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General Discussion / Past students return for historic dinner
« on: April 15, 2007, 07:00:51 PM »
 
 

 
 When the biennial dinner of the St Mary’s College Past Students’ Union comes off on Saturday, May 5, it will be a most historic occasion in that for the first time, spouses/girlfriends have been invited to the function.

This time around, the spouses and girlfriends of the CIC past students will be able to participate in the nostalgia and reminiscing that will be present when the guys meet their contemporaries of college days.

As usual, the dinner will be held at the Centenary Hall of the College (Pembroke Street entrance) and will be preceded by cocktails in the legendary Big Yard.

A feature of the function will be the announcement of the names of the 2007 inductees to the St Mary’s College Hall of Fame which was established by the Past Students’ Union in 1997.

The college’s Hall of Fame is designed to recognise outstanding past students who by their deeds of excellence serve as exemplars to past and present students of St Mary’s College, which was founded in 1863 and is the oldest existing boys secondary school in the country.

To date, 50 individuals have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Included among them are former president Sir Ellis Clarke, deceased Archbishop Anthony Pantin and his brother Fr Gerry Pantin of Servol, Captain Arthur Cipriani, legal luminaries Sir Henry Alcazar and Sir Gaston Johnston, former West Indies cricketers Clifford Roach, Ellis “Puss” Achong, Willie Rodriguez and Charlie Davis, distinguished medical personnel doctors Pawan and Poon King and renowned calypsonians Atilla the Hun and Dr Hollis “Chalkdust” Liverpool.

As is customary, the function will be attended by the presidents of past student organisations of other colleges, including Queen’s Royal College, Fatima, Presentation and Naparima.

No doubt, their presence will encourage much discussion about the fierce but healthy competition that existed among these institutions in the spheres of scholarships and “intercol” in front of the Grand Stand in the Queen’s Park Savannah.
 
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General Discussion / The Tongue
« on: April 11, 2007, 11:44:33 AM »
If words could ah kill ah believe many ah we mightah done ded ah ready , the things people would say about yuh and they dont know nottin about yuh ,this wat ah sayin here takes place wid men and women , among friends ,family , yuh job . only yuh friends know yuh secret and only they can revele it . an d you dont know  that every body knows untill a whisperer tell yuh wat iz  being said and yuh feel so embarassed yuh want oto ded.the tongue is for tasting and talking  and other things dutty yuh know wah ah mean the tongue what ah wonderful thing can be used to do so much harm .

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / come to the movies
« on: April 09, 2007, 07:27:18 PM »
http://peekvid.com/movies.html ah not shure if it wuking buh try it .

635
General Discussion / Radio host in race controversy
« on: April 09, 2007, 11:47:55 AM »
Imus on race controversy: ‘I’m a good person’
Radio host to appear on Sharpton’s show after racially charged comments

NEW YORK - After being criticized for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team, radio host Don Imus said Monday that he’s a good person who said a bad thing and will check his acid tongue.

“Here’s what I’ve learned: that you can’t make fun of everybody, because some people don’t deserve it,” he said on his nationally syndicated radio show. “Because the climate on this program has been what it’s been for 30 years doesn’t mean it’s going to be what it’s been for the next five years or whatever because that has to change, and I understand that.”

Imus said he was “embarrassed” by the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as “nappy-headed hos.” He said he had made the comments in the course of “trying to be funny,” but he was not trying to excuse them.

“I’m not a bad person. I’m a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice,” he said.

He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a cattle farm for children with cancer and blood disorders in Ribera, N.M. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he added.

“I’m not a white man who doesn’t know any African-Americans,” he said.

Imus said he hoped to meet the Rutgers players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.

“It’s not going to be easy, but I’m not looking for it to be easy,” Imus said.

Calling for Imus' ouster
Sharpton has said he wants Imus fired and that he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.

“Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media,” Sharpton said Sunday. “We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we’ve got to stop this.”

Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster’s resignation or firing.

Imus made the now infamous remark during his show Wednesday.

