audi - syncopated drums affected the ence at a climactic peak with Jamaicans, Americans, Bajans, their high energy. Trinidadians, just as it did the Four original members, Haitians who were now spent. including Shoubou, remain from the12-man band, which Photograph and story by started in 1968. Singing in cre - Dawn A. Davis, a freelance ole and French, the group, writer for Caribbean Today. which has a worldwide follow - ing, belted some crowd Æ favourites like “Tu as Vole”, “Tabou’s Back” and “Bolero CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 13 LOCAL Obama pushes U.S. Congress Nova symposium to explore homophobia to act on immigration reform controversy in the Caribbean region WASHINGTON, D.C. – stored only on the card; no FORT LAUDERDALE- posium is as follows: professor of law at Hofstra United States President government database would DAVIE, Florida – A sympo - University, will give a presen - Obama is turning his attention house everyone’s information. sium exploring the controver - • April 8, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. – tation titled “Dancehall to immigration reform. The cards would not contain sial issue of homophobia in “Issue Identification Music’s Role in Perpetuating Obama last month issued any private information, med - the Caribbean will be held at Presentation” and discus - Homophobia”. Nelson has a statement urging Congress ical information or tracking Nova Southeastern University sion on Caribbean history and written on Jamaican dancehall to act at the earliest possible devices. The card would be a (NSU) April 8-10. attitudes toward homosexuals music, which is similar to opportunity on immigration high-tech version of the Social The three-day event, fea - in the region. Scheduled pan - American hip-hop music and reform while praising a bipar - Security card that citizens turing presentations, speakers elists include: Charlene Smith, often includes homophobic tisan immigration reform already have”, the senators and debates, will be held in executive director of the Inter- lyrics. framework unveiled by sena - stated the newspaper’s editori - NSU’s Health Professions American Center for Human tors Chuck Schumer of New al. Division’s Assembly Building, Rights (IACHR) and profes - • April 10, 11 a.m. - Panel York and Lindsey Graham Obama 3200 S. University Dr. sor of law at NSU’s Shepard discussion on homophobia in of South Carolina. said the blue - Admission is free and open to Broad Law Center; Jason the Caribbean featuring: “I am pleased to see print so far the public. Campbell, assistant professor Reverend Robert Griffin, that senators Schumer and “thoughtfully “Homophobia is a multi - in the minister at the Sunshine Graham have produced a addresses the faceted phenomena that Department of Cathedral in Fort Lauderdale; promising, bipartisan frame - need to shore touches upon varying percep - Conflict Maurice Tomlinson and Jason work which can and should be up our bor - tions of nationalism, inde - Analysis and McFaralane, Jamaica Forum the basis for moving forward,” ders, and pendence and civil rights,” Resolution at for Lesbians All-sexuals and said the president. demands said Jane Cross, director of the NSU’s Gays (J-FLAG); Professor Caribbean law programs at Graduate Camille Nelson; Shahabudeen Details of the plan were accountability Obama not been revealed, but the from both NSU’s Shepard Broad Law School of Khan, critical skills instructor immigration “blueprint”, out - workers who Center and one of the organiz - Humanities at NSU’s Shepard Broad Law lined in an editorial by both are here illegally and employ - ers of the symposium. and Social Nelson Center; and William Adams, senators and posted on The ers who game the system.” “Several Commonwealth Sciences; Jane dean of the Western Washington Post’ s website So far, Democratic Caribbean countries retain Cross, program director of the University College of Law, claims it would require “bio - Congressman Luis Guiterrez pre-Independence sodomy IACHR, director of who will be the moderator. metric Social Security cards to has introduced the House bill. laws, which remain in effect Caribbean law programs and The symposium is being ensure that illegal workers In 2007, Congress rejected due to both constitutional pro - associate professor of law at presented by the Inter- cannot get jobs; fulfilling and Republican President George visions and social, cultural and NSU’s Shepard Broad Law American Center for Human strengthening our commit - W. Bush’s plan to revamp religious attitudes. Over the Center; and Kathy Gonzalez, Rights at NSU’s Shepard ments on border security and immigration policy. That plan last decade, discrimination and an attorney from Trinidad and Broad Law Center. interior enforcement; creating was also a bi-partisan one, violence against gays have Tobago. For more information, a process for admitting tempo - presented by late Democratic increasingly become a focus of call 954-262-6329. rary workers; and implement - Senator Ted Kennedy and human rights efforts in the • April 9, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. – Æ ing a tough but fair path to Republic Senator John region.” “Lyrical Assault”. legalization for those already McCain. The schedule for the sym - Camille Nelson, a visiting here”. Obama promised during his 2008 campaign for the FRAUD-PROOF presidency to promptly tackle Guyanese co-authors ‘The Real Alice In Wonderland’ Additionally, it would immigration. However, critics NEW YORK - A Guyanese- (1865), and the sequel, Mia Wasikowska. require all U.S. citizens and have complained that he has born author has co-written a Through the Looking Glass The book by the Rubins, legal immigrants who want been slow to do so a year-and- new book titled “The Real (1871). however, recounts the dramatic jobs to obtain a high-tech, a-half into his term. Alice In Wonderland”. The Real Alice in saga of Alice Liddell, the cre - fraud-proof Social Security The book, which has been Wonderland has been written ative, curious, and magnetic card. - Edited from CaribWorldNews released by AuthorHouse and by the children’s author, girl who became the muse for “Each card’s unique bio - is written C.M. and Gabriella Rubin, and her daughter, Lewis Carroll and grew up to metric identifier would be Æ Rubin, tells the story of the Gabriella Rubin. Alice become a widely loved and character featured in the Liddell was C. M. Rubin`s respected cultural icon, both in movie currently being shown great aunt’s aunt. The authors England and around the world. Visa sets up customer service hub in theaters. assembled over 500 illustra - C.M. Rubin was born in “The Real Alice in tions and photographs depict - Georgetown. Her family at Caribbean HQ in Miami-Dade Wonderland - A Role Model ing the life and times of Alice migrated from Guyana when for the Ages”, is a compre - Pleasance Liddell, as well as she was age six and travelled MIAMI, Florida - Visa’s Latin gual team will be expected to hensive biography about the art inspired by Alice and her to the United States. America and Caribbean respond to calls from around life of Alice Pleasance namesake, Alice in (LAC) headquarters in Miami- the world. Liddell, who was the inspira - Wonderland, which has been CaribWorldNews Dade will be the location of “This is a great opportunity tion for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s remade into a Disney movie the credit card company’s new for both Miami-Dade County Adventures in Wonderland starring Johnny Depp and Æ customer service center, slated and Visa – Miami’s vibrant to open later this year. business community will gain The center, which will be 350-plus additional jobs, and co-located in the same building Visa will continue to enhance as the LAC, is expected to cre - the level of customer support ate more than 350 new posi - we provide to our clients,” John tions in Visa’s Global Partridge, president of Visa Customer Care Services group, Inc., stated in the release. according to a company press The addition of the new release issued last month. positions is expected to The Miami-Dade employ - increase the number of people ees will provide support for Visa employs in Miami to Visa’s financial institution nearly 600. The decision to clients, merchants and card - build a customer service cen - holders, including Visa’s glob - ter in Miami-Dade follows the al customer assistance pro - November opening of Visa’s gram, Visa Extras rewards new data center in the north - program and debit processing eastern United States, which services. Once operational this employs 290. summer, the center’s multilin - Æ 14 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 