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Three Day Carifestival Extravaganza Heats up Vaughan!

EMILY SINGH/TORONTO CARIBBEAN With summer coming to an end and school resuming in just a few short weeks what better way to give summer a sendoff than with one big Caribbean festival. Carifestival was definitely the place to be hanging out this weekend with the entire family. This three day extravaganza was held at the Woodbridge Fairgrounds located in Vaughan and the crowd turnout was amazing. Over the course of the three days we got a taste of everything from the islands. Mouthwatering cuisine and hip swaying music filled the park as some of the biggest names in Caribbean entertain took to

the stage.

There was something there for everyone whether you were looking for some old time authentic Caribbean favorites like spicy mango chow just back home in Trinidad or the all Canadian favorite poutine. Other delicious foods offered by the many vendors were jerk chicken, burgers and of course the much loved Caribbean thirst quenching coconut water! A very special and unique portion of the festival took place on Friday where many attendees enjoyed a culinary workshop with one of the best in the industry Chef Selwyn Richards!

Our very own stunning Ms. Paige took center strange on Sunday to dazzle the crowd with her amazing voice. The much adored Ravi B straight from Trinidad got the crowd singing and dancing with his catchy lyrics and dance moves. What is a Caribbean party without the electrifying fiery sounds of the Tassa drums, courtesy of the talented Talana Blu Tassa Crew! Latin fever was going around as amazing Samba dancers and Latin singers got everyone wanting to speak Spanish!

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Colleen Lindberg: Entrepreneur, Author, Business Strategist, Animal Lover and Music Enthusiast Colleen Lindberg is the owner of CLC Consulting, a business consulting firm that specializes in team building and human resources services in connection with hiring and keeping the right people. She trains, motivates and coaches managers at executive levels all the way down to the entry level positions in companies. She is enthusiastic about speaking and training, which you will see if you have ever seen her speak on stage or for your organization. Her passion is to assist others in helping to figure out their greatness and talents in this world and live them while making synergy in the work place. She believes that everybody should be honored for their uniqueness and contribution to their jobs, careers, businesses and life in general.

Colleen grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba with her brother and parents. She got the entrepreneurship fire at a young age

when she started her first babysitting business. She remembers the Christmas dinners with family (over 40 aunts, uncles and cousins) and feeling the love and warmth of that time of year. She played many sports growing up and always loved a good baseball game. She in fact played ball for over 13 years and still does so today in a women’s weekly league.

Every summer she runs a youth entrepreneurship program to help students start up summer businesses. She loves to be able to help out in this fashion and feels much rewarded for being able to contribute here. It’s amazing what kind of ideas come through when you put 25 motivated youth in a room with 5 mentors to brain storm.

She really is in awe of the synergy that is developed in this program and most of all the creative ideas!

Colleen is author of the book

“Change the Lightbulb... Habits and Choices to Create Success in all Aspects of your life” which is a foundational book on being yourself, understanding who you are, choosing life and going out and getting it.

She loves to write and is honored to have a column in the Toronto Caribbean newspaper and other outlets. Her next book is in the works which will highlight and focus on team building and synergy of teams to create lasting companies.

Colleen loves life, new experiences and most definitely laughing. Her smile is infectious and she is really well known for seeing the bright side of things. She can play 5 different musical instruments, loves to dance and won’t miss singing at karaoke... however some people might wish that she does! She is always striving for learning and growth in her life and she always loves a great challenge. So bring it on life!

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Authentic Caribbean cuisine comes to Brampton Emily Singh TC Reporter BRAMPTON -- Hungry? Craving that authentic Caribbean taste? Look no further; the place for you is finally here! Palm Palace Family Restaurant & Bar had their amazing grand opening on Saturday, where they offered a free buffet from 5-8 pm. The turnout was amazing and overwhelming with a line up going out the door! Following the delicious dinner guests enjoyed a free dance from 8:30 to 11:30 pm. Located conveniently at 50 Kennedy Road South, Unit 10 in Brampton, makes it’s a fast and easy family dinner spot.

The atmosphere inside the restaurant is second to none. The lighting and furnishing is absolutely stunning and creates an upscale dining experience. The real treasure of this restaurant is Chef Chung origi-

nally from Guyana. Chef Chung’s unique cooking style comes through in each and every dish he prepares.

This restaurant is versatile and dynamic offering all halal meats and special vegetarian dishes. Also offered is a stunning banquet facility perfect for birthdays and other special family occasions. The setting is modern yet still family friendly and welcoming. This is a place the entire family can enjoy together.

The Caribbean islands are known for their warm hospitality and mouthwatering dishes. Chef Chung brings the flavors from all the islands under one roof at Palm Palace. Sweet, savory and spicy whatever you crave you will find it here at Palm Palace.

Another amazing option offered by Palm Palace is that they deliver within the area, making it simple for busy families to enjoy that authentic Caribbean taste at home.

The choices are endless on the menu with everything from pepper shrimps to mouthwatering jerk chicken fried rice! The doors are finally open, come down and let Chef Chung’s amazing dishes speak for themselves.

Heating up Vaughan Emily Singh TC Reporter Continued From Page 1 -- Things really heated up when the Caribbean Spice and Everything Nice Dace Crew hit the stage! Carifestival was not short of entertainment that’s for sure! From start to finish all three

days were jam-packed with amazing vibes and sweet sounds.

The very talented Jay Macdonald of 105.9 FM was an amazing host and had everyone excited and on their feet. Also present to enjoy the beauty of the Caribbean was deputy mayor of Vaughan, Gino Rosati.

This was truly an event for everyone whether you’re a food lover, a dancer, a singer, or even a cook! This unique three day showcase provided a mere glimpse into some of the beautiful arts, cultures and diversity of the Caribbean islands.

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Jamaica is drowning in a sea of plastics JAMAICA -- Journalists and development partners of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) last Thursday saw what programme director Suzanne Stanley meant when she said: “Jamaica is drowning in a sea of plastics”.

On a boat tour of the Kingston Harbour, site after site seemed like virtual exhibitions of every type of solid waste imaginable -- refrigerators, television sets, clothes baskets, buckets, truck tyres, shoes, styrofoam boxes and cups, plastic bags and bottles.

The tour served as the media launch of International Coastal Clean-up Day (ICC) 2014 and the one-year Clean Coasts Project, which JET and its partners hope will not only clean the areas, but address the problem at source by engaging students and adults living and working in resort areas in more long-term, sustainable practices intended to put the spotlight on the importance of proper waste disposal to reduce coastal pollution.

ICC is scheduled for Saturday, September 20. Already it has 114 locations reg-

istered as clean-up sites and some 8,000 volunteers are expected to participate this year.

JET is the national co-ordinator for ICC, a global event organised by the Ocean Conservancy. In addition to supporting clean-up sites across the island on the day, it also does its own activity. Last year the environmental non-governmental organisation attracted 2,356 volunteers, who collected from a three-mile stretch of beach at Fort Rocky near Port Royal, over 800 bags of garbage weighing nearly 12,500 pounds.

Included in that were 27,000 plastic bottles.

“That’s quite a significant figure for just three miles of coastline,” Stanley said Sunday..

Across the island, some 6,482 volunteers worked on 62.7 miles of coast, from which they collected 65,653 pounds of garbage in 4,223 bags.

Kingston Harbour is the world’s seventh largest natural harbour.

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We are prepared to go into the elections as ʻa partnershipʼ GUYANA -- Leader of the main opposition coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Brigadier (retd) David Granger, declared Friday that APNU is “prepared to go into the elections as a partnership” if snap elections are to be called before the noconfidence motion is tabled in the National Assembly.

General Secretary of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Mr Clement Rohee, had earlier this month disclosed that the ruling party and government were actively considering the possibility of calling snap elections. The intervening time before the no-confidence motion can be considered – after the parliamentary recess has ended sometime in October — leaves room for snap elections to be called by the ruling party before the no-confidence motion, which was submitted to the National Assembly by the Alliance For Change, is tabled.

Responding to the readiness of his coalition in the event of a snap election, Granger declared: “Yes, we are prepared to go into the elections as a partnership.”

However, after controversy had surrounded the 18th Biennial Congress of

the Peoples National Congress (PNC) held last month, it had been speculated that internal issues would have prevented the APNU’s readiness to contest Local Government or General Elections, were they to be called immediately.

The Opposition Leader refuted those speculations, noting: “We have been making preparations, and we are ready to face the elections, whether it’s Local Government or National Elections.”

He further explained that the PNC is a party that comprises twelve regions, the two additional regions being North America and the United Kingdom; and the internal issues that the party experienced was with one region alone. “It was not the whole region; it was not the whole region 10”, he said, stressing that the trouble had been with only about 30 or forty persons from Linden.