The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women’s championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on “Imus in the Morning,” which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC TV (MSNBC.com is a joint venture between NBC-Universal and Microsoft; MSNBC TV is wholly owned by NBC-Universal).

“That’s some rough girls from Rutgers,” Imus said. “Man, they got tattoos...”

“Some hardcore hos,” McGuirk said.

“That’s some nappy-headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that,” Imus said.

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General Discussion / Givin more than 100%
« on: April 06, 2007, 06:17:54 PM »
What makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder
 
>about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all been >to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How about >achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
   
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these questions:

If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%


and


K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%


But ,

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%


And,

B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%


AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.


A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%

So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that while Hard work
 
and >Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the >Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.
    ... But we already knew that, didn't we?!

yuh know jus the other day me and my boss was talking and he said to me that i should be givin more than 100% so i say to him if i  give you that what is left for me , i did not realise he wanted me to kiss his ass and take bullshit to, these people really dont know ah trini , alyuh feel ah should email dem this ?
 


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Cricket Anyone / ICC RULES
« on: April 04, 2007, 07:28:23 PM »




Dis iz how we do it , dey kah stop we.

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Cricket Anyone / Holding bonnces Lara again
« on: April 04, 2007, 02:37:41 PM »
West Indies’ dismal efforts in the Super Eights have brought calls for change from fans and experts alike.

Michael Holding suggested Brian Lara should quit as captain and Colin Croft called the situation “desperate” after the home team lost three in a row, including Sunday’s 113-run defeat by Sri Lanka.

Croft said Sri Lanka inflicted the most comprehensive thrashing the West Indies had endured in a long time. “It was terrible and like all the West Indian supporters and former players, this hurts terribly,” Croft wrote in the Guyana Chronicle.

“I don’t think that the West Indies have anything special about them now. I cannot remember seeing a team look so poor on the field. Times are now decidedly desperate for the West Indies cricket team and this has nothing to do with the World Cup. The West Indies team, based on what I saw on Sunday, is in a very bad state.”

Holding said there was only one course of action that would bring positive change. “Lara has to step aside, not necessarily as a player, but as captain,” he said. “He appears bigger than the game. He has got whatever he has wanted.

“We haven’t seen an improvement when he has taken over the captaincy. Everyone knows he’s a great batsman but that’s not what it takes to lead a team. I can’t even say he is a good captain tactically.”

Croft agreed that Lara’s leadership was probably not working. “It is very obvious that the West Indies players are either not reacting positively to the captain or that they are not as good as the people that have selected them think,” he wrote.

Fans have also joined in the calls to take the reins away from Lara after their hopes were raised by an unbeaten run in the group matches.

“What we are getting is simply not good enough,” Lindon Albert, a fan who watched the latest West Indies loss from a bar in Bridgetown, said.

“I don’t see them winning another game. This is over for us. Lara should go, he should retire from the game. He is a great batsman but his leadership is weak.”

Timothy Daniel, another supporter in the same bar, also wants Lara gone. “In all my days I’ve never seen us as bad as this—we can’t take this any more,” he shouted across the room. “Time for a change. We have to get rid of Lara. He looks lost, he looks rusty.”

 
 
 


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General Discussion / Brothers missing for months found dead
« on: April 02, 2007, 07:49:07 PM »
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (AP) -- A volunteer search team found the bodies of two young brothers encased in ice in a lake on the Red Lake Indian Reservation Sunday, more than four months after they disappeared, authorities said.

Tristan Anthony White, 4, and Avery Lee Stately, 2, had been missing since Nov. 22. The two boys, who lived on the reservation near the Canadian border, disappeared while playing outside their home.

"Today our worst fears were confirmed," said FBI agent Ralph Boelter. (Watch the FBI deliver the bad news )

The boys were found about a half-mile from where they lived. Authorities have not determined whether foul play was involved, Boelter said.

The lake was initially searched by divers in November as part of a massive search in the days after their disappearance. That search was called off five days after the boys vanished, and Boelter said rescuers resumed on Sunday in hopes the warmer weather would help.

