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Democracy Works Foundation (DWF) says it working towards the improvement of the oversight role of Malawi Parliament by making sure that parliament is acting and following up on recommendations that are given to different committees of the National Assembly. Regional director of Democracy Works Foundation Augustine Magolowondo revealed this on Thursday 28th of September 2023 […]
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\"Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for five minutes of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?\"
Our Parliament has been reduced to a fish market with members jostling for 5 mins of infamy. Is this the example our representatives want to set for our youth looking on?
— Mickela (@mickelapanday) October 21, 2021
Leader of the Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) David Abdulah said, \"Does the UNC understand what they are doing? Their actions are seeking to dangerously divide the country. It is not about democracy. They are laying the basis for justifying why their motion will not succeed.
\"This is a serious issue but I am reminded of Explainer's Calypso – In Parliament they kicksin. The motion will be defeated
In a cringeworthy video that appeared more suited for this Halloween season, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott offered up a diatribe on why he and Republican colleagues unanimously rejected a federal voting rights bill that would protect minority voters.
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Electoral participation isn’t a means to an end. It is a pathway to a more connected society. By funding sustained engagement and organizing, Patrick sees Bridge Together as supporting local talent and listening to understand from residents what issues matter and how they manifest in their daily lives.
Members of Sudan's cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders have been arrested in an apparent coup.
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s motion to impeach President Paula-Mae Weekes predictably failed in the Electoral College by a 47-24 vote.
There will be no tribunal to inquire into the allegations.
Backed by thunderous desk-thumping, Ms Persad-Bissessar quarrelled with Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George, who ruled that there be no debate over her firecracker, unprecedented motion. This motion was talk of the town for weeks, becoming an overnight lesson on how to fire a president.
At a press conference minutes after the vote, the Prime Minister, unleashing an attack on Ms Persad-Bissessar’s “over-reach,” vociferously defended the president. And with fighting spirit, the Opposition Leader, quite upset at the Speaker’s rulings, declared: “This is a war on democracy.” There was shouting and heavy desk-thumping, with the Speaker getting frustrated.
My eyebrows were raised when the senators were called in to “vote on the motion.” With tactful query, UNC senators asked, “Which motion?” Noisy desk-thumping. They claimed they “did not hear the motion” since they had just come in. Good point. Some amendment seems needed here. In Parliament, Ms Persad-Bissessar based her motion largely on the Constitution (Section 36) which states: “The president may be removed from office where (a) he (or she) wilfully violates any provision of the Constitution (b) he behaves in such a way as to bring his office into hatred, ridicule or contempt (c) he behaves in a way that endangers the security of the State, or (d) because of physical or mental incapacity, he is unable to perform the functions of his office.”
She argued that the President contributed to the collapse of the Police Service Commission and in an “unconstitutional manner,” mishandled a “merit list” for an acting police commissioner.
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In a striking advertised defence, the President said: “I confirm that an Order of Merit List in respect of the Commissioner of Police was delivered on August 11, 2021 to the Office of the President and withdrawn almost immediately thereafter that day.” And this is where the mystery seems to arise. What does “was delivered” mean? Why exactly did PSC chairman Bliss Seepersad withdraw her list? Why do it in the meeting with the President?
Given my persistent concern over the urgent need for a review of the PSC structure and functions, I found interest in the President’s advertised list of five questions:
(1) Should credible information be sent to the PSC so as to help it in its constitutional functions?
(2) How and who should determine the threshold for consideration?
(3) Should Parliament be the body to receive such information, especially if there are matters of sensitive national security, or should it be the PSC?
(4) Is providing such information “interference” in the PSC operations?
(5) Would “unsolicited” information compromise the PSC’s independence? Does the source matter?
Such questions, the convoluted function of the PSC and the ex
The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by Khaleel Kothdiwala Bishop Atherley, Like many Barbadians, I am exceedingly proud of the bold step which this nation is taking as we embark on our journey to republicanism. It is with that patriotic spirit that I watched […]
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The Electoral College, comprising the 72 members of the House of Assembly and the Senate, voted by a 47-24 margin to dismiss the motion filed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar.
The announcement last week of a unilateral ceasefire in the Central African Republic is among recent positive steps in the country, the top UN official there told the Security Council on Monday, urging continued support for peace and reconciliation efforts.
Press Release - Government welcomes the start of the 2021 local government elections. Government is pleased with the millions of South Africans who have already heeded the call to cast their vote.
[Premium Times] The Nigerian Guild of Editors says insecurity takes a huge toll on societal life and posts negative development indices in several areas.
[HRW] New York -- Open Civic Space, Ensure Accountability for Excessive Force
The SA National Editors' Forum has raised its concern over the police's \"heavy-handed actions\" against a journalist covering Monday's municipal elections.
[Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Armed Forces and other security agencies in Nigeria to ensure that nothing stops the November 6 governorship election in Anambra State.