FYI Tricks of the trade: tips to avoid tax rip-off traps Small business workshops April 17, 24 ncome tax returns are refunds are based on the tax • Avoid tax preparers wo free economic stim - The April 17 program will soon due to the Internal return they submit to the IRS. who claim they can obtain ulus workshops, deal with how to start a busi - IRevenue Service (IRS) in The IRS does not initiate larger refunds than other pre - Tdesigned to mentor and ness, insurance and bonding. the United States and most taxpayer contact via unsolicit - parers. train small, minority and The April 24 workshop will people hope for a nice lump ed e-mail or ask for personal • Ask about service fees women-owned businesses to focus on understanding and sum refund. identifying or financial infor - and be wary of preparers who maximize economic opportu - qualifying for government However, as you prepare mation via e-mail. If you base their fee on a percentage nities and expand market Set-Aside Programs. forms, be aware that others are receive a suspicious e-mail of the amount of the refund. share, are scheduled for this Pre-registration and orien - plotting ways to steal claiming to come from the • Use a reputable tax pro - month in South Florida. tation will be held at 7 p.m. on your hard-earned money. The IRS, take the following steps: fessional who signs your tax The workshops, offered April 6 and 13 at the center. following is a Miami-Dade • Do not open any attach - return and provides you with by Community Business Link, The event is co-sponsored Consumer Services Department ments to the e-mail, in case a copy for your records. Inc. in West Park, are aimed by the City of West Park, list of some of the common they contain malicious code • Consider whether the helping prepare small firms to www.cityofwestpark.org /, schemes to steer clear of: that will infect your computer. individual or firm will be become pre-qualified to com - and Calvin, Giordano & • Making Work Pay • Do not click on any around to answer questions pete for government contracts. Associates, www.calvin-gior - refund - This phishing e-mail, links, for the same reason. about the preparation of your They will train entrepreneurs dano.com , a multi-disciplinary which claims to come from Also, be aware that the links tax return months, or even on how to start a business and professional consulting firm the IRS, references the presi - often connect to a phony IRS years, after the return has will help business owners that specializes in public sec - dent and the Making Work website that appears authentic been filed. become more profitable. tor contract services. Pay provision of the 2009 eco - • Review your return The workshops will be Reservations are suggest - nomic recovery law. It says before you sign it and ask held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on ed. For more information, call that there is a refundable questions on entries you don’t consecutive Saturdays, April or e-mail Melissa Hans at the credit available to workers, understand. 17 and April 24 , at the Community Business Link consumers and retirees that • Find out the preparer’s Koinonia Worship Center, (CBL), 954-239-4297 or can be paid into the recipient’s credentials. Only attorneys, 4900 W. Hallandale Beach [email protected] . bank account if the recipient certified public accountants Blvd., Pembroke Park. Æ registers his or her account (CPAs) and enrolled agents information with the IRS. The can represent taxpayers e-mail contains links to regis - before the IRS in all matters ter the account and to claim including audits, collection Busy days ahead for Caribbean diaspora the tax refund. and appeals. Other return The following is a listing of 122 Ave., Miami. For more In reality, most taxpayers preparers may only represent upcoming activities highlighted information, call 305-989-3564 . receive their Making Work taxpayers for audits of returns by the Jamaican Diaspora • May 21,10 a.m. to Pay tax credit, which was they actually prepared. Southern United States and 2 p.m. - Jamaica USA designed for wage earners, in and then prompts the victim • Find out if the preparer scheduled for locations in Chamber of Commerce’s their paychecks as a result of for personal identifiers, bank is affiliated with a professional South Florida: “Trade Jamaica/Invest decreased tax withholding, or credit card account num - organization that provides its • April 10, 5 p.m. - South Jamaica” Forum and annual not as a lump sum distribution bers or PINs. The phony web - members with continuing edu - Florida Caribbean Chorale at recognition and installation from a federal fund. sites appear legitimate cation and resources and Plantation United Methodist luncheon, featuring the Additionally, consumers and because the appearance and holds them to a code of ethics. Church, 1001 N.W. 70th Ave., Jamaican Milestone Awards, retirees who are not wage much of the content are Contact the IRS at 1-800-829- Plantation. Sheraton Hotel, Griffin earners are not eligible for directly copied from an actual 1040 to determine whether • April 9-11 - 36th Florida Road/I-95 in Dania. For more this tax credit. page on the IRS web site and the IRS is trying to contact Caribbean Students Association information, call 877-528-7222 • Instant rebate scams - then modified by the scam - you. Conference, University of South or 305-576-7888 . Some unscrupulous and mers for their own purposes. If you think you have Florida, Tampa. • May 22, 6 p.m . - The predatory tax preparers prey • Be cautious when choos - been targeted by a fraudulent For registration and infor - Sixth Annual Peacock Ball upon low-income earners with ing a tax preparer. Filing false tax scheme, forward the suspi - mation, visit presented by The American promises of “fast money” at income tax returns with inflated cious e-mail or URL address http://www.fcsainc.org. Friends of Jamaica Inc., tax refund time. Their victims personal or business expenses, to the IRS mailbox phish - • April, 17, noon - St. Biltmore Hotel, 1200 often do not realize that an false deductions, unallowable [email protected] , then delete the e- Mary High School’s first annu - Anastasia Avenue, Coral Gables. instant refund is actually a credits or excessive exemptions mail from your inbox. al reunion, CB Smith Park. Black-tie gala honoring “refund anticipation loan” could result in penalties. You can learn the status For more information, call Jamaica National Building that could drain away as much Regardless of whether the pre - of your refund by going to the Maria (Roper) Kong at 954- Society with the International as half their refunds in the parer is responsible for manipu - IRS.gov website and clicking 818-2516. Achievement Award form of interest rates and fees. lating income figures, it is ulti - on “Where’s my refund?” • April 17, 8 p.m. - for exemplary contributions to mately the taxpayer who is Jamaica Ex-Police Association Jamaica in education, eco - CONSUMER SMARTS faulted and required to pay - ConsumerWise of South Florida, Inc.’s annual nomic development and phi - Taxpayers do not have to additional taxes. Æ ball, Faith Tabernacle lanthropy. Visit complete a special form to Banquet Hall, 7100 W. http://www.theafj.org. obtain a refund. Taxpayer IRS ADVICE Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise. • May 23 - 16th Annual For more information, call Unifest presented by The Malachi Smith at 305-302- Greater Caribbean American 5365 ; John T at 954-347-3237 , Cultural Coalition, Vincent MDC offers free small business education Dervin Johnson at 954-553- Torres Park, 4331 N.W. 36th 4956 or Edgton Wright at 954- St., Lauderdale Lakes. For MIAMI, Florida – The Citi sourcing funding for expan - Second Ave., downtown 258-2052 . more information, call 954- Foundation and Miami Dade sion, QuickBooks and mar - Miami: • April 30, 11a.m. to 730-8885 . College’s (MDC) School of keting. • Financial Literacy 5 p.m . – “Expressions Of The • May 29, 7:30 p.m. Business will continue their The first session was Event and Expo: 9 a.m. to Caribbean”, a showcase of to 2:30 a.m . - Montego Bay community building partner - scheduled for mid-March and noon, Thursday, April 8 . Jamaican/Caribbean and High School Alumnae of ship through the Small Business sessions will conclude at the • QuickBooks Workshop: American products and servic - South Florida celebrates its Education Program, specialized end of April. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, es presented by Unique 75th year of academic excel - training targeted to entrepre - Residents from one of the April 17. Creations By Liz, Signature lence, St. Mary Armenian neurs who live in the South target neighborhoods must • Community Forum – Grand Ballroom, 6900 State Banquet Hall, 4050 N.W. 100 Florida neighborhoods of Little apply online at “Going Green”: 9 a.m. to Rd. 84, Davie. For more infor - Ave, Hollywood. A “Family Haiti, Little Havana, Flagami, http://www.mdc.edu/kendall/ noon, Friday, April 23. mation, call 954-292-6848 or Fun Day” will be held the fol - Overtown, Liberty City, smallbusiness . For more information, 954-435-4717 . lowing day at the John U. Allapattah and Wynwood. call Winston Imhoff at 305- • May 8, 9 p.m. - The 16th Lloyd Beach State Park, 6503 The sessions are designed SCHEDULE 237-7429 or Josie Lorenzo Annual Awards Banquet and N. Ocean Dr., Pelican to enhance the operations of Below is the schedule for (for the Spanish seminars) at Dinner Dance presented by Pavilion, Dania. For more small businesses. They are the remaining sessions, which 305-237-7430 . The Jamaican Association of information, call 754-423-3169 , expected to cover such topics will be held at MDC’s Æ Miami-Dade Educators, 954-330-4500 or 305-299-3561 . as cash flow management, Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Signature Gardens, 12725 S.W. Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 15 BUSINESS Buyers beware: Rising loan modification scams target homeowners WASHINGTON, D.C. - An mortgage. They may pocket mate organizations approved 6) A company/person you Edited from a release issued estimated 4.5 million people your money and do little or by, or affiliated with, the gov - don’t know asks you to release by NeighborWorks America, in the United States are at risk nothing to help you save your ernment. Contact your mort - personal financial information a national nonprofit organi - of losing their homes to fore - home from foreclosure. gage lender first. Your lender online or over the phone. You zation created by the U.S. closure. 2) A company/person can tell you whether you qual - should only give this type of Congress to provide financial While some will seek relief guarantees they can stop a ify for any government pro - information to companies that support, technical assistance in the form of loan modifica - foreclosure or get your loan grams to prevent foreclosure. you know and trust, like your and training for community- tion services, reportedly many modified. Nobody can make And, remember, you do not mortgage lender or a HUD- based revitalization efforts. this guarantee to stop foreclo - have to pay to benefit from approved counseling agency. sure or modify your loan. government-backed loan For more information, Æ Legitimate, trustworthy HUD- modification programs. visit www.LoanScamAlert.org . approved counseling agencies will only promise they will try their very best to help you. 3) A company/person advises you to stop paying your mortgage company and pay them instead. Despite what a scammer will say, you should never send a mortgage payment to anyone other than your mortgage lender. The Warning: Do not be rushed into signing minute you have trouble mak - any document. ing your monthly payment, contact your mortgage lender. will become victims of scams. “Foreclosure rates in PRESSURE America are now at an all- 4) A company pressures time high and so is the need you to sign over the deed to for help,” said Kenneth D. your home or sign any paper - Wade, chief executive officer work that you haven’t had a of NeighborWorks America. chance to read, and you don’t Scams aren’t always easy fully understand. A legitimate to spot, but there are warning housing counselor would never signs to look for. Here are six pressure you to sign a docu - red flags to indicate that you ment before you had a chance may be dealing with a loan to read and understand it. modification scammer: 5) A company claims to 1) A company/person asks offer “government-approved” for a fee in advance to work or “official government” loan with your lender to modify, modifications. They may be refinance or reinstate your scam artists posing as legiti - Caribbean duo billionaires ~ Forbes NEW YORK - Where are the ranked 937th globally with a Caribbean billionaires? net worth of just $1 billion. According to Forbes maga - Lee-Chin is the founder and zine, there are just two - at chairman of Portland least two who were born in Holdings Inc., a privately held the region, investment company which even though owns a collection of diversi - they no longer fied operations in sectors that call those include media, tourism, health countries care telecommunications and home. financial services. Huang He is currently executive Maoru and chairman of AIC Limited (a family, born in Canadian mutual fund) and Belize but Maoru the National Commercial based in Bank of Jamaica, which last China, continue to be listed month announced staff cuts of among the world’s richest with 100 despite earning a profit a net worth of $1.2 billion. last year. Maoru is now ranked at 828 The top on the Forbes list. Maoru is spot this year chairman of Maoye goes to a Latin International (00848.HK), a American – retailing giant in Shenzhen of Mexico’s Guangdong province. Carlos Slim. Maoru 43, started busi - Slim, 70, the ness in real estate in 1992 and son of an developed several real estate immigrant Lee-Chin projects in Shenzhen. Huang shopkeeper, and his wife Zhang Jing held has managed to amass a 82.68 percent of the Maoye whopping $53.5 billion for - International stock. He also tune, including a major stake operated 19 shopping centers, in the New York Times news - some office buildings and paper. hotels. Joining him is Jamaican- - CaribWorldNews born, Canada-based Michael Lee-Chin, though he is only Æ 16 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 REGION/POLITICS U.S. reports high visa rating for Eastern Caribbean Antigua’s P.M. vows to stay ‘on the job’ BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, third country nationals - despite ruling declaring election invalid CMC - Consul General Nicole Guyanese living in Antigua, Theriot says the Eastern Haitians - all sorts of different ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC - Leandro to continue in gov - Caribbean is not considered a nationalities.” Prime Minister Baldwin ernment for now. major problem area for the The U.S. government offi - Spencer has vowed to contin - Despite the stay granted United States government and cial further explained that the ue as the head of government, by the High Court, currently enjoys a high 13 percent refusal rate was while expressing confidence a Opposition Leader Lester approval rating in terms of its based on a large pool of appli - ruling that declared his elec - Bird led scores applications for visas for entry cations from 17 regional coun - Theriot tion invalid will be thrown out of placard- into the U.S. tries, including the Dutch when the matter is brought bearing sup - She said less than 20 per - visas in a few days,” Theriot Antilles. She, however, made before the Eastern Caribbean porters of his cent of persons applying for told the Caribbean Media it clear that the burden of Court of Appeal. Antigua non-immigrant (visitors) visas Corporation (CMC) last proof rests with the applicants “I’m certainly still on the Labour Party were currently being turned month. to show that “they have strong job,” Spencer said when con - (ALP) on a down by the Barbados-based “That’s a very high approval ties to their home country and tacted by the Caribbean picket outside regional consular office. rate actually, especially when that after they go to the U.S. Media Corporation (CMC) the prime min - “Actually it is a very low for their visit they are going to you consider we are not just following High Court Judge ister’s office, Spencer refusal rate, 87 percent of interviewing Barbadians, we come back home.” Louise Blenman’s recent rul - calling for the the folks who come for have folks from the British Æ ing that his election and those immediate visas receive them, they are Virgin Islands, Grenada and of two of his Cabinet ministers removal of the Spencer-led approved and they get their of course we have all of these were not legitimate. UPP administration as the The judge based her rul - government of this twin-island ing on polling day irregulari - nation. Bird said he would ties, particularly the long also be filing an injunction, delays before voting began in seeking to overturn the stay. the three constituencies at the But Spencer blasted the Mar. 12, 2009 general elec - Opposition’s move as “an tions. abuse of the court and a total waste of time.” STAY Based on the original rul - However, the ruling ing handed down by Blenman, United Progressive