Misers say the safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. Well. If you believe it, try it but if you don’t, forget it.
We turned the corner during the week when bright sunshine plastered the sky, replacing the dull and chilly winds to show that, as the humanists say better days are coming.
“If it were December, I would have sang “Joy to the world” my excited Jamaican neighbor said open her windows obviously to let some spring air. So I was not too surprised when I saw three Africans in down town Washington without winter coats but dressed in African Safari and strolling, I knew that winter is dead as the dodo ….at least till December.
The men were heading for the conference on “sustaining growth in Africa in Economic Diversification, Job Creation and Infrastructural
Financing.”The topic, according to one delegate, called for ” improved economic and political governance together with a favorable global external environment over the past two decades which have set the foundation of Africa’s
economic prosperity. Many delegates recalled that “most economies across Africa responded with resilience to the 2014 commodity price shock” and noted that “the recovery is currently gaining momentum” . However. They agreed that “obstacles. Including jobless youth and increasing debt loom in the distance.”
Few doors away, the 4th annual Global Development Forum was in session and was attended by dozens of delegates from African and Caribbean countries.
TheForum regarded as a flagship event, examined the role and purpose of official development assistance against a backdrop of rising incomes, economic growth, youth unemployment and other continued complex challenges in many parts of the world.
A communique agreed that ” the US government will need to apply new approaches and remain highly flexible in a rapidly changing development landscape.”
With the advent of Spring, there is now what Americans call, “staycation” in the home. Everything is done outdoor and people are attending functions in droves.
I saw smart chic Nigerians and Ghanaians in their dainty dresses of many colors, Dark skinned Kenyans and shy-looking Ethiopians hurrying on to a workshop on “Convergent Action for Girls and Women”.
Lead coordinators stressed that “the lives of girls and women are multi-dimensional comprised of complex and inter-related aspirations, needs and responsibilities.”
“By seeing girls and women through social sciences, development programmrs fail to achieve optimal results and efficiencies, missing opportunity that have the potential to leverage changes that go beyond any sector and can lead to both individual empowerment and broader social change,” she noted.
Few male delegates were among the delegates
understandably. Some news of good cheer.
The US Supreme Court has invalidated a provision of federal law that requires the mandatory deportation of immigrants who have been convicted of some crimes, holding that the law is unconstitutionally vague.
The Court’s 5-4 decision concerns a provision of the immigration law that defines a crime of violence .
Conviction for a crime of violence had subjected an immigrant to deportation.
Over 12 children of Sierra Leonean lineage received coveted honours in the 3rd quarter Honours Assembly in the Phyllis Williams Spanish Immersion early in the week.
According to the citation read toan impressive audience, School Counsellor Michelle Hall, said “receiving an award for outstanding achievement is a worthy cause.”
She urged parents to join the school as “we honour your children’s success.””
Don’t tell others you’ve read it here but can you imagine a world without men.?
No crime and lots of fat happy women?
Monday April 23, 2018.
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