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It’s Nomination Day in Barbados and candidates are heading out to nomination centres across the island. At the Rices Pavilion in St Philip, incumbent, St Philip South MP Indar Weir was flanked by supporters chanting, 'Who is the man? Indar is the man.' In the 2018 general election, Weir secured 4, 656 votes defeating […]
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Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has rubbished a threat by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar of legal action should he name the date for a general election, due later this year, with the country’s borders still closed as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The Constitution determines how and when an election could be called and it has nothing to do with the fuddles of any opposition leader,” Rowley told a news conference on Saturday.
Persad Bissessar, speaking at a virtual media conference earlier this week, told reporters that should Rowley call a general election at a time when the borders are closed “our lawyers will be waiting.”
He said perhaps the Opposition Leader wants the border open “for her members to come back home as they should…but that is not the basis on which we conduct the health care issues of Trinidad and Tobago.
“The border is closed for a reason and its opening partially or in total would be a public health issue and not an election issue,” Rowley said.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) - Guyana's Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield yesterday failed to submit a report to the chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that would have started the process of releasing the official results of the disputed March 2 regional and general election.
Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley yesterday announced August 10 as the date for the general election in Trinidad and Tobago, just under one month shy of the fifth anniversary when voters went to the polls on September 7, 2015, to elect his People's National Movement (PNM) to power.
BALTIMORE (AP) — City Council President Brandon Scott, who ran a campaign focused on youthful energy, progressive ideas and experience, has won the Democratic nomination for Baltimore mayor.
The victory puts Scott in a strong position to be the next mayor of the struggling city.
Scott has been a city councilman since 2011 and became council president last year.
Baltimore will only move forward as a city united, not divided,” Scott said in a statement Tuesday.
Positioning himself as a progressive leader, Scott proposed organizational changes to city government, including an overhaul of the board that awards all city contracts.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1938, Juanita Millender McDonald was an educator and member of the United States House of Representatives. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Redlands and a master’s degree from California State University at Los Angeles.
Millender-McDonald taught in the Los Angeles School District, and was the editor of Images, a textbook designed to improve the self-esteem of young women. As director of gender-equity programs for the school district, Millender-McDonald received national recognition when she served on the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future.
In 1990, Millender-McDonald became the first African-American elected to the Carson City Council. She was elected mayor pro tem for Carson in 1991, and won a set in the California State Assembly in 1992.
Millender-McDonald announced her candidacy for the U.S. representative of California’s Thirty-Seventh Congressional District after Representative Walter R. Tucker III resigned. She defeated eight other candidates in the March 1996 Democratic primary, and ran unopposed in the general election. She was sworn into office in April 1996, and was reelected to five terms. Millender-McDonald was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and served on the House Committee on Small Business, and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. She was also the first African American woman to chair the Committee on House Administration.
In the House, Millender-McDonald had a liberal voting record. She worked on issues which included election reform and genocide in Darfur and Cambodia. She also worked with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador John Miller on human trafficking and women’s rights issues. Millender-McDonald drew national attention in 1996 when she had then-CIA director John Deutch address the community of Watts, California, about allegations that profits from domestic sales of crack cocaine were funneled to the CIA-backed Contras in Nicaragua.
Throughout much of
SOURCE: CMC — Prime Minister Gaston Browne Thursday heightened speculation about another snap general election in Antigua and Barbuda after it emerged that Cabinet has instructed the Supervisor of Elections to be prepared to “conduct free and fair elections”. Browne led his Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) to a 15-2 victory in the March […]
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By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has formally clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, setting him up for a bruising challenge to President Donald Trump that will play out against the unprecedented backdrop of a pandemic, economic collapse and civil unrest.
Biden fared little better in the New Hampshire primary, where his standing was so low that he left the state before polls closed on election night to instead rally black voters in South Carolina.
Biden’s strong showing in states such as North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Texas reinforced his status as the preferred Democratic candidate of African American voters — but the relationship has not been without its strained moments.