Police dogs picked up a scent on the southern portion of the lake on Sunday morning and the boys were found in the northern portion of the lake near a beaver dam, Boelter said.

Authorities don't know what happened to the brothers. One theory is that the boys wandered from their home about a quarter-mile to the southern edge of the lake, then walked across the partially frozen water before falling through the ice, Boelter said.

Alicia White, the mother of the boys, and Jeff Stately, the father of Avery, have both said previously they believed someone abducted the children.

Authorities plan to conduct an autopsy on the boys in the coming days, which Boelter said could help them determine exactly what happened.

Messages seeking comment were left Sunday night with Red Lake Chairman Floyd Jourdain Jr. and the Red Lake Tribal Police Department.

The Red Lake reservation is the same place where 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather and grandfather's companion on March 21, 2005, then went to the high school and killed seven more people, including a teacher and a security guard, before killing himself.

What ah thing , this iz such a tragedy

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General Discussion / Chances of man wining ah argument
« on: March 30, 2007, 08:16:14 PM »
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Guys alyuh feel we could ever win dem, dey good fur daze, but ah love them still      

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General Discussion / The mathematical understanding of women
« on: March 30, 2007, 07:56:24 PM »
    True or False ? ah dont believe all women iz problems .

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General Discussion / Wifes training Husbands for Marriage/Classes
« on: March 29, 2007, 06:15:27 PM »
                            REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BY Monday    FEBRUARY 18, 2007
              NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
  < /SPAN>OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS
                                 MA XIMUM.

                 Classes begin Monday, FEBRUARY   26 , 2007

                                  Class 1
       How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays --- Step by Step, with Slide
                               Presentation.
    Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 M.

                                  Class 2
              The Toilet Paper Roll --- Does It Change Itself?
                          Round Table Discussion.
                 Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.
  .
                                  Class 4
    Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor ---
                     Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
                   Meets Saturday at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.

                                  Class 5
  After Dinner Dishes --- Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
                             Examples on Video.
   Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours b eginning at 7:00 PM.

                                  Class 6
     Loss Of Identity --- Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
                   Help Line Support and Support Groups.
                 Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM.

                                  Class 7
Learning How To Find Things --- Starting With Looking In The Right Places
           And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
                                Open Forum .
                        Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 h ours.

                                  Class 8
    Health Watch --- Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
                         Graphics and Audio Tapes.
      Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

                                  Class 9
     Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost --- Real Life Testimonials.
               Tuesday at 6:00 PM Location to be d etermined.

                                  Class 10
   Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
                            Driving Simulations.
                      4 weeks, Saturday noon, 2 hours.

                                  Class 11
      Learning to Live --- Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
                     Online Classes and role-playing .
               Tuesday at 7:00 PM, location to be determined.

                                  Class 12
                   How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
         Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
  Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours ! Beginning at 7:00 PM.

                                  Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy --- Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and
      Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
       Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offer Ed.
      Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.

                                  Class 14
             The Stove/Oven --- What It Is and How It Is Used.
                            Live Demonstration.
               Tuesday at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.

  Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to
                               the survivors.
when finish reading plesae sign your name .

       






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General Discussion / Abused / Man
« on: March 28, 2007, 06:58:48 PM »
 At most times when we say abuse , is some woman being abused by a man , at any time do yuo know of a man being abused by his woman ? if that man is your friend how would you help him cope wid ah situation like this , children involve,

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General Discussion / The Secret
« on: March 27, 2007, 09:13:18 PM »
The Secret, what iz this great secret all about ,what make it ah secret , why iz it a secret, who know this secret ? can some body please tell me about this secret that oprah iz rating up so much . From what i know a secret iz not ah good thing .

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General Discussion / A BATTLE FOR THE MINDS
« on: March 25, 2007, 06:48:34 AM »
Commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade begins in earnest across the globe today, bringing to the fore the strides made by so many societies over the last few centuries.

