07/19/11 The Raw Port Chester News Feed: Firefighters Quickly Douse Junkyard Blaze

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Firefighters Quickly Douse Junkyard Blaze Patch.com The Port Chester Fire Department responded at 12:04 pm to Miller's Scrap Iron and Metal Co. on Traverse Avenue. Police bike Officer Tom Krempa was patrolling the nearby PetCo parking lot when he saw smoke rising from the direction of the junkyard and ... Port Chester Man Faces Charges, ICE Detainer After Fleeing Crash Patch.com A 24-year-old Port Chester man was driving without a license when his BMW collided with another car last week, according to Greenwich police. Jose R. Flores was arrested Thursday after the crash, in which his car landed on a Byram River bank short of ...

Police blotter: Man charged in home invasion faces new charges Greenwich Time Wickey Guy Austin McGhee, 46, of Parker St., Apt. 4A, Port Chester, NY, held in custody since his June arrest on home invasion charges, faced additional charges Monday in connection with 13 vehicle burglaries in Byram between April 21 and June 16. ...

Westport dining scene sizzles: Batali, Meyer restaurants open this week Westport-News "We hope that people respond to our venue and dining experience the way they have to the Port Chester [NY] Tarry Lodge." Selzer declined to specify which day the restaurant would open, but said patrons can begin making reservations on Tuesday. ...

About Town: Events In and Around Rye Patch.com Rye Town Park Commission will meet at 6 pm at Rye Town Hall, 10 Pearl St., Port Chester, to discuss, among other things, the mounting weather-related losses at the park as well as the latest on the RFP (request for proposal) on automated parking and ...

K-Staters: Goal is to win every game Abilene Recorder Chronicle Henriquez is from Port Chester, NY, and is the son of Anthony Roberts and Lisa Henriquez. He dropped the Henriquez-Roberts to just Henriquez this season. He is majoring in social science. "When I came to K-State I got introduced to Scott Greenwalt," he ...

5 Things All About Westport: July 19 Patch.com Mario Batali's Tarry Lodge Enoteca and Pizzeria — the new sister restaurant to Tarry Lodge in Port Chester, NY — is reportedly opening tonight in Westport at 30 Charles Street, according to local reports. No clue if you'll be able to get a table but ...

Local Theater: 'Bye, Bye Birdie' Slated for This Weekend Patch.com The Port Chester Council for the Arts will stage two performances of the musical this weekend at the Dunn Performing Arts Center in Rye Country Day School. Shows are scheduled for 8 pm on Friday and Saturday nights. Tickets are $12 for adults, ...

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07/19/11 Port Chester Trustees To Meet Tonight: Quarterly Code Enforcement Report, Taxi Talk on Agenda And More News From Port Chester Topix News Site

Port Chester - News July 19, 2011 See Port Chester Weather Trustees to Meet Tonight: Quarterly Code Enforcement Report, Taxi Talk on Agenda (Patch) Should Port Chester require buyers to obtain a new Certificate of Occupancy when purchasing property in the village? As a series of blazes led to what one trustee called " code enforcement by fire " and housing safety remains the top issue in Port Chester, some trustees and residents want to eliminate any ambiguity when a property changes hands. MTA Renting Metro-North Stations for Other Uses (The Daily Tarry Town) The Metropolitan Transportation Authority put buildings at four Metro-North stations throughout Westchester County on the market this week. Police blotter: Man charged in home invasion faces new charges (NewsTimesLive) Wickey Guy Austin McGhee, 46, of Parker St., Apt. 4A, Port Chester, N.Y., was arrested Thursday while he made a court appearance in state Superior Court in Stamford. Please send your comments, news tips and press releases to PortChesterroundup@gmail.com Port Chester Man Faces Charges, ICE Detainer After Fleeing Crash (Patch) A 24-year-old Port Chester man was driving without a license when his BMW collided with another car last week, according to Greenwich police. Parking Officers Don't Work Enough Hours to Enforce Laws Properly, Trustees Say(Patch) It's simple math. Day-time rules put four-hour restrictions on parking in most lots and street-side spaces in Port Chester

