“It’s not just music. It’s a soundscape. It’s kind of like flying around listening to things with your eyes closed.” That’s how Neil Young describes his upcoming album during a recent onstage interview with director Cameron Crowefollowing the screening of Young’s 1982 film Human Highway in Los Angeles. Young’s new album will be his 37th overall and his second collaboration with the Promise of the Real featuring Willie Nelson’s sons, Micah and Lukas.A New Petition Asks Neil Young To Legally Change His Name To ‘Neil Old’“In critical other ways, it’s like nothing that I’ve done,” Young told Rolling Stone. “It’s more like a giant radio show. It has no stops. The songs are too long for iTunes, thank God, so they won’t be on iTunes. I’m making it available in the formats that can handle it.” The new album Young says will be both a “continuation of what began with The Monsanto Years and a new creative path.”moe. Brings Out Willie Nelson’s Son For Neil Young Cover At The Capitol Theatre {Watch}In other news, Young also commented on the candidacy of of businessman Donald Trump during his conversation with Crowe. He says, “What’s going on these days is very much like Human Highway. Everybody’s not paying attention to what’s going on and they’re just living their own lives — maybe talking about [the election] as something to talk about. I support Bernie Sanders but I’m Canadian.” Read the entire interview with Young at Rolling Stone here.Neil Young’s new album with the Promise of the Real is set for a June release. Stay tuned for more details. read more
11 CARICOM countries targeted by US State Department for their role in human trafficking.BRIDGETOWN, Barbados– Barbados is among five CARICOM territories that are raising red flags within the United States Department of State for their failures to advance further in the fight against human trafficking.According to the department’s 2012 Trafficking in Person’s Report, which was released on Tuesday (June 19), Barbados, Haiti, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Jamaica are on the “Tier 2 Watch List”. This list is reserved for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. However, the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing; there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; or the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring itself into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year.This is in contrast with ordinary “Tier 2” countries such as Antigua and Barbuda, Belize, Guyana St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago, whose governments were deemed to not have fully complied with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but were making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.In fact Barbados was judged to have been in danger of slipping down to “Tier 3” status, that is, countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so.According to the report, Barbados is placed on Tier 2 Watch List for a third consecutive year. Barbados was granted a waiver of an otherwise required downgrade to Tier 3 because its government has developed a written plan that, if implemented, would constitute significant efforts to meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is devoting sufficient resources to implement that plan.The report described Antigua and Barbuda as a destination and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour. The Bahamas, Belize, Haiti, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago were characterised as destination, source, and transit countries for men, women, and children subjected to forced labour and sex trafficking. Barbados and Guyana were described as source and destination countries for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labour. While St. Lucia was deemed to be a destination country for persons subjected to forced prostitution and forced labour.Caribbean 360 News Tweet Share 78 Views no discussions NewsRegional U.S officials claim human trafficking still active in some CARICOM countries by: – June 22, 2012 Sharing is caring! Share Share read more
Kolkata, Jul 23 (PTI) The Eastern India Motion Picture Association (EIMPA), an organisation of film producers and distributors, has withdrawn its call for a token strike in studios across West Bengal on July 25.The strike call had been given in protest against alleged disruption in outdoor shooting of films, including abroad.”In view of the discussion by members in the Emergent Meeting of Executive Committee held on 22nd July, 2017, which was also attended by the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Producers Section….the proposed Bandh call on 25th July, 2017 is called off, ” EIMPA Secretary Asish Banerjee said in a signed statement today.The decision was prompted by “the gesture shown by Honble minister Aroop Biswas to defuse the present crisis faced by our film industry,” Banerjee said.Biswas is PWD and Youth Services and Sports minister of the state.EIMPA had called the strike in protest against disruption of outdoor shooting of films of production houses like Eskay Movies Chalbaaz in the UK allegedly at the behest of some members of Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India.The Federation maintained it had only asked production houses to take the “required number of card-holder technicians” for the shoot and also sent a mail to EIMPA explaining its position on July 15, the day the strike call had been given.Big time Bengali film producer Rana Sarkar termed EIMPAs decision to withdraw the strike call as a “positive step.” PTI SUS NN read more