APRIL 23 - 29, 2009 13 www.GleanerExtra.com EXTRA NA F www.GleanerExtra.com CCMAAMAA RE PProfessionalrofessional CCorporationorporation E *Family Law *Real Estate *Civil Litigation Law *Personal Injury *Corporate & *Wills and Estates Commercial EXTRA NORTH. AMERICA. 4316 Village Centre Court, Suite 300, Mississauga, ON L4Z 1S2 N A Tel: (905) 270-8075 ❘ Fax: (905) 270-4764 Vol #: 2 Issue #: 17 A Gleaner Company Publication Formerly known as CUNNINGHAM McBEAN & ASSOCIATES HARPER UPBEAT ABOUT SUMMIT OUTCOME M I D C R I T I C I S M S o f COM) leaders in the discussions the absence of individ- served “as a tremendous voice of A ual signatures to the reason and of openness at those S u m m i t ’ s ‘ D e c l a r a t i o n o f times when dialogue did get P o r t o f S p a i n ’ t h a t w o u l d heated without steering us away h a v e p r o v i d e d a b l u e p r i n t from those disagreements”. for the future socio-econom- The Fifth Summit of the i c d e v e l o p m e n t o f t h e Americas ended – Sunday with A m e r i c a s , C a n a d i a n P M hemispheric leaders failing to Stephen Harper is confident agree. that goals have been met. Prior to the summit, the mem- Harper said the success of ber countries of the Bolivarian the deliberations had con- Alternative for the Peoples of f o u n d e d c r i t i c s w h o h a d Our Americas (ALBA), led by anticipated a battle between Venezuela and which also member states. includes Nicaragua and Bolivia, “I think the remarkable thing had vowed not to sign the about the summit was the failure ‘Declaration of Port of Spain’ in to fulfil expectations of great con- solidarity with Cuba that has not frontation here. We all came here been invited to neither this nor I think believing that we would previous summits. have quite a battle among the – CMC radically different perspectives that do exist on certain subjects,” Harper said. “That did not materialise, we saw the replacement of con- frontation with dialogue, not a TOTAL FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS dialogue that lacked disagree- TO YOUR EVERY DAY PROBLEMS: ment or robust discussion but a • Income Protection dialogue that was genuine and a • Asset Management chemistry among leaders and in particular among the main pro- • Debt Management tagonist (and) that was very good.” REASONS He said this environment CONTRIBUTED Prime Minister Stephen Harper (left) in coming at a time of a difficult serious talks about North American, economic situation promised Caribbean and Latin American rela- much for the future and out- tions with United States President, lined three reasons for the Barack Obama (right) and Jamaica's warm relations among the lead- Prime Minister Bruce Golding. 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NEWS Government to table Freedom of Group faces challenges Information Bill PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: THE GUYANA government is to table a Freedom of Information (FOI) Act with- in helping deportees in two months, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said. “In two months’ time you DUANE COOMBS will see this Bill being tabled in parliament. We’re ExtraNa Writer already drafting it. That’s NEW YORK: what we are working on,” Jagdeo told reporters during ISIONS OF hordes of deportees the Fifth Summit of the descending on Jamaica to help Americas here on Saturday V fuel the spiraling crime problem night. is a popular notion that is simply not Jagdeo said that the FOI t r u e a c c o r d i n g t o t h e g r o u p F a m i l y is a promise outlined in the Resettlement Initiative (FURI). manifesto of the ruling What to do about this vexing problem was People’s Progressive Party the topic of discussion at a community forum Civic (PPP/C) for the elec- held at the Jamaica Consulate in New York tions held there two years last Thursday. Working in conjunction with ago. the consulate, FURI has been trying to help cushion the transition of the deported person to Jamaica. “When they go back many have no true Senate elections sense of belonging so they have a feeling of lost heritage” Carmeta Albarus-Lindo, a result next week Forensic Social Worker and the founder and president of FURI told ExtraNA. “Deported individuals comprise 46 per cent PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti of the homeless population is Jamaica (AP): because they lack social and family network” Mrs Carmeta Albarus- RESULTS OF Haiti’s Senate Mrs. Albarus -Lindo noted. Individuals who Lindo (right) speak with elections will likely not be violate immigration laws are the majority of pyschogist Taneisha known for more than a week Burke and community despite an apparent low the deported person and even those with Activist Jose Richards. criminal convictions are often time low-level turnout, an election official drug mule exploited by “dons” who have the said Monday. resources and contact to make it back to persons elicit very little sympathy from a I not sure how long I will be able to keep Voting for 11 vacant seats America, she insists. wary and hostile society that is making it doing this” Mrs. Albarus -Lindo said. “Other in the 30-member Senate even more difficult for them to reintegrate board members like captain Reuben Phillips, took place across the impov- TROUBLING AND UNWELCOME into a homeland already beset by a host of the executive director of FURI and Rev erished country Sunday Some 50,000 Jamaicans have been deport- other problems. Augustin Odih also dip into their own pocket after a year and a half of ed from the United States alone since 1996 PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS to finance the project” delays caused by political and for Jamaica the influx is deeply troubling The group also gets some financing from infighting, riots and damag- and unwelcome. The Government claims this Albarus-Lindo’s has set up a meet and the Church of the Latter Day Saints and ing storms. is a cause of the island’s crime booming crime greet and has established a self-sustaining Food for the Poor but with the cost of in It will take at least eight problem. farming village in St Thomas to help to rein- excess of $10,000 per month to keep the days to count ballots trucked Albarus-Lindo, however, points out that the tegrate the deported persons into the farming village afloat and to provide services in from the countryside and typical deported person is someone about 35 Jamaican society and try to make the deport- at the drop-in center it is proving a daunting years old, in contrast to the typically youthful ed persons productive citizens. determine winners, said task for the group. Jean-Marc Baudot, a criminal in Jamaica whose average age is “Right now we are getting no financial sup- It is an uphill task but one which the group between 17-25. port fro any government agency so I must use Canadian consultant serving Family Unification for Resettlement as logistics coordinator for Yet as convenient scapegoats, the deported my personal funds to finance the project and Initiative is determined to see succeed. the provisional electoral council’s computation center. Baudot said that officials have not been able to gauge the turnout yet, but it appeared to be low, based on Chicago Investors to Build the observations of balloting observers and reporters cov- ering the elections. Ballots are being counted at polling places and tabu- lated at a warehouse com- Bio Diesel Plant in Jamaica puter center guarded by armed U.N. peacekeepers in NEW YORK: an industrial park in the BIYOJAM a Chicago-based company capital, Port-au-Prince. is to invest over 120 million U.S. dol- Turnout appeared to be lars in development of a Bio Diesel extremely low in the capi- plant in Jamaica. tal, where voter apathy and Chairman Christian Strahan said fear of election-day violence that his company was now in the were more common than process of doing a number of soil test- political interest. President ing in various parts of Jamaica, to Rene Preval declined to find a suitable site for the plant. comment on the turnout Ground is expected to be broken in Sunday until official results 2010 and by 2012 the plant should be are calculated.