Party both the ruling UPP - with the (UPP) was eventually able to support of the lone Barbuda get the court to grant a stay, People’s Movement parlia - effectively putting the brakes mentarian, and the ALP con - on the judgment and allowing trol seven seats each in the 17- Spencer, Tourism Minister seat Parliament. John Maginley and Education Minister Jacqui Quinn- Æ Barbados P.M. announces Cabinet shake-up BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Suckoo will replace Arni Barbados’s Prime Minister Walters in the Ministry of David Thompson relieved Labour following his recent re- two government senators of assignment from the position of their duties as part of a shake- minister of state in the Ministry up that has resulted in the re- of Labour, Immigration and ordering of several ministerial Social Partnership to the post responsibilities and the eleva - of executive chairman of the tion of a former backbencher Barbados Water Authority to his Cabinet. (BWA). The changes were Thompson, who is the announced last month in a substantive minister of immi - nationally televised address in gration and social partnership, which Thompson stated that also added two new parlia - the process of review and mentary secretaries to the restructuring would continue Office of the Prime Minister. over the course of his adminis - Financial analyst Jeptor Ince tration’s five-year term in office. is to be joined in the senate After being in govern - by Harry Husbands, trade ment for two years, he unionist, local talk show revealed that the services of host and former head of the senators Damien Griffith and Barbados Employers Patricia Inniss would no Confederation. longer be needed in the Meantime, Patrick Todd Upper House. They are to be keeps his job as a minister of replaced by Reverend Dr. state, but moves from the David Durant and human Ministry of Education to the resource management con - Ministry of Economic Affairs, sultant Andre Worrell. while Senator Irene Sandiford- In terms of his Cabinet, Garner was transferred from Thompson also relieved Dr. the prime minister’s office to Esther Byer-Suckoo of the the Ministry of Health, where portfolio of family, youth affairs she will have direct political and sport in favor of govern - oversight for the state-run ment backbencher Stephen Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Lashley, who has been brought into the fold. However, Byer- Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 17 FOOD Serve sweetness with Caribbean chicken salad and plantain pie Plantain pie

Ingredients • 1 prepared 9-inch pie crust • 2 very well-ripened plantains (rinsed) • 1 (24-ounce) jar mango slices in light syrup (drained) • 2 eggs (or 1/2 cup egg substi - Caribbean chicken salad tute) • 1 tablespoon brown sugar Dinner and dessert have rarely • 1 tablespoon honey been so simple and delicious • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon as this Caribbean chicken • 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt salad with plantain pie combi - nation served up by Caribbean Method Today courtesy of Publix Preheat oven to 450°F. Apron’s Simple Meals. Arrange pie crust in 9-inch pie plate; pinch or fold edges of Ingredients dough to finish. • 1 lemon (for juice, rinsed) Cut ends off plantains; • 1 (10-ounce) package roast - slice through peel lengthwise ed, diced chicken for easy removal. Remove and • 1 (8-ounce) can pineapple discard peels; place plantains in tidbits in juice (drained) blender (or food processor). • 1/3 cup light mayonnaise Add remaining ingredients and • 1/4 cup diced pimientos process 20 to 30 seconds, scrap - (drained) ing sides down as needed, or • 1/2 teaspoon curry powder until smooth and fully blended. • 12–16 Bibb lettuce leaves Pour mixture into piecrust. (rinsed) Bake 30 minutes or until cen - ter of pie is set and crust is Method golden. Cool completely and Squeeze juice of lemon serve.(Makes eight servings.) into medium bowl. Stir in remaining ingredients (except Shortcuts and tips lettuce) until well blended. Fresh mango can be used Chill salad (or may be instead of the jarred mango served at room temperature). for the pie. Four or five ripe Arrange lettuce leaves on mangos should yield the 2 1/2 serving plates; mound chicken cups of fruit needed. salad in center and serve. Æ Pack a ‘greener’ brown bag lunch ne easy way to live a tics, polyester and canvas. more earth-conscious Olifestyle is to turn brown • Try sandwich bags that are bag lunches green this school better for the environment - year. By thinking Feel better about green every time you using plastic sand - pack a lunch, you can wich bags to pack save money and take a your family’s lunch small step forward for with new Ziploc the environment. evolve sandwich and Do right by your storage bags. The wallet and the envi - protective, ultra-light ronment with these bags are made using simple tips: 25 percent less plastic than traditional sand - • Buy local foods - wich bags, and man - Look for a farmer’s Save money, live healthy ufactured using wind market or grocery with ‘brown bag’ lunches. power – a cleaner, store that promotes renewable energy locally grown and produced source. Visit www.ziploc.com food. Local foods are pro - to learn more. duced close to home and deliver the freshest taste. • Double fruits and veggies - Make lunches extra green by • Tote a reusable lunch bag - packing plenty of fruits and Instead of using an old-school vegetables. Teach your kids to brown paper bag, invite your eat a colorful variety of fruits kids to help pick out a reusable and vegetables to get the most lunch bag. This small lesson in nutrients. Think beyond car - sustainability is an easy way for rot sticks and apples and try a kids to help the environment. simple salad of red peppers, Many reusable bags are cucumbers and green beans insulated to help keep lunches dressed with vinegar. cool. Reusable lunch bags come in a variety of fabrics - Edited from ARAcontent from neoprene, recycled plas - Æ 18 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 SPRING HEALTH - A CARIBBEAN TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE How to help when family or friends fall ill - keep them connected hen you learn that a children, picking up groceries, about your child’s perform - CaringBridge, so your loved friend, family mem - calling other family members, ance in a school concert that one can share updates once, Wber, co-worker or writing thank-you notes, etc. had you beaming with pride. post photos and receive mes - neighbor is seriously ill or By specifically offering to help By keeping your loved one sages of support. recovering from injuries or in a way that uses your talents involved through your stories CaringBridge is a non - surgery, do you wonder how and won’t overwhelm you, in real world events, you are profit organization that offers you can best show your sup - you will be able to show sup - helping them stay connected. free, personalized websites for port? port in a healthy way. • Create an online social patients to post health It depends upon the situa - • Be positive - You don’t networking page - For a per - updates, photos and connect tion. Sometimes the best way have to be talking about your son trying to recuperate from with family and friends. to show your support is to just loved one’s illness all the time. an illness, repeating health stay in touch, but other times, Maybe you saw a funny online information time and time - Courtesy of ARAcontent it’s to provide help that your video that you know will tick - again is exhausting - even if Æ friend or loved one needs. Helping family or friends through illness le their funny bone. Copy the the information is good news. “When someone you is important. link and share it with your Consider setting up an online know experiences a serious friend. Or tell him the story support network page through way.” health event, or is in the hos - When you receive news pital recovering from a major that a loved one is going surgery, connecting them through cancer, premature By the way, doctor: Are MRI contrast with family and friends is birth or another health crisis, very important,” says Sona consider some of the following Mehring, founder of agents harmful, have side effects? ideas in ways to best show CaringBridge. your support: “Often, people in this sit - DR. AARON SODICKSON • Offer your help - Make uation don’t know how easy a specific offer like cooking a and helpful it is to gather their QUESTION: Do the contrast meal, driving the person to family and friends and show agents used with MRI scans appointments, babysitting for support in an unobtrusive have side effects?

