High Commissioner, Carla Hogan Rufelds, and others laid wreaths at the grave stones of six fallen Canadian servicemen who served in World War II, four in the Canadian Armed Forces and two in the British Armed Forces.

Each year on November 11, Canadians pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and women who have served, and continue to serve their country during times of war, conflict and peace, said an embassy statement. More than 2.3 million Canadians have served, and more than 118,000 have died, sacrificing their lives so that all may live in peace.

“By remembering their service and their sacrifice, we recognise the tradition of freedom these men and women fought to preserve,” said Hogan Rufelds in her address.

“They believed that their actions in the present would make a significant difference for the future, but it is up to us to ensure that their dream of peace is realised.

On Remembrance Day, we acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of those who served their country and acknowledge our responsibility to work for the peace they fought hard to achieve.” Her Excellency was joined by Major Damien Phillips of the TT Defence Force, local diplomats from other Commonwealth countries, Roanna Gopaul of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maple Leaf School pupils and other guests.

The global unemployment figure currently stands at 201 million.

This was revealed by Claudia Coenjaerts, director of the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean at the Employers Solution Centre (ESC). ESC is a subsidiary of the Employers’ Consultative Association (ECA) of Trinidad and Tobago.

Coenjaerts told the group of International Relation and Human Resource specialists among others gathered at the Hyatt Regency Trinidad, Friday, “The state of employment is not too great.

According to our most recent ILO report there are 201 million people without work. By 2019 this number could rise to 212.” The two-day symposium entitled “Preparing for the Road Ahead-Retooling strategy” saw a number of speakers among them former Finance Minister Mariano Browne, Former Oilfield Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) Secretary General David Abdullah among others.

She said over 60 percent of workers globally had any kind of employment contract. Less than 45 percent of wage and salaried workers, she added, are employed on a full time permanent basis and even that was declining.

By 2030, the world would need to create 600 million jobs just to keep pace with the age of the working age population, she said.

Coenjaerts said 2016 saw 8,000 jobs losses in TT alone.

The rise in non-standard forms of employment led to greater job insecurity and poses challenges to companies.

She added that the lack of data with respect to job creation was missing from an informed analysis of the jobs needed by 2020 or 2030. She said the situation and prospects around the world of work, “leaves us worried.” She said while the Government was worried about fiscal sustainability, it was important that the rise in unemployment was dealt with so that there is not too much setback in efforts at poverty reduction. “It is important that we prevent too high a human cost of the recession already taking place. As this would certainly in turn have an impact in the economy and in your enterprise,” she said.

In a report prepared by Dr Andre Vincent entitled The Big Picture: An Analysis of the Industrial Relations Climate, 2006- 206, he noted that there had been a decline in industrial dispute from 2013 to 2015 but that industrial disputes had begun to trend upward again in 2016

Sir Hilary’s call came in the wake of Jamaica’s National Heroes Week, the annual celebration of the country’s heroes and martyrs, held last week. It also came at a time when countries and communities in the Caribbean and across the world are observing the United Nations’ declared ‘Decade for People of African Descent’. “Marcus Garvey was the victim of trumped up charges orchestrated by the late J Edgar Hoover, the famously anti-black director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation,” said Sir Hilary.

“We are calling on President Obama, himself the victim of racist campaigns to de-legitimise his presidency, to exonerate Garvey before he leaves office. It is the right and proper thing to do.” A global petition campaign demanding that Garvey’s federal record be expunged has generated tens of thousands of signatures. The campaign is supported by the Jamaican Government, the Caribbean Reparations Commission, the Institute of the Black World 21st Century and members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the US House of Representatives.

“Garvey’s call for the upliftment of all Caribbean citizens through education and political engagement constitutes a critical part of the ideological and philosophical currents that gave birth to The University of the West Indies almost 70 years ago,” said Sir Hilary.

“The UWI’s mission and mandate is a manifestation of Garvey’s struggles for quality education for the masses of Caribbean peoples.

Jorsling opened his account from the penalty spot before ending with two goals on either side of the half, while Dylon King and substitute Marvin Lee each had a goal in the second period for Rangers.

Ma Pau Stars also progressed to the November 22 semi-finals by ousting First Citizens Cup holders W Connection 3-0 in a penalty shootout following a goalless draw in the second game of the quarter-final round double- header at the Couva venue. Defence Force, champions in 2002 and 2009, must await the outcome of yesterday’s quarter- final clash between Central FC and Morvant Caledonia United from 3.30 pm at the Morvant Recreation Ground to know their semi-final opponents, while Ma Pau Stars advances to face the winners between Point Fortin Civic and Police, who face each other in the final quarter-final contest today from 6 pm at the Ato Boldon Stadium.

