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NNPA NEWSWIRE — Representatives Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), Justin Jones (D-Nashville), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) took to the Tennessee House floor to stand in solidarity with school and community activists protesting legislative inaction on guns after the tragic mass shooting at a Christian school in Nashville. Instead of focusing on how to protect innocent children from gun violence, Tennessee Republicans mobilized to remove those who had the audacity to step forward and demand a change.
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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
The conservative pundit let off a few poorly timed and inconsiderate tweets regarding the incident calling Baldwin's deadly mistake \"poetic justice\" for his previous criticism of Donald Trump.
Gen. Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. secretary of state and a trailblazing figure in Washington, died of complications from COVID-19 on Monday, according to his family. He was 84. […]
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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Jayanti Lutchmedial - OPPOSITION Senator Jayanti Lutchmedial accused the PNM of engaging in 'a frontal attack on our democracy' and praised Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for her bravery to stand in defence of Trinidad and Tobago's democracy. Lutchmedial made these statements in her contribution to the budget debate in the Senate on Tuesday. During her contribution, Lutchmedial was cautioned by Senate President Christine Kangaloo about raising matters which are currently […]
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- At an emergency meeting yesterday, the Sudanese Council of Ministers decided on the formation of a seven-member committee headed by Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok to discuss ways to contain the acute crisis between the ruling partners.
Far-right extremists over the years have adopted a number of flag designs as their representative banners. First it was the yellow “Don’t Tread On Me” Gadsden flag flown by the Patriot movement and tea party. The alt-right came up with its Naziesque...
[Independent (Kampala)] The Last Word -- Opposition leader and activist, Dr Kizza Besigye, has launched a new pressure group, the People's Front for Transition (PFT). Besigye said the strategic objective of the pressure group is to remove President Yoweri Museveni from power. There is a fundamental problem with Besigye's view of Uganda and explains his failure to lead his followers to any meaningful outcome. He has defined the problem of Uganda as Museveni, and the solution the removal of the president. Removing Museveni has thus ceased to be a m
The first Black chair of Iowa's Democratic Party said he received racist and lynching threats after writing an opinion piece criticizing Donald Trump.
Sudanese anti-government protesters holding a banner reading in Arabic: \"Full justice and a complete freedom\" with a portrait of the head of Sudan's Sovereign Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
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
He said Raila's plan is not economically healthy for a debt-ridden country.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Yasin Abu Bakr - The Innovative Democratic Alliance (IDA) is calling on the country’s leaders to ensure that the views of citizens are duly considered in drafting policies and laws meant to govern them. The party was reacting to the death of Jamaat al Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr, who, on July 27, 1990, tried to overthrow the National Alliance for Reconstruction Government, led by ANR Robinson. Bakr, 80, collapsed […]
After your wresting the Presidency on the backdrop of a military-engineered deposal of the late former President Robert Mugabe, public gaze was intentionally fixated on you. Speculation on the way forward instantly inflamed to hyper-intensive proportions.
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