According to Granger, the matters have been resolved internally. “But I do not feel that the behaviour of those 30 or 40 persons should suggest that the party is divided, or that the party is unprepared,” he said.

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NWC pushing to repair ʻdug-upʼ roads faster JAMAICA -Ten months ago, the National Works Agency (NWA) suggested that a protocol developed between itself and the National Water Commission (NWC) would have had roads damaged by the commission repaired within weeks.

In fact, NWA Chief Executive Officer E G Hunter made a commitment to Parliament’s Public Administration and Appropriations Committee last October that: “after a (road) is cut, we will carry out the permanent reinstatement within a maximum of two weeks.”

But, while the commitment was music to the ears of the members of Parliament — who often take the blame for roads left in disrepair for months and sometimes years after being dug up by the NWC to lay pipes — it didn’t work.

However, newly appointed president of the National Water Commission, Kingsley Thomas, said that the protocol which inspired it is very much alive, and commuters should be able to enjoy the results soon.

“It had a little hitch, and we are trying to clear up that hitch,” Thomas told a Press Club briefing at the Jamaica Observer last Thursday.

The NWC president was particularly upset that Lady Musgrave Road in Kingston, which was dug up as part of a $72-million project to improve the sewerage network in the Corporate Area, had still not been repaired several months later.

“I am saying that it is a disgrace that the sewer has been laid for so long, and the road has not been fixed,” he commented.

But, NWC’s regional manager for eastern Jamaica and acting Vice-President Richard Meggoo explained that other issues can arise which may lead to a delay in repairing them.

“We encountered asbestos pipes and so on, and if we had gone ahead and reinstated them, what happens is that the compaction would damage the asbestos pipes and they would start to leak. We also have other pipes that we want to change and re-

place them with bigger pipes. So it is better for us to change those pipes first,” he explained.

“What we are considering, and we have used the model before, is that the NWA will undertake to fix the road, but it is going to be costed for the laying of pipes.

[This way] the road is not reinstated and you have to dig it up again in another couple on months,” he said.

He added that the budgets of the NWC and the NWA do not necessarily coincide. Therefore, going forward, under more significant infrastructural programmes like the $34 billion Major Infrastructure for

Development Programme, there should be a joint effort between the Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, under which the NWC falls, and the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing, under which the NWC falls, to acquire funding simultaneously for the programme.

“We are going to have to synchronise our activities so that we don’t get flak,” he added.

However, he said whatever form the programme takes in the future, the NWC will verify all the roadwork done before any money is paid over. He also confirmed that the two government agencies had agreed on a programme last year, under which the NWC committed to providing some $8 million per month.

“You may imagine that the cost may exceed $8 million, but we are seeding the account and we will be putting money into that account to facilitate that,” Meggoo added.

The NWC says it has already assigned one of its managers the responsibility for road repair costs, and that separate and apart from the work financed by the fund, private contractors have also been engaged.

The commission appealed to consumers to use its e-mail and text lines to inform its communications staff about delays in road repairs.

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Dry spell could stretch to next season, says Met Office JAMAICA -- The Meteorological Service of Jamaica is forecasting that the drought that parts of the island have been experiencing could continue into the January to April dry season of 2015.

Director of the Meteorological Service, Jeffrey Spooner says statistics for January to June 2014 this year show that the island received 33 per cent of its normal rainfall, and that if the prolonged dry weather condition persists, it is possible that the country may not have any significant rainfall until May 2015.

“The southern parishes of St Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, St Catherine, Kingston and St Andrew, and the North eastern parishes of Portland and St Mary were the hardest hit,” he informed.

Based on data from June and July, Spooner projected that “the figures will be extreme to severe drought, especially for southern parishes and in particular St Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, St Catherine, and St Thomas”.

Additionally, he said rainfall from August through to October 2014 is expected to be below normal. “What we need to bear in mind is October/November is normally our major rainfall- producing season. If this projection for below normal rainfall should (obtain), we, especially in southern St Elizabeth , need to start looking at contingencies,” he stated.

Spooner told JIS News that globally, temperatures in May were the hottest since 1880, whilst the average temperature worldwide in June registered 1.3 degrees

Fahrenheit. This was higher than any month of June since the 1800s.

Data from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), chronicles Jamaica’s drought history indicating that the island has experienced worse.

In 1876 the northern parishes experienced severe drought conditions, which almost devastated that year’s sugar production. The records show that from January to July 1928, and the latter part of that year,, parishes along the south coast — St Andrew,, St Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, and Stt Catherine — were hardest hit by drought.

Harsh economic conditions result-ing from the Great Depression of 1929 coin-cided with one of the most severe droughts to o hit Jamaica. The southern sections of Man-chester, all of Clarendon and St Catherine, Stt Elizabeth, Kingston and St Andrew, which h were then the primary sugar cane, bananaa and coffee-producing areas, were devastated d by what historians recorded as “a great fam-ine”. This led to the much documented civill unrest in the 1930s.

Severe drought conditions sweptt across the island again in the year of Jamai-ca’s independence — 1962 — then in 1975,, 1997, and most recently in the long dry spelll of 2010.

Acting executive director of thee ODPEM Richard Thompson recently re-ported that the National Drought Responsee Programme was fully activated on July 31 by the Drought Committee set up by thee d Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and

Climate Change. This opened the way for the committee to set in motion droughtcounteracting measures in affected parishes islandwide.

Full activation of the National Drought Response Programme is determined when six or more parishes are experi-

encing drought conditions as defined by the committee’s member agencies — ODPEM, Rural Agricultural Development Agency (RADA), and the Meteorological Office.

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Ministry removes derelict ships from sea TRINIDAD -- Twenty ships, most of them partially capsized, rotting or sunk, have been officially taken possession of by the Ministry of Transport.

In full page colour ads in newspapers on Friday, with images of bedraggled ships, the ministry sought to highlight the initiative it has taken in tackling the problem of marine debris in its waters. Steven Valdez, of the yachting association, has been a constant and vigilant spokesman on the issue and said in and spoke interview about the frustrations faced by those who use the sea.

“The red tape and legal implications were always going to be a challenge in having these derelicts removed,” Valdez said.

“The reason why they were dumped in our waters in the first place was due to complacency on the part of the relevant authorities and laws that are outdated. It’s now up to the fishermen, ship captains, sailors, boaters and environmentalist to keep a vigilant eye out for any new derelicts entering our waters. We have to protect our ocean because it appears that those charged with that responsibility have not been efficient in nip-

ping this situation in the bud.”

The ministry note informed the public that the vessels had been claimed as they were stranded and abandon and were and dangerous obstruction to navigate. Valdez indicated that the action was long overdue. “Many of these old vessels have been stuck to our ocean beds for many years and will require a massive and costly exercise to have them floated and/or removed,” he said.

“The minister and the public servants involved appear to be serious about having them removed but the delays are constant and with each passing day, the risk of more vessels finding their way to the bottom of the ocean, due to leaks that no one is monitoring on board, is great. These vessels pose a serious threat to the environment.

They also pose a threat to national security as there have been numerous reports of illicit activities taking place on board these vessels during the night.”

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Pathfinders of Canada to launch youth after school program Emily Singh TC Reporter TORONTO -- Canadian youths between the ages of 12-21 now have the opportunity to grow, develop and expand their horizons with the Pathfinders of Canada afterschool program. The initiative is be-

ing managed by The Military Academy of Canada, which is a renowned military school that aims to educate and discipline students in an environment that fosters growth, leadership and self-development.

The after school program allows for the youth to get out into the community and give back while developing their leadership skills and building lifelong friendships. The group will meet once a week from 6-9 between the months of September to June.

On August 13th 2014, the Harbourfront Centre located in Toronto hosted the Pathfinders of Canada launching cere-

mony with keynote speaker Judge Appelt.

The evening commenced with cocktails as guests learned more about the Military Academy of Canada and some of the activities included in the afterschool program. The turnout was tremendous and the community support was overwhelming.

The Military Academy of Canada is designed to accommodate students from grade 7 to grade 12. The academy’s’ learning style is based on the traditional military style with a heavy emphasis on discipline and self-development.

Drought-hit south St Elizabeth thankful for small mercies TRINIDAD -- The e-mails that triggered the 15 month long E-mailgate scandal are fake.

Attorney General Anand Ramlogan Sunday produced confirmation from Google Inc invalidating the e-mails read out in Parliament by Opposition leader Dr Keith Rowley in May last year. Ramlogan was accompanied by his lawyer, Senior Counsel Pamela Elder and his US-based counsel, partner at Computerlaw Group LLP Chris Sargent, on Skype, who explained the legal procedure that led to that determination.

Sargent also said that a “notice of pendency of other action or proceeding” was filed in the same California court Sunday to block the current Integrity Commission legal action against Google as it would be a duplication of the efforts and would provide the same information that is already in hand.

