April 2017. AMLFC Institute & 2017 ComplianceAid Caribbean Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crimes Conference

ComplianceAid is honored to announce three additional speakers to its line-up of distinguished presenters for the ComplianceAid Caribbean Basin AML/CFT/FCP Conference. For more information about the 2017 ComplianceAid Caribbean AML/CFT/FCP Conference and to REGISTER & SAVE $100 Use coupon code "100off" and Click Here.  Register NOW Early Bird Special end November 30th, 2016. ComplianceAid Caribbean AML/CFT/FCP Conference will be held in Miami at the Conrad Hotel on April 6th & 7th, 2017.   The list of 2017 distinguished speakers added to the 10 confirmed conference speakers include:   · Mrs. Ligia Stella, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit, Sint Maarten · Mr. Claudius Lestrade, Director, Financial Services Unit, Dominica · Lt. Col Edward H Croft, Director, ONDCP, Antigua & Barbuda Information on other confirmed speakers is posted on the website and additional speakers will be announced shortly. ComplianceAid is also proud to announce its partnership with: · The Caribbean Confederation of Credit Unions (CCCU) · The Association of Compliance Professionals of Trinidad and Tobago (ACPTT) · Trinidad and Tobago Members Clubs Association (TTMCA)   The above organizations have secured a reduced registration rate for their members.  Contact your respective association to obtain your coupon code. If your association is not a current partner, we invite them to contact us, and we will gladly work with them and extend a reduced conference registration fee as well as other concessions. In addition, the AMLFC Institute in partnership with St. Thomas University has announced its initial roster of speakers for its 2017 Conference taking place at the Conrad Hotel on April 5th, 2017:   Ms. Janice P Holness, Executive Director, Financial Services Commission, Jamaica Mr. Paul Coleman, Head of Compliance Unit, Financial Services Commission, Turks and Caicos Islands Mr. Jeremy Stephen MSc. DIC. BSc., Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of the West Indies – Cave Hill Campus, Barbados For more information about the conference and to REGISTER Click Here For sponsorship opportunities Click Here or contact us at 305-407-2713 or email contact@complianceaid.pro We would like to be your host on this third edition, please let us know if you require assistance in planning your participation. . Great rates are still available on hotel and airfare! Copyright © 2016 ComplianceAid, All rights reserved.

Congratulations: Ibarakumo B. Walson. BEMA International\Lifetime\Nigeria Member

Our survival depends on us coming together.  To put aside our differences, and ego’s for difficult times are ahead.   At times we have to follow, but know when to lead. 

CDS.  CEO.  BEMA

Congratulations to BEMA International\Lifetime\Nigeria member Ibarakumo B. Walson for completing the Ethics of Humanitarian Work conducted by EDD Integrated Services Ltd, Nigeria, November 10, 2016.

Ibarakumo is with the Nigerian National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA, http://nema.gov.ng/ ) assigned to the Delta Region and has been a member of BEMA since 2014.  As I do with all members of BEMA we converse by telephone whenever possible.

Thank you for such outstanding work you’re doing for the Delta and Nigeria in planning, preparing, and responding to both man-made and natural disasters.

Special Offer: 

Because of your dedication I shall offer 2 FREE International\Lifetime\Nigeria membership to any of your coworkers that you recommend.

To stress the importance of us coming together for a common goal within the diaspora 2 FREE International\Lifetime memberships in BEMA will be offered to any member of disaster\emergency office\agency\ministry of the member nations of the Africa Union from November 11, 2016 to December 31, 2016.

Thank you for giving the incentive to evolve toward an African Descent NGO for humanitarian aid, disaster response, recovery, and self-sustainability for our communities.  Enough is enough.  The Time for Change is Now.

Ibarakumo, Peace be unto you and your family.

Charles

Charles D. Sharp Chief Executive Officer Black Emergency Managers Association
1231  Good Hope Road  S.E.
Washington, D.C.  20020
Office:   202-618-9097
bEMA

     

Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)

A 501 (c) 3 organization.

Community Colleges since the Great Recession. Tuesday, December 6, 2016 930-1100AM

HBCUs,,,,I can't recall if many have setup a pipeline for graduates of even a neighboring community college to attend your campuses with direct admission.

Basic, simple AA degrees should get others in.  Also has been an issue with transfer of credits from one institution to another.  Interesting.

