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Young people across Barbados are making a unique contribution to the Barbados Ruffugee Project – a collaboration between the Barbadian non-profit Ocean Acres Animal Sanctuary and the Canadian charitable organisation Eastern Ontario Potcake Rescue (EOPR) – the biggest ‘freedom flight’ out of Barbados and into Canada for 200 stray, abandoned and abused dogs. The youngsters […]
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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
American Family Insurance steps up to celebrate HBCU students and alumni via virtual homecoming sponsorship. On a mission to acquire and support the best talent, American Family Insurance promotes career opportunities to HBCU students MADISON, WI – American Family Insurance announced today it is joining Target to co-sponsor YouTube Originals’ 'HBCU Homecoming 2020: Meet Me … Continued
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YOUNG PEOPLE on Action for Climate Change, Jamaica are getting a group of stakeholders together for a virtual forum that takes stock of flood risk in a changing climate. The event, set for this Friday (November 6), is being held under the theme ‘...
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Following hours of chaos on March 13th, District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo bawled out a second fraudulent declaration for Demerara-Mahaica even though earlier that day Chief Justice Roxane George had issued specific instructions on the use of Statements of Poll (SoPs) which he failed to comply with.
With the controversy gathering steam on March 14 and contempt of court proceedings being filed against Mingo over his second declaration, CARICOM Chair, Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley intervened that day with an agreement between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo for a recount of the votes of all 10 districts.
In the meanwhile following an approach by a supporter of APNU+AFC to the Guyana Court of Appeal to prevent the declaration of the recount result, that court on June 22nd issued an order seeking to insert the word `valid’ into provisions governing how the Chief Election Officer (CEO) decides the winner of the Presidency.
This has seen Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield inexplicably junking 25% of the votes and presenting a result in favour of APNU+AFC.
However, this latest court action plays out the final decision will be left to GECOM and particularly its Chair, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh
With Chief Justice Roxane George ruling on March 11th that the March 5th declaration of results for District Four by Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo, following the March 2nd general and regional elections was null and void, Mingo was bound by the court to return to the verification process to allow observers and party agents to witness the tabulation of votes.
We stand in solidarity with the family, friends and community of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade, the African Americans and all those living in America of all races, genders, sexualities, abilities, ages, religions and ethnicities who have come out in their millions publicly to protest the most recent police killings, to condemn racism in all its forms, to remind us all that Black lives matter, that racism is an insidious, soul destroying, inhumane form of violence.
We note that the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade are not isolated or maverick occurrences, but part of a repeating pattern of unjust murders of African Americans which is related to systemic, institutionalized anti-Black racism enforced through continuous racial profiling of the Black population by the police and state apparatus.
We call on CARICOM and ALL Caribbean leaders to unite with us, the millions of African Americans, Black folks living in the US and other Americans of all ethnicities and the global community to:
• Call for justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade, and to demand that ALL those responsible for their deaths be brought to justice;
• Offer solidarity across national divides for the family, friends and community of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and all others who have been arrested, tear gassed and assaulted by law enforcement;
• Dismantle state endorsed racism and violence that makes itself visible through the incarceration, surveillance and deportation of Black folks;
• Call on the United States government to listen to the voices calling for an end to the institutionalization of racism in America in all its forms, and to commit to dismantling covert and overt racial discrimination and to enact the words of the American constitution, which states that all are “created equal and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”;
We also call on CARICOM and its leaders to also take stock of the police and military killings in their own countries.
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Opal Palmer Adisa, Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Chelsea Fung, Guyana/Canada
Monifa Adebola, Barbados
Vanda Radzik, Guyana
Kimalee Phillip , Caribbean Solidarity Network, Canada/Grenada
Danuta Radzik, Help & Shelter, Guyana
Alissa Trotz, Canada/Guyana
Kurt Williams, Trinidad & Tobago
Danielle Smith, Canada/Barbados
Angela Robertson, Canada
Alexandrina Wong, Antigua
Lynette Joseph-Brown, Individual, Guyana
Karen de Souza, Red Thread, Guyana
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Kirk Quevedo, Trinidad & Tobago
Akende Rudder, NGO, Trinidad and Tobago
Holly Bynoe, Tilting Axis, St Vincent and the Grenadines/Barbados
Ralph Murray, The Bahamas
Orchid Burnside, Bahamas
Annalee D Davis, Independent Visual Artist, Barbados
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In 2007, a much younger former U.S. President Jimmy Carter wrote “Beyond the White House,” about his post-presidency work with The Carter Center, an institution he and his wife help create in 1982.