07/19/11 Port Chester Man Faces Charges, ICE Detainer After Fleeing Crash and more from Port Chester Patch

Today 91° 68° Tomorrow 86° 72° July 19, 2011 Your News Port Chester Man Faces Charges, ICE Detainer After Fleeing Crash Barbara Heins | Jul 18, 2011 | 3 Comments Greenwich police say Jose R. Flores doesn't have a driver's license and is living in the country illegally. Flores is accused of fleeing a crash scene after his car landed on the banks of the Byram River. Local Theater: 'Bye, Bye Birdie' Slated for This Weekend | Jul 18, 2011 | 0 Comments The musical follows an Elvis-esque crooner on the eve of conscription, as he arrives in an Ohio town for a publicity stunt aimed at making sure his fans don't forget him when he heads off to war. Firefighters Quickly Douse Junkyard Blaze Nik Bonopartis | Jul 18, 2011 | 0 Comments Scrap metal and parts in a tractor trailer ignited, drawing firefighters after junkyard staff couldn't bring the fire under control. By the Numbers: Parking Tickets in Port Chester's Marina Lot | Jul 18, 2011 | 2 Comments Parking ticket data for the waterfront marina lot, according to parking contractor Complus. Parking Officers Don't Work Enough Hours to Enforce Laws Properly, Trustees Say Nik Bonopartis | Jul 18, 2011 | 4 Comments Because they work fewer than five hours for the majority of their shifts, parking enforcement officers don't always enforce time limits and overnight parking bans. See more News »

07/19/11 Port Chester Taxi Drivers Wait To Be Heard And More News From The Daily Port Chester

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Port Chester Taxi Drivers Wait To Be Heard
by Ryan Villarreal | 07/19/11
	PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Taxi drivers and company owners showed up in force to speak at the public hearing on the extension of their licenses at the Board of Trustees meeting Monday, but the hearing had to be rescheduled due to an error by the clerk's office. Notices sent out by the clerk's office gave READ MORE

County Health Department Issues Heat Advisory
by Phil Corso | 07/18/11
	WESTCHESTER, N.Y. - The Westchester County Health Department issued a heat advisory Monday citing the rising temperatures in the area as potentially dangerous, Commissioner Cheryl Archbald said. Hot and humid weather is expected to remain in the forecast for the coming week. The advisory came the READ MORE

Who's Hiring In Port Chester?
by Ryan Villarreal | 07/18/11
	Weekly job listings for Port Chester: • Disaster restoration company seeks experienced fire/water damage restoration technicians. • Start-up company has opening for an entry-level salesperson. • Cleaning company is hiring a carpet and upholstery cleaning technician. • Wholesale READ MORE

Suburban Dad: First Suburbanites Get the Last Word
by Marek Fuchs | 07/18/11
	I just returned from the rugged mountains of Colorado with research for an upcoming book complete, T-shirts for the kids, and the thought that we here in Westchester and Connecticut are total hill wimps. In fact, every time I come back from anywhere it is with the takeaway that we have the suburbs READ MORE

Keeping Up With Port Chester Village Hall
by Ryan Villarreal | 07/18/11
	PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- There are a lot of ways to stay informed about how the village in functioning and many of them are right at your fingertips. The Village of Port Chester's website provides a wealth of information. Here you can watch live streams of village board meetings through Village Video, READ MORE

07/17/11 Digital Dinosuar: The Westmore News Hasn't Updated It's So Called News Website In Five Days

Forget About The Westmore Snoooozzzzzze ....

