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Hewitt's reflections on Windrush Scandal

May 20, 2021
Although unknown as a campaign strategist in Barbados, Guy Hewitt is no political neophyte. He spoke to
Barbados TODAY on his leadership in the Windrush scandal that garnered him international recognition.
Hewitt explained that the Windrush scandal was a consequence of the 2012 ill-conceived British immigration policy “to create a really hostile environment for illegal immigrants”. He explained that the outcome of this was that many “elderly, West Indian-born, long-term residents in Britain got shut out of the system.”
Due to a lack of documentation to confirm their status, these Caribbean-born migrants, many Barbadian, were denied the right to work, denied access to their bank accounts, and denied healthcare and other state benefits. The real tragedy was that these undocumented, elderly persons were “not treated as anomalies to be regularised” but as Hewitt explained, as “illegal immigrants”. ....

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Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds

Language, Landscape and Our World of Many Worlds
27/12/2020
A view of Svalbard from Earth orbit. Photo: Google Earth.
“In our faith there is no heaven or hell,” spoke Mayalmit Lepcha in the Janata Parliament – an Indian people’s parliament which happened online this year, on account of COVID-19. Her network is spotty. She’s in the mountains. I listen hard and try to piece together what she’s saying. Mayalmit is from the Lepcha tribe in North Sikkim, and she is among the people on the ground fighting the Teesta dam project in her state. In the virtual parliament she explains how the successive damming of her community’s waterways has displaced her people and decimated her forests. ....

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