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Kenya is already feeling adverse impacts of climate change, situations that have been characterised by intense drought and flooding, leading to famine
\"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
California's COVID-19 vaccination rate is currently 16th in the country with 71.8% of the population fully vaccinated.
The post Gov. Newsom Stands Firm on Mandates as State Reaches COVID-19 Milestone first appeared on Post News Group.
[Premium Times] The Nigerian judiciary fails to match its call for more funding with financial transparency and probity.
Doll company Orijin Bees announced its toy collection is available at Target. The Baby Bee Doll collection aims to amplify the
array of Black and brown skin tones and hair textures, Black News reports
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The company, also spelled out like O.R.I.J.I.N B.E.E.S, stands for Our Representation Is Just Inclusion Normalized, Beauti
After a heated exchange between House Speaker Brigid Annisette-George and Opposition MPs during a sitting of the Lower House on Thursday, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she held no ill will with either the Speaker or the President.
During the First Extraordinary Sitting of the House of Representatives, the microphones of several Opposition MPs were muted when they interrupted the Speaker several times.
During the Senate sitting later on Thursday, opposition senators also voiced their dissatisfaction with proceedings.
The sittings were held to vote on a motion filed by the Opposition to remove President Paula-Mae Weekes from office.
Persad-Bissessar during a media conference at her Charles Street, Port of Spain, office described the muting of the microphones as an attempt to muzzle the Opposition.
She said despite the uproar in both Houses of Parliament, she did not have any personal grudge against Annisette-George or Weekes and instead blamed the Prime Minister.
\"Why is the Prime Minister hiding beneath the petticoats of these ladies? You have compromised their offices.
\"Be man and man up. You are the centre of this crisis, Prime Minister man up to it and don't push the ladies in front of you.
\"You have the President there, push her in the front to take the fall, you had the Speaker now the poor lady was so beleaguered now you could see it on her face on questions on the process.
\"Where is the Prime Minister? Sitting there for over three hours not a word did he say while battering was taking place on these women. I condemn him for that.\"
She added that the disagreement may not affect other aspects of Parliamentary business and stressed that the Opposition was not pleased with the way the sittings were conducted.
\"We take as the Lord tells us one day at a time, but with respect to those proceedings today, those proceedings, we were saying, we were participating under protest because the guidelines issued unilaterally by the Speaker are illegal.
\"That is why, in that process today, we believe that the way in which the debate was to be conducted was illegally done. That may not necessarily impact on other days of the Parliamentary proceedings. We have the ordinary standing orders that will inform behaviour on those proceedings.\"
Persad-Bissessar also accused Annisette-George of breaching the rules of the voting process by not allowing a vote of secrecy in the Parliament.
Citing the Legal Notice 187 of 1976 on the roles of the Electoral College, Persad-Bissessar argued that members would be more inclined to vote on the basis of their conscience if the voting was held in secret instead of openly as it was done.
The post Opposition Leader: No hard feelings with President or Speaker appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
Redondo’s Victoria Henkel spikes the ball over Harvard-Westlake’s Neha Tammala in Redondo Beach on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer) Redondo volleyball head coach Tommy Chaffins calls a play in to his players in Redondo Beach on Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (Photo by Scott Varley, Contributing Photographer) Redondo’s Nicole Lankton hits […]
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Less than a week after she announced that a motion would be filed seeking to remove the President from office, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that plans to file a motion of no confidence against the Prime Minister were underway.
Last Friday Persad-Bissessar announced that a constitutional motion would be filed seeking the removal of Paula-Mae Weekes from office, alleging that she was politically influenced on the selection process of a Police Commissioner after a visit from a high-office holder and therefore unfit to continue as President.
The motion was defeated by the Parliament's Electoral College during an extraordinary sitting of the House of Representatives and the Senate on Thursday by a vote of 24 members for, 47 members against with no abstentions.
During the sittings, the microphones of several Opposition MPs were muted as they repeatedly interrupted House Speaker Brigid Annisette-George as she attempted to proceed with a vote on the motion.
At a media conference at her Charles Street, Port of Spain, office on Thursday, Persad-Bissessar described the failure of the motion as an \"attack on democracy\" and warned that if left unchecked TT's institutions would be vulnerable to political interference.
She added that her party would continue to raise the issue even after its defeat in Parliament and said her party would commence with an \"October revolution.\"
Asked why she chose to file a motion against the President instead of a no-confidence motion against the Prime Minister in which the matter could be debated, Persad-Bissessar said, \"It's coming.\"
\"The last time I brought a no-confidence (motion) against the Prime Minister in 2010 the government fell, so it's coming in due course.
\"This matter will be kept alive long after today until the truth is revealed, we will take it onto the people as an October revolution as happened in other countries when a constitution has failed.
\"The Prime Minister will find no rock large enough to hide under or no robe thick enough to protect him from the firestorm that will come his way as a wage for treading on our sacred Constitution.\"
Asked to refer to which part of the Constitution allowed for debates on Parliamentary motions, Persad-Bissessar said it would take more time than the media conference would allow.