Had it not been for that call from President Carter to President Hoyte who then instructed the GDF to mobilize and supplement the Police force, Guyana would have experienced the type of post-electoral violence witnessed in 1998 when mobs roamed the streets of Georgetown attacking perceived supporters of the PPP.
The Carter Center, headed by Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter, was accredited to observe the March 2 elections, and is now seeking permission to re-enter Guyana to observe the recount.
In two letters dated on May 15th and addressed to Sarah-Ann Lynch, the US Ambassador to Guyana and to five prominent Senators of the United States, Karen Cummings, the de facto Guyanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, who wrote on behalf President David Granger, explicitly stated that “…it may not be possible for the Carter (Center) and the IRI Advisor to participate in the overseeing of the recount of the votes cast on the 2nd March General and Regional Elections…” She cited concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, and re-affirmed Granger’s confidence in the role of the Caricom observers.
Caretaker David Granger, who was 47 years old when Carter observed the 1992 elections, and who encouraged President Hoyte to peacefully hand over power to the opposition, amid objections from PNC hardliners, is making a calculated decision.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): Fast-bowling legend Sir Andy Roberts has issues with the decision by Cricket West Indies (CWI) to allow the tour of England to go ahead amid the COVID-19 pandemic without ensuring there was a financial benefit to be derived from the three-Test series.
The 69-year-old said while he did not have a problem with the series in principle, he did not believe the Windies should have been used as “guinea pigs” for the historic “biosecure” series without financial reward, especially since the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) stood to save £380 million (over J$67 billion) by convincing teams to honor commitments during the summer.
“What I have a problem with is that there are talks about West Indies are not going to benefit from this tour financially, which I think would be a mistake, because the chances we’re going to take, I don’t think many more countries are willing to take that chance.
The Windies were scheduled to tour England last month, but the three-Test series was postponed as the United Kingdom dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic.
To save their summer schedule, and hundreds of millions of dollars in television revenue, the ECB proposed staging the series in a biosecure environment.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean students still stuck at The University of the West Indies, Mona, are anxious to get home as the coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across the globe.
Two students from St Vincent and the Grenadines, whose identities The Sunday Gleaner is protecting out of a general fear among Vincentians that they could lose scholarships for speaking out, have said that they feel let down by their government in how it is communicating with them and how plans for their return home are being handled.
Now one of the last occupants of his dorm as Jamaican students were given notice to vacate several halls within hours of news that classes would be suspended, Bentley said the uncertainty surrounding transportation arrangements have added to his anxiety.
In a letter earlier this month, St Vincent and the Grenadines Honorary Consul to Jamaica, June Barbour, told the stranded students wanting to return home amid the coronavirus that they would each have to pay more than US$1,330 for a return charter flight, warning that the airfare could increase if there are fewer than 56 students making the journey.
Bentley and other students found the price quoted by the Antiguan-based regional airline, LIAT, of which St Vincent and the Grenadines is a shareholder, to be exorbitant, given the limited resources they had.
Capra, Frank The Negro Soldier 1943
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Craig Davidson There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Baseball Leagues 1984
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Schiller, Greta and Rosenberg, Robert Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community 1986
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The publisher of the Barbados Advocate newspaper and owner of Barbados Broadcasting Service Ltd, Sir Anthony Bryan, died on Friday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the eastern Caribbean country.
Tens of thousands of people gathered Saturday in cities from Australia to Europe to express anger over the death of George Floyd and to demand an end to racial discrimination in a sign that the Black Lives Matter movement is going global.
Yesterday, an afternoon protest at London's Parliament Square headed towards the UK Home Office, which oversees the country's police, and then on to the US Embassy, as protesters showed \"solidarity for the people of America who have suffered for too long\".
In Berlin, where police said 15,000 people rallied peacefully on the city's Alexander Square, protesters chanted the name of George Floyd and held up placards with slogans such as \"I can't breathe.\"
Wearing masks and black shirts, dozens of demonstrators marched through a commercial district amid a police escort, carrying signs such as \"George Floyd Rest in Peace\" and \"Koreans for Black Lives Matter\".