Publisher Richard Abel Is Once Again Asleep At The Switch

Don't Worry The LoHud Web Site Has Plenty Of News From The Journal News

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• Firefighters douse blaze at Port Chester scrap yard
  Jul 18, 2011 | Colin Gustafson ... PORT CHESTER — Firefighters quickly doused a fire that rose nearly 35 feet above a metal scrap ...
• Troopers charge 10 with DWI in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and beyond
  Jul 18, 2011 | Terence Corcoran ... charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated about 4 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 95 in Port Chester. - Alex V. Cefalu, 25, of New City was charged with misdemeanor driving while ...
• Celebrations: Jennifer DiGilio
  Jul 17, 2011 | ... pounds 13 ounces & measured 20 inches long. Christopher's grandparents are Rocco & JoAnn Strazza of Port Chester, NY & Theodore Sr & Elaine DiGilio of White Plains, NY & great grandfather Joseph Lagano ...
• Walkers go the distance for Ward Summer Learning Camp in Rye
  Jul 17, 2011 | Gerald McKinstry ... 's the thrill, that's what makes us go." Washington, a special education teacher at Port Chester Middle School, was among the parents and students who took a few hours ...
• Flames earn berth in nationals; No Limit takes tournament title
  Jul 17, 2011 | From staff reports ... High School, scored two goals, including the winner. He was assisted by Felipe Campos of Port Chester on the goal that qualified the Flames for nationals. Abdul "Oscar'' Umar of ...
• In brief: Construction worker knocked unconscious; more
  Jul 14, 2011 | ... RYE -- A state contractor working on an I-95 off-ramp on the Rye-Port Chester border was knocked unconscious by construction equipment early Wednesday afternoon, sending him rolling down ...
• Levine makes his mark with Cornell laxmen
  Jul 14, 2011 | ... include five area players: Chris Archibal of Nyack; Joe Devito of Hawthorne; Ryan Drummond of PortChester; Ray Gualano of Mamaroneck; and Frank Lattanzi of Bedford Hills. Archibal served as ...
• Francella, McCray, Fiorentino, Eich enter Westchester Hall of Fame
  Jul 14, 2011 | Staff reports ... Eich, will be feted at Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester in October. Francella, a Port Chester native, won the ACC championship in 2003 while attending the University of North ...
• Texas man pleads not guilty in Port Chester smuggling and kidnapping case
  Jul 13, 2011 | Timothy O'Connor ... five Brazilians across the Texas border and then held them hostage for several days in Port Chester. Irvin Willie Gonzalez, 24, was arrested June 28 by Department of Homeland Security ...
• Bella Cucina Maria back in Purchase
  Jul 13, 2011 | Scott Faubel ... My friend Maria Falck Reina of Port Chester, who studied dance at SUNY Purchase and now runs her own catering business, was back ...
  