ANSWER: Not all magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans require contrast agents, but a contrast agent is some - times used to show blood ves - sels or the amount of blood flowing to a particular struc - ture. Most of the contrast agents for MRI scans contain a metal called gadolinium. The gadolinium is attached to other chemicals to keep it from causing any harm. If your kidneys are healthy, you’ll excrete the contrast agent before that complex has NSF has been recognized as Patients also occasionally a chance to break down. an extremely rare but poten - experience nausea or vomiting But if your kidneys aren’t tially debilitating complication from MRI contrast agents. working well, it may break of giving gadolinium-based True allergic reactions are down before it is excreted, so contrast agents to patients rare and usually mild (itching, unbound gadolinium persists in with poor kidney function. a rash). Very infrequently, the the body. When that occurs, it As a result, it’s now rou - contrast agent provokes an may lead to a complication tine to screen patients for kid - anaphylactic allergic reaction called nephrogenic systemic ney function before giving requiring emergency treat - fibrosis (NSF), which can thick - contrast for an MRI scan. The ment. All of these rare com - en the skin and connective tis - screening isn’t complicated: a plications can be minimized sues throughout the body. simple blood test of creatinine through appropriate screening While there are reports of levels is all that’s needed. of kidney function and allergy NSF as far back as 1997, the Some MRI centers can meas - risk factors. association with gadolinium ure creatinine on the spot, so was first identified in the blood sample doesn’t need - Harvard Health Letter Denmark in 2006. Since then, to be sent to an outside lab. Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 19 SPRING HEALTH - A CARIBBEAN TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE Caribbean American Congresswoman MARCH AGAINST ‘TB’ applauds ‘historic’ U.S. health reform WASHINGTON, D.C. - invaluable effects it will have Caribbean American on all Americans, providing a Congresswoman, Yvette D. foundation for future genera - Clarke has lauded the historic tions.” Patient Protection and Obama Affordable Care Act that was also in a passed the United States House jubilant mood. of Representatives and was “Today, signed into law by President after almost a Barack Obama last month. century of try - “I was both overjoyed and ing…health honored to witness history as insurance the president signed compre - reform hensive health care reform leg - becomes law Clarke islation into law,” said Clarke in the United after attending a White House States of ceremony where Obama America,” he said. “The bill signed into law comprehensive I`m signing will set in motion healthcare reform. “Americans reforms that generations of have been waiting for this day Americans have fought for, to come for decades and we and marched for, and hun - Miami City Commissioner Audrey M. Edmonson, second left, leads a “World TB Day March” in South Florida last month to can finally celebrate this great gered to see.” bring awareness to the disease. The march, staged on Mar. 23, was organized by the Miami-Dade Health Department to call success together. attention to the high incidence of tuberculosis in the United States. Tuberculosis, also known as TB, is a bacterial disease “Today, we won the fight BENEFITS which usually attacks the lungs, but could also affect any part of the body. While it can be treated, people who are unaware for those who were denied He that while it will take that they have been infected could die from illness. For more information regarding TB prevention, contact the Miami-Dade coverage because of a pre- four years to implement fully Health Dept. at www.dadehealth.org . existing condition. We expand - many of the reforms in the ed coverage to over 32 million current law, several will take people and put the American effect this year. Those include people in charge of their health offering tax credits to about care. This reform will be solidi - fied through the tangible and (Continued on page 20) FMU to host ‘Relay for Life’ April 9-10 lorida Memorial keep at least one member of University, in conjunc - the team on the track at all Ftion with the American times. Cancer Society (ACS), will Relay For Life offers stu - host the third annual “Relay dents a chance to celebrate For Life” event from 6 p.m. the lives of cancer survivors, to 6 a.m. April 9-10 on the remember those who have university’s front lawn. passed on, and help to fight Formerly called the City for those who currently deal of Destiny Classic 24-Hour with the disease. Run Against Cancer, the “The Relay For Life is an Relay For Life is an overnight all night event because cancer event designed to celebrate never sleeps,” said Seymone the lives of cancer survivors, Ramsey, the event’s co-chair. as well as to raise money for “We want the university and research and programs for the community to be supportive American Cancer Society. by coming out and participat - During the all-night affair, ing.” different teams of people will For more information, get together at a venue and call 786-217-8386 . take turns walking or running Æ laps. Each team strives to Springing back to health this spring DR. FIDEL GOLDSON JR. patients, “Doc, I feel old.” You don’t have to feel ne of the most com - old, because you’re not old. mon things that I see What we have to do is retune Oin my office is men our body, regain flexibility, and women who have spent improve the lung functions there entire lives working and lastly put things in our hard. As a result of focusing body that will be good for our on the demands of work and body. of their families they have While our bodies certain - ignored their own health. ly change as we age, the dif - We talk about how they ference between how you feel used to be a lot more active today compared to 10 or 20 and how athletic they once years ago has less to do with were. Now, they feel more you getting older and more to aches, soreness and more dis - do with the changes in your comfort, in fact I often hear activities and lifestyle as the the same complaint from these (Continued on page 22) 20 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 SPRING HEALTH - A CARIBBEAN TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE Six frequently asked questions about migraine headaches Although migraines are notori - many do live up to their repu - migraine sufferers experience also linked it to headache. migraine. ous for causing pain, they’ve tation for excruciating pain. aura, and fewer still with Some leading researchers Many women have men - created a lot of confusion, too. The “classic” migraine is pre - every attack. have expressed doubt about strual migraines associated We hope the answers to the six ceded by aura, which typically The migraine headache, whether migraines start with with the drop in estrogen lev - questions below will clear up a consists of strange visual dis - with or without aura, tends to cortical spreading depression. els in the days just before and few misunderstandings and turbances - zigzagging lines, produce pain that usually Experimental drugs that after menstrual bleeding provide some useful informa - flashing lights, and, occasion - begins (and sometimes stays) inhibit cortical spreading begins. Alcohol and certain tion. ally, temporary vision loss. on one side of the head. A foods can start a migraine. Numbness and tingling affect - migraine headache often has a One of the most common What exactly is a migraine? ing one side of the lips, pulsating quality to it. Many triggers, stress, is one of the Not all severe headaches tongue, face and the hand on people also experience nau - hardest to control. Interestingly, are migraines nor are all the same side may also occur. sea, extreme sensitivity to migraines tend to start not dur - migraines severe, although But only about a third of light or sound - or both. Some ing moments of great stress but studies have found that about later on, as people wind down. 40 percent of migraineurs have headache pain on both Do migraines cause strokes? sides of the head. Children Numerous studies show with migraines usually have that migraine with aura is a pain on both sides. risk factor for stroke, and that It’s also possible to con - migraine without aura proba - fuse other sorts of headaches bly is not, or is minimally with migraines. Migraines can Migraine mysteries continue to baffle so. Researchers have also cause nasal congestion and a researchers. found that people who have runny nose, so they’re some - migraines with aura are at times mistaken for sinus depression have been devel - increased risk for accumulat - headaches. A regular oped, but study results report - ing small infarcts - areas of headache can have some of ed in 2009 for one of the dead brain tissue