Jorsling handed Defence Force a 1-0 lead from the penalty spot on 11 minutes when he sent Rangers goalkeeper Cleon John the wrong way after referee Cecile Hinds ruled a handball against Sedale Mc Lean inside the area.

Jorsling, a former Pro League Player of the Year and multiple-time Golden Boot winner, made it 2-0 in the 19th minute with a sweet left-footed volley off a right side Curtis Gonzales cross, and increased his side’s lead to 3-0 five minutes inside the second after he was picked out in the area by a short Gonzales pass.

Rangers, who were lucky not to concede when Thurlani George rattled John’s crossbar on the half hour mark, managed to pull back two goals in the second half following improved play with King hitting past goalkeeper Sheldon Clarke from above the area in the 53rd minute and substitute Lee — less than a minute on — hammering his effort into the roof of the Army net on 72 minutes from a corner.

But Jorsling quelled Rangers’ comeback attempt six minutes. After collecting a pass inside the area, Jorsling steered the ball past ‘keeper John for his fourth and a 4-2 finish in favour of Defence Force, who had edged Club Sando 1-0 last Tuesday in the playoffs.

W Connection, in the second quarter-final on the night, were a wellgelled unit, led by experienced attacking midfielders Andre Toussaint and Hughtun Hector, but poor finishing saw the seven-time former First Citizens Cup champions bow out.

Literally, Connection had camped in the Ma Pau Stars’ half in the first period and had clear-cut second half misses from Kevon Goddard, Jabari Mitchell and Toussaint, while the Stars had left it for late, really flaring up near the end following the arrival of Anthony Wolfe, Kerry Baptiste and Carlos Edwards off the bench to compliment former Connection forward Jerrel Britto.

But after both sides failed to find a winner in regular time, it was down to the penalty shootout in which Connection were still unable to find their scoring boots.

Meanwhile Stars’ goalkeeper Glenroy Samuel, picking up where he left off with three saves in a 3-1 penalty shootout win over San Juan Jabloteh in the play-offs last Tuesday, gave Ma Pau the early advantage by denying Hector on the first kick.

Connection’s miseries grew by every kick from the spot with Baptiste, Edwards and Hayden Tinto, in that order, all clinical against Savonetta Boys goalkeeper Terrence Lewis, whose teammates Alvin Jones and Kurt Frederick struck the post from the spot.

Julien who broke the 50m back record on both Thursday and Friday sped to the wall in one minute 3.74 seconds to erase the 1993 100m backstroke open record of Sangeeta Puri of 1:04.68. This was just one of few national records that fell during Day Three, in what is proving to be a very fast National Aquatic Centre.

Amira Pilgrim won the open female 50m butterfly in 28.35 ahead of Julien (28.43). Pilgrim in the process erased her own 15-17 record of 28.51 which she set in July. The UTT athlete also went on to win the gold in the 50m breaststroke in a time of 34.46 Jeron Thompson of Atlantis Aquatics got to an early start breaking the 50m breaststroke 15-17 mark in the morning prelims with a time of 28.66. In his silver medal finish in the afternoon finals session, Thompson set the bar higher for himself and future age groupers with a 28.32 clocking.

The old 15-17 record was held by his teammate Abraham Mc- Leod in 28.76. McLeod, now 24, won the open race in 27.49. Thompson also got a bronze on the night in the 50m butterfly in 25.68.

In Thompson-like fashion, Zarek Wilson broke the 9-10 record in the 100m freestyle male in both the prelims and finals. The Blue Dolphins athlete clocked 1:01.96 in the preliminaries – lowering his previous time of 1:02.37 – and further improved with a gold medal winning 1:00.18 in the final.

Jada Chatoor of Marlins won gold in the 400m Individual Medley in a new meet record of 5:19.86 surpassing the old time of Sabrina David of 5:21.18.

The 23-man squad left Trinidad on Saturday evening to Panama where the entire contingent spent the night at the Riande Aeropuerto Hotel before connecting to San Pedro Sula yesterday morning.

Coach Stephen Hart and his squad remain in positive spirits despite going down 2-0 to Costa Rica on Friday night at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo.

“Well it’s the first game out of the way and while there was an obvious disappointment in the squad with the loss, once it has sunk in now, you pick yourselves up and start looking ahead and planning for the next match (against) Honduras with a clearer mindset,” Hart said.