However, as dozens of nations ponder and celebrate the symbolic end of one of history’s darkest, most brutal chapters, some members of the African diaspora are questioning Europe’s eager participation.

Emancipation Support Committee (ESC) chairman Khafra Kambon believes the Bicentennial is indicative of a fight for the minds and fealty of African people worldwide.

As Kambon described the efforts made by the British Government to commemorate the Bicentennial, his words initially sounded more like praise than an indictment.

Two years in the making, and backed by a high-powered planning committee headed by deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, the £20 million initiative lent support to abolition-related endeavours, including museum exhibitions public education drives, and film festivals. More money was allocated to similarly-themed private organisations via the National Heritage Lottery Fund.

“The fact that the British Government consciously took a decision to do that means that they attach some very serious meaning to it,” noted Kambon. “But you have to tell yourself that once you see this happening, there’s really some sort of purpose behind it.”

British abolitionist and parliamentarian William Wilberforce has emerged as the central figure in this commemorative drive, and has been celebrated this year in art, documentaries, lectures and an issue of stamps. The wide premiere of Amazing Grace, a feature film based on Wilberforce’s career as an abolitionist, coincided with the date the British Parliament voted to ban the slave trade on February 23, 1807.

According to Kambon, Wilberforce’s prominence in Britain’s commemoration (and, subsequently, the celebrations of several Caribbean nations) is indicative of the tone that the country is trying to set.

While not dismissing Wilberforce’s contributions to the abolition movement, Kambon believes that Britain is deliberately promoting a Euro-centric image of abolition that downplays the African struggle against slavery while lending themselves a moral upper hand.

“It’s the perpetuation of a mythology that is undermining and destructive to us mentally, and also lowers us in the eyes of other people,” he said.

Whose story?

Kambon supported his argument by emphasising the social power of historical perception.

“How people view what happened in history is important at the psychological level. We don’t see that, and that’s why we are affected without realising it,” he said.

The focus on Wilberforce, he said, portrays Britain as a nation that was moved by its conscience and exclusively responsible for the freedom of enslaved Africans.

“So far, Europe and Britain have managed to maintain a certain view of (slavery) that has worked to their credit and benefit and to the disadvantage of others who have been persuaded by that point of view,” he said.

“It gives them a moral leadership. In the world today, the people who share the power want to be seen in a certain light by those over whom they exercise power. They want to be seen as fit to provide moral leadership.

“On the one side you have a view that praises the British. On the other side, what is the view of the Africans that emerges?” he asked.

“It’s that here you have people that were enslaved for hundreds of years, and they were helpless to do anything about their condition. And therefore it is British humanitarianism that has to free them from that condition.”

“A whole chunk of the history of that period is ignored.”

No mention of Haiti

Kambon was particularly disturbed by what he cited as the complete absence of Haiti from the Bicentennial discourse in Britain and several other countries.

“It is the actions of the enslaved that were decisive in bringing about an end to slavery,” he said, mirroring similar sentiments by CLR James and Prof Molefi Asante.

The most significant of these actions was undoubtedly the Haitian Revolution, which first brought the true dangers of slavery to the fore and inspired rebellion among other enslaved populations.

“The Haitian Revolution is what put the writing on the wall for the entire slave system,” he said. “There was always the feeling that enslaved people could be crushed. They would rise up constantly, but (colonists) didn’t live with the fear of being taken over by Africans. What Haiti did was make that situation a reality.”

Britain abolished the slave trade in its empire a mere three years after Haiti declared independence in 1804.

The intense, continual fighting on the part of the Jamaican Maroons and other rebel societies also have been ignored in favour of token mentions of Africans like Oludah Ekuiano who bought their way out of slavery and participated in the abolition movement more peacefully.

Kambon cited Dr Eric Williams’ seminal Capitalism and Slavery as one of several academic works that challenged the view of Britain’s moral uprightness.

Williams’ controversial thesis dismisses the influence of morals in the abolition of the slave trade, and asserts that adverse financial conditions prompted Britain to discontinue the trade.