resulting the features of a migrainous most promising, a drug called from inadequate blood supply. one, such as unilateral pain tonabersat, showed a preven - Still, there’s a reluctance and nausea. tive effect on aura, but not on to claim that migraines defini - Women are three times migraine headache. tively cause strokes. The asso - more likely to have migraines So, say some researchers, ciation might be there because than men, the tendency to migraines are best explained migraine with aura and stroke have migraines runs in fami - as beginning lower in the may share a common cause. lies, and they occur less often brain, in the brainstem. The People who have migraines as people age. But, obviously, theory is that if certain areas with aura are strongly encour - these are guideposts, not diag - of the brainstem aren’t work - aged to avoid adding other nostic criteria. ing properly or are easily stroke risks on top of it, such excited, they’re capable of as smoking or oral contracep - What causes a migraine? starting cascades of neurologi - tives. There is now near-total cal events, including cortical agreement that migraines spreading depression, that How can migraines be originate in the brain, not with account for migraine’s multi - prevented? the blood vessels that sur - ple symptoms. Migraines are not like round it. One prevailing theo - heart disease, a condition with ry is that migraines are caused What triggers a migraine? many risk factors that we can by rapid waves of brain cell There are too many trig - modify to lower our chances of activity crossing the cortex, gers to list them all here. getting the disease in the first the thin outer layer of brain Many migraine sufferers are place. With the possible excep - tissue, followed by periods of sensitive to strong sensory tion of losing weight if you’re no activity. The unwieldy (and inputs like bright lights, loud heavy, there isn’t much known potentially confusing) name noises and strong smells. Lack about how to prevent migraines for this phenomenon is corti - of sleep is a trigger, but so is if you’ve never had one. cal spreading depression. sleeping too much, and wak - But if you are prone to Cortical spreading depres - ing up from a sound sleep migraines, there many steps to sion makes sense as a cause of because of a headache is a take to prevent or diminish the aura, but researchers have distinctive characteristic of (Continued on page 21) Caribbean American Congresswoman applauds ‘historic’ U.S. health reform (Continued from page 19) ting some help. They’ll receive will get tax breaks to help $250 to help pay for prescrip - them afford coverage, which four million small business - tions, and that will, over time, represents the largest middle- men and women to help them fill in the doughnut hole. class tax cut for health care in cover the cost of insurance for Over the next four years, history. That’s what this their employees; ensuring that as the reform is fully imple - reform is about.” tens of thousands of uninsured mented, health insurance Meanwhile, several states Americans with preexisting exchanges will be created filed suit in federal court to conditions, the parents of chil - making for a competitive mar - challenge the law, arguing dren who have a preexisting ketplace where uninsured that it undercuts states’ condition, finally be able to people and small businesses rights, and congressional purchase the coverage they will finally be able to purchase Republicans, who had unani - need and allowing for all new affordable, quality insurance. mously opposed the bill, insurance plans to offer free “They will be able to be vowed to keep fighting it. preventive care. part of a big pool and get the The Senate later Additionally this year, same good deal that members approved a package of young adults will be able to of Congress get,” said Obama. changes aimed at improving stay on their parents’ insur - “That’s what’s going to hap - the $940 billion overhaul. ance policies until they’re age pen under this reform. And 26 and seniors who fall in the when this exchange is up and - CaribWorldNews coverage gap known as the running, millions of people “doughnut hole” will start get - Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 21 SPRING HEALTH - A CARIBBEAN TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE Inexpensive ways to lose COMMUNITY CHECK-UP weight, stay fit

rying to lose weight could cost you a lot of Tmoney - gym member - ships, special diet foods, exer - cise equipment for your home or even hiring a personal trainer. But there are ways you can lose weight without spending a lot of money. You will still need dedication, time and a willingness to make changes in your life to achieve your goal. Here are some Doing household chores like laundry can help keep you fit. inexpensive ways to lose weight and stay fit: daily menu - For example, • Start a neighborhood relaxing with a cup of natural walking club - Invite neigh - tea can help you reduce body bors who have dogs to come fat and increase your metabo - along. Or join a local pick-up lism rate. Oolong tea contains game of dodge ball, basketball rich amino acids and cellulose, or racquetball. At the most, which can help lower your you’ll need the equipment for cholesterol levels. Green tea the game. Set a weekly time leaves contain vitamins C and for games and a daily time for E and a good amount of fiber. the walks. Having other peo - If you prefer black tea, its A patient, right, gets ready for a health check during North Shore Medical Center’s recent community heart fair. The event took ple involved will help encour - benefits include help with place in the auditorium on the hospital’s Fort Lauderdale, Florida campus and included complimentary cholesterol, blood pressure, age you to continue moving digestion. diabetes and stroke risk screenings. Attendees were also offered literature on living a heart healthy lifestyle and allowed to speak and exercising. Drinking a cup of tea with cardiac specialists and other healthcare professionals. Additionally, the event featured lectures from two of North Shore • Add healthy ingredients (without the sugar or cream Medical Center FMC Campus’ heart health professionals. Dr Lou Isaacson, of the Emergency Department, discussed recognizing that benefit your body to your the signs of chest pain and heart attack. Anthony Vito, stroke coordinator lectured on being aware of stroke risks. (Continued on page 22) Six frequently asked questions about migraine headaches (Continued from page 20) choice but to take refuge in a dark, quiet place and wait it attacks. Often the first is iden - out. The drugs available to tifying triggers so you can abort an attack weren’t very avoid them. Keeping to a reg - effective and had bad side ular, stress-reducing schedule effects. Now many people cut that includes a full night’s rest, an attack short with one of the balanced meals, and exercise triptan drugs, a class that can make a difference. includes eletriptan (Relpax), Anything that reduces stress - sumatriptan (Imitrex), and yoga, meditation, exercise - zolmitriptan (Zomig). can help. The triptan drugs seem to People who are sensitive work by inhibiting pain signal - to light tend to react more to ing in the brainstem, but they the red end of the spectrum, also constrict blood vessels. For so wearing blue- or green-tint - that reason, people with a his - ed glasses helps fend off an tory of cardiovascular disease attack. (heart attack, stroke, uncon - If non-pharmacological trolled hypertension) are usual - changes don’t help, medica - ly advised not to take them. tions may. The drugs most Pain relievers like ibupro - commonly prescribed for pre - fen (Advil, Motrin) and ventive purposes are beta naproxen (Aleve) can halt a blockers, tricyclic antidepres - mild attack, but rebound sants and anticonvulsants. All headaches may develop if have side effects, so they they’re taken too often. should be taken at low doses Rebound headache occurs and only if migraines are fre - after the body gets used to quent. having a medication in its sys - The alternative medicines tem; when it’s not there, used for prevention include headaches happen. feverfew, coenzyme Q10, mag - Migraines can quickly nesium, and riboflavin - and snowball into more serious that’s just the tip of the ice - pain, so it’s important to treat berg. Judging by studies, none the headache early, regardless of them is a surefire bet, but of the medication. that doesn’t mean they won’t work for some individuals. Edited from Harvard Health Letter. Tribune Media How can they be stopped? Services Inc. It used to be that migraine sufferers had no Æ 22 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 SPRING HEALTH - A CARIBBEAN TODAY SPECIAL FEATURE Inexpensive ways to lose weight, stay fit (Continued from page 21) and then switch it for a new calories added) after each one from the library. If you meal will help you slowly have cable or satellite televi - dissolve fat in your body. sion, tune into some of the fit - Premium tea leaves give you ness channels for different the best quality and best taste. programs. You’ll find styles • Do your own home ranging from yoga workouts workout - Grab a full jug of to belly dancing to step aero - laundry detergent and use it bics. Set specific times each for some lifting. If you’re week to run through a 30- looking for something lighter, minute workout. fill a plastic bottle with water • Clean the house - to use as a weight. Start danc - Pushing a vacuum at a rapid ing around your house and in pace is good exercise. So is no time you’ll break a sweat. scrubbing floors or bathtubs. This is great for cardiovascular These activities also are good exercise for toning muscles. • Borrow a fitness video from the library and tone your - Courtesy of ARAcontent body with the experts - Æ Repeat the video several times Springing back to health this spring

