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Newport Daily News
NEWPORT A condominium constructed in the original ballroom of Bonniecrest mansion sold recently for $3 million. The mansion was designed in 1912 by John Russel Pope for Stuart Duncan, who was the president of the Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce Company.
The home boasts high beamed ceilings throughout, a stone patio and sweeping windows in the great room that look out over the bay, with views of the Newport Pell Bridge.
Real Estate agent Chad Kritzas at Home Smart Real Estate said he s never seen a property of this magnitude within the city limits of Newport. I would argue it s probably one of the coolest units in the state of Rhode Island. It comes out onto a private patio and it s just, you can sit on the patio and just stare out at the harbor. The boats are all moored out in front of you, and Fort Adams. The Folk Fest and the Jazz Fest are literally right in front of you, he said.
A Tale of Two Flags
The two flags of New York City: one showing the 1664 date honoring when the British took the city, which Paul O’Dwyer fought to change to 1625, reglected in the second and current flag. By Irish America Staff
Back in 1974, City Council President Paul O’Dwyer introduced a bill that would change the date on the New York’s flag and seal from 1664 to 1625. The move was an effort to set history straight and to recognize the city’s Dutch heritage on the 700th anniversary of the founding of the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
by Yves Engler / February 21st, 2021
Recent media reports of a Haitian official stashing wealth in Montréal property ignore a key element of the story: Canada’s contribution to enabling Haitian corruption.
As a neo-Duvalierist regime becomes ever more dictatorial it’s also worth revisiting Canada’s history in facilitating fraud and money laundering in the hemisphere’s most impoverished nation.
Recently
La Presse reported that the wife of a governing party senator, who works at the Haitian consulate in Montréal, purchased a mansion in Laval. The story reported, “as the political crisis bogs down in Haiti, the wife of a senator belonging to the party of the contested president, Jovenel Moïse, has just bought a sumptuous $ 4.25 million villa in Laval, attracting a flood of criticism from Montreal to Port-au-Prince. The new property was paid off in full in one fell swoop, without a mortgage, and without their other house being sold, according to the Land Registry.” Tw