“Of course that view of history isn’t as satisfying, because Britain doesn’t look like a knight in shining armour,” said Kambon.

Many contemporary academics have contended that Williams’ historiography is based on shaky factual ground, but most historians acknowledge that morality was just one of several factors behind the move towards abolition.

“You have to ask yourself, if you are going to have moral arguments against the slave trade, but at the same time you choose to maintain chattel slavery, how sound is the moral argument?”

Colonisation of the mind

Kambon believes that the British commemoration is just one part of a global thrust to reinforce the colonisation of African minds, and is wary of the Wilberforce-only perspective being channelled to school history.

“Part of our emergence from colonialism is an understanding of who we are. And if we allow others to shape the way we think of ourselves, we will remain enslaved on the mental level.”

He agreed that the perspective complements the recent focus on charitable drives toward Africa by celebrities and G7 nations.

“The psychological impact of that is that Africans just see themselves as victims who are saved from wretched conditions,” he said.

“It is really a battle for the minds of people.”

Regional front

The ESC has long been at the forefront of the global effort to acknowledge and learn from the history of the African diaspora in the Western Hemisphere. The Bicentennial will play a major part in the organisation’s emancipation celebrations this year, and Kambon confirmed that several major displays and lectures will be held at the Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation Village 2007.

He applauded similar efforts across the region, particularly those of the Jamaican government.

“Jamaica is consciously making use of the anniversary to put forward their own points of view rather than reinforce the British perspective,” he said.

Asked whether he thought Government expenditure on the Bicentennial Commemoration could be seen as divisive in as multicultural a society as T&T’s, Kambon said that the Government has a right, if not an obligation to recognise all cultures equally.

“There is absolutely no reason for any government in the world to have to apologise to anybody for getting involved (in efforts like this),” he said, pointing out India’s financial and diplomatic support for the initiative via the UN.

“If things are done the right way, it will not alienate anyone.”
 
©2005-2006 Trinidad Publishing Company Limited
Designed by: Randall Rajkumar-Maharaj · Updated daily by: Sheahan Farrell
 
 
 

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General Discussion / MURDERER
« on: March 19, 2007, 09:02:05 PM »


Security guard Don Doncon.
Photo: Rishi Ragoonath

By Anika Gumbs-Sandiford

A Maintenance Training Security (MTS) guard has been shot twice in the head at point-blank range with his own firearm by a gunman who attempted to relieve him of his weapon yesterday.

John Doncon, 39, of Indian Trail, Couva, succumbed to his injuries around midday while undergoing surgery at the San Fernando General Hospital (SFGH).

Doncon was on duty at the Housing Development Company (HDC) housing project at Flamingo Crescent, Couva, when the incident occurred.

Only last Friday, the father of three celebrated his 39th birthday with co-workers before leaving the job site.

According to a police report, around 10 am, Doncon, an employee with MTS for the past 14 years, was on patrol at the front of the site when a man walked up to him ordering him not to move.

The man, the report stated, whipped out a gun from his waist and whilst pointing it at Doncon, attempted to relieve him of his firearm.

A struggle ensued, the report stated, and the gunman dropped his gun on the ground.

Both men fell to ground and the gunman was able to get hold of Doncon’s firearm. He was shot twice in the head.

The gunman then fled the scene.

When Guardian visited the site yesterday, residents said they heard loud noises and upon investigating saw Doncon lying on the ground.

Workers telephoned the Emergency Health Services and Doncon was rushed to hospital.

Shocked over the killing, Doncon’s grief-stricken wife Ann-Marie, who is also a MTS security guard, said she was at her job at the Technical Institute at Tarouba, when she learnt of the shooting incident.

Wiping tears from her eyes, Ann-Marie said: “I have no idea what happened. One of Don’s co-workers telephoned me and told me he got shot, but he did not know how serious.”

Ann-Marie said she rushed to the hospital to be at her husband’s bed side, but instead was told that he had died.

The doctors gave me a plastic bag with his uniform and the shoes he was wearing. This is too much for me to bear,” Ann-Marie cried.

