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Businesswoman Tabitha Karanja and several newcomers have been cleared to contest.
\"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
As the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament prepares to vote on a motion filed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to begin the process to remove President Paula-Mae Weekes from office, the Barbados parliament has elected that country's first president on Wednesday.
Members of Barbados' House of Assembly and Senate voted in separate ballots for sitting governor-general Dame Sandra Mason to become Barbados' first president and replace Queen Elizabeth II as the island's constitutional head of state.
A report in the NationNews newspaper on Wednesday, said the House of Assembly and Senate voted 27-0 and 18-0 respectively in favour of Mason. There were no other nominees in this exercise. Barbados prime minister Mia Mottley and opposition leader Bishop Joseph Atherley both agreed that Mason should be nominated to become Barbados’ first president when the House of Assembly debated the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2021 on Tuesday.
Mottley said, “Barbados naming a head of state will take us to where we want to be. The name of Barbados won’t change. We don’t need to do that to advance. We are not changing the date of Independence, so these are simple things we believe are necessary at this point.\"
In a statement on Wednesday, TT Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne congratulated Barbados on Mason's election as it's first president.
Browne acknowledged the announcement that Barbados' current governor-general will \"become the country’s first native head of state, replacing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, when she is sworn in on November 30.\"
Browne said Barbados has always been a pioneer in identifying and supporting the rights of the Caribbean and small developing countries.
\"With the president at the helm in Barbados, the country is destined to make a more significant mark on the multinational forum.\"
He promised that TT will continue to work with Barbados in order to ensure that the concerns of Caricom and all other developing countries remain at the forefront.
Reiterating that TT looks forward to Mason's inauguration next month, Browne said he has already conveyed Government's congratulations to Barbados Foreign Minister Jerome Walcott on the historic occasion.
Prior to becoming governor-general in January 2018, Mason was a a practising attorney who had served as a high court judge in Saint Lucia and a Court of Appeal judge in Barbados. She was also the first woman admitted to the bar in Barbados and served as chair of the Caricom commission to evaluate regional integration.
The post Barbados elects Mason as first president appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Colin Powell By Devan Cole, CNN Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.'General Colin […]
One of the most curious peculiarities of employment law that has always fascinated me is the expression: 'expressed or implied'. Expressed is easy, but what is 'implied,\" really?
Industrial relations, of course, is really just human relations played out in an employment context. So much, in any human relationship is implied, rather than expressed.
A shared and sustained eye contact can express something in a relationship that words cannot. Even a fleeting glance that meets another may convey a shared understanding especially when accompanied with a smile, a lifted eyebrow, or a parental or marital frown that does not need further expression.
When it comes to a contract of employment, however, it is usually better and safer, to ensure that, if it is a contract that is intended to last any length of time and be carried out to the satisfaction of the parties involved, particularly if there is a 'consideration' attached, it should be expressed, 'orally or in writing.'
If it is not, the terms, including the amount and the currency in which the 'consideration' is to be paid, may become a source of contention and end up in court.
Among the terms in an employment contract that are 'implied' are those that, in common law are referred to as a duty of co-operation.
It means that everyone who decides to enter into an employment relationship is agreeing to do all those things, even if they are not spelled out, that need to be done to achieve the objectives of the job.
Think of it. There are things that anyone taking on a job should not need to be told, for example: not to interfere with someone else's work, not to deliberately waste materials or destroy equipment, to obey reasonable instructions given by one's manager or supervisor, and to do 'a fair day's work for a fair day's pay.\"
On the employer's side, the implied terms are a 'fair day's pay for a fair day's work', ensuring that the employee understands and has the training to perform the required duties (learn and earn), making sure that there are sufficient and adequate tools and equipment to perform the requested duties.
These may sound like common sense, but the reason they have passed into common law is because they often are not common. If your mother didn't teach you that you are expected to dress properly in turning up to work, you might, like one young woman did, turn up to work in a bank, bra-less and in a very transparent blouse, much to the amusement of her supervisor who sent her home, but not before asking her to report to four senior managers for confirmation that she was in breach of company policy.
Not wearing a tiny bikini or a transparent outfit to work is not spelled out in most employment contracts, nor legislated for in Parliament.
There is a hierarchy of laws. The Constitution comes first, then laws followed by regulations, followed by laws and regulations legislated in Parliament.
Collective contracts may supersede those in an individual employment contract, and where all of these are silent, hundreds of years of court deci
By Tanu Henry, California Black Media The law firm representing Los Angeles City Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas, who the United States Department of Justice indicted last week on federal corruption charges, say the city’s leaders have “no legal basis” to suspend its client. “I write to express my deep concern over the illegality and inappropriateness of […]
The post Mark Ridley-Thomas' Atty: Motion to Suspend Client Has “No Legal Basis” appeared first on Voice and Viewpoint.
The Committee on Government Operations and Consumer Protection discussed proposed legislation amending the territory’s virtual data system and upon approval sent it to Rules and Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
[The Herald] PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has commended the country's citizens for resisting machinations by the country's detractors to effect regime change through the use of illegal economic sanctions imposed to alienate the people from Zanu PF by the United States and is allies.
Many have insisted that RICO represents the worst the criminal justice system has to offer because of the arbitrary wielding of the government’s power to impose criminal sanctions.
The post Experts Say Lawmakers Should Abolish RICO Law appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
By Lisa Fitch Our Weekly News President Joe Biden’s Senior Advisor, Cedric Richmond, who serves as the director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, attended a live streamed briefing for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) on Wednesday to address a number of issues of concern in the Black community. “It’s been a […]
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[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Investigating Judge at the Sousse Court of First Instance issued on Wednesday evening a committal order against former minister, businessman and MP Mehdi Ben Gharbia.
American attorney A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may req
A decision by Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn to go against the position of his leader in the election of the country’s first President Dame Sandra Mason, has opened up a political “can of worms” in Barbados. A two-thirds majority of members of the two Houses of Parliament including Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley and one […]
The post Franklyn: I voted with my conscience appeared first on Barbados Today.
https://s.france24.com/media/display/3c7dadf8-3216-11ec-b4eb-005056a97e36/w:1024/p:16x9/2021-10-20T170647Z_1644804278_RC2TDQ9VPTH0_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-BRITAIN.JPG Publié le : 21/10/2021 – 04:42 Le gouvernement britannique a rejeté, mercredi, les appels croissants à rétablir des restrictions contre le Covid-19, tels que le masque en intérieur, face à l’envolée des contaminations. Mais le ministre britannique de la Santé, Sajid Javid, n’a pas écarté cette hypothèse si la population refuse les offres de vaccination.
A huge leak of documents seen by BBC News shows how countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change. The leak reveals Saudi Arabia, Japan and Australia are among countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels. It also shows […]
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