Cultutral Xpression Oct 2019

P1 FREECULTURAL XPRESSION - OCT 2019 Culture CULTURAL XPRESSION - OCT 2019 P2 THE MAN BEHIND MULLET BAY & USM HUSHANG ANSARY HUSHANG AN- of Stewart & Steven- SARY (Per- son LLC until the company was purchased ههههه :sian -born by Kirby Corp in Sep ,هههههه July 1926) is an Ira- tember 2018. nian-American former In recent years An- diplomat, business- sari and Parman have man, and philanthro- come under scrutiny pist. He served for of the Central Bank eighteen years in the of Curaçao and Sint Iranian government Maarten (CBCS) with prior to the Iranian regard to financial Revolution including misappropriations re- as Minister of Eco- garding an insurance nomic Affairs and company operating Finance and Iran’s in the Dutch Carib- Ambassador to the bean islands of Aru- United States from ba, Curaçao and Sint 1967-1969. He has to the United States marriage “came to a He was the director of Maarten. The CBCS been chairman or di- and then as Minister bitter end” according an unstable compa- has stated that under rector of companies of Economic Affairs to historian Abbas Mi- ny called Fakhre Iran, shareholder Parman both in Iran and in the and Finance. His ac- lani, has said that “not which he made prof- International B.V., United States. complishments during appointing Hushang itable and sold to the in which Ansary is a this time included as- was one of the shah’s government. Ansary majority shareholder, Political career sisting the Shah in two biggest mistakes, arrived in the U.S. a ENNIA Caribe Hold- Born in Ahvaz, lending millions of dol- leading to the revo- very wealthy man and ing and ENNIA Cari- in Iran’s Khuzestan lars in aid and grants lution.” In November became a U.S. cit- be Investments had Province, Ansary first to other countries 1977, Ansary became izen in 1986. After appropriated 1,5 bil- worked as a news- and the signing of an the director of the Na- settling in the United lion Antillean guilders paper and magazine agreement with U.S. tional Iranian Oil Com- States, Ansary start- (approximately $838 photographer in Ah- State Secretary Hen- pany, but resigned ed the Parman Group, million) from ENNIA vaz, Tehran, and En- ry Kissinger to build one year later and a holding company for insurance compa- gland before moving eight nuclear power moved to the United leisure industries, nies. These insurance to Japan in 1954. plants in Iran. States, citing health textiles, internation- companies operate on There he met Abbas By the 1970s, problems. al trade, and real es- the islands of Curaçao Aram, Iran’s ambas- the CIA considered tate, which included and Sint Maarten and sador to Japan, who Ansary to be one of Business and IRI International - a therefore fall under soon brought him to seventeen members philanthropy company that makes the supervision of the the attention of Shah of “the Shah’s Inner During his time in oilfield equipment. IRI CBCS. According to Mohammad Reza Circle” and he was the Iranian govern- International was sold Pahlavi. The Shah one of the Shah’s top ment, Ansary also to National Oilwell CONTINUED ON asked Ansary to re- two choices to suc- maintained a success- Varco in 2005. Ansa- PAGE 4 turn to Iran and ap- ceed Amir Abbas Hov- ful career in business. ry was the chairman pointed him to several eyda as Prime Min- government positions ister. Ultimately, this starting in 1961, in- appointment went cluding Undersecre- to Jamshid Amouze- tary of Commerce, gar, and Ansary be- ambassador to many came the leader of the African nations and to Constructionist wing Pakistan, and Minister of the Rastakhiz par- of Information. ty, which opposed In 1964, he mar- Amouzegar’s Progres- ried Maryam Panahi, a sive wing. Some of friend of ambassador Ansary’s supporters Aram who had many have seen Amouze- high-ranking acquain- gar’s appointment tances in the govern- as a poor decision in ments of the United hindsight. Even his States and Iran. He now ex-wife Maryam served as Ambassador Panahi, to whom his P3 CULTURAL XPRESSION - OCT 2019 Culture AFRO-CARIBBEAN PEOPLE MARY SEACOLE... PT 7 By Wiki giene decades before Seacole was to be military history and CONTROVERSIES Nightingale. Jennings removed from the a fundamental shift An article by suggested that race National Curriculum. away from social his- Lynn McDonald in plays a part in the Opposing this, Greg tory.” A lot of com- the Times Literary resistance to Seacole Jenner, historical mentators do not Supplement asked by some of Night- consultant to Hor- accept the disput- “How did Mary Se- ingale’s support- rible Histories, has ed Eurocentric view acole come to be ers. The American stated that while he that Seacole’s ac- viewed as a pioneer academic Gretchen thought her