An autopsy is expected to be conducted today .

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General Discussion / 2 Dads shoulder burdens of greif
« on: March 10, 2007, 04:51:23 PM »
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2 dads shoulder burdens of grief

They plan for nine burials and pray there will be no more victims of awful blaze

BY AUSTIN FENNER, MIKE JACCARINO and TRACY CONNOR

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Shoulder to shoulder, the two fathers sat together in a Bronx mosque - enduring a shared grief, making plans to bury nine loved ones, praying there would be no need for even more small coffins.

As Moussa Magassa and Mamadou Soumare received condolences, two of their children who survived Wednesday's inferno were fighting for their lives yesterday.

"I can't understand why God does these things," Mayor Bloomberg told them and the rest of the congregation at the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx.

Later, the mayor told reporters that both men "came to the United States to pursue the great American dream, and now find themselves sharing a great American tragedy with us."

Magassa, the owner of the Woodycrest Ave. home, had flown all night from his homeland of Mali in West Africa to be reunited with the remnants of his family.

There was exhaustion and heartache in his eyes as he arrived at Kennedy Airport and then shuttled between the two hospitals where survivors were being treated.

A prominent member of New York's Malian community, Magassa lost five children by one wife in the blaze - the deadliest in the city in 17 years.

His second wife, Aisse, was at Lincoln Hospital with broken legs after jumping out a window, and their 5-year-old daughter, Hatouma, was in stable condition there.

At Jacobi Medical Center, Magassa's 7-year-old daughter, Kadiatou, who had been flung out the window by Aisse, remained in critical condition for a second day.

Soumare, a taxi driver whose family lived on the top floor of the home, lost his wife and three of his children. A fourth, 7-year-old daughter Asime, was at Lincoln, where her condition suddenly worsened to critical yesterday.

Between hospital vigils, the two fathers spent part of the morning at their mosque, sitting in a tight circle of chairs in the center of the room, surrounded by a sea of barefoot Muslim men on a green carpet.

"We are all crying for you," Imam Musa Kabba said. "New York City is crying for you. America is crying for you."

It was a poignant scene, one that will be replaced by the heartrending sight of nine coffins on Monday when a funeral for all the victims is held at the mosque.

Afterward, the Magassa children will be buried in New Jersey, while Soumare plans to fly the bodies of his wife and children home to Mali.

The Yankees, whose stadium overshadows the Highbridge neighborhood shaken by the tragedy, have offered to pay for all the arrangements.

The fire was sparked by a space heater in the garden apartment, where Naralee Magassa, 22, was asleep with a 5-year-old.

A bad situation was then compounded by a series of mistakes: no batteries in smoke detectors, doors left open as the fire spread and a delay in calling 911.

In fact, Naralee Magassa tried to douse the flames with pots of water from the kitchen before she alerted anyone that there was a fire, officials said.

"The sad fact is that this fire, like so many others, was preventable," Bloomberg said.

Because the doors were left open, wind fueled the flames and allowed them to flare up a wooden staircase, devouring the house floor by floor in a matter of minutes.

Some residents managed to escape, a few were rescued by firefighters and two children were tossed out the window by Aisse Magassa before she leaped.

But the uncontrolled smoke doomed the rest.

The medical examiner identified the five Magassa children as Bilaly, 1; his sister, Diaba, 3; brother Abudubucary, 5; Bahamadou, 8; and Bandiougou, 11.

In Soumare's family, the victims were identified as his wife, Mariam, 42; 3-year-old son, Djibril; and 6-month-old boy and girl twins Sise and Harouna.

The toll was so devastating that firefighters who responded to the scene underwent counseling.

"It was one of the most difficult types of fire a firefighter has to battle," said FDNY Chief of Department Salvatore Cassano.

"It's very late at night, advanced fire at arrival, people are screaming that their children are trapped. Your juices are flowing. You pick someone up, and you think of your own children."