But Biden must ensure that black voters are motivated to show up to the polls in November, especially in critical swing states that narrowly went for Trump in 2016.
Biden’s embrace of his party’s left flank could help him consolidate a Democratic base that remained deeply divided after the 2016 primary and ultimately hurt Hillary Clinton in her defeat to Trump.
Fresh from her victory over the People's National Party's (PNP) Bishop Purcell Jackson at the polls in the September 3 general elections, Portland Eastern member of parliament- elect, Ann-Marie Vaz says she is...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ decision to strip Portland West Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz of the land, environment, and climate-change portfolio has been lauded by a leading environmentalist and public commentator.
Vaz was reassigned days after an Observer report revealed a controversial bid by the minister to obtain a 25-year lease that would have allowed him to construct a private cabin on protected lands within the Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, a World Heritage Site.
Jamaica House announced on Tuesday evening that newly appointed Minister without Portfolio Leslie Campbell would be assigned to Vaz’s erstwhile duties.
“The prime minister could not alienate Vaz at a time like this.
However, the JCDT said that Vaz’s cabin plan was for private gain, while their holdings were to part-fund management of the lands.
As Burundi holds elections, the UN's human rights body says the country fails to meet conditions for free and credible polls.
As elections were taking place, DW talked to Doudou Diene, president of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi at OHCHR, the United Nations body mandated to promote and protect human rights.
The commission has been tasked to investigate human rights violations and abuses in Burundi since 2015.
Burundi has a history of the highest level of violence and the violations of human rights in the context of electoral process.
This is why we had to put it in our [Commission of Inquiry 2019] report to call upon the authorities of Burundi to prove to the internal community that there is change and that human rights will be respected and elections will be held in a credible and a free conditions.
Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron, the Black Republican overseeing Breonna Taylor's case, has strong political ties to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
JAMAICA could have a general election before, but retired Parliamentarian Derrick Smith will seek a vote of confidence from the reading public within months when his memoir hits bookstands with vivid details of some of the adventures that made up the many spheres of his life.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) will rule on July 8 whether or not it has jurisdiction to hear an appeal filed by two senior members of the main Opposition People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in relation to a Court of Appeal ruling regarding the disputed March 2 regional and general election in that country.
Whether it was through poll taxes and literacy tests, or gerrymandering and voter ID laws today, underrepresented communities have always had to fight to ensure their right to vote.
COVID-19 presents a new set of challenges that once again risk limiting the voice of underrepresented communities at the ballot box.
With in-person voter registration drives less likely to take place, the state must make the voter registration process as easy and accessible as possible.
While advocacy organizations like MassVOTE will pioneer voter registration efforts through this crisis, steps like reducing the voter registration deadline will allow more voters to speak their mind this fall.
With the COVID-19 crisis crippling underrepresented communities, it is urgent that their voices be heard at the polls this fall.
Prime Minister Mottley marked three years since Labour's unprecedented landslide victory by touting the administration's 'progress amidst challenges' during a period of turmoil marked by widespread unemployment, economic depression, rising crime and a viral pandemic that's claimed nearly 50 lives. At a meeting Sunday to commemorate its 30-nil parliamentary shutout of the Democratic Labour […]
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Government’s purchase of prefabricated houses from China for displaced families from storm damage came under the microscope continued Wednesday as Housing Minister Dr William Duguid sought to dismiss the criticism that Barbadians contractors were sidelined. The deal is worth $29 million out of the $50 million recently voted by Parliament for the housing ministry in […]
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Denise Majette, former member of Congress, attorney, judge, and politician, was born in Brooklyn, New York on May 18, 1955 to Voyd Lee and Olivia (Foster) Majette. In 1976, Majette graduated from Yale University. She earned her law degree from Duke University, Durham, North Carolina in 1979.
