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By Tony McWatt Played 21, Won 5 Lost 16. That is this year’s 2022 record of One Day International (ODI) matches played by the West Indies team following its 1-2 loss to New Zealand in the Barbados-hosted August 17-21 three-match series. A record made even more dismal by the actuality of no less than […]
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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 charge is believed to be linked to Zuma’s claim that Downer leaked information about his current state of health to the media.
The post Zuma lays criminal charge against lead prosecutor Advocate Downer appeared first on NewsDay Zimbabwe.
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Without going to contest, the 21-year-old, Mandiudza studying towards a degree in marketing was hand-picked and crowned the MTZ queen on Tuesday night at a ceremony held in Bulawayo.
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Press Release:- On 20th October 2021, the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) hosted two stakeholder consultations as part of an ecological assessment of the Ma Kôté mangrove forest being undertaken by the Institute of Marine Affairs based in Trinidad and Tobago. In 2015, a ground-truthing exercise undertaken by the SLNT, the Departments of Forestry and Fisheries, and the Aupicon Charcoal and Agricultural Producers Group confirmed a severe case of mangrove die-back which had first been revealed through Google Earth imagery. However, satellite images showed that a die-back was present from as far back as 2010. The team of consultants from
Farmer Fabian Skervin has been sentenced to two terms of life in prison for killing an elderly Jamaican-Canadian couple in Retreat, St Thomas.\tIn handing down her decision today in the Home Circuit Court, Justice Lorna Shelly Williams ruled...
Nairobi County Assembly is banking on the issuance of title deeds to public open spaces to keep away land grabbers.
The country recorded 520 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Thursday and 81 deaths, bringing the death toll to 88 835. To date, 11 346 972 people in South Africa are fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Peace, security and political stability in the Central African Republic (CAR) topped Thursday's private meeting between the Angolan President João Lourenço and his Central African counterpart, Faustin Archange Touadéra.
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The facts relating to two offences committed by a St Michael man will be outlined before the High Court when the matters continue on December 3. Justice Carlisle Greaves gave the adjournment after Sumunguru Mugo Mansa Kan-Kan Moore, of Belleview Gap, Station Hill, St Michael entered guilty pleas during a virtual sitting of the No. […]
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By Leonard E. Colvin
Chief Reporter
New Journal and Guide
Colin Powell, 84, the first African American Secretary of State whose leadership in several Republican administrations shaped American foreign policy died on October 18.
According to a posting on his Family’s Facebook page, he passed away due to complications from COVID-19 although he was fully vaccinated.
Powell had multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells that suppresses the body's immune response, as well as Parkinson’s Disease, Peggy Cifrino, Powell's longtime chief of staff, confirmed to the media.
Continue reading Gen. Colin Powell’s Life And Legacy Remembered Locally at The New Journal and Guide.
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.
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IT'S nothing unusual for West Indies teams to have off-the-field issues before a World Cup tournament. Those distractions have not always hampered the team's success. In fact, West Indies have used the 'bacchanal' as fuel which propelled the team to the summit of world cricket just five years ago.
West Indies are finalising preparations for the 2021 T20 World Cup in United Arab Emirates and Oman. The regional team will play England in their opening contest on Saturday at 10 am (TT time).
The build-up to the tournament has not been ideal. Apart from two crushing defeats in warm-up matches against Afghanistan and Pakistan there has been heated debates over the 15-man squad selected for the world cup. An experienced cricketer also had a feud with a former fast bowling legend concerning his role on the team.
Last week, 42-year-old Chris Gayle attacked West Indies fast bowling legend Sir Curtly Ambrose.
Ambrose said Gayle is not an automatic choice in the starting XI in the 2021 T20 World Cup.
Gayle did not appreciate the comments made by Ambrose calling for more positivity and said he is 'finished' with Ambrose and lost respect for the bowling legend.
Former West Indies captain Sir Vivian Richards, who played alongside Ambrose, defended his past teammate.
It's not the first time Gayle has clashed with a West Indies stakeholder leading up to a marquee tournament or match.
In 2015, Cricket West Indies president Dave Cameron re-tweeted a post by a fan who said, 'Gayle goes…can't buy a run. Let's give him a retirement package…can't fail repeatedly and still front up based on reputation.'
Gayle seemed to use Cameron's comments as motivation as shortly after he cracked 215 off 147 deliveries against Zimbabwe in the 2015 ICC 50-over World Cup.
Ambrose's opinion followed weeks of criticism after the West Indies T20 World Cup squad was announced.
Fans, journalists and former West Indies players questioned why some of the players were named on the team including Gayle.
The CWI selection panel, led by former West Indies cricketer Roger Harper, was lambasted.
Jason Holder, named as a travelling reserve, was unlucky to be overlooked according to some.
