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From: Anthony_Maillard@Mdd.comm.mot.com (Anthony Maillard)
Subject: Haiti (If Yuh  Int'rested)
Followup-To: soc.culture.caribbean
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:12:22 GMT



These articles may have been posted before. If they have ....sorry.
Christmas break and all that.
All copyright sources are listed but some articles have been edited.

Anthony Maillard - If Yuh Int'rersted


Hurricane Tree Debris May Go To Haiti For Fuel

MIAMI (UPI) -- A South Dade County woman has teamed up with an
agri-business development company in a project to send tree debris from
Hurricane Andrew to Haiti, where it would be turned into charcoal and
distributed as fuel. Kirsten Llamas said while others only saw destruction
after Hurricane Andrew Aug. 24, she saw an opportunity to help the mostly
poor 6 million residents of Haiti, where trees are in short supply. I
hated to see it (tree debris) go to waste, Llamas told the Miami Herald.
You can make paper out of it, you can chip it or you can send it to
Haiti. Llamas has spent the past two months trying to clear through the
red tape.



Photos Show Haitians May Be Preparing For Exodus

(UPI) -- Coast Guard aerial photos of Haiti show 610 boats ready to sail
and 107 under construction, suggesting a Haitian refugee exodus may be
looming. In northwest Haiti, residents were spotted dismantling homes to
obtain wood to build still more boats in the impoverished and largely
deforested nation. The preparations come as Haitians anticipate a change in
U.S. policy toward them under the Clinton administration. The Coast Guard
fly-over was the first in several months, leaving questions about how
quickly the new boats are being built. But other signs were ominous. There
has been increased travel to La Gonave, an island of 60,000 inhabitants
that is traditionally a launching spot for Haitian refugees. Last week
Haitian authorities foiled attempts to hijack two ferries to the island.
We are expecting an exodus, an unidentified American official was quoted
as saying. ``It's going to make the Mariel thing look like a picnic.''
During the 1980 Mariel boat lift, 125,000 Cuban refugees arrived in Florida
over four months, when Cuban President Fidel Castro allowed or forced
political dissidents, felons and mental patients to leave Cuba. Since
Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was
ousted in a military coup 14 months ago, the U.S. Coast Guard has
intercepted 38,322 Haitian boat people. Of those, 28,195 were repatriated
and immigration officials are reviewing asylum claims for the rest.
In Haiti, several of those who were repatriated under the Bush policy said
they would consider setting out again when Clinton takes office.
We will wait for Clinton in January,'' said Gaston Ferrimori, a resident
of Ange-a-Veau, about 80 miles south of Port-au-Prince. We don't want to
go with that criminal Bush.''
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: umbacchu@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Emran Ally Bacchus)
Subject: AMERINDIANS IN THE PARAMAKATOI area needs your Help!!!
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:41:28 GMT

The Amerindians of the Paramaktoi area urgently needs your help to obtain to
obtain  1.) anti-malaria medication       
	2.) used clothing suitable for a tropical climate
They are desperately poor and is among the neediest of the needy. This
request came from one of the colation partners of the regional government
for that area (region .8.) through its parliamentary representative Mr.
Mathesion Williams ( whom I met two years ago). Relief supplies can be
sent through either partner (W.P.A. , P.P.P.) OR THE GUYANA COUNCIL OF
CHURCHES destined for the Amerindians of that area.

IN THIS DAY AND AGE PEOPLE STILL DIE OF MALARIA AND I KNOW FROM FIRST HAND
THAT THE ORIGINAL GUYANESE SUFFER THE MOST; SINCE THEY ARE NEITHER
AFRICANS NOR INDIANS NEITHER OF THE PARLIAMENTARY MAJOR PARTIES PAID MORE
THAN LIP SERVICE TO THE oRIGINAL PEOPLE.....
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Puerto Rico Update 1/3/93
Date: 4 Jan 93 22:20:00 GMT
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Subject: Puerto Rico Update 1/3/93
From: nyxfer!nicanet (NicaNet NY)


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             Weekly News Update #153, January 3, 1993


PUERTO RICO NEWS

Puerto Rican Senate president Miguel Hernandez Agosto--left
without a quorum for several consecutive sessions--issued an
arrest order against absent legislators to oblige them to
participate in the parliamentary sessions. New Progressive Party
(PNP) legislators countered with a court interdiction paralyzing
the arrest orders, alleging that the Senate president does not
have the authority to issue such orders. [ED-LP 12/15/92] The PNP
legislators are boycotting the sessions, saying that the PPD,
which was defeated by the PNP in Puerto Rico's Nov. 3 elections,
is trying to use the Senate to make last-minute nominations. [ED-
LP 12/18/92].