The three spoke with the media at the AG’s office on St Vincent Street, Port-of-Spain.

Sargent said the notice was electronically filed Sunday and informs the court that the information being sought by the commission from Google has already been provided. Ramlogan said this was just one of the many fouled Rowley-driven conspiracies against him.

“It is my intention to sue Dr Rowley for malicious defamation of character,” Ramlogan said, adding that he would also advise Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and the other ministers mentioned in the e-mails to do the same.

He said though Rowley first mentioned the matter in Parliament, where he is protected by parliamentary privilege, he repeated the e-mails on platforms in the public domain.

“I do not buy for one moment that he got them in his letterbox,” Ramlogan said.

“It has been a long journey with a cloud of suspicion unnecessarily lurking and hanging over my head. But I am very happy that this revelation and vindication has come.”

Ramlogan described the past 15 months as a “trying time,” saying it was the first time he was ever accused of any criminal wrongdoing. Elder described the e-mails as “forged” and “diabolical.”

“The essence of those documents, the meat of it, is that those documents which were passed off, which were laid in the House by the Honourable Leader of the Opposition, they are not authentic,” she said.

“Not only are they not authentic, they did not emanate from the e-mail account of the Honourable Prime Minister of T&T and the Honourable Attorney General,”

Elder said. She said they had been saying from inception that the first course of action should be to access the servers and not the private computers of the Prime Minister, the Attorney General or the other ministers.

“I would be immediately writing to the acting Commissioner of Police, the Integrity Commission and the Director of Public Prosecutions to do all that is necessary to unearth the co-conspirators to this evil plot,” she said.

Elder said she would send a copy of the Google documents to Rowley. “That is the proper thing to do, let him read for himself, and we await his response,” she said.

Sargent said the notice to block the Integrity Commission was sent to its USbased lawyers and the judge responsible for the case. That notice to the California court, which Ramlogan provided, says Ramlogan’s query to Google was more detailed and requested more information on the e-mails than that of the Integrity Commission.

“The Integrity Commission, which seeks similar discovery related to its investigation of Mr Ramlogan and Mrs PersadBissessar, has only now embarked upon this process,” that document states.

Google confirms: E-mails not located Google’s response, signed by its Custodian of Records, Chi Nguyen, stated that the email address anand@tstt.net.tt was an active account but that Google was “unable to locate records showing e-mails received from or sent to the accounts.”

“Google certifies that it has located no e-mails sent to or from the Google apps account anand@tstt.net.tt to or from the gmail account kamlapb1@gmail.com on September 2012,” the document noted.

That document also shows that Ramlogan leveraged on Google on August 26, 2013 “seeking information related to a series of alleged e-mail accounts and e-mails allegedly sent from and to those accounts.”

When Ramlogan was asked why he chose not to divulge that information then, Elder said it was she who instructed him to remain quiet on the issue up until now.

Google, according to the document, searched all the e-mails relating to the Prime Minister and Ramlogan mentioned that Rowley read out in May 2013 as part of his motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister. The search included anan@gmail. com, anand@tstt.net.tt, anan@gmail.com@ gmail.com, kamlapb1@gmail.comgmail. com, and kamlapb1@gmail.com.

In a text exchange with the T&TGuardian Sunday, Dr Keith Rowley said he has “no interest in the private affairs of Mr Ramlogan.”

“To the best of my knowledge when the information was introduced in the Parliament there was a request for an investigation. It has since been revealed that there was a police investigation for over a year and more recently an investigation by the Integrity Commission. These are the State’s efforts. I will be guided by that,” Rowley said.

Commission chairman: No comment In a brief interview with the T&T Guardian Sunday, Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon said he would not be able to comment until he saw the documents.

“This is the first I am hearing of it.

I have to see the documents before I make a comment,” Gordon said. When asked whether the T&T Guardian could have them delivered to him, he declined. “I am sorry, I am unavailable today,” he said.

Flashback On May 19, 2013 Dr Rowley filed a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister, reading a series of damning e-mails that he claimed had been dropped in his mailbox.

The e-mails implicated the Prime Minister, the Attorney General and Local Government Minister in several conspiracies and coverups against the DPP, a plot to harm a journalist and payments to an unnamed person.

The alleged e-mail thread included the Prime Minister, the Attorney General, current Minister of National Security Gary Griffith, Local Government Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan and Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal Persad-Bissessar and Ramlogan admitted to owning each of the e-mail addresses but denied ever being involved in any conspiracy. They also denied any knowledge of the e-mails. Persad-Bissessar referred the matter immediately to the acting Commissioner of Police, who then assigned deputy commissioner of police Mervyn Richardson to the case.

In the months that followed the case dominated the media, eventually fading until the Integrity Commission by-passed the local Central Authority and secured a US-based attorney to sue Google for the information earlier this month.

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Sterling Services director: Foreign used Benz no threat to company TRINIDAD -- The presence of foreign used cars in the automobile market is not a threat.

The statement was made by Sancia Jodhan, director, of Sterling Service (Battoo Bros) Limited. Her comments come as the company launched the C Class of Mercedes-Benz Sunday. The launch took place at Sackville Street, Port-of-Spain. The company provides 250 luxury vehicles per annum to the automobile market.

“I don’t see it (foreign used vehicles) as a threat, but you do find people do bring in foreign used Mercedes. Mercedes has tried worldwide to put a stop to that, where they have stopped any country that has a dealer, (the first owner) should not be allowed to export to any other market. You find that anybody who is doing it (importing a Mercedes-Benz), may be it is just a used car, we can’t stop that, but it is not a big threat to us,” she said.

Jodhan added that though the number of cars on the road have increased the company has not contributed to the conges-

tion since it provides cars to a niche market.

“It is clear that the number of cars on the road have increased. We are such a small niche, (and do not contribute to traffic) there are much bigger players in the game than we are,” she said. Stating that the MercedesBenz brand is a strong global brand that has stood the test of time, she said the C Class series would be in the T&T market for eight years.

“The class used to be the one of the smaller sized vehicles, but now we have others that are smaller- the sporty compact car that’s still very affordable in the Mercedes line up.” One of the features of the car is that internet access is provided so the driver does not have to hold their mobile handset while driving. Among those attending the event were Cricket legend Brian Lara, chief executive officer Nirad Tewarie and chief executive officer of ExporTT Christopher Lewis.

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Former West Indies star batsman Brian Lara gets an overview of the new Mercedes C Class series from Sancia Jodha, director of Sterling Service (Battoo Bros) Limited, during the company’s reception to launch the new model at Sackville Street, Port-of-Spain

Statement by private sector member over Goat Island irks JET head JAMAICA -- Founder and CEO of the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) Diana McCaulay has expressed disappointment with a statement attributed to a member of the private sector that the only sign of life on Greater Goat Island were two ants that bit him.

Responding to a report in the media Sunday, McCaulay said that she hoped the “private sector leader was making a joke and did not expect to be quoted”.

She, however, said the general attitude towards the Goat Islands issue made her very concerned.

“It is distressing to hear this kind of thoughtless comment. It implies a wilful ignorance. The Portland Bight Protected Area, including the Goat Islands and the adjacent areas, were protected under Jamaican law by the current Administration for good, scientific reasons and after considerable study,” she told the Jamaica Observer, Sunday.

Earlier Sunday, McCaulay had vented her disgust with the statement in a post on popular social media platform Twitter.

“The only wildlife I saw on Great Goat Island was two ants and I killed them

both’ from a private sector leader. Says it all #hopeless,” she tweeted.

According to the Save Goat Islands website, which is managed by the JET, the Portland Bight Protected Area is the largest mangrove system in Jamaica which contains seagrass beds and coral reefs and also contains the largest nursery area for fish and shellfish on the island. Apart from 81 square miles of dry limestone forests and 32 square miles of wetlands, it is also home to 44 communities and

has the highest number of fishers in Jamaica.

But what irks McCaulay most is the fact that a protected area was selected and the information being made available on the developments slated to take place on the islands has been insufficient.

“JET continues to ask the same questions: Why is there no other site being considered? Why does the port and industrial park have to be in arguably Jamaica’s most protected area of land and sea? Why is there such a

paucity of information in the public domain as to exactly what is planned and what are the net benefits to Jamaica of this development?” she asked Sunday.

But where development on the protected area is concerned, McCaulay said it is clear that the private sector and Government are nonchalant about the situation.

“It is clear that both the Government and many members of the private sector would like to see this development go ahead, ignoring the legal status of the area and the clear environmental threats which are devalued and ridiculed in comments like the above,” she said.

However, she maintained that the JET hopes for more thoughtful and informed commentary from leaders in all sectors.

She said the organisation awaits a trial in October regarding permission granted by the Supreme Court in May for the JET to file an injunction challenging the decision of Government to issue a Certificate of Exemption to bar agreements and proposals on the proposed transshipment port from public disclosure.