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  • Bella Cucina Maria back in Purchase
    Jul 13, 2011 | Scott Faubel ... My friend Maria Falck Reina of Port Chester, who studied dance at SUNY Purchase and now runs her own catering business, was back ...
  • Bella Cucina Maria back in Purchase
    Jul 13, 2011 | Scott Faubel ... My friend Maria Falck Reina of Port Chester, who studied dance at SUNY Purchase and now runs her own catering business, was back ...
  • State transportation contractor injured on I-95 ramp in Rye
    Jul 13, 2011 | Andrew Klappholz ... A state contractor working on an I-95 off-ramp on the Rye-Port Chester border was knocked unconscious by construction equipment early this afternoon, sending him rolling down an ...
  • Francella, McCray, Fiorentino, Eich join Westchester Hall of Fame
    Jul 13, 2011 | Staff reports ... Eich, will be feted at Lake Isle Country Club in Eastchester in October. Francella, a PortChester native, won the ACC championship in 2003 while attending the University of Memphis ...
  • Area roundup: Field hockey, soccer, baseball
    Jul 13, 2011 | Staff reports ... as Westchester Academy defeated Bronxchester 6-1 in a WBA 18-and-under game atPort Chester Recreation Park. Westchester raised its record to 17-1. Mike Birella had two ...
  • Francella ties for 42nd at the U.S. Women's Open
    Jul 12, 2011 | Mike Dougherty ... championship. She likes to grind. Well, the weather tested everyone’s patience and thePort Chester native closed with 72-75 to finish in a tie for 42nd ...
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    Five rescued from apartment fire in downtown Mamaroneck
    Jul 12, 2011 | By Gary Stern and Chris Massaro gstern@lohud.com ... MAMARONECK VILLAGE -- Firefighters rescued five people including a child after a fire broke out in apartments above stores today on Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown Mamaroneck village. One resident of the ...
  • Sonogram is no time for portraits
    Jul 11, 2011 | ... for patients at the end of their normal, medically indicated exam (for free). Patricia Mayberry PortChester The writer is ultrasound supervisor, at Maternal Fetal Care, PC in ...
  • Golf: Seo hopes score holds up in U.S. Women's Open
    Jul 11, 2011 | ... the last round and will play out the string today, starting at 7-over par. Port Chester native Meaghan Francella shot a 72 in the third round. When that round ...
  • A hot putter helps Francella survive
    Jul 10, 2011 | Mike Dougherty ... of 149. She is tied for 56th and is 12 shots behind Mika Miyazato. The Port Chester
    
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07/19/11 The The New Colonialism Is Being Directed By The Man Who Sits On The Third Floor Of Rye Town Hall

Rye Town Supervisor Joesph Carvin Snaps Up African Farmland

Joe Carvin's Altima Partners investment fund is buying up farmland in Africa and Latin to grow food for export -- a profitable business, with a growing global population and rapidly rising prices. The high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly is leading to a modern colonialism to which many poor countries in African and Latin American countries submit out of necessity.

Every crisis has its winners. A group of them are sitting in Joseph Edward Carvin's Altima Partners LLP's offices in New York.

Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin can give one hell of a snappy presentation. He has colorful graphs posted up and down on PowerPoint charts and bound reports. Some graphs are headed downward as the year 2050 approaches. They represent the farmland that is disappearing as a result of climate change, soil desolation, urbanization and the shortage of water.

The other lines, which point sharply upward, represent demand for meat and biofuel, food prices and population growth. There is a growing gap between these two sets of lines. It represents horrific world hunger and massive profit for Altima Partners and David Gray who is one of Joe Carvin's Partners and lives at 171 Rowayaton Woods Drive in Norwalk, CT .

According to most prognoses, there could be 9.1 billion people living on earth in 2050, about two billion more than today. In the coming 20 years alone, worldwide demand for food is expected to rise by 50 percent.

"These are pessimistic prospects," says one Altima Partner insiders.

For Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin, who lives at 55 Hillandale Road in Rye Brook, New York , this is all of this is good news and his mood is buoyant.

How could Carvin's mood be any different?

After all, hunger is Altima Partner's business. The combination of more people and less land makes food a safe investment, with annual returns of 20 to 30 percent, rare in the current economic climate.

Land is scarce and expensive in Europe and the United States.

Solving the problem means that hedge fund honcho Joe Carvin must exploit and develop new land, which is only available in Africa, Asia and South America. This combination of factors has triggered a high-stakes game of real-life Monopoly, in which Altima Partners, banks and governments are engaged in a race for access to the world's arable land.

One Of Joe Carvin's competitors is a Susan Payne, who heads a land fund in southern Africa, which currently includes 370,000 acres, mainly in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique. This land fund has raised half a billion dollars from investors. The land fund talks about fighting hunger, but the headings on it's marketing materials are embellished with photos of soybean fields at sunset, tell a different story.

One investment presentation is called "Africa -- the last frontier for finding alpha." The word alpha signifies an investment for which the return is greater than the risk.

And Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin will tell you that Africa is alpha country.

That's because land, which is extremely fertile in some regions, is inexpensive on the impoverished continent.

