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It is the company's first bonus issue since 2015, although it paid dividend four times in the last seven years.
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\"Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for five minutes of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?\"
Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for 5 mins of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?
— Mickela (@mickelapanday) October 21, 2021
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah said, \"Does the UNC understand what they are doing? Their actions are seeking to dangerously divide the country. It is not about democracy. They are laying the basis for justifying why their motion will not succeed.
\"This is a serious issue but I am reminded of Explainer's Calypso – In Parliament they kicksin. The motion will be defeated
You're damned if you do, damned if you don't, and Chlöe Bailey is learning that all too well. As of late, Beyoncé's protégé is either compared to her mentor, told she's \"doing too much,\" ridiculed for her \"overly sexy\" performances, or praised for the multifaceted, talented, superwoman she is. The \" Have Mercy \" singer recently appeared on The Mike Muse Show with host Mike Muse on Sirius XM's Urban View and discussed her journey toward being comfortable in her skin and confident in her sexuality as a young Black woman working in the industry. In reaction to the artist's performance at the 2021 MTV VMAs and most recently on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Muse compared Bailey's stage presence to the feminist movement. \"The reaction towards you and how you have embraced your body during this time period for me has been shocking. Because I think about the feminist movement, in particular within the art space,\" said Muse. \"I think about women like Madonna and Janet [Jackson]....
[Nation] Google Kenya is seeking to have the Kenya Revenue Authority compelled to pay tax refunds of Sh58.7 million, in a case of the hunter becoming the hunted.
Final of 4 Part Series Well over a year has passed since COVID-19 was declared a global health pandemic, thus thrusting the issue of food insecurity into the spotlight. Across […]
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Adopting many of the provisions found in the For the People Act, the Freedom to Vote Act is a compromise legislation aimed at protecting voting rights for all people regardless of political affiliation or geography.
[Monitor] The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Jacob Oulanyah, has attributed the call by President Museveni, to among others, deny bail to capital offenders, to a flawed justice system.
Talk about a game-changing play: Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Dawuane Smoot delivered his own child at home after his wife
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Activist, educator, and author Brittany Packnett Cunningham has curated a new list that redefines what it means to be 'rich.'
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[RFI] Libya is hosting an international conference Thursday to help build stability in the deeply divided country ahead of crucial presidential elections in December.
Every man is supposed to be afforded the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty. Today the Los Angeles City Council is considering a motion to suspend 10th District Council Member Mark Ridley-Thomas before he has been afforded the right to defend himself or even face his accusers.
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Some individuals seeking an exemption from having their children take the COVID-19 vaccine are reportedly coming up against a stumbling block. While the vaccine against the viral illness is not mandated by law, Barbados TODAY understands that some people were being turned away by some medical doctors who were refusing to provide the necessary counselling […]
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MICHELE NEWELL Of course, there’s nothing wrong with working in retail, such as being a cashier at Burlington Coat Factory. But Michele Newell had other aspirations. Like bringing impactful news reports to her hometown viewers on Channel 11, also known as WPXI-TV. COURIER EXCLUSIVE The glitz and glamour that comes with being on television daily … Continued
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THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
ExxonMobil recently announced that their recoverable oil and gas resources in Guyana had reached an unbelievable ten billion barrels of oil equivalent.
The first discovery was in 2015 and six years later Exxon and Guyana have achieved the unimaginable. Guyana accounts for 20 per cent of the world’s conventional oil found in the last five years. The cost of extraction is also considered the lowest in the world for deepwater (US$25 to US$35 per barrel).
Liza Phase 1 was the fastest deepwater field in history to move from discovery to production (under five years). And before 2030, with under 800,000 citizens, Guyana will produce more than one barrel per day for each of them.
Exxon, still the world’s largest multinational oil and gas company, operates three blocks in Guyana (Stabroek, Canje and Kaieteur), under production sharing contracts granted by the government.
Exxon, Hess and CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Corporation) are partners in the Stabroek block (45 per cent, 30 per cent and 25 per cent respectively).
Other blocks have stakes from well-known companies like Total and Qatar Petroleum, and smaller independents like Frontera Energy, Ratio Oil and Eco Atlantic.
So far, over 20 oilfields have been discovered in the Stabroek block, which spans over 27,000 sq km. For comparison, Trinidad is just over 5,000 sq km. The fields are in water 1km to 2km deep. The discoveries are all of Upper Cretaceous age (66 to 100 million years ago) and are all sandstone reservoirs (except for one discovery, Ranger, which is limestone).
Ancient river and canyon systems flowed out from the continent, and the sands in these systems became encased in clays over millions of years. The sands later became charged by hydrocarbons migrating from underlying shales. Unlike Trinidad, there are few faults and folds in the rocks here, so the traps are all stratigraphic (caused by changes to the rock strata), and not created due to tectonic activity. It is worth noting that stratigraphic deepwater plays are quite rare and are considered very risky.
The first field found was Liza, already producing 120,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd).
Liza’s oil is light (32 API) and sweet (low sulphur, 0.5 per cent) and thus highly valuable. Again, Trinidad’s oil production is currently about 60,000 bopd. Last week, Exxon’s latest exploration well Cataback-1, was deemed a major discovery, taking the total recoverable resources to over 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent. The 20-plus fields in Stabroek have been named after fish such as Liza, Turbot, Tilapia, Redtail and Payara.
Let’s pause to elaborate on the concept of recoverable resources.
Typically, the amount of oil that is recoverable from a reservoir may be between ten and 40 per cent of the total oil in place. The actual amount that is recoverable depends on a multitude of factors including porosity and permeability of the reservoir rocks, thickness and lateral extent of the sands, density and viscosity of the oil, reservoir pressure and temperature
Arima police are searching for bandits who robbed workers at a Royal Castle food truck in Mausica on Thursday night.