“As a team we have travelled and played back to back, so it’s a situation where we begin to refocus. We have a good idea of what the Honduras team is like, particularly at home and we will prepare the squad for this type of challenge. First thing will be to settle in there as we arrive and then get in a good session or two before the match,” Hart added.

Honduras lost their opening game 1-0 to Panama on Friday.

Kick off time tomorrow is 4.05 pm (6.05 pm TT time).

The match stadium has a capacity of 37,325. The last time TT played a World Cup qualifier here was in 2009 in the Final Round of the 2010 qualification campaign, losing the match 4-1.

In the South Zone, defending national champions Naparima will face Presentation San Fernando while 2016 Premiership winners Shiva Boys will tackle Fyzabad.

And, in the sister isle, Speyside will oppose Goodwood and Mason Hall will square off against Signal Hill.

In related news, St Mary’s booked a spot in Wednesday’s North Zone semis with a 6-1 trouncing of Malick at the Fatima Ground.

Khan, who has been one of TT ’s top bowlers over the past few seasons, showed up again yesterday finishing with figures of five wickets for 81 runs off 26.2 overs. Khan’s spell dismissed the Volcanoes for 254 in their second innings, which gave the visitors an overall lead of 154 runs.

Chasing 155 for victory the Red Force got to 88 for one at the tea break last night, 67 runs away from victory.

Led by 65 from Shane Shillingford the Volcanoes showed some determination after starting the day on 135/4 in the second innings.

After Khan removed overnight batsman Sunil Ambris for 43 and Liam Sebastien for his second duck of the match in the same over, Shillingford took the attack to the TT bowlers. Shillingford and Kavem Hodge combined for a 21-run seventh wicket partnership before Khan took his third wicket of the day and fourth for the innings when he trapped Hodge leg before for 16. The Windwards were now 193/7.

Shillingford found an able partner in Mervin Matthew as the pair showed grit in a 49-run partnership.

While Matthew was contented to play the supporting role Shillingford destroyed Jon-Russ Jagessar, hitting the off-spinner for two sixes and one four in the same over as he raced into the 40s. The first four was through mid wicket followed by a six over long off and another six over mid wicket.

Khan was not speared the brunt of Shillingford’s bat as he slammed Khan for a straight six after bringing up his half century.

The Volcanoes pair seemed to be taking their team to the dinner break without any further damage but Red Force captain Yannick Ottley broke the stand when Matthew found the edge and wicketkeeper Steven Katwaroo held on to the catch. The Windwards went to the break on 242/8, a lead of 142 runs.

The Volcanoes did not last long after the break. Delorn Johnson, who scored a vital 38 in the first innings, could not deliver on this occasion as he was leg before for two off Jagessar. Shillingford, struck Khan for a six over long on, but going for another big shot was bowled for 65 by Khan to give the leg spinner his fifth wicket of the innings. Shillingford faced 99 deliveries lashing three fours and five sixes.

Red Force openers Kyle Hope and Jeremy Solozano gave the home team a solid start putting on 61 for the first wicket. Solozano, who batted patiently in the first innings, was more positive before he was leg before to Shillingford for 19. Kyle Hope, who scored 56 in the first innings, attacked the Volcanoes bowlers bringing up his 50 just before the tea break. At the interval Hope was unbeaten on 51 and Yannic Cariah 12 not out.

And his pioneering brass band has carved an unrivalled niche on the country’s cultural landscape.

Now, Dr Roy Cape wants to give back.

“After many years of being a bandleader and playing music all over the world, I have decided to make the transition from the stage and to shift gear into another aspect of music activity,” Cape said last Thursday as he launched The Right Tunes Initiative at the East Port-of-Spain Regional Complex, East Dry River, Port-of-Spain.

A six-month pilot project, which seeks to use music as a means of reducing crime and delinquency among the youth in Laventille and its environs, the legendary musician said he was excited about the initiative – a collaboration between his newly-formed Roy Cape Foundation and the Ministry of National Security.

Cape also presented the ministry with a set of percussive and brass instruments during the event.

Cape, who was born in Laventille, said he was especially glad that the initiative was launched at the East Port-of-Spain Regional Complex, the stomping ground of the iconic Desperadoes Steel Orchestra.

He described The Right Tunes as “historic,” saying the people Laventille have long experienced the transformative power of music.