Following a federal investigation, Puerto Rico's Electrical Energy
Authority (AEE) has received a $30 million fine from the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for serious violations of
environmental law. Anonymous sources cited by reporters indicate
that the AEE and the US Department of Justice are negotiating the
pollution situation and the payment of the fine. [ED-LP 12/21/92].

New Puerto Rico governor Pedro Rossello is continuing to fill
positions for his new administration; he has named Hector M.
Pesquera as the first Puerto Rican ever to head the FBI in Puerto
Rico, and is said to be considering naming FBI agent Pedro Toledo
to head the national police. Toledo would be the first federal
agent to head Puerto Rico's police. [ED-LP 12/21/92] 


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Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: dli@uceng.uc.edu (Dapeng Li)
Subject: Trading Information Needed
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 03:56:16 GMT

Hello, Netters:

	I am asking your help.

	We want to export cars to South America and Carribean.  Any of your
expertises are welcome.  Following are some of our concerns:

	1) How to sell cars there?
	2) What kind of market over there?
	3) How to do business with those countries there?

	Thanks in advance for your inputs.

	Please response to dapeng@aicv02.ece.uc.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: rnelson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu (Robert Nelson)
Subject: Caribbean Satellite Network
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 18:24:00 GMT

Thanks to the person who mentioned the Caribbean Satellite Network.  
I was home for X-mas and watched it on my parent's satellite (G3 7).  Here's 
a few impressions of it:

1.	They played a lot of different music types (in addition to reggae, 
world beat, soca): especially blues and rap (usually videos with a 
ragamuffin interlude).

2.	A preponderence of the videos were Island/Mango & CBS promos. But 
they did show some great low fi videos of Ini Kamoze's Shocking Out and 
Black Uhuru's Great Train Robbery.

3.	They still seem to be working out the kinks, they have relatively 
few sponsors mostly from Florida and Jamaica, I think: D & G Sofdrinks, Red 
Stripe, some cruise liner, a hair care product line.  At times I saw the 
same videos and VJ announcements back to back so I'm sure they were 
recording segments of the programming and using it the next day.

4.	The most annoying part of watching CSN was their tendency to play 
only two videos and break for commercials or (mostly lame) VJ patter.

All in all it was enjoyable to watch.  I'd much rather see a Shabba Ranks 
video played to death than some lousy heavy metal band like on MTV.  For 
those of you who can get it on your cable systems, I envy you.  They kept 
displaying an address and telephone number for information, but I neglected 
to write it down.  If anyone has it, could you pass it along?

Thanks,

Robert Nelson

Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: Anthony_Maillard@Mdd.comm.mot.com (Anthony Maillard)
Subject: CULTURAL ARTS (IF YUH INT'RESTED)
Followup-To: soc.culture.caribbean
Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:06:27 GMT

These articles may have been posted before. If they have ....sorry.
Christmas break and all that.
All copyright sources are listed but some articles have been edited.



Reggae Stars Widow Acquitted in Fraud Case

New York - A federal jury ruled that reggae star Bob Marleys widow wasnt
responsible for helping siphon more than $20 million from the Marley
estate. The lawyer and accountant were found guilty of committing fraud.
The jury ordered the lawyer and accountant to pay the estate in about $2
million in damages. The civil-racketeering lawsuit filed by estate
administrator J. Reid Bingham had sought at least $14 million plus damages.
Marley, who died of cancer in 1981, left no will because of his belief in
the Rastarfarian faith. His estate was worth about $30 million. Ten percent
of the estate went to the widow, Rita Marley, and 90 percent went to his 11
children.
The lawsuit accused Rita Marley, account Marvin Zolt of New York and lawyer
David Steinberg of Bala Cynwyd, Pa., of backdating documents and forging
Marleys signature to remove assets from the estate.

Source - Seattle Times


Hope of a Growing Jazz Audience


THE EXORBITANT price of tickets for the recent pan/jazz festival was mainly
due to the fact that the audience for this art form is relatively sparse
says Alfred Aguition, senior committee member of Pan/Jazz Festival IV. In
our best calculations, we are saying that the jazz community isnt growing
and remains small, Aguiton stated. Therefore, the only way we could break
even and cover our costs... was to charge the few a little more for the
quality of the entertainment.
This year the emphasis was placed on bringing young jazz musicians to the
festival in order to attract more of the younger music lovers and get them
involved in appreciating jazz. The Pan/Jazz committee executive agreed that
it is significant that the young musicians make such a positive stand for
jazz music at a time when youths worldwide are going crazy over Hip Hop,
Rap and Dancehall.   Pan Jazz Festival Review
Aguiton admitted that the standard of the performances at this years
festival was notably higher than in previous ones. He ran out of
superlatives when describing the performances of Len  Boogsie Sharpe,
Robbie Greenidge, Ken Professor Filmore and the local steelbands.
Unfortunately Anise Hadeed could not participate in the pan shoot-out. As
a result of a contractual agreement with the West Indies jazz band, with
whom he came to perform, he could not appear as a solo act.
The fact that journalists come to Trinidad to cover Pan/Jazz is a big plus
to us, says Aguiton.