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Rejuvenation. Buffy Hits Back With Big, New Single, Produced By Aaron Reason Aba Luke Entertainment After just about two years in observance mode, readying herself for her musical future, Chrystal Bellille, known best as Buffy, has signaled her return. The young entertainer who’s voice is now back in fit form, has unleashed a summer hit that comes complete with a video that delivers the perfect explanation for her lyrical rhyme.

“Wine Up Doll” is the artiste’s latest track. It was written collaboratively by Bellille and Trinidadian producer, Aaron Reason of OM Management, and hears the raspy-voiced entertainer vocalizing her ability to wine. Reason produced the single, which is already said to be making inroads overseas, being lapped up by foreign DJs and entertainment pros. Buffy is excited to be back in the spotlight. Complete with a video, which was directed by Creed Kool and PengCo Music and shot at Carlyle’s on the Greens in Five Rivers, Trinidad, the new single has the ability to bring any female listening on, to their feet instantly.

The artiste says she plans to keep working on her music and admits to having faltered before, when it came to the promotion and marketing of her musical products.

“I plan on marketing my stuff more this time around. I’m hitting the ground running and there’ll be no stopping me from here on in,” she said.

Bellille says she’ll be utilizing external songwriters, relying on several writers as she pushes forward with her mission to deliver the best musical products she can.

Two years ago, the young entertainer had

proven that she has what it takes to send young audiences wild. Back then, she wrote all of her music but now she says she understands that the versatility of other writers is necessary. Amid these thoughts, Bellille says she has big plans when it comes to collaborations for the very near future. “I have something I’m working on with a well known artiste who is loved by the females,” she laughed. She says she really wants to do something with female soca sensation, Denise Belfon, but that’s yet to be worked out.

Having been out of the spotlight for two years, Buffy says she’s learnt a very important lesson. “I’ve learnt that when you’re up everyone is with you but when you’re down, you’re on your own,” she said thoughtfully.

The new single is a step in the right direction for Buffy- this as she moves to re-establish herself at home and across the Caribbean. Buffy and Reason’s professional relationship is a pretty established one, since the pair worked together previously on a track called, “Planet X”. Reason says he plans on delivering a slate of hits in the upcoming carnival season with a number of local entertainers. He’s also working on new material for the Summer 2015 season, already. Buffy meanwhile says while carnival material is yet to be completed, she does have plans on delivering two new singles in time for the Greatest Show on Earth.

For more on the artiste, check her out on Twitter and Instagram @buffytheartiste and on Facebook, keyword Chrystal Buffy. For info on Buffy’s musical services, the young entertainer can be reached ia email at, dbuffy1@yahoo.com and via telephone at 868-390-8873. Producer, Aaron Reason is available on Twitter @outlawmuzik, Facebook via keyword, OM Management and via email at outlawmuzik.management@ gmail.com.

- Et-Cet-Era Buzz

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Russell in as WI go for wash TRINIDAD -- Jamaican Andre Russell, a recent star in the Limacol Caribbean Premier League T20 tournament, has been added to the West Indies cricket team for the third and final Dhaka Bank Cup limited overs clash against Bangladesh at Warner Park in St Kitts starting at 2.30 pm today.

The West Indies Cricket Board’s (WICB) selection panel added the all rounder to the squad, which means no one from the team which has taken a 2-0 lead in the three-match series has been left out.

The West Indies narrowly won the opening game in St George’s Grenada by three wickets, after at one stage being 34 for five, in pursuit off 218 runs for victory.

They then showed up at the same venue two days later, and completely outplayed the visitors—bowling them out for 70—to claim an emphatic 177-run win.

The venue for today’s match is different. It is the smallest international cricket venue. The pitch here is not as sluggish as the one in Grenada and fans who have been bitten by the CPL bug here, will no doubt pack the 9,000 seater venue for this day/night clash.

Master off-spinner Sunil Narine is hoping that his teammates continue the good work started so far in the series.

“We cannot afford to rest at this point in time. We have won two matches in a row and we have the momentum to go forward. We are not going to rest, we need to win this final match because we have the Test series to take care off after and we want to go into that series confident.

“We recently played T20 cricket in St Kitts so we have experience of the facilities, which is good. We are going to use our knowledge of the ground to benefit us because the opposition would not know much about the conditions there.’

West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo also sounded confident saying: “We have played well in this series. Even in the first game our bowlers were spot on and it was the same in the second match.

We as batters, still need to improve and this is yet another chance for us to do that.

St Kitts is a good batting surface and once we bat well and give our bowlers something to work with, I can’t see Bangladesh getting the better of us here.”

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim says his team needs a lot of work especially in the batting department.

“We have not looked the part as batsmen in this series so far. We played a warm-up match going into the first game and we have been here for a while, so it is about time that the guys adapt and play good cricket. The West Indies have a very good bowling unit and they will always put us under pressure but we just cannot sit by and allow them to continue to dominate. We have to come out fighting and I believe in my players and I am sure they will be looking to turn things around quickly.”

Teams West Indies: Dwayne Bravo (Captain), Darren Bravo, Kirk Edwards, Chris Gayle, Jason Holder, Nikita Miller, Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Andre Russell, Darren Sammy, Lendl Simmons.

Bangladesh: Mushfiqur Rahim (Captain), Tamim Iqbal, Anamul Haque, Shamsur Rahman, Mominul Haque, Rubel Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Mahmudullah, Mithun Ali, Abdur Razzak, Mashrafe Mortaza, Sohag Gazi Taskin Ahmed, Imrul Kayes and Al-Amin Hossain.

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Taro with stewed saltfish Caribbean comfort food Chris De La Rosa Caribbean Cooking After seeing the price of dasheen at the market, I opted for the much cheaper taro as I had a craving for what we call ground provisions, in the Caribbean. Dasheen, yams, eddoes, sweet potato and cassava all fall under the ‘ground provisions’ umbrella – also known as ‘food’ in Jamaica. The taro is very similar to our beloved dasheen, the main difference being it’s white in color (when peeled) and a bit milder in taste.

You’ll Need: Yo Y ou u’’ll N eeed: 2-3 lbs taro (dasheen) 1/4 teaspoon salt water for boiling the taro 2 medium tomatoes 3 scallions 1/4 scotch bonnet pepper 2 cloves garlic 3 sprigs thyme 3-5 tablespoon olive oil pinch black pepper 1 onion 1 cup shredded saltfish (salted cod) Do wear gloves or coat your hands with some vegetable oil as the sap/starch from peeling the taro can cause some irritation to your hands/fingers. Using a sharp knife or potato peeler, remove the other skin off the taro (discard). Also remove any blemishes and cut off any previously cut areas (like the stem area) to

expose Cut exp ex po o e the ose the h ffresh rreessh h iinterior. nteerriorr C nt ut iinto nntto 2 to o 3 iinch nch nc ch pieces and place in a pot covered with water on a high flame. As it comes to a boil add the salt , turn down to a rolling boil and cook until tender. Taro cooks faster than dasheen, so in about 10-15 minutes it will be fully cooked.

Pierce with a sharp knife and if there’s no resistance you know it’s fully cooked.

Drain and set aside as we get to the next step of the recipe..stewing the saltfish!

Prepare the salted fish by boiling in water, drain, rinse with cool water and shred (watch the video mentioned above). Then slice the onion, garlic, scallions and scotch bonnet pepper. Remember you can use more or less scotch bonnet pepper and do wear gloves when handling them (wash your hands with soap and water immediately after).

Heat the olive oil on a medium flame (large sauce pan) and go in with the shredded salted fish. Let that cook for about 3 minutes

(low garlic (llow w heat) heat eaatt)) bbefore effore ad aadding ddi dinng ng tthe he oonion, he nniion ion ga arrllic lic ic aand ndd black pepper. Cook for another 3 minutes, then add the thyme.

After 2 minutes add the tomato, scallions and cooked taro. Stir well and cook for another 3-5 minutes to infuse the taro pieces with the stewed salted fish.

We didn’t add any salt to the stewing of the salted cod as the residual salt from the curing process will be enough to season this dish. If you want you can also add some bell peppers for extra flavor and vibrancy (with the colours). Besides being very delicious, this dish can be considered gluten free as well.

Do serve warm.. btw this is a onepot dish!

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8 Beginner Yoga Tips Yoga is everywhere these days, and with good reason. The modern-day benefits of this ancient practice are boundless—and being proven time and again by study after scientific study. If you’re reading this you’re probably aware of all this. But you might be uncertain of how or where to start.

This program will guide you through eight stages of all the basics you need to start your yoga practice.

practice, whether it’s on your own, or with an instructor, this time is all about you. Spend a few moments before you start; tune into your body-mind-emotional state. What’s going on with your body, thoughts, and emotions in this moment? Every day will be different.