“Whenever Desperadoes won a Panorama title, everybody on the ‘Hill’ grew two feet taller and that is why I feel so passionate about the reason why we are here today (Thursday) on this spot in the heart of Laventille where some of the greatest steelband musicians once stood,” he told guests, who included National Security Minister Edmund Dillon, Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams and Brigadier General Rodney Smart, head of the TT Defence Force.

“As a matter of fact, I think this is a fitting venue on which to launch a programme of this nature and to be speaking about the importance of music education.” Cape said the initiative was not simply an artistic activity but also a training ground for developing other skills: teamwork, co-operation, patience.

“Music increases the capacity of your memory, sharpens your concentration, teaches you discipline and helps build yourself – confidence and self-esteem,” he said.

A highly-respected man in the entertainment fraternity, Cape had first approached National Security Minister Edmund Dillon about wanting to give back during an instalment of the Laventille Nights community series, hosted by i95.5FM and the Ministry of National Security, some months ago.

The series brought together residents of the troubled area and others who had distinguished themselves in various fields.

Cape said the Foundation was born with this intention in mind. And he has vowed to use his God-given talents to effect much-needed change in the community “My love for music will never die and that is what I together with a few of my family and friends have formed ourselves into the Roy Cape Foundation with the objective of developing and supporting music education projects throughout Trinidad and Tobago – to use music to enrich the lives of at-risk youth in particular,” he said.

The pint-sized musician, who was bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies in October 2011, revealed the Foundation was currently building its organisational capacity by establishing relationships with international agencies and strengthening ties with other local, like-minded organisations.

“At the appropriate time you will hear from us,” he told the audience.

Cape, or Pappy, as he is sometimes fondly referred, has been a musician for more than five decades.

He attended Laventille RC School and often locked horns with his Grenadian-born mother who scoffed at his early interest in playing pan. “She wanted no part of that,” he recalled. She got him into Rosary Boys’ RC School, believing that the change in atmosphere would curb his appetite for the steel pan. Her plan backfired, though, as Cape still had to pass several panyards, including Renegades, en route to his home But Cape admitted he also was a trouble-maker in his youth, which, ironically, worked in his favour.

“I was behaving out of hand and I ran away from home and when my mother got hold of me…..

they gave me a choice – to go Grenada by my grandmother or the orphanage in Trinidad and I choose the Belmont orphanage in Trinidad,” he said.

It was at the Belmont Orphanage that Cape learnt to play several instruments, including the saxophone, for which he is revered.

The musician laughed when he reflected on his rebellious years and how the orphanage completely transformed his life. He told the audience: “In the early days (at the orphanage) it was very difficult to understand and I was angry with everybody but the more I spent time in the institution, I realised that we were being developed for when we leave the institution.

“So, I requested to be in the band. I was also a tailor, I was a barber, I acted, I sing because I realised that as much as I can do, I will have the backing of the authority of the institution,” he added. During his years at the orphanage, which lasted from 1954 to 1958, Cape returned to Laventille.

He first played with Frankie Francis, whom he regarded as a national treasure, and later, Clarence Curvan, who was, at one time, TT ’s youngest bandleader.

Cape also performed with ace trumpeter Ron Berridge, who worked on three consecutive albums for late calypsonian Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts) during the late 1960s.

“In those days you would never get one arranger arranging for Sparrow and Kitchener.

The dreadlocked saxophonist also was a founding member of the now disbanded Sparrow Troubadours before he opted to develop his career in North America.

He initially regarded the experience in New York City as perhaps the most horrifying of his life.

Said Cape: “My experience there was not all that pleasant because I had to go out and work eight to four, Monday to Friday, and take three trains, which I never had to do in Trinidad.” However, Cape said on closer reflection, the experience “allowed me to be a man.” Proud of the contribution he has made to local culture, Cape said while he was not a wealthy man, “the feeling I get from people makes me feel rich.” He regarded Destra, another product of Laventille, as one of his outstanding prot?g?s.

Cape recalled that he was introduced to Destra in 2000 but felt that the band, Roy Cape All Stars, was not in need of a female vocalist at that time.

CONSPIRACY theorists have accused The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Pharmaceutical Industry, of collusion and material exploitation of a generally unsuspecting public.

They charge that as drug prices skyrocketed by 5,000 percent in the past year the cure rate for cancer is mired in single digits. Alternative, holistic therapies are denounced by these giant corporations as the lust for money goes unchecked. It’s an unforgiving betrayal of trust, according to these theorists. But there is another group that has denounced modern medicine. They are practitioners of Johrei, a Japanese healing modality.