By Nadine Matthews Special to the AFRO Though LA-based actress Aliyah Royale left Maryland when she was very young, she reveals she has gone back and forth to and from the area, “all my life.” The reason for her many trips was ostensibly to visit friends and family but she also has a secret agenda: […]
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Public health officials from the Caribbean Community (Caricom) are to meet with their counterparts from Canada as the region begins the process of reopening its borders to allow international travel back into the Caribbean, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has said.
Mottley, the chairperson of the 15-member regional integration grouping, told the Canada Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on Tuesday night that she had written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seeking Ottawa’s assistance in urging Canadians to visit the region in the post-COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have actually written your prime minister on behalf of the Caribbean Community…and as you know, most of our countries in the community are travel- and tourism-dependent, and what we have asked for is for discussions between our public health officials and your public health officials so that we can ensure that we satisfy them, the scientists, that we are taking as many precautions that we can take to ensure that for your citizens and for our citizens the levels of safety are appropriate,” Mottley said.
The regional countries are now at various stages of reopening their economies and borders and Mottley said that Barbados is still holding discussions among stakeholders on the issue.
Canada comes up against Norway and Ireland for the rotating seat and Mottley said, “ Barbados and Canada have had a long relationship.
Oct. 5 voter registration deadline quickly approaches — Georgia League of Women Voters president, Lucy Hale, calls students to action this election season. In the 2016 election, young people 18 to 29 years old contributed only 19% of votes. As we near the next election in the midst of ongoing pandemic, turnout is a bigger...
The foundation, in a news release on the weekend, pointed out that for the last 11 years its “carefully integrated approach, which involves the active participation of Sandals and Beaches Resort team members, communities, guests, travel agents, donors and partners, has led to substantial improvements in the Caribbean's marine and terrestrial conservation efforts”.
Additionally, in partnership with the Coral Restoration Foundation and CLEAR Caribbean, Sandals Foundation has established three coral nurseries in Jamaica and two in St Lucia to grow and plant thousands of pieces of coral to help restore local reefs, sequester carbon, restore fish populations and protect shorelines.
Partnering with marine invasive species experts from The University of the West Indies, Sandals Foundation has hosted workshops in Jamaica, Grenada, St Lucia and The Bahamas to engage local stakeholders, raise awareness and develop their capacity to properly handle lionfish.
These include the Mangrove Restoration for Climate Resilience programme, which works across the region to replant mangrove forests and strengthen key coastal defence mechanisms; sustainable solid waste management initiatives which have seen more than 60,000 pounds of solid waste being collected across the seven islands where Sandals Foundation works; and partnerships with various forestry and conservation organisations across the region resulting in the planting of over 14,000 trees across the Caribbean.
“With the help of resort guests, team members, partners and donors, we are working to protect the marine and terrestrial environment while sustainably maintaining the livelihoods of the hundreds of thousands of Caribbean nationals who depend on the region's natural ecosystems to make a living,” the foundation added.
It said that the voluntary pooling of patents in response to the pandemic needed to be ‘be narrowly tailored in scope and duration to the medical needs of the current crisis’, raising uncertainty about how the US intends to respond if it is the first nation with a viable vaccine.
Apart from spelling out the public health issues the Caribbean has had to address, the need to recognise vulnerability when it comes to eligibility for development assistance, and recognising Cuba’s ‘palpable’ and ‘unswerving assistance’ to the region, Barbados’ Prime Minister shone a light on the crisis in global governance that the pandemic has highlighted.
Last month Roberto Azevêdo, its Brazilian born head resigned early and there is a growing body of opinion that if the institution is to survive in any meaningful way his successor will need somehow to bridge the divide between China and the US and reform the organisation so that it is better designed for a different world.
How achievable this might be given the WTO’s consensus-based decision-making approach, a US President who sees trade as bilateral and Manichean, and China’s professed multilateralism and global role in driving trade and investment, is open to question.
However, if such exceptionalism proves incorrect, the answer comes from China, Cuba or elsewhere, and is offered at cost or free to the world, and the US Administration objects, it will struggle to justify its unilateralism or objections to global interdependence.