(Continued from page 19) cise such as jogging; walking at a medium to fast pace; rid - years have gone by. Activities ing a stationary bicycle; or just that once required the entire lifting light weights while use of your body and joints watching television are all have been replaced by less ways to work your heart, challenging activities. The old diaphragm, and the other saying, “if you don’t use it, breathing muscles. A good you lose it” applies to the routine will allow you to sleep joints that make up our spine, better and breathe deeper knees, shoulders, hands and within three to six weeks. feet. Retuning your joints and Outside of oxygen and increasing flexibility is the first sunlight, nothing is more step in feeling healthier, hav - essential to life than water. ing less discomfort when get - Why then is it that most of us ting up from sitting, being don’t drink more of it? Most able to lift your arms in the air of us enjoy the taste of a cold without pain, and reducing fruit punch or a soda with a soreness when waking up in meal. But water works on a the morning. cellular level. Water allows Take a break from reading your muscles to remain lubri - this right now and take three cated and loose, your diges - deep breaths. If you feel like tive system to work properly you are restricted from taking and allows you to remain in a full breath, you probably mentally oriented. In fact, all are. Every cell in your body of the cell and organ functions needs oxygen to survive-from made up in our entire anato - your toe nails up to the hair on my and physiology rely on your head. When your body water for proper function. does not take in enough oxy - Many people don’t like gen all bodily functions drinking pure water. If you become limited causing reper - avoid pure water, here’s a tip cussions such as compromised for you: gaining water from brain function, decreased mus - eating fruit high in water con - cle strength and a sluggish tent is a great way to boost digestive system. water consumption without drinking it directly. Fruit will also help fill up the stomach DIAPHRAGM with low calories and gain Let’s talk about your tons of vitamins, minerals and diaphragm: “My dia what?”, other nutrients to increase you say. The diaphragm (DIE vitality. In fact, any food with ah fram) is a muscle that lines high water content can boost the bottom of the lungs. In a water consumption. Most sense it is sandwiched foods high in water are natu - between your lungs and your rally occurring, healthy foods, abdomen. When the another reason to eat a diaphragm contracts it pushes healthy diet! down on the abdomen allow - Spring is the perfect time ing the lungs to expand and to put that “I feel old” notion take in air. This along with behind you and start anew. other muscles around the rib cage is the basis of us being Dr. Fidel Goldson Jr. is a able to breathe. Like any chiropractor and licensed other muscle, the more you physical therapist. work it the stronger it becomes. Cardiovascular exer - Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 23 SPORT World’s three fastest men set for 100 meters showdown in August BRUSSELS, Belgium – Usain Bolt won the gold in the Gay and Powell will have in history. dates back three years. Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa final of the 100 meters at last their hands full – if all three But Powell cannot be American Gay also has fond Powell, the three fastest year’s World Championships men last through the season discounted. The Memorial memories of the Brussels humans of all-time, are sched - in Berlin, where Gay grabbed and are fully fit – since Bolt Van Damme is one of the track. He made his debut four uled to face the starter in the silver and Powell copped also holds the meet record of Jamaican’s favorite meets. He years ago with a blistering men’s 100 meters at the IAAF bronze in the fastest 100 in 9.77secs in a duel with Powell is the most victorious sprinter 19.79 seconds in the 200 two years ago. Last year, Bolt on the Brussels track after meters. also ran an astonishing 200 winning the event no less than meters in 19.57, the fourth five times. His personal best Æ fastest time over the distance of 9.84 seconds in Brussels

The trio of, from left, Powell, Gay and Bolt will clash again in August.

Diamond League athletics history. The Jamaican sprint meet on Aug. 27 here. megastar set a new world This followed recent con - record of 9.58 seconds, while firmation that Bolt will attend Gay became the fastest-ever the Memorial Van Damme for American athlete at the dis - one of the most anticipated tance, and Powell increased races of the season in the his world-record number of King Baudouin Stadium. The sub-10 second races. Memorial Van Damme is the All three are IAAF final stop on the new IAAF Diamond League ambassa - Diamond League circuit, and dors and they will gather in so far is only one of the 14 Brussels for a rerun of this siz - meets at which all three zling final. sprinters will run. Jamaican high school alumni soccer tourney in South Florida April 16-18 lumni from prominent between alumni of St. Jamaican high schools George’s and J.C. The annual Awill take their compet - match is in memory of Dennis itive spirit to the soccer field Ziadie, who coached both this month during the True schools to Manning Cup victo - Blue/Ziadie Cup in South ries. This year will mark the Florida. 24th year of Ziadie’s death in The event, scheduled for a car crash in Mexico at the April 16-18, will feature repre - 1986 World Cup. sentatives of four Florida Scheduled True Blue alumni associations - St. weekend festivities include the Andrew Old Girls’, St. following events: George’s College Old Boys, • Friday, April 16, 7 p.m. Convent of Mercy Academy to midnight - The True Blue “Alpha” and Jamaica College Mixer/Party at I.T. Parker Old Boys. Community Center (On the “This three-day event dis - Intracoastal Waterway), 901 plays the unwavering support N.E. Third St., Dania Beach. J.C. and George’s have from • Saturday, April 17, noon their ‘sister schools’,” said - The Sixth Annual Ziadie Deirdre Benka-Coker, presi - Cup, Jamaica College Alumni dent St. Andrew High School vs. St. George’s College Old Girls Association of Alumni Soccer Match. Silver South Florida, Inc., in a recent Shores Park,15700 Pembroke press release. Rd., Miramar. “We are pleased to take a • Sunday - April 18, trip down memory lane with 10 a.m. - True Blue Church our ‘brother school’, revisit - Service, Church of the Holy ing one of the most exciting Family, 18501 N.W. Seventh rivalries in Manning Cup foot - Ave., Miami Gardens. ball...Battle of the Blues.” For more information, The True Blue weekend is call 305-652-6797 . an expansion from the annual Æ Ziadie Cup soccer match 24 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 SPRING/SUMMER EDUCATION U.S. federal aid form for college applications now easier to complete STEVE ROSEN However, here’s some been simplified). Don’t con - Most families fill news that should make filers fuse the government’s site out the student-aid think it’s safe to say most rejoice: The federal aid form, with online filing services that application online. high school seniors in the known as FAFSA, is more charge a filing fee. Parents and students IUnited States and their streamlined and much easier The FAFSA is required will need their 2009 parents would rather sand - to fill out this year. for nearly all college students income and investment blast the oil stains from the The 2010-2011 documents seeking financial aid. This information from their garage floor or rearrange the from the U.S. Department of year the federal government federal income tax attic than fill out the Free Education are available online alone is expected to award return to answer some Application for Federal at www.fafsa.gov (even the more than $168 billion in stu - FAFSA questions, Student Aid. government Web address has dent aid. though it’s fine to pro - vide either estimates or numbers from your previous return that can be updated later.