Source - T&T Guardian


Anthony Maillard - If Yuh Int'rested
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: "richard mohammed" <richard.mohammed@canrem.com>
Subject: caribbean internet
Reply-To: "richard mohammed" <richard.mohammed@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: 11 Jan 93 09:03:35 EST

Hello

I posted a message several days ago looking for some sort of
Internet/Usenet Access to the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.

Since I haven't received any feedback so far I'm assuming that such
access either does not exist or it is very limited and as such
information on such access is not well known.

I have another question:  Does anyone know if their exist some sort of
list of University Internet Access Sites Worldwide?  I would like to
know if any campus of the University of the West Indies has access to
Internet. (Particualarly the St. Augustine Campus in Trinidad)

Also, does anyone know about HAM Packet Radio E-Mail access to Internet?
I know that Ham Radio BBS's exist in Trinidad, but I don't know if
regulations permit non-Ham operators to access their message bases via
phone links.  Anyone I should contact?

Any help or direction in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Richard

email : richard.mohammed@canrem.com
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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:56:17 EST
From: <AGL1@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Re: caribbean internet
Distribution: soc

In article <C0p83y.M4@acsu.buffalo.edu>, simon@acsu.buffalo.edu (Patrice A.
Simon) says:
>
>In article <1993Jan11.3242.1965@dosgate> "richard mohammed"
><richard.mohammed@canrem.com> writes:
>>Hello
>>
>>I posted a message several days ago looking for some sort of
>>Internet/Usenet Access to the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbean.
>>
      There is an Internet connection through Fujitsu/ICL in Trinidad.  I am
not sure what the address is but you can contact my brother in Jamaica. He
is in charge of getting INternet connections for ICL Caribbean.  You may
contact him at (809)-926-7567 or (809)-926-7568.  Ask for Dinsdale Laing.
Hope that helps.

Arlene Laing
____________________________________________________________________
                        l "Ranny, where yu is?
agl1@psuvm.psu.edu      l "Leaning up aghence a banana tree"
Penn State University   l "Which banana tree?"
University Park PA 16802l "The banana tree dat is leaning aghence me"
                        l           Louise Bennett and Ranny Williams
________________________l___________________________________________
From: iaprojb@prism.gatech.EDU (BANKS JOHN)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Carnival in St. Thomas
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:40:09 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology



 
I need information!

I am planning a trip to St. Thomas during their Carnival celebration
April 25 - May 1.  Can anyone give me any info on this event?

Also, since I have never been to the Virgin Islands before, what is 
there to see and do?  I will be staying at the Ramada Yacht Haven.
Any info on the islands, events, watersports, or hotel would be appreciated.


Thanks,
JB
-- 
Banks, John
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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ARPA: iaprojb@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
From: jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue)
Subject: Re: US interventionism
Originator: jsue@mars.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Organization: The Dow Chemical Company
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:05:43 GMT

-- 
-----
Jeff Sue   
 - All opinions are mine -       (and you can't have any, nya nya nya)
From: dtasman@NMSU.edu (Dan Tasman)
Subject: Re: Is New York the only city in the USA to have a subway?
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 04:56:46 GMT

cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:
: In article <145153@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> ed@wente.llnl.gov (Ed Suranyi) writes  
(about subways):
: }Buffalo
: 
: Don't know these.
: 

Buffalo's LRV line runs from Memorial Auditorum down Main Street through  
Downtown on a pedestrial mall (Buffalo Place), reported to be the nation's  
largest.  Riding the Metro in Buffalo Place is free, as long as you do not go  
underground.  The line enters a tunnel around the Theatre District, and  
contunues underground to the University of Buffalo South Campus.  The line is  
about 11 KM long, and there are planned extensions to Tonawanda (most likely in  
the near future), Amherst, Cheektowaga , Hamburg and the West Side.

Metro Rail is fairly clean, safe and reliable, as is the bus system that links  
up to it.  Stations are well lit, well patroled, and distinguished by unique  
artwork and architecture.   It is vastly different than the NYC subway ... I've  
never encountered any beggars, vagrants or other undesirables.  Unfortunatly,  
NFTA budget cuts have put a damper on ambitious expansion plans.