Let your state of being guide what version of a pose you take, what style of yoga you practice, and how much physical energy you expend.

1) During your first few yoga classes, you can simply focus on getting used to moving and breathing the way we move and breathe during a yoga session. Keep your body safe, but don’t worry about perfecting the pose.

Pay attention to the safety cues, learn to listen to your body, and don’t judge yourself for what you perceive to be physical limitations.

3) Variety is the spice of yoga. Your yoga practice doesn’t have to be the standard hour and 15 minutes. Make it five minutes. Make it 20 minutes. Make it as long or as short as you need it to be.

5) Breath comes first. Your breath will lead your movement. Start your inhale, then move; start your exhale, then move. Whether the movement is big—pulling your hips up into down dog; or small—lengthening through the crown of your head, your breath will guide it. Here’s some examples: inhale and lengthen the crown of your head; exhale and draw your belly button in and up, engaging your core; inhale step forward; exhale sink your hips.

4) Build your foundation. Asana is a Sanskrit term meaning ‘to sit’ or ‘sitting down.’

It’s commonly translated and understood as ‘seat’ or ‘connection to the earth.’ Likewise, every posture begins from the ground

6) Asana and flexibility. Improved flexibility is one of the first and most obvious benefits of yoga. During your first class, you probably won’t be able to touch your toes, never mind do a backbend. But if you stick with it,

2) Your practice. Every time you do a yoga

up. Pay attention to the parts of your body connected to the floor: Your hands, feet, sit bones—maybe even, eventually, the top of your head.

you’ll notice a gradual loosening, and eventually, seemingly impossible poses will become possible.

7) Fact. When you breathe deeply for a continuous, and not necessarily extended, period of time, you’re activating your parasympathetic nervous system. The areas of the body associated with this system are in the cranial and sacral regions of the spinal cord, and activating this system jump-starts a variety of calming systems in your body.

8) Breath awareness. At any time, at any moment during your day, become aware of your breath. Where are you breathing from?

Most of us breathe from our upper chest, using less than a third of our entire capacity for drawing in energy and releasing stress.

Remember your three-part yogic breath.

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Shift workers at higher diabetes risk, disrupted sleep cycles, and side effects of sleep medications Restful sleep is one of the most important factors in disease prevention, immune support, hormone regulation and overall wellbeing. But several new studies show that shift workers who labor at odd or inconsistent hours on a regular basis tend to miss out on it, which increases their risk of type 2 diabetes and other health problems, not to mention the risks associated with sleeping pills and alertness meds that are minimally beneficial and often harmful.

An observational study that looked at 15 trials involving 718 people found that shift workers who work “non-standard” hours are much more likely than others to experience sleep disruptions. And even when they take sleeping drugs, these workers typically only add an additional 24 minutes or so to their sleeping regimen while gaining no advantages in terms of ease of falling asleep.

While natural sleep hormones like melatonin were found to work best, common pharmaceuticals prescribed for sleep were determined to work no better than a placebo at either inducing or improving sleep. And in some cases, sleeping drugs caused patients to experience extreme headaches, nausea and a rise in blood pressure, making the problem worse.

“For lots of people who do shift work, it would be really useful if they could take a pill that would help them go to sleep or stay awake at the right time,” said Juha

Liira from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki, lead author of the study.

“But from what we have seen in our review, there isn’t good evidence that these drugs can be considered for more than temporary use and some may have quite serious side effects.”

In a separate study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM), Chinese researchers looked at a much larger pool of individuals who work odd hours, and particularly rotating shift schedules that prevent a normal sleep cycle. In this review, 12 international studies involving more than 226,500 individuals were used as a baseline to calculate the health risks of missing sleep.

After accounting for all outside factors, the researchers observed a 9 percent increased risk of type 2 diabetes among all shift workers compared to workers with normal daytime hours. Specifically among men, this risk more than quadrupled to 37 percent, even after things like study design, location, job type, shift schedule and body mass index (BMI) were accounted for.

by the body’s internal clock, it is crucial for men to get regular, uninterrupted sleep in order to maintain optimum testosterone levels. Repeated interruptions or abnormal sleeping cycles caused by shift work, diet and other factors can dramatically increase a man’s risk of disease.

As indicated in the OEM study, low testosterone levels are directly associated with factors of type 2 diabetes, including insulin resistance. Researchers believe that disruptions in hormone production, as caused by a lack of or inconsistent sleep, can worsen the metabolic factors associated with diabetes, increasing one’s risk of debilitating illness.

“Research has shown that the highest levels of testosterone happen during REM sleep, the deep, restorative sleep that occurs mostly late in the nightly sleep cycle,” wrote Michael J. Berus, Ph.D., for Psychology Today. “Sleep disorders, including interrupted sleep and lack of sleep reduces the amount of REM sleep, will frequently lead to low testosterone levels. And this is important for men and women.”

- Natural News

Men need regular, uninterrupted sleep to produce adequate testosterone Since male hormone production is regulated

Top 6 causes of headaches and what you can do to take care of them naturally At some point in one’s life, a headache is going to cause some physical grief. The most common response is to pop an over-thecounter medication to relieve it. This will often eliminate the painful physical symptom, but it does nothing to help prevent the headache from happening again.

Since headaches can be caused from a wide variety of underlying problems, it’s important to understand the main systemic disturbances that start the chain of events that eventually lead to a headache.

Here are 6 causes of headaches and ways to take care of them naturally.

Stress Stress is a major cause of headaches. People tend to carry stress in their shoulders, neck, jaw, and face, which causes muscles to contract. If this situation persists, it can cause chronic tension headaches. Stress can also be a result of mental or emotional factors that are related to pressure, regrets, and worries. Since the mind and body work together, these concerns can often result in headaches.

To help alleviate stress, consider meditation, yoga, massage, chamomile, and reishi.

Food allergies James Braly, M.D., an allergy expert, says that 90% of all migraine headaches are linked to food allergies or reactions that are often caused by preservatives, colors, flavors, and other additives. Another study

from The Lancet cited relief for 93% of migraine sufferers when allergenic foods were eliminated, which included the common offenders of cow’s milk, eggs, wheat, and cheese.

aches.

To help alleviate food allergies, first consider allergy testing by your physician.

Structural imbalances A healthy musculoskeletal structure is imperative to good health. Without that foundation, the body will become susceptible to a number of different health problems, including headaches. External factors such as bad posture, improper shoes, and traumatic injury, and internal factors such as allergies, digestive problems, and hormonal imbalances, can all lead to misalignment in the spine and musculature, which affects how the entire body is supplied with blood and energy.

Environmental sensitivities More than 12,000 substances and pollutants in the environment, headaches caused by chemical and environmental sensitivities are dramatically increasing. Whether it is pollen, mold, smoke, pesticides, plastics, perfumes, deodorizers, chlorine, radioactive fallout, or carbon monoxide, these substances are creating toxicity in the body that inevitably leads to headaches.

To help alleviate these sensitivities, incorporate several plants into your home and workspace, spend more time in nature, and cleanse your liver.

Dental factors Tooth decay, gum disease, and low grade infections from root canals and old fillings can all cause stress in the lower jaw that can reduce circulation to the brain. This reduced blood flow can cause blood vessels to constrict, which produces a headache.

In addition, the cumulative build up of silver mercury fillings in the mouth causes acute toxicity that can easily result in head-

To alleviate dental problems leading to headaches, have a biological dentist assess your oral health and prescribe solutions.

Digestive disturbances According to traditional Chinese medicine, the head is viewed as a compact representation of the digestive system, which means that all headaches are linked, in one way or another, to the health of the digestive system.

According to Dr. Robert Milne, constipation, nutritional deficiencies, leaky gut (damage to the intestinal barrier that allows partially digested foods and chemicals into the bloodstream), and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) are a few of the underlying problems that can bring on headaches.

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The most common mistakes health nuts make with their diet There are phases we typically go through while learning to eat right and take control of our health. We tend to replace our bad habits with less harmful, but still bad habits.

Relying on supplements On the road to health, we often turn to supplements and tinctures for a quick fix. They usually work better and faster than conventional treatments when the tinctures and supplements are high quality.? But none of these “cures” get to the root of the problem. Natural remedies that do not address the cause have a very important and overlooked side effect - they mask symptoms, allowing us to continue to live our toxic lifestyles.

The foundation of health comes from the food you eat. Supplements should be used to supplement your diet, not to replace it.

Too much organic junk food Just because it’s labeled organic, or vegan, or natural, does not mean it’s healthy.

Refined food, prepackaged food, “snack” food should be severely limited.

There is a direct correlation to health and well being and the elimination of processed foods.