It is rumored that Joe Carvin's land fund has paid less than $140 per acre in some of the poorest counties on earth. Carvin has less than 5% of the price of land in the United States.

For a small farmer in Africa, the average yield per hectare has remained unchanged in 40 years. With a little fertilizer and additional irrigation, yields could quadruple -- and so could Joe Carvin's profits.

In fact, there has been so much demand for this type of investment that Carvin has been considering establishing a new or sub-fund to rake in the all of the cash available.

A great deal of capital is currently available. It is the third year of the global economic crisis, and investors are seeking alpha investments.

Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin is applying the most basic formula in the world:

Man must eat.

US investment management company BlackRock, for example, has established a $200 million agriculture fund, and has earmarked $30 million for the acquisition of farmland. Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment company, has acquired more than 100,000 acres in Ukraine.

Joe Carvin's former employer Deutsche Bank has invested their money in pig breeding operations and chicken farms, investments that include the legal rights to farmland.

Food is becoming the new oil.

Worldwide grain reserves recently dropped to a historic lows.

This is just as the oil crisis did in the 1970s.

There were bread riots around the world, and 25 countries, including some of the biggest grain exporters, imposed restrictions on food exports.

Altima Partners is exploiting two fears -- the fear of hunger and the fear of uncertainty.

As these fears are exploited and converge, hedge fund honcho's like Carvin are triggering what some are already calling a second generation of colonialism.

What is different about this colonialism is that countries are readily allowing themselves to be conquered. The Ethiopian prime minister said that his government is "eager" to provide access to hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland.

The Turkish agriculture minister announced: "Choose and take what you want."

In the midst of a war against the Taliban, the Pakistani government staged a road show seeking to entice British investors with tax breaks and exemptions from labor laws.

It is not just bankers and speculators, but also governments that are acquiring land in other countries, seeking to reduce their dependence on the world market and imports. China is home to 20 percent of the world's population, but it has only 9 percent of the world's arable land.

But what happens in a globalized world when colonies arise once again? What if, for example, Saudi Arabia acquires parts of Pakistan's Punjab region or Russian investors buy up half of Ukraine? And what happens when famine strikes these countries? Will the wealthy foreigners install electric fences around their fields and will armed guards escort crop shipments out of the country? Pakistan has already announced plans to deploy 100,000 members of its security forces to protect foreign-owned fields.

Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. In some cases, however, provincial governors have already auctioned off land to the highest bidder, as in the case of Laos and Cambodia, where even the governments no longer know how much of their territory they still own.

No one is sure exactly how much land is at stake. The number cited by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is 60 million acres and growing rapidly.

Even United Nations organizations has to resort to citing newspaper reports, while the World Bank is trying to convince countries to pay closer attention to the fine print on agreements from guys like Joe Carvin.

the World Bank, estimates that 10 to 30 percent of available arable land could be up for grabs, although only a fraction of the potential number of lease and sale agreements have been signed.

In Mozambique, the government has already allocated four million acres to investors like Altima Partners.

Some deals are not being made by private investors, like Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin.

The Sudanese government has leased 1.5 million acres of prime farmland to the Gulf States, Egypt and South Korea for 99 years. Paradoxically, Sudan is also the world's largest recipient of foreign aid, with 5.6 million of its citizens dependent on food deliveries.

Kuwait has leased 130,000 acres of rice fields in Cambodia.

Egypt plans to grow wheat and corn on 840,000 acres in Uganda.

The president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has offered to lease 10 million acres to the South Africans.

Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest and most aggressive buyers of land. This spring, the king attended a ceremony where he took delivery of the first export rice harvest, produced exclusively for the kingdom in hunger-stricken Ethiopia. Saudi Arabia spends $800 million a year promoting foreign companies that cultivate "strategic field crops" like rice, wheat, barley and corn, which it then imports.