A stream of mourners passed by the gutted, charred home, which stood like an open wound on Woodycrest Ave.

Those who once called it home were gathered at another house across the street, where friends and strangers brought cash, clothing, furniture, prayers and memories.

Doreen Nixon, 51, a teacher at the preschool that Djibril Soumare attended, recalled how the toddler, so full of love, had clung to her leg the day before the fire.

"He would run off the bus every day and hug me," she said. "He just stole my heart."
This iz such a tragady , the only person could tell yuh how they are feeling iz these two men, what can any human been say to them that would heal their broken heart. 


afenner@nydailynews.com

With Alison Gendar, Jonathan Lemire, Peter Kadushin, Christina Boyle

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Tobago Jazzz Festival
« on: March 08, 2007, 10:12:26 PM »
Can yuh believe dis big time Jazz festival in the sister isle and no pan ,all the foreign artiste an no pan alyuh hear wat ah sayin  no pan, iz pan realy in danger oh wah, wat ah shame, them  promoters come from foreign oh wah ? 

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General Discussion / NE-AN-DERTHAL
« on: March 07, 2007, 08:14:43 PM »
Today i had a conversation with a co worker, he said that man once walk on all fours and as time went by he started walking upright. i disagree. i believe a baby walk on all fourz untill he or she can stand and walk upright. ah dont know if alyuh could remember the family in one of those state walking into the city  on all fourz. wah alyuh think .   

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General Discussion / Wickedness of man
« on: March 04, 2007, 08:41:25 PM »
This is a question i have been asking myself for some time now ,as i was responding  to a post it came back to me, that i should plant this post today , do you guys feel that the wickedness that man practice before the world was destroyed is in any way different from the way man is behaving today ? if you say its different tell me why, if you say it is the same tell me why you say so .

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General Discussion / Babies first word
« on: March 03, 2007, 03:45:14 PM »
Ah think everybody in this lil village here have children ,wah ah tryin to overstan why iz it that the first word that comes out of a baby mouth wen dey begin to talk iz DA, DA and not MA, MA, they the  mother  spend the magority of time wid the baby but yet the first word that babies say iz DA, DA. ah wonder why ?

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / COMEDY FEST
« on: February 27, 2007, 06:58:08 PM »
comedy fest on trinitv .net right now

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General Discussion / birch for man who rape woman
« on: February 27, 2007, 05:59:14 PM »
A 31-year-old Arima father of one who raped a young woman in a churchyard in St Augustine, four years ago, was yesterday sentenced to a total of 35 years hard labour and ordered to receive ten strokes with the birch.

Jeremy Paul bowed his head as the sentences were handed down by Justice Alice Yorke-Soo Hon in the Port-of-Spain Second Criminal Court yesterday.

He was recently convicted of kidnapping, rape and robbery by a Port-of-Spain jury.

Kathy Ann Waterman-Latchoo prosecuted while Richard Mason represented Paul.

Paul ,whose sentences are to run concurrently, received a tongue lashing from the judge who said society must be protected from people like him.

Paul had followed his victim from a maxi-taxi in which they were travelling on October 13, 2003, and raped her in a churchyard in St Augustine.

Justice Yorke-Soo Hon told him he injected fear into his victim, whom, she said, was forced to comply with his criminal acts because she believed he would kill her.

According to her own words she said: “I thought I’d be the first person he’d kill,” Justice Yorke-Soo Hon said.

You committed the offence with extreme boldness,” she said, adding that he raped his victim “without fear” on a church compound in the early hours of the evening.

Paul, who was arrested on the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies, was told by the judge that his victim still suffered as a result of the incident. (JL)
 
ah feel if he did ask fer the dam thing and say please he might ah get it , bur nah yuh want to take it like if iz yours ,ah hope wen he go to jail them boyz dem fix him well . 
 