Too much eating out This is a tough one. Even the healthiest restaurants still produce food that is not good for you. Restaurants, for a myriad of reasons, cannot prepare healthy nutritious meals as well as you can at home. The fact is, health food restaurants should be a treat; conventional restaurants should be avoided.

Too much sugar Typically, sugar is the last thing a health nut is willing to give up. Sugar cane juice, brown rice syrup, agave nectar, and every other natural sweetener that comes to mind, save stevia, have something in common; they are refined sugars. And refined sugars feed and/ or promote viruses, bacteria, Candida and other fungi, and virtually all other parasites

that affect us. They also contribute to nearly every other ailment. Sugar Is Sugar Is Sugar!

Too much juicing The juices and the smoothies with juice fall under the same category as sugar. When you juice fruits and sweeter vegetables, you lose a lot of nutrition. This includes fiber that helps slow the absorption of sugar. In effect, you are refining your own produce, turning it into simple sugars, when you juice.

Juicing regularly has its place. Juicing produce with very little sugar is a nice way to get a lot of nutrition into your body at once (it’s just not so pleasant to my palate). Also, there are people who are so sick that they cannot digest whole foods. Furthermore, when detoxifying, juicing can be a way to get in nutrition easily without making your body work for it while it is overburdened with the release of toxins.

Too little produce For many people, this is the last step to re-

gaining your health and living a life full of vitality without aches and pains. Fresh, raw, and organic (whenever possible) produce is the key to health. Eighty percent of your diet should be raw produce.

Do not let a lack of organic food choices stop you. Conventional raw produce is better than organic frozen produce, provided the food is not genetically modified or one of the “dirty dozen”.

I am not saying don’t buy organic.

Let me stress that. Buy organic whenever possible! Just don’t let a lack of organic produce turn you towards the less beneficial packaged foods.

Conclusion There are few shortcuts in life that work, and this holds true for health as well. It takes time, patience, dedication, and discipline. I promise you this: it’s an investment that is well worth it.

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Top health benefits of dill Dill is a common herb that is often added to many main dishes. Dill weed is a member of a unique family of herbs that uses both the seeds and the leaves as a means of seasoning. Dill seeds are similar in taste and appearance to caraway seeds. The flavor and aroma of these light brown, oval seeds is citrus and sweet with a slightly bitter edge. In addition to its usefulness as a spice in foods, dill has a number of health benefits. A few of them are explained below.

Loads of vitamin A Vitamin A is an important source of valuable beta carotene, a natural flavonoid antioxidant. Vitamin A is crucial for maintaining good eyesight as well as maintaining healthy skin and mucus membranes. It can also play a positive role in protecting against cancer

of the oral cavities and the lungs. Just 100 grams of dill sprigs offers 257 percent of the necessary daily levels of vitamin A. Low in calories and has no cholesterol While big on flavor, dill has no cholesterol and is low in calories, making it the ideal way to season a variety of foods. Some of its other properties, such as its many antioxidants, like pyridoxine and niacin, as well as dietary fiber, help control the amount of cholesterol in the body.

Excellent source of vitamin C Fresh sprigs of dill contain a great deal of vitamin C. This antioxidant is necessary not only as a way to boost the immune system, but also as defense against the harmful free radicals that accumulate within the body. For

each 100 grams of fresh dill, a person can count on consuming about 85 mg of vitamin C. This equals about 140 percent of the recommended daily amount of this crucial antioxidant.

Rich in other important vitamins In addition to being a key way to obtain vitamin A and vitamin C on a daily basis, dill also packs a powerful punch of other vital vitamins. Riboflavin, folic acid and niacin are just a few of the other crucial antioxidants that are contained within dill. Consuming an ample amount of these each day is important for the body’s metabolism.

Flavonoids Flavonoids are components that serve as antioxidants. They provide a crucial role in

a body’s health. Dill contains four of these flavonoids, including quercetin. Quercetin helps to prevent and reduce inflammation.

In addition, this component could help guard against cancer. Dill is a powerful way to get such a flavonoid as just one tablespoon of fresh dill provides one milligram of quercetin. This is equal to the same amount that is provided in half of a cup of green peppers.

While using fresh dill in the preparation of foods is the preferred method of obtaining its health benefits, though it is possible to get some of the same benefits using the comparable amount of dried dill weed.

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Heavy Metals: Little elements, large effect Dr. Lydia Thurton ND BASc

Health Tips What substances do we encounter everyday that have the potential to harm your heart, kidney, nervous system, immune system, and liver? Heavy metals. Occurring in many of our every day products I would like to raise your awareness about exposures to these potentially toxic elements and tell you how to test for them.

It is impossible to avoid heavy metals entirely. They are present in our air, water and food in trace amounts. The focus really needs to be on reducing exposure and promoting healthy detoxification. The most common heavy metals to be aware of are lead, mercury,

cadmium and arsenic.

The problems with heavy metals in the body are twofold. Firstly, they tend to mimic elements that are essential to our body.

This creates internal confusion when the metal attaches to a cell receptor, displacing a healthy element. Secondly, they tend to create free radicals, which are reactive elements that float around and wreak havoc for your cellular processes. This causes your body to have to dispatch antioxidants to try to stop the metals from damaging your system. It’s just a mess.

It can be tricky to know if heavy metal exposure is causing your symptoms. Everything from fatigue to cancer has been linked to exposure to these toxic elements. If you have symptoms that do not seem to be getting better with any course of treatment, occasionally it is heavy metal toxicity to blame.

Lead exposure is typically from drinking water that has passed through old lead pipes and lead paint. Vegetables and fruits can be a source when grown in lead contaminated soils. Cadmium is found in cigarette smoke, legumes and grains and some seafood. Arsenic is found in seafood, as well as soil near arsenic

mines, treated wood and pesticides. Dental fillings and fish are the most common sources of mercury.

Mining, construction and manufacturing tend to be the jobs with the most exposure to toxic elements and heavy metals. If you work in an industry where you might be exposed on a regular basis it is worth the peace of mind to get tested and ensure your body’s toxic burden is in a safe range. Brief, transient exposure to metals is normal and usually poses no threat.

Blood testing is available for most metals. Urinary tests can determine if your body is eliminating heavy metals at a rate that would indicate dangerous exposure. Hair testing can be used to judge metal exposure over time.

If you test positive for heavy metals the best course of action is chelation. Chelation is done by a special doctor who uses intravenous medications to pick up the heavy metals in your system. It will take a few treatments to get you into a safe and healthy zone. It is also very important to determine the source of exposure and remove it from your life.

Dental care for children Dr. Matthew Weekes BSC DDS MTh DMin

Dental Health

The human dentition has two sets of teeth. The first set are the primary or baby teeth which are followed by the permanent or adult teeth.

There are 20 primary teeth that progressively start to erupt from the front to the back, from the age of 6 months and should be completed by the age of 3 years.

The baby’s mouth and teeth should be cleaned. It is best to start even before the teeth arrive by wiping the gums with wet gauze or

wash cloth during bath time. Wrap the gauze or cloth around the index finger and rub it gently over the gum. After the teeth erupt you can start to use a baby toothbrush, with a tiny amount of fluoridated toothpaste about the size of a rice grain.

The preservation of the baby teeth, until they are ready to fall out and be replaced by permanent, is very important. Not only are they needed for chewing food to ensure good nutrition but they also guide the permanent teeth into their correct position in the arch.

Parents should supervise dental home care for their children until they are old enough to assume that responsibility.

By the age of three, children should be taken to the dental office for their first check up and every 6 months after their initial visit.

Since the baby teeth play an important role in guiding the permanent teeth into their correct position, then none of these teeth should be lost prematurely, whether as a result

of cavities or knocked out as a result of an accident.

Early detection of cavities will result in the restoration of these teeth and prevent extractions. If however a tooth is lost, the dentist can place a small device in the space to preserve it until the replacement permanent tooth is ready to erupt.

At an early stage the dentist can evaluate the jaws, growth pattern, relationship to one another, size of teeth, spacing and determine if there will be severe jaw deformities or crowding as the permanent teeth erupt. In some of these cases early intervention in treatment will prevent costly surgical procedures in the future. Growth of the jaws is best controlled during the period of active bone growth.

Harmful habits may also deform the arches and are best treated in the early stages.

It is best to partner with your dentist early in your child’s dental care.

Omega-3s boost brain health by improving neuron cell membrane functionality Most Americans have an omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid imbalance due to the prevalence of unsaturated omega-6 fatty acids from polyunsaturated processed oils in processed foods.

It should minimally be three to one omega-6 to omega-3, while one to one is considered ideal by experts. But it’s estimated that many SAD (standard American diet) consumers are at around 20 to 1 omega-6 to omega-3 or worse.

This imbalance creates chronic inflammation that invites obesity and even more serious autoimmune diseases. Omega-3 fatty acids from eggs, whole organic raw milk, and meat and fish from healthy sources provide instantly usable omega-3 fatty acids that are important for heart health and optimal brain function, despite medical dogma and “common knowledge” to the contrary.

