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Canada fights wedding fraud abroad

By Susan Bourette | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, from the July 8, 2008 edition

Correspondent Susan Bourette talks about Canadian efforts to stop phony weddings to foreigners.


Toronto - Shah Moayedi called the police, fearing the worst when his wife vanished. Officers turned up a telling piece of evidence of a crime: A note in his wife's handwriting, saying that she was sorry for leaving him. She said Mr. Moayedi was a nice person but she was expecting something more when she married him two months earlier in Cuba.

The crime? Marriage fraud. She used him to get into Canada.

"I thought she was my soul mate, the only person in the world for me," the Canadian airport baggage handler says today, two years after his Cuban wife left him. "But not only did she defraud the government, she defrauded me, playing with my emotions. It's humiliating."

 

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US Jubilee Act rewards past African leaders reckless behavior

 

Lagos, Nigeria, July 7, Ghanadot -  Ahead of the G-8 meeting in Japan, we theundersigned write to announce our opposition to H.R. 2634, Jubilee Act forResponsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation of 2007. ......  More

  CPP’s campaign moves into higher gear as party starts massive membership drive

Accra, July 7, Ghanadot/GNA - The Convention People’s Party’s (CPP) national campaign moves into higher gear, as the party plans to get its “legendary organization magic” firmly rooted by the middle of September in preparation for a massive national rally to be held on Sunday September 21st, 2008, the birth date of Dr Kwame Nkrumah.
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Response to "Unconditional Debt Relief is Not the Answer for Africa's Development"

Washington, July 7, Ghanadot - Franklin Cudjoe’s recent editorial denouncing the Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt Cancellation (“To Washington Legislators: Unconditional Debt Relief is Not the Answer for Africa's Development,” July 6) seems to pull information ....More
  APRM centre of excellence to be established in Ghana

Accra, July 7, Ghanadot/GNA – Ghana is to host an African Peer Review Mechanism centre of excellence to enhance the concept of good governance in the sub-region..
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