--
   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
   "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree
    Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."
                                                                Ogden Nash
From: cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: Is the Gulf war won?
Date: 7 Jan 93 21:39:44 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1993Jan7.181948.197@ncsa.uiuc.edu> jsue@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Jeffrey L. Sue) writes:
>In article <m0n9uHW-000QzMC@aton.abo.fi> skronkvi@aton.abo.fi (Stefan Kronkvist INF) writes:
...some text deleted...
>>Why didn't the americans finish the job once they had it started?
>>They won the battle but the eneny is not beaten...
>
>Exactly.  Saddam is not the only one to make mistakes... we did as well.
>If you're going to do battle you've got to have the stomach to finish
>the job.  Otherwise just stay home.
>
>>
>>Well,I agree that the original mission was to recapture Quwait,but it could
>>have been a smart move to eliminate the Iraqi threat at the same time...
>>
>
>With this I agree.  I think we overestimated the power of the Iraqi
>people to do away with a lunatic leader.

Well, I happen to agree with your points (hawk that I am :-), but
allow me to play devil's advocate for a moment. Under what pretense
would you have "conquered" Iraq? Bush's line through the entire
episode was to force Iraq to conform to UN resolutions regarding
getting Iraq out of Kuwait proper, *not* to get rid of Saddam Hussein.
He kept repeating that he had no quarrel with the Iraqi people, only
its leader. In addition, he was doing a rather remarkable job of
balancing a very diverse coalition of partners in this operation.
Would they have supported continuing on into Iraq? Perhaps, but
if not, then there would have been a bloodbath in the sands of the
Middle East.

As I said, I happen to agree that we should have gone in and finished
the problem once and for all, but it would have required a completely
different approach to the situation, and I don't think that it would
have been nearly as easy to accomplish.

As always, just my $0.02 worth...
-- 
Chris Wilcox                | "Can we have a table closer to the plot?"
Dept. of Defense            |                      Crowe T. Robot
cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil  |                          MST3K
  The views represented here probably aren't held by the DoD. Get over it.
Xref: sparky soc.culture.usa:9714 soc.culture.esperanto:2396
From: cigno@sgi.com (Kevin Walsh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa,soc.culture.esperanto
Subject: Re: [Usono] alta produkto-grado en Usono                                            [United States] high productivity in the U.S.A.
Date: 12 Jan 93 01:09:41 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Kvankam mi malofte akordas kun Chung, mi kredas ke li pravas se li 
diras ke usonanoj laboras tro multe cxe la "laborejo".   Ofte la 
malricxuloj laboras tre forte, longe, kaj por malmulta mono.  En 
Bostono, mi konis homojn kiuj faris hazardajn laborojn (odd jobs).  Ili 
kutime uzis "crank" (stimulantajn drogojn, ekz. benzedrino) ebligi ke 
ili povas labori du au tri tagoj sen dormo.  Eble ili estas la plej forte 
laborantajn homojn kujn mi konas.  Ili ankau estas inter la plej 
malricxajn kiujn mi konas.  Sed ili konis homojn ecx pli malricxajn.   

Io estas rompita kun mia lando.  Ecx tiuj kiuj laboras forte ne povas 
pagi por viziti malsanejo se ili vundigxas.  (Unu el miaj amikoj, kiu 
konstruas domojn, jxus ricevis fakturon por pli ol $5000 cxar li 
bezonis viziti malsanejo por cxesi sangfluo de lia nazo.  Li ne havas 
asekuron, do ni ne scias kiel li povas pagi.)  Iuj lernejoj ne povas 
aceti librojn sed aliaj havas komputilojn.  

Kien iras la valoro de nia laboro?  al autoj?  al militoj?   Mi vere ne 
scias.  Sed estas klara ke io estas rompita.  
Xref: sparky soc.culture.usa:9468 alt.activism:20071 talk.politics.misc:66319
From: g9220348@cc.uow.edu.au (adil shaikh)
Subject: E-mail add. of staff at PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN PA
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 23:54:43 GMT


Can any one help me to find e-mail addresses of staff members of 
public libraries in PA?

Or can any one inform me that which Public libraries in PA have
e-mail accesses?

Thanks in advance.

Bye
Adil
e-mail address: g9220348@wampyr.cc.uow.edu.au
From: kaygee@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kevin Giansante)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.usa
Subject: Re: US interventionism
Date: 6 Jan 1993 01:26:40 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

In article 10666, gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes,
in part:

> Yet how can
>you look at the conditions in Somalia and just pontificate away
>about the relative value of human life?  Because we botched the
>job in Iraq and propped up the Kuwaiti royal family, must we now
>just leave the people of Somalia to their own fate?

One other thing, Gerry: We didn't just "botch the job" in Iraq. 
We killed a lot of innocent people there, just as we have done
all of over the world.  I tend to think that our actively and
directly causing those deaths puts "the job" in Iraq in a
different moral class from the inaction I advocate in regard to
Somalia.