Short Stories Of The Days To Come: Part Four

By Kenny Yao

Part 4 of the short-story series. At the UN budget hearing, Kevin exposes his findings and the truth to the whole committee, only to find himself thrown in a web of lies, manipulation, deceit, and worse, betrayal.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenny Yao
• Release date: Jan 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311576330

Kenny Yao

"Sometimes in life when we are handed a problem... we just go on and do the best we can. That way we survive the challenge and can achieve victory." Kenny Yao is a retired Businessman turned Writer from San Francisco. A widower, he is a father of four sons. He is now residing in Manila. It all started years ago, when witnessing one of the most destructive typhoons in his local city, Kenny was inspired to build an evacuation center someday to help those in need. The image of a chopper hovering down a rooftop to rescue a group of stranded family, became the inspiration for the very first scene that Kenny wrote for his debut novel, "The Sun Day". Up to date, he has written and published novels, a collection of short stories, poetry, and Biblical non-fictions.

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SHORT STORIES OF THE DAYS TO COME

Part Four: The Man Behind The Conspiracy

A short story by

Kenny Yao

and

Kevin Yao

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is purely coincidental.

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UNITED NATIONS

UNEP GRID

Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA

UNEP HEADQUARTERS

Nairobi, Kenya

UNITED NATIONS

Geneva, Switzerland

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PART FOUR

The Man Behind The Conspiracy

Later, down at the UNEP’s Executive Director’s conference room, right on schedule, in attendance and seated at the long rectangular table for the DEWA’s budget committee hearing were the following:

UNEP Executive Director David Palmer

UN Budget and Finance Director Jack Almeda

Ronald Mcvet, Director, DEWA

Kevin McAllister, for Abe Singh, Early Warning Bureau

Keith Fatou, Chief, Scientific Assessment Branch

Dave Monik, Chief, Capacity Development Branch

Adel Kadel, Regional Coordinator, West Asia

Anna Stavra, R.C. Asia-Pacific

Fred Turya, R.C. Africa region

Will Litt, R.C. Grid -- Europe

Grace Mettern, R.C. Latin America & the Caribbean

Before we proceed with the hearing, DEWA Director Mcvet said, Let me give you all a warm welcome to Nairobi, Kenya. We are honored to have here with us, Finance Director Almeda and UNEP Executive Director David Palmer, who, together, will direct the panel to the particulars of this committee hearing. Here today to represent Mr. Abe Singh, who unfortunately had a mild stroke and had to be confined at the intensive care unit at the hospital, is Kevin McAllister, the Assistant Chief of the Early Warning Branch. Now, to proceed with this committee hearing is Executive Director Palmer.

Standing up from his seat in the middle of the long rectangular conference table, Executive Director Palmer towered all over the people seated in this meeting as he confidently began,

"Good morning, Honorable Colleagues, Ladies And Gentlemen of this August body. Today, we are called upon to attend and address an important issue, the issue of granting the appropriate budget for the Department of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA). This, my colleagues, as we are all aware of, is a highly prioritized decision that we are all required to consider and make. I would like to point out some factors, which needed to be addressed. Is DEWA currently relevant to the UNEP’s operation? What is the DEWA’s contribution to the world’s environmental crises? How are we today with regards to these issues? Did they acquire any intelligence and information, both advance and present? What are the DEWA’s strategies to inform and alert the world should the need arises? Most of all, how is DEWA and all its bureaus progressing regarding their newly-found research of the developing