Ironically, the country was the world's sixth-largest wheat exporter in the 1990s, the Saudi Kingdom finds it cheaper to exploit farmland in poorer countries.

An Investor Like Joe Carvin Needs a Weak State To Make Big Profits

Joe Carvin and Altima Partners is exchanging money, oil and infrastructure for food, water and animal feed. At first glance, this seems to present a solution for many problems.

The only country Africa currently producing a food surplus is South Africa.

But many of the countries where Joe Carvin is snapping up land are suffering from water shortages.

Most countries, on the other hand, are importers and, with rapidly growing populations, will likely be even more dependent on food imports in the future. Is it ethical for a guy like Joe Carvin to lease land cheaply in order to grow and export food as starving children look on?

The way Altima partner's agreements are structured they can harm the country and the farmers in the long term, robbing them of their most important asset - land.

Because the countries in Africa are competing for investors, they are undercutting each other.

Some contracts are barely three pages long -- for hundreds of thousands of acres of land. These types of agreements stipulate what products are to be cultivated, the location and the purchase or lease price, but they include no environmental standards. They also lack the necessary investment regulations and the stipulation that jobs must be created.

The benefits to the host governments and local farmers are often short-lived. In the long term, however, they must suffer the consequences of over-fertilizing, deforestation, over-consumption of water, reduction of ecological diversity and the loss of local species.

To boost harvests and achieve annual returns of over 20 percent or more, Joe Carvin and his Altima Partners fund must operate their farms on an industrial scale.

When the soil becomes depleted after a few years, many investors simply move on. Land is so cheap that they are not forced to value sustainable farming practices.

When food becomes scarce, the investor needs a weak state that does not force him to abide by any rules.

A state that permits grain exports despite famines at home, that is consumed by corruption or deeply in debt, ruled by a dictatorship, racked by civil war, or sends millions of workers abroad and is dependent on these workers receiving visas and jobs.

A new target is Africa's newest nation,South Sudan, which even isn't a month old yet. However Philippe Heilberg a Joe Carvin contemporary and and the founder of the investment firm Jarch Capital, is now the largest land leaseholder in South Sudan, where he leases 400,000 acres of prime farmland in Mayom County.

The mere mention of the words South Sudan conjures up images of civil war, refugees and famine, not of a place where one would consider growing tomatoes.

But Heilberg, like Carvin< raves that his project will be more beneficial to investors seeking large returns. Heilberg is adamant that Paulino Matip, from whom he has leased the land for 50 years, not be referred to as a warlord, but as a "former warlord" or "deputy army chief." Heilberg neglects to mention that the rebels led by Matip are suspected of having committed war crimes. Instead of buying stocks, the former banker is now speculating on the political future of South Sudan. Land acquisition is already a step further along in western Kenya, home to Erastas Dildo, 33, the kind of person that Joe Carvin's investment firm would probably characterize as a risk factor: a small farmer who owns three acres of land. It is fertile land, where the corn turns bright green and grows 6.5 feet tall, where the cattle are as fat as hippos and the tomato plants bend under the weight of their tomatoes. The nearby Yala River flows into Lake Victoria. There are three small brick houses on the property. Erastas harvests his corn twice a year, and vegetables and tomatoes grow year-round. One hectare produces $3,600 worth of corn a year, a lot of money by Kenyan standards.

They Drove Out 400 Families

But things changed when Erastas was contacted by Dominion Farms, a US agricultural producer that established a colony in the Yala delta, where it has leased 3,600 hectares of land for 45 years, at the ludicrous rate of $12,000 a year. Dominion, which plans to grow rice, vegetables and corn on the land, wants to include Erastas Dildo's three acres in its venture.

The Dominion representatives offered to pay him about 10 cents per square yard. Erastas turned them down, and now they are making life difficult for the farmer. Their most effective weapon is a dam they have built. When Erastas tried to harvest his corn last year, it was under water. "They are playing with the water level to get rid of us," he says. And when that doesn't work, says Erastas, Dominion sends in bulldozers, thugs and sometimes even the police.

