@AnitaRamkisson@CNC3TV We can focus on more than 1 thing. The pan has just got a very important designation. We need to capitalise on and support that as well as dealing with all the other issues that face us, including crime. Note that crime is also tied up with lots of other issues-not a single focus
Two weeks ago while at @BrooklynKids, my son saw a steel pan band for the first time and walked over. He asked to play & they noted he is an extremely fast learner with perfect pitch.
They offered to teach him.
5 days of lessons later & he had his first performance today. π
@TessaTiddlywink@skyedron@ShaykhSulaiman Didn't Iran just respond to Israel's strike on their consulate in a whole different country? So it should be a draw now. 1-1. Game drawn. Back to Gaza.
BREAKING: ICJ STATEMENT OF PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER
βI stand before you as 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, are besieged and bombed, killed and maimed, starved and displaced.β
βAs more than 3.5 million Palestinians in West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are subjected to colonisation of their territory and the racist violence that enables it.β
βAs 1.7 million Palestinians in Israel are treated as second-class citizens β¦ in their ancestral land.β
βAs seven million Palestine refugees continue to be denied the right to return to their land and homes.β
βPalestine was not a land without a people. There was life on this land, political, cultural, social and religious.
It had schools, universities, cinemas, families and communities whose lives were impacted by a promise made thousands of miles away over a hundred years ago.
A breach of sacred trust that relegated the indigenous people of the land to the status of non-Jewish communities.
According (the Palestinian people), only civil and religious rights, denying their existence as a people and their rights as a nation.
The UN enshrined in its charter the right of all peoples to self-determination and pledges to rid the world of colonialism and apartheid. Yet, for decades Palestinians have been denied this right.
@dandandanitup@Trini_DD Last time PTSC planned to buy hundreds of new buses, the maxis went on strike for quite a while as soon as the news was released, until PTSC backed off the plan. If I recall correctly, Jearlean John was head of PTSC at the time. She had good plans.
Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey), with co-stars from Game of Thrones and other actors, read South Africa's case file charging Israel with genocide at the #ICJ
@sebbe868 Digitisation & e-commerce as foreign exchange earners vs consumers make a difference in how much foreign exchange we have available. We can, and should, create here and sell abroad vs consume from abroad as much as we can. And that should apply across the board. To everything.