BEMA

Urban Institute Events

Community Colleges since the Great Recession Tuesday, December 6, 2016, 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Breakfast will be available at 9:00 a.m. Urban Institute 2100 M Street NW, 5th floor Washington, DC 20037   Community colleges, which enroll more than 40 percent of postsecondary students, continue to gain prominence in discussions of public policies for higher education and job training. In 2010, the federal government invested $2 billion in nearly two-thirds of the nation’s community colleges to build capacity and spur innovation in job training. Proposals for free tuition at community colleges have gained national attention. A significant share of the Pell grant expansion has benefited community college students. Community colleges serve large numbers of academically underprepared students with fewer resources than any other sector of higher education. This has exacerbated their challenges in increasing completion rates and meeting industry needs. This panel will focus on the emerging issues facing community colleges since the Great Recession. The discussion will highlight variation among institutions and differences across state systems, along with tested policy and institutional solutions that bolster student success and economic development. Panelists will discuss findings from two new Urban Institute briefs. REGISTER HERE Registration is required to attend this event.  Speakers include:  David Baime, senior vice president for government relations and policy analysis, American Association of Community Colleges Sandy Baum, senior fellow, Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute Lauren Eyster, senior research associate, Income and Benefits Policy Center, Urban Institute Dan Phelan, president, Jackson College David Wessel, director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy; senior fellow in Economic Studies, Brookings Institution (moderator) Breakfast will be available at 9:00 a.m. The program will begin promptly at 9:30 a.m. For inquiries regarding this event, please contact events@urban.org.

Preview. Weds, 11/09/2016. ‘Black America Since MLK, And Still I Rise’

"We have to come together within the diaspora to heal our trauma to make the evolutionary jump to the next phase of our developement within the U.S., Caribbean, Africa, and throughout the diaspora.  To come together with one loud voice to say , NO MORE".  Can we come together as one?      CDS. 

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 during my recovery from the recent Presidential Election while in the BEMA office I had the unique opportunity of attending the preview screening of ‘Black America Since MLK, And Still I Rise’, a new documentary by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. co-produced by WETA and Premiers November 15 & 22 at 8 p.p. on your local PBS station.  (http://www.pbs.org/video/2365856620/  )

The Black Emergency Managers Association (BEMA) office is located in one of the areas still containing a majority of black community residents, and organizations within South East Washington, D.C.  Our office location is shared with other black small businesses from practically each blue and white collar professions in or community co-located in the Anacostia Arts Center on Good Hope Road, S.E. 

Being located in this community, and at the Anacostia Arts Center has given me the opportunity to experience all aspects of life in our communities.  As a Washingtonian I have seen the progress and setbacks in our communities from the demonstration marches for equality and riots of the 60’s following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King as a child.  The Vietnam War protests in the late 60’s and early 70’s.  The introduction of psychotropic drugs, mass usage of heroin, angel dust, cocaine and crack cocaine that flooded and destroyed multiple generations within our communities.  The mass exodus of families from the inner city area to the suburbs of Maryland and Virginia seeking better schools, homes, and job.

Please schedule a time to view the airing of this documentary, or record and view at a later time with family and friends.  Consider how far we have come in the last 50 to 60 years. 

Have we evolved and made the evolutional jump to take us to the next phase of our development socially, politically, and financially? 

Have we taken 5-steps forward only to simply to take 7-steps back. 

Other questions will arise as you view this documentary.  For we have to plan, and prepare individually, for our families, and our communities.  Something we may have lost.

Think of BEMA, Black Lives Matter, the Black Panther Party and why each has a unique goal of bringing our communities together to address an old unresolved issue, current issues, and issues in the future.

Peace be unto each of you, and your families.

Sincerely,

Charles D. Sharp

Charles D. Sharp Chief Executive Officer Black Emergency Managers Association
1231  Good Hope Road  S.E.
Washington, D.C.  20020
Office:   202-618-9097
bEMA

     

Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)

A 501 (c) 3 organization.

OCHA HAITI: Hurricane Matthew Situation Report No. 20 and infographics

OCHA Haiti, Situation Report No. 20, Humanitarian Snapshot and Humanitarian Funding Update

Dear partners,

Please click here to view OCHA Haiti Situation Report No. 20 as of 08 November 2016, as well as two infographics: Humanitarian Snapshot and Humanitarian Funding Update.

Situation Report Main Points

• Of the 806,000 affected people who are at the “extreme level” of food insecurity, 426,000 people (or 53 per cent) have so far received food assistance.
• Continued security incidents targeting convoys of humanitarian supplies hinder the much needed delivery of assistance.
• During the reporting period, heavy rains in the departments of Grand’Anse, Nord-Est, and Nord led to the death of 10 people (Three women, four men, and three children). Three others are wounded and one is missing.
• With crop loss reaching a staggering 80 to 100  per cent in parts of the predominantly rural  areas, people’s food insecurity risks worsening  in the coming months if farming activities are  not urgently restored by mid-November.

Regards,
OCHA Haiti

I am truly honored to have met Dr. Garvey, and to have him as a contact on my cell phone to contact me 24/7 for any issues on disaster\emergency response for the islands or just to talk.

BEMA has given me the opportunity to meet interesting and historical figures from our culture, just as each of you are a part of history as members of BEMA.  Those that truly know me know that I’m not one to be a groupie, or awed by the presence of anyone in the limelight.  Except maybe …..(you figure it out).  It is a pleasure knowing Dr. Garvey and I fully support his efforts in vindicating his father Marcus.

Any petitions, additional information, or updates for pushing this thru will be forwarded.

Thanks

CDS

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/marcus-garveys-son-wants-president-obama-to-pardon-his-famous-father-time-is-running-out/2016/11/04/7d728aac-9e1b-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

Marcus Garvey’s son wants President Obama to pardon his famous father. Time is running out.