TIME SAVER Completing the paperwork normally takes several hours. This year you should be able to shave some Applying for financial aid is becoming less of a hassle. time off the job because of the application instant estimate of eligibility makeover that was rolled out for the Pell grant, the nation’s Jan. 1. largest student-aid program. According to some reports, Previously, she said, students the 2010-2011 FAFSA shortens had to wait several weeks for the application process by the information. about 20 questions. The new The fixes in FAFSA are version also skips questions only the beginning, Christel that don’t apply to your circum - said. By summer, families stances, said Patricia Nash should be able to transfer Christel, a spokeswoman for their federal income tax infor - Sallie Mae, the higher educa - mation to the financial aid tion services company. For form by clicking on a link, example, she said, female stu - thereby eliminating another dents are not asked about batch of questions. Selective Service registration. Online filers also will see COMPLAINTS more help boxes and prompts The Department of based on information provid - Education revamped the elec - ed in the filing process. Also new, said Christel, is an (Continued on page 26) Law students help undocumented Haitians MIAMI - A Broward County in Broward County – seek detention center isn’t every temporary legal status based student’s ideal spring break on humanitarian concerns. getaway. But for more than three dozen law students from EXPERTISE across the country, that’s just FIU law students, who where they wanted to be this have staffed TPS clinics since year. Haitians were first granted the The students have partici - status, provide ongoing tech - pated in an alternative spring nical expertise and support. In break experience organized by addition, the FIU law clinic is the law schools at Florida providing logistics support for International University and the visiting students, including the University of Miami to translator training and coordi - help Haitians in South Florida nation. apply for temporary protected Following the devastating status (TPS) and other immi - earthquake in Haiti, the gration relief. Department of Homeland Law students from Yale, Security allowed undocument - Fordham, University of ed Haitians to file for TPS. Minnesota and City Applicants must have been University of New York vol - living in the U.S. prior to the unteered last month to help earthquake. Homeland undocumented Haitians fill Security officials have estimat - out the proper paperwork that ed that between 100,000 to would allow them to legally 200,000 Haitians will seek live and work in the United TPS. The majority live in States on a temporary basis. South Florida. The window They have also assisted for applying for this legal sta - Haitians who arrived in the tus ends on June 21. U.S. after the Jan. 12 earth - quake – and who are now Æ detained at a detention center CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 25 SPRING/SUMMER EDUCATION Caribbean students’ confab to focus on ‘Culture Shock’ TAMPA, Florida - “Culture the Caribbean region. It will Shock: Spotlight on the also address traditional and Caribbean” will be the theme evolving Caribbean culture, of the 36th annual conference socio-economic and political hosted by The Florida concerns and specific chal - Caribbean Students lenges of the Caribbean dias - Association (FCSA). pora. In addition, the confer - The three-day event is ence will incorporate a scheduled for April 9-11 at the “Career & Education Fair” to University of South Florida allow students to explore here. employment, The FCSA internship and conference is “This conference is our graduate school among the lead - highly anticipated opportu - opportunities. ing Caribbean nity to connect with friends “This confer - student events from other campuses ence is our high - in Florida. It around the State of ly anticipated encourages rep - Florida” opportunity to resentation by a connect with wide cross sec - - Kerri-Jo McLean friends from tion of other campuses Caribbean coun - around the State tries. of Florida, to conduct the This year’s conference is business of improving the expected to attract more than quality of our student experi - 500 participants, including stu - ences, to explore our own pro - dent and community leaders, fessional and personal devel - business representatives and opment, and to revel in the other officials. vibrancy of our culture,” stat - It will explore ways in ed Kerri-Jo McLean, confer - which the students of the ence chair in a recent press Caribbean community in release. “It is a must attend Florida can maintain the event for any student of integrity of their cultural iden - Caribbean descent.” tity and stay connected with Æ UNESCO honors Haitian writer

Haitian writer has been named an artist Afor peace by the United Nations’ Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Frankétienne was given the recognition for his contri - bution to French-language lit - erature, commitment to pre - serving Haitian culture and contribution to the promotion of the agency’s ideals, accord - ing to a statement issued last month. A writer, actor, painter and teacher, Frankétienne is considered an emblematic fig - ure in Haitian culture. The author of 40 books in French Frankétienne and creole, including “Dezafi” hit the Caribbean country in and “Ultravocal”, he has January. received numerous awards Appointed for two years, and literary prizes. His play Frankétienne will provide Melovivi or Le Piége (The support to UNESCO’s pro - Trap) was staged for the first grams to promote books and time at UNESCO headquar - linguistic diversity. ters last month. The UNESCO “Artists Irina Bokova, the for Peace” are personalities agency’s director-general, who use their influence, bestowed the honor on charisma and prestige to help Frankétienne during a forum promote the organization’s at UNESCO’s Paris headquar - message. ters to discuss the reconstruc - tion of Haiti’s social, cultural - CaribWorldNews and intellectual heritage fol - lowing the earthquake which Æ 26 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010 SPRING/SUMMER EDUCATION Drawing card: Art helps develop children’s creativity ne way to support and several studies. examine the value of arts edu - Boston, was funded through children’s traditional school - sustain a child’s natu - The United States govern - cation in strengthening academ - the DOE’s grant. This study ing. Parents can consider Oral inclination towards ment is working to verify this ic achievement and learning in measured the impact of its alternatives that still provide creativity is to give them connection, with the U.S. elementary and middle school multi-visit museum arts educa - valuable art instruction, such access to art education. Department of Education students, and to identify and tion pro - When a child receives (DOE) funding a nationwide assess best practices. gram on the quality art education, his or initiative called Arts in A research study called develop - her ability to succeed in aca - Education Model Development “Thinking Through Art”, ment and demic achievement is often and Dissemination. This pro - completed by the Isabella use of criti - interconnected, according to gram allows grant recipients to Stewart Gardner Museum in cal thinking skills in urban ele - mentary stu - dents in grades three through five. Its findings revealed a significant positive impact of Art and academic achievement are often interconnected. arts educa - tion on criti - cal thinking and learning for as grade-level specific lesson the students who participated. plans at www.dickblick.com The Dana Foundation, a and at other companies that private philanthropic organi - cover a variety of ages and zation, concluded from its have inexpensive associated study entitled “Learning, Arts, supply lists. While supple - and the Brain” that the arts menting an art education can train children’s attention, for your child is helpful, which in turn improves cogni - Buchsbaum encourages par - tion and might even improve ents to remember that sup - math and reading skills. porting art education at their children’s local schools is the FIRST CUT most direct way to provide for Unfortunately, art educa - quality art education. Other tion is often the first thing cut opportunities for getting during budget crises. Bob involved in your child’s art Buchsbaum, chief executive education include enjoying an officer of Blick Art Materials art project or activity together, states, “Without thinking of visiting a museum together or the long-run impact that the enrolling in a community cen - loss of art-based curriculum ter art class together. has on students, some schools are making cuts.” - Courtesy of ARAcontent Art-based curriculum cuts often leave parents looking Æ for options outside of their U.S. federal aid form for college applications now easier to complete

(Continued from page 24) tronic form mostly in reaction to complaints that the process Filling out had become too complicated. That’s one reason why 24 per - cent of families sending chil - the FAFSA dren to college did not bother • Students will need their completing the FAFSA in the Social Security number, driver’s 2009-2010 academic year, license, 2009 W-2 forms (and according to a national study other records of money earned) from Sallie Mae and Gallup. and 2009 federal income tax Other reasons for not fil - return. ing the FAFSA: Families did - n’t think they were eligible for • You may also need your par - aid or weren’t aware of the fil - ents’ 2009 federal income tax ing requirement. return if you are a dependent. As for this year, set aside quiet time to concentrate, take a deep breath and remember that the reward for submitting © 2010 Tribune Media the FAFSA may well be low- Services, Inc. cost or free money to pay for college. Æ CARIBBEAN TODAY • APRIL 2010• 27 CLASSIFIED ADS

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