Plant-based polyunsaturated seeds or oils, such as flax oils or ground seeds, hemp oils or seeds and chia seeds, do provide additional health benefits and elements of usable omega-3.

But the process of converting plant based ALA (alpha-linolenic acid) into usable omega-3 as EPA and DHA is less efficient among diabetics and wanes as we grow older.

EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) are already formed for us by fish and animal sources, and they are very supportive of heart and brain health and reduce rheumatoid arthritis issues.

But it would be wise to balance those out with plant sources as well, since they offer

other nutritional advantages that we all need.

Omega-3s have provided amazing results for brain protection and restoration in animal studies and in real-life human brain damage recoveries.

Animal (in vivo) and lab (in vitro) studies A study comparing mice with omega-3-rich diets to those without was conducted at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology and published in the journal Stroke.

The researchers determined that omega-3s in brain-damaged mice brought about brain-damage repair and neuroprotection by suppressing an inflammatory process.

The exact mechanics of this neuroprotection and reconstruction were explored more recently in 2014. Three Paris universities collaborated on in vitro (lab cultures) studies using high magnification.

That study proved that the presence of omega-3 lipids makes the brain cell membranes more malleable and therefore more sensitive to deformation and fission by proteins.

This might seem like a bad thing, but malleability, deformation and fission are elements of endocytosis, a vital function enabling brain cells’ membranes to transport hormones and nutrients and provide efficient neurotransmitter pathways for optimum brain function.

The study results were published in the journal Science on August 8, 2014.

And now for something more dramatic

In Virginia a couple of years ago, a high school teenager whose brain was so damaged in a car accident that his parents were informed that he would be vegetative for the rest of his life if he ever came out of his coma while on life support.

The teen’s dad refused to give up. An old Army buddy, now MD, told him about a recent similar case in neighboring West Virginia where a 26-year-old man brain-damaged and in a coma was flirting with death after a coal-mining accident. He was treated with high-dose fish oil through his feeding tube, 20 grams a day. One gram a day is considered normal supplementation, with three grams a day the limit.

The West Virginia hospital’s neurosurgeon knew omega-3s were an important part of brain cell structures. He courageously broke the boundaries of the American Medical Association’s “standard of care” and helped the young coal miner walk out of the hospital just three months after the mining accident.

The Virginia hospital didn’t have that courageous neurosurgeon, so the teenage boy’s father’s efforts to convince the hospital to duplicate that West Virginia neurosurgeon’s protocol on his own son was an uphill drama.

But he ultimately succeeded with getting the hospital to duplicate that mega-dose fish oil feeding protocol to restore his son’s ability to walk and even formally address his high school classmates on graduation day.

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Leveraged investing Stephen Mohammed Finance Investment strategies are great tools to maximize the return on your investment (ROI), but without the availability of money investing may not be an option. Borrowing to invest, or leveraging, is one of the most controversial and poorly understood topics in financial planning however, leverage can be used responsibly as part of a financial plan. Leveraging to invest may result in great returns or can result in significant financial loss.

Some agents or investors invest in unsuitable or high fee products which makes leveraging an inappropriate strategy for the client because of the risk or expenses within the investment. Taking a personal loan or an unsecured Line of Credit (LOC) to invest is an unwise idea. It’s similar to borrowing money (loan or credit card) to purchase items that you can’t currently afford and repaying the loan at a high interest rate. In that case with leveraged money if the investment is not performing as well as

it should you are still responsible for repayment of the loan.

Alternatively, there are some instances where leveraging does make sense.

If you own a home that is almost paid off or currently has no mortgage charge against the property you could borrow against the equity (HELOC-Home Equity Line of Credit) or refinance to take equity out to invest for retirement for example. Some believe that their home can be their retirement plan but with the rate of inflation and cost of living increases the value of their home may not be sufficient and at the time of sale, supply and demand as well as economic factors may impact the value or purchase price of the home. For example purposes, repaying a mortgage at a rate of three percent while investing a portion of your equity at a rate of return between six percent and ten percent, you can potentially generate three percent to seven percent profit.

With the introduction of self directed funds where clients can invest their money however they see fit with little understanding of how risk tolerance and investments work, leveraging may happen more often without regulation. This lack of regulation may result in catastrophic financial loss. Speak to an agent or advisor to assess your risk tolerance, see if leveraging is an appropriate strategy for you and identify what products are suitable for you.

Big business like 407ETR can buy their way to the top of the internet

Tammy Flores 407ETR Matters How influenced are you by sites like Yelp when purchasing a product or using a service? That was a question I asked social media expert and online personality “Urgo”.

He didn’t say how much he was influenced by the reviews he read online, but did say it was a service he used mostly when he was traveling.

How reliable are the reviews we read on sites like Yelp? It has come to my attention that like with any review you read on line, the devil is in the details. Companies like Yelp rely on advertising dollars to survive. If you are “big business” like 407 ETR, you can pay the company for advertising and negative reviews seem to disappear and you get strong ratings. For smaller businesses, that can’t afford the advertising dollars, companies like Yelp manipulate the algorithms so that negative reviews are sensationalized and the ratings suffer. It’s a tactic to bully the small business owner into paying for advertising, putting the small business at a disadvantage to compete in a competitive marketplace.

I have tried to leave my review on Yelp about what I thought of the company that ran Canada’s first open access toll high-

way, Highway 407, and my review was never published by Yelp. I thought that wasn’t fair because people need to know the risks they take when using this highway, but I never really gave it much thought until I came across a petition by Rachel Craggy on change.org.

Rachel Craggy is looking to have some legislation passed that would regulate online review companies such as Yelp. The petition is called “STOP VIOLATING OUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE, WE LIVE IN A “FREE” COUNTRY”. In there she reveals how difficult it is for small businesses to compete when companies like Yelp highjack their listing. The petition calls for legislation that would allow the business owner to have the freedom to choose where it is to be listed.

I support online community based organizations such as Open Media that advocates for the internet to remain open and works toward informed and participatory digital policy by protecting our online rights.

Having said that, is the internet really open if a company can buy its way to the top and manipulate what you see? As a consumers advocate I support a fair marketplace free from unfair business practices, fraud and misrepresentation. If a business is gaining an advantage by manipulating information people have access too, that’s not a fair marketplace. Allowing a business to pay their way to the top isn’t fair trade. Consumers have the right to make informed choices and if those informed choices are made based on manipulated information, I’d say lawmakers have a job to do to make sure consumers’ rights are protected as we move forward in this digital age.

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Attracting entrepreneurs through Canadaʼs Start-up Visa KITCHENER -- Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, Chris Alexander, met with Kitchener-Waterloobased business incubator Communitech and other business leaders to discuss the Start-up Visa and its potential for attracting entrepreneurs to Canada who have the vision and ability to build innovative companies that can create jobs and longterm prosperity.

The roundtable aimed to build on the momentum of Alexander’s visit to GrowLab Ventures in Vancouver last month, where he welcomed the first two successful applicants under Canada’s Start-up Visa Program. Alexander discussed the importance of the program with a number of local business leaders

and encouraged organizations to continue their efforts in identifying exciting start-up opportunities, as well as the dynamic entrepreneurs behind them, with the help of the Start-up Visa.

Launched last year, the Start-up Visa Program brings together Canadian venture capital funds, angel investor groups and business incubators with entrepreneurs from abroad.

The Start-up Visa Program is an important part of the government’s plan to build a fast and flexible economic immigration system, with a primary focus on meeting the new and emerging needs of the Canadian economy.

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Welcoming the 150,000th New Citizen of 2014 SCARBOROUGH -- Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander announced that Canada has welcomed its 150,000th new citizen of 2014. This is double the number of new citizens compared to the same period in 2013 and thanks to the action taken by the government to reduce backlogs and improve processing times.

Alexander attended a citizenship ceremony in Scarborough and welcomed the country’s newest Canadians.

At the event, Alexander highlighted the government’s recent changes to the citizenship system, which have led to improved processing times and an eight percent reduction to the citizenship

backlog.

Recent changes to the Citizenship Act, which received Royal Assent on June 19, 2014, will allow for further improvements to the efficiency of the Citizenship program. The new streamlined decision-making process and other changes to the Citizenship Act are expected to bring the processing time for citizenship applications down to under one year, reduce the citizenship application backlog by more than 80 percent and achieve a working inventory of applications in fiscal year 2015-2016.

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Helping newcomers achieve success WINDSOR -- Costas Menegakis, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada’s Citizenship and Immigration Minister, attended the grand opening of a Care for Newcomer Children (CNC) centre and announced an investment of more than $2 million for settlement services.

The new CNC centre will provide newcomer parents with child care services while they take advantage of settlement programs.