After graduating, Majette joined the Legal Aid Society in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. During this period, she also served on faculty at the Wake Forest Law School. Majette relocated to Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1983. During the early1980s, she held positions as a clerk and an assistant to judges. From 1989 to 1992, Majette returned to private practice as a partner in the Atlanta law firm of Jenkins, Nelson, and Welch. During this period, she also served on the boards of various community organizations. In 1992, she was named an administrative law judge at the Georgia state board of workers compensation. The following year, Georgia Governor Zell Miller appointed her judge of the State Court of DeKalb County. Majette held the judgeship for nine years.
Majette resigned from her judgeship in 2002 to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in Georgia’s 4th congressional district. In a major upset, she defeated five term incumbent Cynthia McKinney in the Democratic primary. Majette was helped by Rep. McKinneys charge that President Bush deliberately ignored pre-September 11 intelligence reports indicating a terrorist attack was imminent. Capitalizing on those charges and an endorsement from Zell Miller who was then a U.S. Senator, Majette won 58% of the vote in the Democratic Primary against McKinney and 77% of the vote in the general election against Republican opponent Cynthia Van Auken.
Majette was appointed to the Budget, Education and Workforce, and Small Business Committees. She also served as Assistant Democratic Whip. Majette opposed President George W. Bushs record on domestic violence and education. She also opposed the Republican-sponsored Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003.
After only one
The Canadian High Commission in Georgetown, Guyana is the primary channel for communications between the Government of Canada and a legitimate Government of Guyana.
So, when HE Chatterjee joined with the other international diplomats and accredited election observers to challenge the flawed tabulation of results from the March 2nd general election, she was engaged in what was expected of her by Canada’s Government, the Foreign Ministry and the people of Canada.
The petition and letter based on frivolous grounds, are asking for the recall of Lilian Chatterjee as Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana.
Consequently a counter petition in support of HE Chatterjee and other diplomats who are championing democracy in Guyana, was initiated by an apolitical ad hoc group, that does not ask for or accept donations, ‘Democracy Watch 2020’ and uploaded on change.org (Supporting the Canadian High Commissioner and others championing democracy in Guyana).
We strongly urge our Canadian Government to stay the course, lend our diplomat all the support she needs by strengthening her hand and to demand that local authorities in Guyana facilitate the completion of her work, without hindrance.
The United National Congress said it will not accept responsibility or allow the government to cast blame on its members for the National Gas Company’s $2.1 billion loss recorded for the financial year ending December 31, 2020, or any current problems facing the energy sector.
At a virtual press conference on Sunday, the Opposition responded to comments by Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young last week, of “bad deals” made during the People's Partnership's term as the reason why the NGC has landed itself in a bad place today.
In June, the NGC said its financial performance was affected by $4.2 billion charges originating from onerous contracts, impairment of infrastructure, and claims.
At a post-Cabinet press briefing last Thursday, Young insisted the losses faced at NGC were a direct link to a contract signed just before the 2015 general election by the People’s Partnership.
In response, UNC Senator Wade Mark said NGC's challenges were a result of a gas deal agreed to by the Prime Minister and Young in Texas in 2019.
“You come to this country and to tell undisputed lies. When you know that you were responsible for what has happened in Houston, Texas, 2017. You agree upon a price of US$3.50 per MMBtu when NGC was only able to afford US$3.10; that is US$0.40 above what NGC could have afforded.”
He challenged Dr Rowley, “Was it a cabinet decision, or was it you, as the chairman of the energy subcommittee… The prime minister is the one responsible directly for the madness that has taken place at NGC, because of the miss-negotiations that took place in 2017, and those prices took effect in 2019.”
Former energy minister Kevin Ramnarine also criticised Young.
He said under the People’s Partnership NGC was paying far less for natural gas compared to the price in 2021.
In a three-part Facebook post, Ramnarine dismissed comments by Young that the Energy sector plummeted under the People's Partnership.
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He said, “In September 2015 all four LNG trains were operational. Today Train 1 has been down for the last eight months. In September 2015 all twenty plants at Point Lisas were operational. Today the M1, Titan, Mittal and Yara plants are closed and others have closed and reopened but are limping.
“In September 2015, Petrotrin was fully operational as was the refinery. Today, the refinery has been closed going on three years and may never reopen.