Others believed players like Sherfane Rutherford, Romario Shepherd and Sunil Narine should have been selected. CWI said Rutherford and Narine did not meet the fitness standard.
Holder, Darren Bravo, Sheldon Cottrell and Gudakesh Motie are the four travelling reserves.
But all these issues beyond the boundary may help the West Indies feel right at home.
Five years ago, the relationship between players and CWI turned sour before the start of the 2016 T20 World Cup in India due largely because of a salary dispute.
It did not seem to hamper the performance as behind Carlos Brathwaite's herculean effort West Indies won the final against England. The moment will be etched in the memory of all West Indies fans for years to come.
Needing 19 runs off the last over Brathwaite struck fast bowler Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes in the first four ba
Who's ready for an extra helping of soul food filled? Eight chefs will compete for $50,000 on The Great Soul Food Cook-Off. The series, developed by OWN And discovery+, is […]
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By Ojaswin Kathuria SHIMLA, India — Sheenam Sharma, a 24- year old, based in the north Indian city, Chandigarh loves buying from the latest collections of fast fashion brands, never shops online. She says she can never find a size that fits her well. “I am petite, so I wear the XS (extra small) size, but whenever I try on a […]
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Former President Donald Trump and his son Eric have been dishing out revisionist history with claims that vaccine hesitancy soared once Biden assumed office and that \"people were getting the vaccine in record numbers\" until Biden implemented vaccine mandates.
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[Nation] Kenya has outperformed the global average of female board directors after witnessing significant progress in board diversity and inclusion in the last nine years, a new report shows.
[Premium Times] \"The publicising of the proceedings made lawmakers to sit up and take the act of law-making, because no one wants to be caught on camera... ... .\"
ESPN’s The Undefeated sparked the conversation over on Instagram after posting some eye-grabbing images of the court at HBCU Paul Quinn College.
The police are warning against an illegal march to culminate at Jamaica House and King's House today.\tAmong the groups said to be organising the illegal march are 'We the People (United Nations)', a group led by entertainer Shawn...
EFF leader Julius Malema has told residents of Kayamandi in Stellenbosch the party would expropriate land in the Western Cape if it comes to power.
THE Electoral College – which comprises all members of the House of Representatives and the Senate – on Thursday rejected a motion filed by Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the appointment of a tribunal to investigate the removal of President Paula-Mae Weekes from office.
Persad-Bissessar's motion was in relation to events that led to the collapse of the Police Service Commission (PSC) last month and the failure to send a merit list of candidates for a commissioner of police (CoP) to the House for consideration.
Tunapuna MP Esmond Forde and Mayaro MP Rushton Paray were not present for the meeting of the college or the earlier sitting of the House, both having requested leave from Parliament and that leave being granted. No other members were absent
At the end of the college's meeting (during which members either voted yes. no or abstained when their names where called by the chairman, Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George, the Opposition fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to approve the motion.
A two-thirds vote of the members of both Houses of Parliament equates to 48 votes. The Government has 37 members in the House and Senate combined, while the Opposition has 25. The nine independent senators, Annisette-George and Senate President Christine Kangaloo complete the membership of the college.
[caption id=\"attachment_920232\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"] The meeting of the Electoral College on Thursday. Photo courtesy Parliament -[/caption]
Annisette-George announced the motion had been defeated by a vote of 47 against and 24 for. All 24 UNC parliamentarians present voted for the motion. The 36 government parliamentarians present voted against. Also voting against the motion were the nine independent senators, Annisette-George and Kangaloo to complete the 47-vote tally that saw it defeated.
When the independent senators each voted \"no\" on the motion, UNC parliamentarians cried, \"Shame!\" Their protests were particularly heightened when Independent Senator Charrise Seepersad (sister of former PSC chairman Bliss Seepersad) voted against the motion. Before the vote was taken, Opposition MPs continued the complaints they raised in the earlier sitting of the House, where the motion was heard.
Annisette-George reminded them the guidelines for the proceedings were clear. She said while there might be disagreement over the procedure being used, all members of the House and Senate agreed the matter was an important one to be dealt with.UNC MPs, including Persad-Bissessar, continued to complain about democracy being undermined, the lack of debate on the motion and whether the vote would be by secret ballot or not.
Opposition MPs and senators loudly protested the presence of Seepersad in the college's membership.
Earlier in the House, Annisette-George dismissed claims of bias levelled against Seepersad and herself in their participation in the proceedings. UNC MPs Khadijah Ameen and Rudranath Indarsingh demanded Annisette-George make a ruling on Seepersad's participation in the college,
The last of the NBA’s 30 teams to tip off this season, the Clippers needed a feel-out quarter Thursday to find a rhythm. Once they did, they recovered, rallied and reasserted themselves as a team that refuses to go away quietly - ever. On the road at Golden State, the Clippers showed some of the […]
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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.
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