Guyanese Timeka Marshall and Adrian Dutchin are among 25 artistes from 14 Caribbean countries who have joined their voices for a song to give hope during the current pandemic.
For her the opportunity was three-fold as she was able to share an important message of hope, represent Guyana and join with other amazing singers to make it possible.
Greenaway, who hails from Montserrat, added that despite the current circumstances, it was quite amazing to know that each artiste were in their own countries in different places and successfully complete this project in a time frame of just over two weeks.
Meanwhile, Bajan Soca artiste, Omar ‘MarzVille’ Mcquilkin popular for his songs, ‘Bang Bim’, ‘Give It To Ya’ and ‘Toc Tic,’ said he felt good knowing that have been given such an opportunity, especially at such a time.
Among the other artistes who took on the ‘We Got This’ project are College Boy Jesse (Trinidad), Claudette Peters (Antigua), Tasha Peltier (Dominica), Motto (St. Lucia), Karisia Willett (St. Kitts), Shaunelle McKenzie (St. Vincent), Queen B (Anguilla), Josh Berkeley (Grenada), Adana (Tobago), Devine Songz (Dominica), Victor O (Martinique), Arthur (St. Lucia), Rochelle (Barbados), Khional (Barbados), Drew Dean (Nevis), Genisa St.Hillaire (Trinidad), Shauntel Layne (Barbados), Kaay Jones (Jamaica) and Mahalia (Barbados).
Ambassador George E. Moose’s career in international diplomacy resulted from his spending a college summer in the 1960s building a three-room schoolhouse in Tanzania. The high point of that career came in 1983 when President Ronald Reagan nominated him to be U.S. Ambassador to Benin and later Ambassador to Senegal.
George Moose was born in New York City, New York on June 23, 1944, to Robert and Ellen Amanda Lane. Moose attended public schools in the city and then graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa in 1966.
After graduation Moose became a Foreign Service Officer in 1967. His first overseas assignment was Vietnam at the height of the Vietnam War. Moose served from 1969 to 1971, first as Refugee Program Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and later as Political Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Da Nang. He returned to the United States and worked for the U.S. State Department Board of Examiners from 1971 to 1972 and then served as a Political Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, Barbados between 1972 and 1974.
In 1974 he was assigned as a Political Analyst for Southern Africa in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1974-76); then as Desk Officer for Southern Rhodesia (1976-77) and Special Advisor to the Under Secretary for Political Affairs (1977-78); followed by a term as Deputy Director of Southern African Affairs (1978-79).
From 1979 to 1980 Moose was an International Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations and then from 1980 to 1983 he was Deputy Counselor for Political and Security Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York City.
On October 7, 1983, President Ronald Reagan nominated Moose as Ambassador to Benin. After U.S. Senate confirmation he arrived in Cotonou, the capital of Benin, and presented his credentials on November 4, 1983. He completed his mission on July 7, 1986.
Returning to the United States he next served (on loan) as a member of the Policy Council for the Una Chapman Cox Foundation between 1986 and 1987 then he
The topic of voting and politics can be divisive and, in some cases, incendiary.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Legendary former West Indies batsman Sir Everton Weekes, the last surviving member of the distinguished Three Ws, died here yesterday following a long illness.
The oldest surviving West Indies cricketer and third oldest surviving men’s Test player, Sir Everton passed away at his Christ Church home at age 95, bringing to an end one of the finest ever chapters in West Indies and world cricket.
Fellow Barbadian and Test great Sir Gordon Greenidge on Wednesday hailed Sir Everton as a “favourite of all West Indians”.
In a statement on behalf of Cricket West Indies, president Ricky Skerritt, endorsed Sir Everton’s “amazing legacy” and humility.
Born just outside the storied Kensington Oval on February 26, 1925, Sir Everton became a member of the famous Empire Cricket Club where he played alongside another legendary former West Indies captain Sir Frank Worrell.
Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Attorney General since 2009, was born on January 21, 1951 in the Bronx, New York to parents of Barbadian descent, Eric, a real estate agent and Miriam Holder, a telephone operator. Holder was raised in East Elmhurst, Queens, a community which included a number of famous African Americans such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, and Sidney Poitier. Civil rights activist Malcolm X lived two blocks from young Holder and on one occasion in 1964, then recently crowned heavy weight champion Muhammad Ali entertained him and other community children on the steps of the Malcolm’s house.