“In 2015, natural gas production was 3.8 billion cubic feet per day. Today it is 2.8 billion cubic feet per day. A 26 per cent decline. In 2015 crude oil production averaged 78,360 barrels a day. In 2021 it has thus far averaged 58,431 barrels per day. A 25 per cent decline.
“From 2011-2015, the Ministry of Energy awarded 1.42 million hectares of new acreage for exploration. For the last six years, it has awarded no new acreage for exploration.
In 2015, rig days stood at 2765. In 2020 rig days dropped to 822. From 2011 to 2015 total rig days were 1
[This Day] Sexuality education in our clime is erroneously viewed as promoting unhealthy sexual relationships among young people which unfortunately is not the case. Sexuality education seeks to equip young people with life skills and values needed to determine and enjoy their individuality. It views femininity/masculi
For the 2020 state primary, absentee ballots must be postmarked by election day (August 11, 2020) and received by August 13, 2020.
In-person absentee voting is available from June 26 to August 10 at city halls across Hennepin County and at the Early Vote Center in Minneapolis at 980 E Hennepin Ave. Contact your city for available in person absentee voting dates and hours.
Learn more about absentee voting in person
The state primary election determines the list of candidates that will appear on the general election ballot.
To view a sample ballot, go to Hennepin County is encouraging all residents to vote by mail this summer, the ability to safely vote in person on Primary Election Day continues to be a top priority.
Sign up to be an election judge in Hennepin County by going to: County is hiring seasonal election assistants to help with absentee balloting, voter registration and voter outreach and engagement work.
Evans Gathaga died in May after falling into a river in the US.
A 31-year-old general worker had no choice but to spend a month in jail after he was unable to get someone to pay a $750 forthwith fine to the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on his behalf. Jamel Akeem Browne, from Crane, St Philip made the decision on his second appearance before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ […]
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Former State Attorney General Pam Bondi at the press conference. Last Wednesday, former Florida State Attorney Pam Bondi joined the group making accusations about the 2020 General Election. Ms. Bondi spoke at a press conference in Philadelphia along with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and others. At the press conference, Bondi said, […]
[African Arguments] Cambridge Analytica's electoral manipulation of the US's 2016 election along with its abuse of Facebook data became an international scandal. Now in the midst of the 2020 presidential election, US social media platform companies are under increasing scrutiny for their response to misinformation and their responsibility to democracy. Yet, before Cambridge Analytica came to the US, it had been quietly field-testing its electoral strategies in Kenya as meticulously documented in Nanjala Nyabola&rs
Nairobi — Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Chairperson Wafula Chebukati Tuesday said scheduled boundaries delimitation will begin in September.
So what the Commission will do is once the situation calms down as far as the pandemic is concerned,\" Chebukati indicated.
\"We shall start the exercise and if we are not done with it, we will stop and focus on the General Election and then we can finish the remaining part thereafter,\" he added.
Early this year, Chebukati announced that the Commission had developed the Boundaries Review Operations Plan and that it would begin to implementing it once the National Treasury releases funds when the new financial begins.
The IEBC said it will use the official census data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), and the 2019 population and housing census results, to guide the review of electoral boundaries.
… of early ballots cast by African-American voters has reached 85 percent …
By TAMARA LUSH and EMILY SCHMALL, Associated Press
Arizona’s Republican governor shut down bars, movie theaters, gyms and water parks Monday and leaders in several states ordered residents to wear masks in public in a dramatic course reversal amid an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases nationwide.
In New Jersey, Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that he’s postponing the restarting of indoor dining because people have not been wearing face masks or complying with recommendations for social distancing.
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said she will issue an executive order mandating the use of masks in stores and shops, restaurants, and in any situation where social distancing of 6 feet (2 meters) cannot be maintained, including outside.
In Texas, a group of bar owners sued on Monday to try to overturn Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s order closing their businesses.
One of Cuomo’s Republican counterparts, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert, on a conference call with Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House coronavirus task force, also asked Pence and Trump to issue a national call to wear masks.