Police said the workers, aged 21, 26 and 29, were at the food truck at the corner of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway and Andrew Lane, Mausica, at around 8 pm when two men with ski masks got into the truck and demanded the money from the register.
One of the bandits, who had a gun, also ordered the workers to open a vault.
The bandits stole $1,900 from the register, $2,035 from the vault and $325 and cellphones from the workers before running away.
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Less than a week after she announced that a motion would be filed seeking to remove the President from office, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that plans to file a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister were underway.
Last Friday Persad-Bissessar announced that a constitutional motion would be filed seeking the removal of Paula-Mae Weekes from office, alleging that she was politically influenced on the selection process of a Police Commissioner after a visit from a high-office holder and therefore unfit to continue as President.
The motion was defeated by the Parliament's Electoral College during an extraordinary sitting of the House of Representatives and the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 24 members for, 47 members against with no abstentions.
During the sittings, the microphones of several Opposition MPs were muted as they repeatedly interrupted House Speaker Brigid Annisette-George as she attempted to proceed with a vote on the motion.
At a media conference at her Charles Street, Port of Spain, office on Thursday, Persad-Bissessar described the failure of the motion as an \"attack on democracy\" and warned that if left unchecked TT's institutions would be vulnerable to political interference.
She added that her party would continue to raise the issue even after its defeat in Parliament and said her party would commence with an \"October revolution.\"
Asked why she chose to file a motion against the President instead of a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister in which the matter could be debated, Persad-Bissessar said, \"It's coming.\"
\"The last time I brought a no-confidence (motion) against the Prime Minister in 2010 the government fell, so it's coming in due course.
\"This matter will be kept alive long after today until the truth is revealed, we will take it onto the people as an October revolution as happened in other countries when a constitution has failed.
\"The Prime Minister will find no rock large enough to hide under or no robe thick enough to protect him from the firestorm that will come his way as a wage for treading on our sacred Constitution.\"
Asked to refer to which part of the Constitution allowed for debates on Parliamentary motions, Persad-Bissessar said it would take more time than the media conference would allow.
\"I have to go into so much legalese which I will do on another day, so for the moment I would prefer to leave it at that.\"
Persad-Bissessar said the October revolution would include efforts from her party to challenge the government in or out of the Parliament on matters of transparency and governance.
On Wednesday the Office of the President announced that head of wealth management for Firstline Securities Ltd Maxine King and criminologist Ian Ramdhanie were nominated for appointment to the Police Service Commission (PSC).
Former Judge Judith Jones and accountant Maxine Attong were also being considered for appointment to the commission.
Persad-Bissessar said while candidates distinguished themselves in their
Burkina Faso on Thursday lifted a ban on the Norwegian Refugee Council from working in camps for displaced people in the jihadist-hit north after accusing the body of discrediting the government.
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Famed journalist and Howard University professor Nikole Hannah-Jones revealed on Twitter earlier this week that an invitation to speak at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, was rescinded by the school's president and board. According to her Twitter thread, she said the school decided against her speaking engagement due to worries that the \"noise\" her lecture would bring might \"take away from the overall experience.\" The cowardly lions are acting up. @MiddlesexSchool Scrubs Nikole Hannah-Jones Speech Over Backlash Fears | HuffPost Communities https://t.co/kVQGZTlHDt #CowardlyLions #Education pic.twitter.com/jmCtdIG977 — Shereese Maynard, MS; MBA 😷 She/Her (@ShereeseMayMba) October 21, 2021 “They were likely afraid that by having me — a [New York Times] journalist & college professor — there, they’d invite backlash & another of the ‘woke’ people are ruining America stories,” Hannah-Jones said in the thread on Monday. “I’m good. I’m done fighting my way in. But the lack of...
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The Electoral College, comprising the 72 members of the House of Assembly and the Senate, voted by a 47-24 margin to dismiss the motion filed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar.
The Innovative Democratic Alliance (IDA) is calling on the country’s leaders to ensure that the views of citizens are duly considered in drafting policies and laws meant to govern them.
The party was reacting to the death of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr, who, on July 27, 1990, tried to overthrow the National Alliance for Reconstruction Government, led by ANR Robinson.
Bakr, 80, collapsed at his home on Long Circular Road, St James, on Thursday night and was taken to the St James Health Facility, where he was declared dead.
In a statement issued through the party’s PRO Kaye Trotman on Friday, the IDA extended condolences to Bakr’s family and the Jamaat al Muslimeen, but noted there may still be many unanswered questions surrounding the attempted coup, including his true motives.
The party said leaders must be mindful of history.
“When a people are discontented, and feel oppressed with no hope, they tend to move towards effecting change in ways that are counterproductive to their cause,” the party said.
“As such, leaders must always ensure that the people’s views are duly considered in the drafting of policies and laws meant to govern them.”
Saying the IDA will continue to champion participatory democracy as the way to enact meaningful and sustainable change, the party said it rejects any administration that would “perpetuate an environment of insensitivity that can lead a nation to a state of anarchy.
“Fortunately, we live in a democracy that affords us another choice in resolving issues of discontent; an alternative that we are on the eve of exercising in the upcoming Tobago House of Assembly election on December 6, 2021. Let us exercise this choice and use this mechanism afforded to us, with the understanding of the significant responsibility we as citizens have in bringing about the changes we seek.
“At this watershed moment, with the passing of Yasin Abu Bakr, we say farewell; closing an era where people believe bloody revolt is the only way to secure change and heralding this season in Tobago where we can realise change through democracy.”
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