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The government yesterday announced a new $50 million contract to cut a road through the Amerindian Village of Kaburi to facilitate the eventual construction of the Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project.
The award of the contract, for the “rehabilitation and reconstruction” of the Kaburi Village road, was announced by Dr Roger Luncheon, who serves as Secretary to Cabinet – the Council of government ministers chaired by the President.
He said the new contract is outside the scope of works of Synergy Holdings, the company that was given a controversial US$15.4 million contract to upgrade approximately 85 kilometres of existing roadway and the design and construction of approximately 110 kilometres of new roads leading to Amaila Falls.
According to the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), which was released earlier this year, the access road to

Kaburi is a titled Amerindian village, covering 41.57 square miles, and it is located in Region 7, west of the Essequibo River, 72 miles from Bartica on the Bartica/Potaro Road. The village, which is inhabited by the Akawaio and Patamona people, has reportedly been in existence since the 1800s, but as it exists today, was established in 1935.

In July this year, President Bharrat Jagdeo urged government supervisors on the project to “ride Synergy hard” and admitted there may have been some “slippage” but he was not ready then to say that the government made a bad decision in choosing Synergy Holdings to pave the road to Amaila Falls, where the hydropower project that could cost more than US$700 million is slated to be constructed.
Sithe Global has been asserting that it aims to start construction of the hydro project by the end of this year, despite uncertainty surrounding the access road construction.

Euro Woes Stir Currency FearsIn a sign of how turmoil in financial markets is convulsing economic policy, Switzerland's central bank said it would cap the surging Swiss franc.

CBS News)  In Jackson, Miss., in June, a truck being driven by a white teenager purposefully ran over and killed a black man the driver did not know personally.
CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston reports that the dead man's family filed a wrongful death suit on Tuesday against the driver and six of his friends, for what they claim was a hate crime.
The death of James Craig Anderson was captured by a motel parking lot surveillance camera. On the upper right of the screen, a pick-up truck is seen backing up, then charging over the 48-year-old Anderson.
Witnesses have told police that before Anderson was run down he had been beaten by a group of teens yelling racial slurs.
Attorney Winston Thompson filed the civil suit on behalf of the Anderson family.
"They essentially cased him out. They wanted to make sure he was a suitable, vulnerable victim. They went and talked about what they were going to do, came back a second time and that's when the assault took place," Thompson said.  Feds probing black man's Mississippi murder
Grisly tape shines light on alleged hate crime In addition to the civil suit, capital murder charges have been filed against 19-year-old Deryl Dedmon. He was the alleged driver. John Rice, 18, who witnesses say helped beat the victim, has been charged with simple assault.
County Prosecutor Robert Shuler Smith said race was a factor.
"Racial slurs were being used throughout the event and of course afterwards," Smith said.
Attorneys for Dedmon say what happened was an accident. However, prosecutors have charged Dedmon with a hate crime, which means if he is convicted, his sentence could be doubled.
Mississippi put a hate crime on the books in 1994, and as far as prosecutors can tell, this is the first time the hate crime statute is being applied.
In a town with a tense racial history, black and white residents have been standing side by side at prayer vigils seeking justice for the victim.
Dedmon's bail has now been raised to $800,000, and he remains behind bars. Federal authorities have also entered the investigation to see if other teens in Deryl Dedmon's group should be charged.

Subject: A GUYANESE AND A TRINI

A Guyanese man is having breakfast one morning; croissants, coffee, bread, butter and jam, when a trini man chewing a gum sits down next to him. The Guyanese ignores the Trinidadian man who nevertheless started a conversation.
Trini: "you guyanese eat the whole bread?"
Guyanese: "stupid, of course"
Trini: (blowing a big bubble) "We don't. In Trinidad , we only eat what's inside. The crust we collect in a container, recycle it, transform them into croissants and sell them to Guyana ." The Trini has a smirk on his face and the Guyanese listen in silence.
Trini: "Do you eat jelly with the bread?"
Guyanese: "Of course we do"
Trini: (crackling his gum between his teeth). "We don't we Trinidad, we eat fresh fruits for breakfasts, then we put all the peels, seeds and leftovers in container, recycle them, transform them to jam and sell them to Guyana ."
Guyanese: "You guys use condom for sex in Trinidad ?"
Trini: "Of course we do". (with a big smirk on his face)
Guyanese: "What you guys do with the condoms after wards?"
Trini: "We throw them away of course"
Guyanese: "We don't do  that in Guyana . We put them in containers, melt them down into chewing gum and sell them to ayo Trini people.

Markets are bullish on teh same news....LOL

• [li]Indra Nooya, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), noted that "anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment."[/li]
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  Oh yes..this Indian woman got it right. LOL...
  
  Obama gettin' bitch-slapped.[/li]
  

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• [li]Indra Nooya, chairman and CEO of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), noted that "anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment."[/li]
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  Oh yes..this Indian woman got it right. LOL...
  
  Obama gettin' b****-slapped.[/li]
  

[/quote] she is so smart , what  is her solution , and by the way she only got that  CEO job because pepsico was having difficulty with the indian govt and they figured putting an Indian woman in charge would help their cause

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she is so smart , what  is her solution , and by the way she only got that  CEO job because pepsico was having difficulty with the indian govt and they figured putting an Indian woman in charge would help their cause
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Really???? Well...nah man you read and mek up yuh mind...cause according to you she didn't deserve the job.

Nooyi was born in Madras, India, in 1955, and was a bit of a rule breaker in her conservative, middle-class world as she grew up. In an era in India where it was considered unseemly for young women to exert themselves, she joined an all-girls' cricket team. She even played guitar in an all-female rock band while studying at Madras Christian College. After earning her undergraduate degree in chemistry, physics, and math, she went on to enroll in the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta. At the time, it was one of just two schools in the country that offered a master's in business administration degree, or M.B.A.
Nooyi's first job after earning her degree was with Tootal, a British textile company. It had had been founded in Manchester, England, in 1799, but had extensive holdings in India. After that, Nooyi was hired as a brand manager at the Bombay offices of Johnson & Johnson, the personal-care products maker. She was given the Stayfree account, which might have proved a major challenge for even an experienced marketing executive. The line had just been introduced on the market in India, and struggled to create an identity with its target customers. "It was a fascinating experience because you couldn't advertise personal protection in India," she recalled in an interview with the Financial Times 's Sarah Murray.
Nooyi began to feel that perhaps she was underprepared for the business world. Determined to study in the United States, she applied to and was accepted by Yale University's Graduate School of Management in New Haven, Connecticut. Much to her surprise, her parents agreed to let her move to America. The year was 1978. "It was unheard of for a good, conservative, south Indian Brahmin girl to do this," she explained to Murray in the Financial Times. "It would make her an absolutely unmarriageable commodity after that."