medical complishments were of modern nurs- Gerzina has implied achievements may exaggerated. Patrick ing?”, comparing that racism was a have been exagger- Vernon opines that a her unfavourably motivating factor ated, removing Se- lot of the claims that with Kofoworola behind a lot of criti- Mary Jane Seacole acole from the cur- Seacole’s achieve- Pratt who was the cism of Seacole from came known as obe- ed it as one of her riculum would be a ments were exag- first black nurse in members of the Brit- ah in Jamaica. Ac- key reforms in her mistake. While Peter gerated came from the NHS, and con- ish establishment cording to the writer book Notes on Nurs- Hitchens has argued an English elite that cluded “She de- and media. One crit- Helen Rappaport, in ing in 1859. It is that Seacole’s ac- was determined to serves much credit icism made by sup- the late eighteenth possible that Night- complishments have suppress and hide for rising to the oc- porters of Nightingale and early nineteenth ingale learned about been exaggerated the black contribu- casion, but her tea of Seacole is that she centuries, the West the value of hygiene because anybody tion in Britain. Helen and lemonade did was not trained at an African and Jamaican in nursing from the who put a contrary Seaton observes that not save lives, pio- established British creole “doctress”, practices of Seacole. view was afraid to Nightingale fitted the neer nursing or ad- hospital. However, such as Cornwallis Seacole’s name be accused of rac- English ideal of a Vic- vance health care”. that Eurocentric crit- and Sarah Adams, appears in an appen- ism, both Jenner and torian heroine more However, this icism ignores the fact who both died in the dix to the Key Stage Hugh Muir have as- than a dark-skinned criticism belittles that Jamaican nurs- late 1840s, often had 2 National Curricu- serted that this is Seacole, who bat- the achievements es such as Seacole greater success than lum, as an example not the case. Susan tled racial prejudice of Jamaican “doc- and Cubah Cornwal- the European-trained of a significant Victo- Sheridan has argued from English people tresses” such as lis, and even Nanny doctor who practised rian historical figure. that the leaked pro- who had little under- Seacole, who used of the Maroons, de- what was then tra- There is no require- posal to remove Se- standing about Ca- more than “tea and veloped their nurs- ditional medicine. ment that teachers acole from the Na- ribbean herbal rem- lemonade” to heal ing skills from West These doctresses of include Seacole in tional Curriculum is edies. the ill and wounded, African healing tradi- Jamaica practised their lessons. At the part of “a concentra- often using herbal tions, such as the use hygiene long before end of 2012 it was tion solely on large- remedies and hy- of herbs, which be- Nightingale adopt- reported that Mary scale political and MARCH 2018 - CULTURAL XPRESSION - PG 4 Agriculture CULTURAL XPRESSION - OCT 2019 P4 ECO SXM MAKE ITS PRESENTATION TO PARLIAMENT was set for Nov 5, questions asked by Nov 2019 edition. In 2019 where I would our MP’S. Will share the mean time, let’s have to answer all the more on this topic on keep it growing… SPACELESS GARDENS AT SMILE OCT 2019 was a very Oct 2019 just in time Perhaps its just inspiring month as for the new upcoming politics to gain recog- I got to spread the elections. The meet- nition for giving Agri- awareness and impor- ing was called by MP culture the platform tance of agriculture to Rolando Brison based to voice its direction my fellow men, wom- on our request earlier to the general public, en and this time also this year to request but nevertheless , we including Parliament. for government to were able to make a Although this meeting subsidize the Agricul- strong presentation had to take place in tural Research and with hopes that this May 2019 earlier this Development Centers time around it may President of USM Dr Antonio Carmona reviews locally made artwork by year was still grate- efforts for country St not fall on deaf ears. artist Kenneth Samson at SHTA’s 2019 SMILE Event. ful it came around in Maarten. A follow up meeting ECO SXM \ USM: WASTE AS A RESOURCE USM Students at ECO St Maarten Agricultural Research and Develop- A master class for seed bombing and Agriculture by Ms Tes Verheij of ment Center Wasta Factory and Mr Wyatte of ECO SXM STUDENTS of USM stration on Waste as ganic waste material get hands on during a resource ! The fo- that may be used to the month of October cus was to get more compliment agricul- 2019 at ECO SXM with info on how to reduce, tural sustainability for a lecture and demon- reuse and recycle or- St.

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