\"I have to go into so much legalese which I will do on another day, so for the moment I would prefer to leave it at that.\"
Persad-Bissessar said the October revolution would include efforts from her party to challenge the government in or out of the Parliament on matters of transparency and governance.
On Wednesday the Office of the President announced that head of wealth management for Firstline Securities Ltd Maxine King and criminologist Ian Ramdhanie were nominated for appointment to the Police Service Commission (PSC).
Former Judge Judith Jones and accountant Maxine Attong were also being considered for appointment to the commission.
Persad-Bissessar said while candidates distinguished themselves in their
Truckers are spending several days at the border owing to delays caused by new processing procedures introduced by Zimbabwean authorities on Wednesday.
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[Daily Trust] The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a grant agreement for $500,000 with Y'ello Digital Financial Services (YDFS), a fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria, for a study on economic, religious, and social factors hampering access to finance for women in northern Nigeria.
[Ghanaian Times] Yesterday, a three-day summit to discuss issues concerning the African youth began in Accra.
[Nation] Actress Lupita Nyong'o on Wednesday honoured slain Kenyan athlete Agnes Tirop as the county marked Mashujaa Day.
Une femme a été tuée et une autre personne blessée par un tir survenu, jeudi 21octobre, sur le tournage de Rust, un western avec Alec Baldwin en cours de réalisation dans le Nouveau-Mexique, aux Etats-Unis. La femme, âgée de 42 ans, a été évacuée par hélicoptère vers un hôpital voisin mais « a succombé à
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\"The streets are the judge among us and they never lie. We are revolutionaries, we will continue to be and we will keep defending the revolution's main goals..\".Al Sadeq Gaafar, pro-military protester from Khartoum
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 […]
The victim is now crying for justice, hoping the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) would compensate him.
A job action by teachers will have devastating consequences on learners countrywide, who have already lost valuable learning time due to COVID-19-induced lockdowns.
The post Find lasting solution to teachers’ concerns appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
Four star general Colin L. Powell, who became the first Black leader of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the first Black Secretary of State, died Monday from complications related to Covid-19 at the age of 84. While fully vaccinated, Powell also suffered from multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body’s immune response. He also had […]
Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE Source: FOX Flash / FOX Flash Costume designer Jimmy Hawkins did not come to play with primetime television! Each week he gives the Our…
The post ‘Our Kind Of People’ Rolls Into Episode 5 With More Sleek Looks appeared first on The Black Chronicle.
David Duke said on a recent episode of his podcast that ex-President Donald Trump and Fox News host Tucker Carlson created their platforms out of his white nationalist ideas.
The Barbados Water Authority today Thursday, October, 21st wishes to update residents of St. Joseph and St. Andrew that repair of the ruptured 10-inch main at Cattlewash, St. Joseph is in progress. Repair teams continue work in the area cautiously due to the soil conditions. The Authority will continue to assist residents in […]
The post BWA continues repairs on burst main at Cattlewash, St Joseph appeared first on Barbados Today.
Tiffany Duron had just finished up Hurricane Harvey repairs on her Northeast Houston home when outbreaks started to shake the country. Dealing with the pandemic would have been much easier if her family didn't just get through damage from the storm: They had only just started to get back on their feet when COVID-19 hit […]
Ganze, Kaloleni, and Magarini sub-counties in Kilifi are some of the worst-hit by hunger.
L'excellent match au milieu de Valentin Rongier, les difficultés de Pol Lirola à l'aile gauche… Retrouvez les Tops et les Flops de la rédaction à l'issue de la rencontre entre la Lazio et l'OM (0-0). TOPS À découvrir Rongier, quelle maîtrise! En grande forme depuis plusieurs matchs, le milieu de terrain de l'OM a une
The post Tops/Flops Lazio Rome-Marseille : Under fête son retour à Rome, Lirola en difficulté appeared first on Haiti24.
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Colin Powell has died from complications from Covid-19, his family members have confirmed. The first Black US secretary of state was 84. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from […]
[This Day] Chinedu Eze writes that since the federal government declared that it would concession terminal facilities in four major airports in the country, the plan has been fraught with controversies and fierce resistance from labour
The board last met in regular session on June 19. A complete list of board meetings is available on the Board of Trustees page of the UVI website.
The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News Colm Imbert - Finance Minister Colm Imbert has dismissed claims that First Citizens’ Bank (FCB) was involved in a “growing Ponzi scheme” as described by Senator Wade Mark earlier this week. On Wednesday during the Senate’s budget debate in Parliament, Imbert said the Bank’s investment in Jamaican company, Barita, has proved to be successful and was a part of the Bank’s strategy to diversify. He said, “FCB is diversifying outside […]
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There were more senators on the floor of the Legislature at the end of Wednesday’s session than usual and they collectively let a bill die to raise the retirement age of senators from 60 to 65.
By Abigail Klein Leichman When Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed the historic Abraham Accords last year to foster binational collaborations, it seemed that the sky was the limit. Now, even the sky is no limit. The newest of many projects blossoming between these Middle East allies will send three unmanned spacecrafts to the […]