[Legalbrief] Following months of turmoil and bloodshed, eSwatini Deputy Prime Minister Themba Masuku has conceded that the kingdom urgently needs to implement sweeping reforms.
The FF Plus and secessionist movement CapeXit formally joined forces towards an independent Western Cape with a joint public awareness campaign.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News The meeting of the Electoral College. Parliament was filled with verbal chaos, confusion and many disruptions on Thursday over the Leader of the Opposition's motion to remove the President over the police commissioner/Police Service Commission crisis, under Section 36 of the Constitution. It began during the extraordinary sitting of the House of Representatives where government MPs sat in silence while Opposition MPs challenged the Speaker, Bridgid Annisette-George, after she rejected […]
Is this century a season for gunshots in Africa? Why is African politics dressed in a cloak of bloody violence and ethnically fuelled wars? Must the gunshots in Tigray be the identity of Ethiopia? Is it true that the gunshots in Central Africa must dictate the fabric of our democracy? Are the gunshots in Cameroon the only...
Former government minister Winston Dookeran believes the commission of enquiry into the 1990 attempted coup did not address two issues - the 'sensitive matters' in the failings of the national security system and the inadequacies of the constitutional arrangements for the handling of such an event.
'In my view, those were two very fundamental issues for which we could have learnt to protect ourselves against not only that (attempted insurrections) but future occurrences,' he said on Saturday in the aftermath of the death of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr.
Bakr, 80, collapsed at his home on Long Circular Road, St James, on Thursday night and was later pronounced dead at the St James Health Facility. His funeral took place on Friday at the Jamaat's mosque on Mucurapo Road, St James.
On July 27, 1990, Muslimeen insurgents, led by Bakr, stormed the Red House in Port of Spain and attempted to overthrow the then ANR Robinson-led National Alliance for Reconstruction Government. Several people, including Diego Martin parliamentarian Leo Des Vignes, died during the attack.
On September 7, 2010, two decades later, then acting President Timothy Hamel-Smith appointed a commission of enquiry into the incident.
The commission, chaired by Sir David Simmons, completed its work on September 23, 2013 and the report was submitted to former president Anthony Carmona in March 2014.
Dookeran, who was then Minister of Planning in the NAR administration, said while the commission did make some recommendations regarding the treatment of victims, the then government (UNC) and successive administrations have not addressed them with any alacrity.
'Much of that required government decisions and I don't get the impression that it was taken seriously by the then government or subsequent governments.'
Dookeran recalled after Robinson was shot in the Parliament chamber, he was hastily-appointed acting prime minister and had to not only appease the insurrectionists but restore some semblance of calm in the country. He subsequently brokered an agreement with the Muslimeen through an amnesty.
Reflecting on the casualties of the crisis and the general uncertainty of that period, Dookeran lamented the removal of the eternal flame from the eastern side of the Red House. He said the flame was an enduring symbol of the resilience of the country's citizens.
'I think the historical monument that was supposed to be a memory of how the people in our country responded to this crisis in democracy and which was supposed to be reflected in the eternal light, not only to acknowledge the ultimate sacrifice that a number of our citizens had to make by losing their lives but also to inspire the next generation that this was a victory of the people in defense of our democracy.\"
He said the eternal flame eventually removed and replaced by another monument which is now really a recognition of the past when the flame was meant to be an inspiration for the future.
'I thought that was a fundamental flaw in terms of learning psycho
Opinion - Ethiopia is at war with itself. The year-old civil war has spawned one of contemporary Africa's worst human rights and humanitarian crises.
\"Those divisions don't bode well for Sudan,\" said Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in New York in an interview with Euronews. \"There's a genuine threat of civil\"
[East African] Ethiopia is agonising over the political chaos in neighbouring Sudan, even as it faces the crisis in its backyard of Tigray, which will be marking a year this coming week.
Alan Douglas Fox of Nashville is facing up to 20 years in prison for setting four churches on fire as well as a five-year sentence for a firearms violation for carrying and using a firearm during one of the arsons.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Oropouche West MP Dave Tancoo, with fist in the air, supports San Francique residents during a protest over bad roads on Saturday. - Photo by Marvin Hamilton THE UNC's 'October Revolution' has begun. Two days after Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar alerted the public, the UNC launched its latest campaign against the ruling PNM on Saturday with a three-pronged attack of public protests in at least four UNC-controlled constituencies, internal expressions […]
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Ahead of the December 24 elections, Libya on Thursday hosted senior foreign officials to reiterate the need for support on thorny transitional issues currently facing the country.
We all got the sad news of the passing of General Colin Powell from Covid complications early in the morning of October 18, and it was a shock around the world that this giant of a man had in fact passed
Some residents in the Western Cape say that they did not participate in the municipal election because of the lack of party options available to them.
The views and opinions expressed by the author(s) do not represent the official position of Barbados TODAY. by C. William Antrobus B.A., M.A. The dust has probably now settled on the Senator Caswell Franklyn episode in Parliament last week and a number of people have had their say on the matter. Views ranged from the […]
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