Perhaps Erastas and his family will be forced to make way for the development soon, as is already happening in many other places. The World Bank estimates that only 2 to 10 percent of the land in Africa is formally owned or leased, and most of that is in cities. A family may have lived on or occupied a piece of land for decades, but it often has no proof of ownership.

The Hunt for Land Continues

Nevertheless, the land is almost never left unused. The poor, in particular, live off the land, where they collect fruits, herbs or firewood and graze their livestock. According to a joint study by several UN organizations, land grabs are often justified by defining the land as "fallow." As a result, according to the report, land grabs have the potential to dispossess farmers on a large scale. In many countries, there may be enough arable land available for everyone, but the quality is not uniform -- and the investors want the best land. That, as it happens, is the land where farmers usually live.

Because more than 50 percent of Africans and Latin Americans are small farmers, Altima Partners large-scale land acquisition could be disastrous for the population. Those who lose their fields lose everything. The fact that the large investors, like Joe Carvin can substantially improve harvests with their modern agricultural technology is of little use to Africans who, once they have lost their land and livelihoods, cannot afford to buy the new farms' products.

The World Bank and others are now developing a code of conduct for investors like Joe Carvin.

And so the hunt for land continues. Dominion has secured another 3,200 hectares, and Philippe Heilberg is in the process of leasing an additional 600,000 acres in South Sudan.

Back in Port Chester, New York, Rye Town Supervisor Joe Carvin is doing a jig up on the third floor at 10 Pearl Street as he is reciting numbers to illustrate how fast the global population is growing.

The world is growing by 154 people per minute, 9,240 per hour or 221,760 per day. And each one of them wants to eat.

Joe Carvin's investment strategy will be judged by his maker on the day of reckoning.

And these are not the only ethical issues that Joe Carvin will have to answer for some day. Most folks in town know that Carvin has always been a bit on the greedy side.

The problem for Port Chester and Rye Brook tax payers is that Joe Carvin is too occupied with African and Latin American land grabs, and can not properly run the town of Rye or manage the beach at Rye Town Park.

Joe Carvin is too busy trying to earn a double digit return on third world farm land as Rye Town Park lost a million dollars during one of the best beach seasons on record.

There is just too much mismanagement by the Carvin team at Rye Town Hall.

The taxpayers of Port Chester, Rye Brook, Rye City and Rye Neck must make up that million dollar loss at Rye Town Park as Supervisor Joe Carvin is out exploiting some of the poorest people on the planet.

Joe Carvin is not focused on the Town Of Rye and it is the taxpayers who must pay for his lack of attention.

But the Rye Town Supervisor has a pie in the sky plan to get reelected, in spite of his poor record and wasteful spending. And if that doesn't work Carvin is always ready, willing and able to use dirty tricks and slander.

But the Carvin brothers always have their hands in the pockets of Port Chester homeowners.

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07/19/11 Port Chester man Man charged in home invasion faces new charges

One of two men arrested in a home invasion on Buena Vista Drive June 21 has been slapped with additional charges in connection with 13 motor vehicle burglaries in Byram between April 21 and June 16.

Wickey Guy Austin McGhee, 46, of Parker St., Apt. 4A, Port Chester, N.Y., was arrested Thursday while he made a court appearance in state Superior Court in Stamford.
McGhee has been held in custody since his June arrest for the home invasion. He is charged with 13 counts of third-degree burglary, and one count each of first-degree criminal mischief and third-degree larceny.

He is scheduled to return to state Superior Court in Stamford Aug. 2.

Greenwich Police have an arrest warrant for the second man allegedly tied to the home invasion, Thomas Haywood. Haywood, 48, of 33 Lincoln Ave., New Rochelle, N.Y., was arrested by Harrison Police in June. He is fighting extradition to Connecticut from New York State.