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Panorama Post Mortem
« on: February 25, 2007, 02:49:55 PM »
Wack radio 90.1 fm  iz diesecking the panorama semi finals , asking listeners to call in an give their score. from 3 .00pm to 6.00pm

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / champs in concert
« on: February 24, 2007, 07:35:08 PM »
trinitv.net champs in concert live from the savannah doh ask mae which savannah one ah dem

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / CRO,CRO WANT PUBLIC APOLOGY
« on: February 22, 2007, 07:14:59 PM »
Cro Cro

By Shaliza Hassanali

NEWLY-crowned Calypso Monarch Weston “Cro Cro” Rawlins yesterday called on fellow calypsonian and long-standing friend Michael “Sugar Aloes” Osuna to publicly apologise to him for “creating mischief and confusion.”

Rawlins said he deserved an apology from Aloes, who accused him of winning the prestigious Calypso Monarch crown with an old song entitled, Nobody Ain’t Go Know.

Aloes, on Tuesday, claimed Nobody Ain’t Go Know was heard more than a decade ago at the Master’s Den, a calypso tent managed by calypsonian Shadow, at Henry Street, Port-of-Spain.

Cro Cro, however, has maintained that his calypso was an original composition.

Often referred to as the Mighty Midget, Rawlins admitted he penned the song several years ago, which he had named Suitcase.

The song, he said, which was never sang in public was reworked and renamed Nobody Ain’t Go Know by Cro Cro, last December.

I am not going to take on Aloes or anyone for that matter. God knows the truth. What Aloes said was unfair and unfounded, and I think I deserve a public apology from him for the mischief he has caused.”

In a telephone interview, the four-time Calypso Monarch said he was now forced to steer clear of certain people in the calypso fraternity, who, he claimed, only “make bacchanal and comess.

All they try and do is bring you down. I have to be careful with them from now on, he said.

Look how far they reach but I know they can’t touch this short man when it comes to writing calypso... they can’t beat me.

They still have to lick their wounds whether they like it or not.”

Winston Scarborough, The Original Defosto Himself, who placed second in the competition said after reading the Guardian’s story, he did some research and found out that Suitcase and Nobody Ain’t Go Know “were two entirely different songs in terms of melody, rhythm and story concept.”

Defosto said Cro Cro deserved the coveted title because he had shown that he could sing anything and still come out on top.

Contacted yesterday, Aloes, manager of the Calypso Revue tent, said he had decided to drop the matter.

If I was a finalists in the Calypso Monarch competition, I would have pursued it... I think I had a right to bring the matter out in the open, he said.

But if Tuco not taking me on, I can’t fight them. I done with that.”

Michael Leggerton, president of the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation, yesterday distanced himself from the ongoing controversy.

Leggerton said: “When people have problems with another man’s song, they should bring their proof to the organisation.”
 
Watch out for carnival nex year he go make ah song on all ah dem who accusing him of singing ah old song.the man will be cumin wid ah
vengance .man woh have to brakes for dey self.
 
 

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / COMEDY FEST
« on: February 21, 2007, 09:04:34 PM »
EH ALYUH CHECK TRINITV .COM COMEDY FEST GOING ON LIVE.

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General Discussion / LENT ,LENT
« on: February 21, 2007, 07:25:44 PM »
As they say lent iz ah time for Christians to  fast for  forty days and forty nights ,from 6. 00 am to 6.00pm . stay away from meat , have pure thought flowing through your mind  constantly.go to church an get yuh ash on yuh forehead . no partying , drinking , no calypso muzik,and at the end of lent you make ah Judas poor and hang it by the neck on ah tree and beat the day light out ah it .poor Judas  he kah dead becaz every year at the end of lent they would beat him,and after all that fasting and prayin yuh kah wait for easter to come quick enough to start partyin and doing the same old thing again until that time come again and yuh start the rotein all over again.

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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / God Father Of Soul
« on: February 20, 2007, 04:34:34 PM »
Eh alyuh hear dis nah , op to dis day the god father of soul eh bury yet can alyuh believe this shit , ah asking meh self if the family dem fightin for  money dize why he eh bury yet ,ah hear he gehin bury tomorrow. wat ah thing .

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