Holder graduated from Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan and in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War protests and Black Power movement, he entered Columbia University where he participated in sit-ins by African American students. Holder also played collegiate basketball and became co-captain of his team. In 1973, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in U.S. history from Columbia and then entered Columbia University Law School, earning a J.D. in 1976. While in law school Holder served as a law clerk for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Educational Fund (NAACP-LDF).
In 1976, upon completing his law degree Holder joined the United States Department of Justice’s newly established Public Integrity Section, prosecuting misconduct by government officials. While there he participated in the prosecution of South Carolina Democratic Congressman John Jenrette for bribery. During the 1970s, Holder also developed a professional relationship with other rising black Washington D.C. attorneys such as Valarie Jarrett, Alexis Herman, and Charles Ogletree.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan named Holder an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia where he presided over civil and criminal trials. Holder resigned from his judgeship in 1993 to accept President Bill Clinton’s appointment as U.S. Attorney for the District
The Church of St. Mark in Brooklyn, New York was originally established by a group of black Episcopalians in 1838. The next year, Dr. Samuel M. Haskins was asked to be rector (pastor), the role he would maintain for 60 years. By April 1841 the congregation completed a Gothic style edifice in Manhattan on the corner of Bedford Ave. and South Fifth Street in Brooklyn. This building was used by the church for the next 60 years until it was condemned in 1896 to allow access to the new “East River” (Brooklyn) Bridge.
A church committee was formed to find a new location and in 1898 a six lot piece of land was obtained, surrounded by Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn Avenue, and Union Street. Although the congregation planned to build an expansive collection of buildings including a new church, parish house, rectory, as well as others, they determined to start with the parish house. Because of the prolonged construction, the house would include a room for worship and would serve as the church until the expansion could be made.
Construction began on January 26, 1901. Designed by one of New York City’s leading architectural firms, Henry M. Congdon & Son, the parish house was an impressive structure of Gothic design with a cellar, gymnasium, billiard room, parlor, kitchen, library, choir room, classrooms, and of course, the main assembly room. The building was opened on September 8, 1901 and officially became the Church of St. Mark.
The planned expansion never occurred, most likely due to the Great Depression. On October 1, 1929 the remaining portion of the property was sold to a developer for $1,500,000 for the construction of a fifteen-story apartment building. In 1937, the parish house became a church in appearance when a new façade and tower were added, making it the structure that church members would now recognize.
Today, Reverend Peter W.D. Bramble, Ph.D. leads the church in the role of rector and has an incredibly diverse group of church goers, primarily immigrants from the Caribbean, South and Central America,
CXC’s proposal to use only Paper 1 (multiple choice) together with the students’ SBAs or IAs to assess them is seriously flawed.
To compound the issue CXC has been woefully silent on the final weighting for either Paper 1 or the SBAs and IAs thereby making the entire issue of validity of the 2020 Exams all the more dubious.
Given these circumstances, how valid can any CXC Exam be if it uses Paper 1 as a principal means of assessment in awarding final grades?
It is nothing short of amazing that in the face of the multitude of bone fide concerns that CXC has chosen to go full speed ahead with its misguided proposal for July Exams.
A new meeting will allow CXC to at least salvage some of its integrity which has been seriously tarnished in the relentless pursuit of its proposal for July Exams.
In 2004 Rev. Al Sharpton of New York City, campaigned for the Democratic nomination for President. Sharpton saw himself as the successor to Rev. Jesse Jackson who campaigned for the Presidency on behalf of the impoverished and oppressed. Although he did not garner as much support as Jackson did in 1984 and 1988, he did focus national attention on his constituency and his proposals to help them. His speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston follows.
Tonight, I want to address my remarks in two parts.
One, Im honored to address the delegates here.
Last Friday, I had the experience in Detroit of hearing President George Bush make a speech. And in the speech, he [asked] certain questions. I hope hes watching tonight. I would like to answer your questions, Mr. President.
To the/our chairman, our delegates, and all that are assembled, were honored and glad to be here tonight. Im glad to be joined by supporters and friends from around the country. Im glad to be joined by my family, Kathy, Dominique, who will be 18, and Ashley.