Julius Garvey, son of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, strolls the New York City park named after his famous father. (Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)

Julius Garvey, the son of black nationalist Marcus Garvey, is pacing the lobby of a Washington hotel. His collar is starched. His glasses polished. He holds a stack of fliers displaying photos of his famous father under a headline that reads, “The Exoneration of Marcus Garvey.”

Julius Garvey, an 83-year-old vascular surgeon, is on a mission to clear his father’s name, tarnished by a 1923 federal mail-fraud conviction that he believes was bogus. He wants the country’s first African American president to pardon the fiery founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Marcus Garvey, who died in 1940, led a “back to Africa” campaign that made him a seminal figure in the push for racial and economic justice for black people.

“My father was central to the civil rights movement in the early 20th century,” said Julius Garvey, who lives on Long Island. “His organization was the dominant civil rights organization. It shaped the thinking of that part of the century. It gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance. Black is beautiful — my father was the basis for that ideology.”

Marcus Garvey’s activism is chronicled in the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture. His son was among the 7,000 dignitaries, celebrities and elected officials who were invited to the museum’s opening, where President Obama spoke about the nation’s history of racial oppression.

The Obama administration rejected a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey five years ago. And Julius Garvey says he knows that time is running out, both for him and for Obama’s tenure in the White House.

“It’s urgent from the point of view of this president, because his term is up,” Garvey says. “The point is the injustice has been allowed to sit for [almost] 100 years. It is a continuing injustice that needs to be corrected.”

Marcus Mosiah Garvey was an immigrant from Jamaica who had already founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) when he arrived in the United States in 1916. Eventually, the UNIA claimed millions of members around the world — although those figures remain in dispute.

In 1918, Garvey established the Negro World newspaper and a year later bought an auditorium in Harlem. He called it Liberty Hall, where thousands flocked to hear him speak.

“Black people are subjects of ostracism,” Garvey said in 1921 to thunderous applause. “It is sad that our humanity has shown us no more love — no greater sympathy than we are experiencing. Whosesoever you go throughout the world, the black man is discarded as ostracized, as relegated to the lowest of things — social, political and economic.”

Garvey preached that the problem could be solved only through black pride and self-reliance.

In 1921, the UNIA elected Garvey “President of Africa.” In an iconic photo, Garvey and UNIA members marched through the streets of Harlem in military uniforms, carrying banners that read “We Want a Black Civilization.”

To ferry black people and cargo to Africa, Garvey launched a steamship line, which he called the Black Star Line. The company sold stock for $5 a share, allowing black people to own a piece of the steamship.

This sale, along with Garvey’s rhetoric and following, attracted government attention. Soon after World War I, Garvey was targeted by future FBI director J. Edgar Hoover — as part of a “lifelong obsession to neutralize the rise of a black liberator,” Julius Garvey said.

In documents released later, the FBI acknowledged that it began investigating Garvey to find reasons to “deport him as an undesirable alien.”

In 1921, Garvey’s steamship company announced to stockholders it would buy two more ships. But a competing newspaper published an investigative article claiming the U.S. Department of Commerce had no record of those ships.

Garvey, his treasurer and secretary were arrested and charged with using the Postal Service to defraud stockholders.

Garvey’s lawyer, William C. Matthews, urged him to plead guilty. Instead, Garvey fired Matthews and defended himself. On June 21, 1923, after a month-long trial in the Southern District of New York, Garvey was convicted of mail fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.

He had served nearly three years of that time when President Calvin Coolidge commuted Garvey’s sentence. Garvey was deported to Jamaica, where he is regarded as a national hero. He died in London in 1940.

“We believe Marcus Garvey was the subject of racial and political animus,” said Anthony T. Pierce, a partner at Akin Gump law firm, who filed the pardon petition with the Department of Justice and the office of the White House counsel. “Garvey was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover. He did it in the same way he targeted Martin Luther King several decades later. The main goal was to get evidence to deport Garvey, because he was a rabble-rouser and a political threat.”

The petition, filed June 27, 2016, argues that Garvey was innocent, that he did not receive a fair trial, that a witness perjured himself and that the judge sided with the prosecution.

A spokeswoman for the Justice Department, which analyzes pardon requests, said she could “confirm that the department has received a petition but cannot comment beyond that.”

Julius Garvey wants his father’s name cleared before he dies. (Yana Paskova/For The Washington Post)

Julius Garvey was 7 years old when his father died. By then, an ocean separated them. His most vivid memory is throwing snowballs in his dad’s backyard in Britain.

Julius and his older brother, Marcus Garvey Jr., now 86 and an engineer living in Florida, grew up in Jamaica with their mother, Amy Jacques Garvey.

“My mom talked about the injustice done to my father,” Julius Garvey said.

It has always been difficult for him to reconcile his father’s conviction with “this great ideal of American justice,” he said. “That is still grievous. It scratches that area of me sensitive to social justice issues. This hits a nerve for me, because I’ve been conditioned about social justice all my life. I’m 83. I’d like to see this corrected in my lifetime.”