Its founder, Meishu-Sama (1882-1955), also known as Okichi Mokada, blames ignorance, not greed, for the confusion surrounding medicine.

Said to have garnered the art of Johrei through divine revelation, Meishu- Sama is spoken of in hagiographic terms and is widely popular in Japan and Brazil. He is author of Goshinsho: Revolution in Medical Science, a revealing work that claims that contemporary medicine will never solve the pathologies that plague humankind.

He is detailed and at times repetitious as he attempts to devalue longheld beliefs. His is a call for reason.

He writes: “Medical science should exist to help humans achieve long life, but instead [it] is preventing humans from being healthy, resulting in shortened life expectancy.” Laboured and esoteric at times, he presents a compelling but admittedly controversial case.

He explains that diseases are caused by three toxins: innate or inherited toxins; uremic toxins or excessive urine caused by weakened kidney function; and medicinal toxins that cause fevers, pains, itchiness, diarrhoea, vomiting , paralysis and discomfort.

Overall, he is thought provoking. “People learn as common sense,” he pens, “that medicine supports health,” [but] “if medicine can cure disease, the number of cases should decrease.” He contends that medicine is a foreign material so only the nutrients contained in it can be absorbed while the rest remains intact creating potential problems.

He uses fever to best exemplify his position: “The higher the amount of medicinal toxins in your system, the higher your fever becomes [so] if you never took medicine you would never develop a fever.” In other words, without medicine the body naturally purifies or heals itself from invading toxins. This period of discomfort is called purification action where toxins in the blood gather and later hardens in particular areas of the body.

Of the common cold and purification action, he writes, “While modern medical science has not yet found the real cause of a cold…it is actually the one of the most simple purification action [and] if left to run its course, without taking any medicine or receiving any treatment, the purification will proceed naturally… and the symptoms will disappear…By taking medicine to “cure” a cold, the purification action is stopped, but the toxins become solid again, only giving an illusion of a cure.” Meishu-Sama, though, advocates cleansing or removal of toxins at their root or spiritual level. All toxins first appear in the spiritual body only to manifest in the physical body. Thus, treating the physical body only masks festering problems that are never truly eradicated.

It follows that “the spiritual way of healing must be the true way to cure disease.” But this direct, understandable pronouncement surrenders to more complex analyses.

“First and foremost,” he writes, “it is universal law that all phenomena in the visible world have already been generated and undergone movement in the spiritual world.” He is analogous in his argument: “This can be likened to when a human first thinks about moving his hands or feet, and then actual moves them.” He presses his case: “It is for this reason [ignoring the spiritual basis of ailments] that advances in culture have not been followed by improved human welfare.” In this revolutionary treatise, Meishu-Sama acknowledges that “modern science has finally discovered that all living creatures, mineral substances, plants, and so forth, give off a kind of radiation [but] radiation emitted from the human body is the highest level among all creatures.” This element exuded by humans is more diluted and therefore difficult to perceive. “It is therefore easier for us to detect the radium in minerals or the phosphorous in plants as these have a lower level of spirit than humans,” he states.

Notably, not every human emits the same degree of radiation, and, by reason, the stronger the radiation, the stronger the the greater the capacity to heal. The actual healing process is described as uneventful as the Johrei practitioner faces the patient and directs ‘divine light’ through the palms. Today, thousands practice Johrei daily as a preventative measure against disease as a whole.

Meshu-Sama’s claim of ‘divine light’ is supported in a 2010 article featured in International Journal of Behavioural Science.

The study, “Biofield Therapies: Helpful of Full of Hype? A Best Evidence Synthesis,” concluded that there is evidence that biofield therapies (of which Johrei is included) reduce pain intensity in hospitalised and cancer patients; and decrease negative behavioural symptoms in dementia and anxiety.

Clearly, it appears that the efficacy of Johrei is undeniable as doctors in the United Kingdom, Japan and the National Institute of Health in he US have begun clinical trials to understand this phenomenon.

The extent to which Goshinsho: The Revolution in Medical Science becomes a standard text for philosophical and practical use is indeterminable.

What is certain is that practitioners of Johrei are unified in their testament that Meishu- Sama’s writings hold the key to good heath and happiness.

Feedback: glenvilleashby@ gmail.com or follow him on Twitter@glenvilleashby Goshinsho: Revolution in Medical Science, 2016 (2nd edition translation) Author: Mokichi Okada For more information: usa@tenseishinbikai.com Ratings: Interesting read