By Sandra Singh
www.newsday.co.tt
Thursday, August 2 2007
click on pic to zoom inEducation Minister Hazel Manning looked a picture of elegance at the parade….UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday encouraged all CARICOM nations to unite and become the sixth region of Africa. Museveni speaking at the “Kambule” in Port-of-Spain amidst heavy security said attempts are being made to unite the continent of Africa, comprising of over 900 million people of which 750 million are “black people” adding that people in the Caribbean should do the same.
In his short address, Museveni mustered up lusty applause from the large crowd in attendance as he encouraged all to be proud of their ancestors. “Descendants of the African people should be proud of their heritage,” declared Museveni. He stated that the “tragedies” such as the slave trade, colonialism and the marginalisation that black people had experienced in the last 500 years should not be blamed solely on the Europeans claiming that their own African tribal leaders should share the blame. “The chiefs are also responsible for this tragedy. Instead of uniting, they fought among themselves” stated Museveni.
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TT will help Africa’s poverty
Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday vowed that this country will help “relieve suffering and poverty on the African continent.” He told reporters this at Piarco International Airport moments after the departure of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni following a three-day State visit.
Ugandan food for TT
Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni offered to help Government reduce rising food prices by exporting food from his country to Trinidad and Tobago.
Stronger TT ties with Uganda
President George Maxwell Richards identified agriculture and education as two key areas through which this country could forge stronger ties with Uganda.
Uganda to do business with T&T
Fresh off the heels of an official state visit by Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni, a delegation from that country is expected to visit T&T to talk business…
I really hope the people of trinidad and tobago ask the prime mister if the Ugandans would take the AIDS test before and after coming to T&T
Reason being Ugandan has the one of highest of AIDS POPULATION in that part of the world
AIDS and the bird flu are not in the same category. AIDS is still primarily a sexually transmitted disease. It is incumbent on all people to be aware of where their sexual partners have been, and their opportunity for transmitting disease. We should however, guard against the assumption that every African must be a carrrier.
There were articles in the TnT papers about the strides Uganda has made in combatting this disease.
India also has a high rate of AIDS. Did we make such statements about all the indian business people who come to TnT constantly?
Until we decide on an instant AIDS test at the airport for all returnees to the islands and for all new arrivals also, let us assume that sexually responsible people will act responsibly, but let us also educate our people that each individual is responsible for how they behave towards sexual partners. Casual sex must become a thing of the past. Unprotected sex is deadly.
Perhaps the highest rate of transmission in TnT would be from those illegal sex workers smuggled in along our bare oastlines, who fill hotels, and where clients line up for cheap sex, then go home with their unprotected penises, to innocent spouses and girlfriends.
At least in Antigua, where the “butterskins from the Dominican Republic,” regularly come as sex workers, they test them constantly for disease, remembering all too well that between tests, transmission is still possible.
Caribbean people need to stop joining the White Western World in its constant carping about issues in Africa.