Located at Windsor’s Unemployed Help Centre, CNC provides onsite child care for newcomers who want to take advantage of long-term settle-

ment services, such as language training or to access child care for brief periods, in order to attend appointments or participate in short-term settlement programming. The settlement services ensure newcomers are able to contribute to the Canadian economy more quickly and achieve success in the labour market.

The Unemployed Help Centre is a non-profit charitable organization that provides various programs and services, such as employment, educational and career counselling in the Windsor and Essex County areas.

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Your Horoscope - August 27th 2014 ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

It’s been in the works a long time, but you’ve finally made it to the next starting gate.

Monday’s new moon brings you to the end of a two-year travail that has likely been all-consuming and may have derailed some other goal or priority. You’ll find you can go at it fresh and accomplish things much better now.

You know what works for you, what doesn’t, and what you need to do for yourself next.

When it comes to getting your act together and/or improving on a good thing, Virgo month is one of your best times of the year.

Monday’s new moon and Wednesday’s Venus/Mars transit see you turn a significant corner regarding love, self-love, family, health, or money.

You’ll have a better shot at it now. Mars, Saturn, and Monday’s new moon offer you a fresh chance to get where you want or need to be.

Start the renovations and upgrades, clear your clutter, figure it out, devise a better plan. A productive week or so lies ahead. Get yourself organized, get busy, stay on it.

Thursday onward, play it bold and confident, switch it up, let mood or instincts run the show, let them know who’s boss. A personal, professional, or relationship make-over can do you a world of good. Monday’s new moon helps you to be a more effective communicator. The new Mars/Saturn cycle is an empowering one.

It lends you more swagger and sway, and more sexy too.

LEO

VIRGO

LIBRA

SCORPIO

The sun exits your sign on Friday, but you can still bank on the Leo moon through the weekend and a great Venus-in-Leo aspect through Monday. These transits help you to make the most of it. With such great stars on your side, you should find ready satisfaction and success no matter where you aim. Tuesday/Wednesday requires more from you.

Thursday’s Mercury in Virgo keeps you on the ball. You’ll play your cards very well, and it doesn’t stop there. Through Monday, no matter where you find yourself, you’ll strike gold. Launching an especially lucrative two-year cycle, the new moon positions you on a particularly well-rigged springboard. All fresh initiatives and conversations hold a greater potential for success.

Whether you have something special lined up or let the moment create the adventure, a great weekend lies ahead. Right place, right time, right words: Saturday through Monday, the stars bring all the elements together.

The new moon can see you finalize, confirm, or commit to something of long-term/ long-range scope. Next Wednesday/Thursday, Venus/Mars and the Libra moon keep the action going strong.

Thursday’s Mercury/Pluto and Monday’s Venus/Uranus make for good sparks, productivity, ingenuity, and open communication lines. You don’t have to do much to get attention or favour, but it’s to your advantage to pump it for all it’s worth. Timing is everything. Monday’s Mars/Saturn helps you cement a plan or contract, reap a reward or benefit, or launch or complete something important.

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CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

What needs to be upgraded? What needs to be improved upon? Virgo month, starting Friday, puts added attention on goals, priorities, and rewrites. While Monday’s new moon and Mars/Saturn can make you hyperaware of time’s advance and the tasks you face, it doesn’t have to be all work and no play. Thursday through Sunday is ideal for livin’ it, lovin’ it.

Your timing can be quite good Thursday through Monday. Travel, socialize, communicate, shop, and/or aim to get it wrapped up.

Want to make a big change? The next two months dish up better options and places to be, and more people to meet. Mars/Saturn and Monday’s new moon can set a new lifestyle and/or reality into play.

Want more money, love, respect, or attention?

Put more effort into it, and improvement is your long-term gain. More immediately, the stars are in a gifting mood, especially on Thursday and Saturday. Whether the prompt is ambition, necessity, or reward, Monday’s force-the-envelope is especially productive.

Stay ambitious, launch it, sign the contract.

Something you’ve been waiting or hoping for can come to fruition now. If it doesn’t get that far, at least you’ll see more promise on the horizon. The weekend can be as productive as you want it to be. On Monday, sign on or sign off. Financially, socially, or relationshipwise, a significant corrective, healing, or solution-generating cycle begins.

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Buyer Beware: Things to look into when buying a house Sherene Cole

CIP, CRM, CAIB, LLQP

Insurance Matters

Planning on buying a house? Taking the time to learn about your prospective home could save you both the headache and expense of unexpected maintenance costs that in some instances would not be covered by a home insurance policy. To get you started, here are nine things you should definitely look into about the house, ideally before you sign on the dotted line.

INTERIOR Are there stains on the ceiling, walls and floors? Look specifically in the corners of the upper floors for signs of roof leaks.

Ceiling damage on the lower level is a sign of plumbing or fixture leaks on upper levels. A bright flashlight shone on walls, floors and ceilings will often reveal signs of imperfections and staining.

What is the condition of the plumbing fixtures? Are there signs of deterioration in and around plumbing fixtures? Flush the toilets to make sure water runs properly.

Look in sinks for stains and signs of leaky faucets. Check under and around sinks for leaks or previous water damage.

Are the “details” in the home well maintained? Sure, the floors are clean and the walls are freshly painted, but what is the condition of the caulk around the tub, shower stall and sink? Deteriorated or mildewed caulking can allow water to gradually work its way behind plumbing fixtures and into the walls. Check for fresh caulking where counters meet back splashes or walls.

BASEMENT What is the age of the hot water heater?

This is important since most have an average life of 10 to 13 years. There’s usually a metal label on the heater that is date stamped. If not, the first four digits of the serial number represent the month and year it was manufactured.

Is there a potential for a pipe burst due to freezing? In colder climates, water supply lines in unheated areas of the home may freeze and rupture. Although insulating these lines may keep them from freezing, a more extensive solution may be necessary.

Is the basement dry? Check the basement area for dryness. Stains on walls are one indicator, but the existence of a sump pump is a sign that ground water is a possibility. Ask if the pump is in working order or require a demonstration by having water poured into the pit to ensure the pump is functional.

EXTERIOR Are the gutters and downspouts clear of leaves and other debris? Clogged gutters may cause rainwater to spill over, which results in water entering the home either through the roof or basement.

Have you visually inspected the roof shingles, overhangs, siding and windowsills? Asphalt shingles or wood shakes on the roof that show signs of curling or cupping may be indicative of poor ventilation or improperly installed insulation in the attic. Peeling paint or signs of rot on roof overhangs, trim boards, sidings or windowsills may indicate excess moisture in these areas.

Is the property properly graded?

Ground that does not allow water to drain away from the foundation during a heavy rain storm or after a big snowstorm may result in the water seeping down along the foundation and ultimately into the basement. Also, if the property is lower than the neighbor’s, be sure any water runoff from surrounding properties is diverted away from the foundation.

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Whatʼs the key to getting and keeping the right people?

Colleen Lindberg Business Development Having and keeping the right people in our organizations are key to the development and growth of our companies. If we are constantly focused in replacing people instead of other key aspects of the business then we tend to lose focus and results are delayed. What about all the funds that you put out as an organization on training and time for new hires. Imagine if you could keep all that and use it towards client retention and

generating more sales? Here are two key aspects on how to get and keep the right people in your organization.

First, people want to be part of something greater than themselves.

They want to solve important problems that matter to their mother, father and friends. They want to have an impact in the world. Maybe it means that the product you are selling as an organization is meant to help people, maybe it means that you have a charity that you contribute funds to and play events for where your employees can get involved.

It could mean that you support other business in the community, specialty programs etc. I run a program where we need volunteer mentors in the summer.

Whatever it might be we are all looking to be a part of something greater than ourselves. If you don’t already have this

in place, then why don’t you ask your team for their suggestions. How can you implement this into your culture, how can you expand on what you already have? So have a cause, don’t just be a product.

Secondly, create an environment where everyone contributes. We want to have an environment where the top talent can do the best work of their lives. Embracing other people’s differences, experience and talent will allow your employees to feel like they are actually contributing and being understood. What person doesn’t want to feel this way? Lean on your team for their opinions and outputs. Perhaps all of the ideas won’t necessarily apply but at least everyone will have a voice. Talk with your team to find out what they need in their job/career in order to be a

top performer. Is it structure? Flexibility? Challenges? Help them to get this into their job so that they can also be a top performer and strive towards this for themselves. Of course, the company will be impacted in the end, but you also have employees that love what they do, are in it for the long haul and are feeling great about their careers. This will help to sustain the right people in your business.

With the amount of change that is happening these days with businesses, the economy, stability in the markets etc. we want to have great employees working for us, that we can rely on and keep. It will only make our businesses stronger and more profitable, all the while being able to help more people.

Think about it and then try it, see what this does to your business.”

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