We are here 282 [228] years after right here in Boston we fought to establish the freedoms of America. The first person to die in the Revolutionary War is buried not far from here, a Black man from Barbados, named Crispus Attucks.
Forty years ago, in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party stood at the Democratic convention in Atlantic City fighting to preserve voting rights for all America and all Democrats, regardless of race or gender. Hamers stand inspired Dr. Kings march in Selma, which brought about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Twenty years ago, Reverend Jesse Jackson stood at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, again, appealing to the preserve those freedoms.
Tonight, we stand with those freedoms at risk and our security as citizens in question. I have come here tonight to say the only choice we have to preserve our freedom at this point in history is to elect John Kerry the president of the United States.
NEW YORK, USA (CMC) — A group based in the United States has expressed disappointment by what it says is Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley's “misguided” position on Guyana's March 2 elections impasse.
“Without seizing herself of the full set of facts, Prime Minister Mottley, in her capacity as Caricom (Caribbean Community), chairman, jumped into Guyana's elections politics, like a bull in a China shop, to support her friend Bharrat Jagdeo, leader of the Opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP),” claimed Rickford Burke, president of the Brooklyn, New York-based Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID), in an open letter to Mottley and the citizens of Caricom.
Burke, an international law consultant, alleged that “at the apparent behest of lobbying from Bharrat Jagdeo, and in coordination with Western Nations, Prime Minister Mottley viciously attacked Guyana's chief elections officer (CEO), Col Keith Lowenfield.
“She recklessly called on the Guyana Elections Commission to declare the PPP the winner, although the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) had already issued a restraining order against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) prohibiting it from declaring the results,” Burke added.
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Guyana's highest court, on Wednesday issued an order that would continue to put on hold the Court of Appeal ruling regarding the disputed elections.
[Daily News] AS the country inches to the General Election on 28th next week, religious leaders have been urged to abstain from engaging with people, who preach and plan chaos.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Outspoken fast bowling legend Sir Andy Roberts has lamented the exclusion of fast bowler Oshane Thomas from the West Indies 14-man squad to England but has queried the inclusion of out-of-form opener Kraigg Brathwaite.
“One name that surprised me wasn’t in the squad was Oshane Thomas,” Sir Andy said.
Sir Andy’s comments echoes those of fellow West Indies icon, Michael Holding, who last week also questioned Thomas’s omission from the main Test squad.
Selectors have included the uncapped pair of batsman Nkrumah Bonner and fast bowler Chemar Holder in the 14-man squad, with fast-bowling all-rounder Raymon Reifer recalled after playing a single Test three years ago.
Sir Andy, who took 202 wickets from 47 Tests as a member of the halcyon side of the 1970s and 80s, also pondered Reifer’s presence.
Barbados PM to hand over chairmanship of CARICOM on July 3
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\t\tBRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley will hand over the chairmanship of the 15-member regional integration movement, CARICOM, on Friday during a special conference of regional leaders.
Mottley, who has served in the position for the past six months, will hand over to St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.
The regional leaders will hold host their 20th Special Meeting on Friday via video conference beginning at 10:00 am (local time) after they had agreed during their ninth Special Meeting in April to stage the handing-over ceremony at the beginning of July.
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which has affected all CARICOM countries, has forced the annual summit, usually held in July, to be rescheduled to September 2 and 3 in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
During Friday’s virtual meeting, CARICOM leaders are expected to also address a number of procedural matters, according to a Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) statement.
Rev. Deon Kevin Johnson has become the 11th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, making him the first openly gay Black man to hold the post in the diocese’s 179-year history.
Johnson was ordained and consecrated last week in a ceremony at Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis.
He was most recently rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brighton, Mich.
In the week following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, Johnson joined in peaceful protests in the St. Louis region.
Days after the clearing of nonviolent protesters at St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C., so Donald Trump could have a photo op, Johnson spoke at a solidarity rally at St. John’s Episcopal Church in St. Louis.
This day markst the 26th anniversary of the Treaty of Chaguramas which was signed in Trinidad, July 4, 1973 to establish the Caribbean Community and Common Market - CARICOM. It was the result of a 15 year effort to fulfil the hope of regional integration which began with the establishment of the British West Indies Federation. CARICOM member states are Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago.
