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Zomba High Court judge Zione Ntaba has suspended the arrest and further detention of Minister of Lands Kezzie Msukwa who was nabbed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Friday. Ntaba has questioned the manner in which Msukwa was arrested, describing it as unreasonable and meant to just embarrass him. However, ACB Director General Martha Chizuma …
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A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
The Michigan Supreme Court announced in a press release that oral arguments in two highly-publicized, local cases regarding the Detroit City Charter revisions will be heard jointly at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 7. The matter at hand is between Horace Sheffield and III Rodrick Harbin (plaintiffs) versus the Detroit City Clerk and Detroit Election … Continued
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Some historians and biblical scholars across the world believe that the celebration of Christmas has always been, and forever will be, an acknowledgement of a pagan holiday from Ancient Rome. However, one Baptist pastor is refuting those claims as...
OPPOSITION Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar alleged that the transfer of a Porsche car sold by someone in 2016 had not been declared to the Integrity Commission for several years, until 2021. She was speaking in the budget debate in the House of Representatives on Friday.
She said the budget has an allocation for the Integrity Commission, to which people in public office are compelled by law to declare assets.
\"The country learnt of individuals who sold a Porche SUV to their friend and did not transfer it. That is in breach of the law.
\"Additionally, if a person in public life fails to declare any sale of any assets, he is in breach of the law.\"
She said Integrity Commission records showed a person in public life sold a vehicle in 2016 and failed to disclose the sale to the Integrity Commission in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
\"Failed! In breach of the law. Only in 2021, after the mark buss, was the sale declared by letter (in) February 2021. Why did it take five years to disclose this sale? What were you hiding?\"
She asked if the commission was under-resourced to detect these matters?
\"This Government has slashed the recurrent expenditure to the Integrity Commission, from $16.6 million in 2015 to $8.3 million in this budget. We deserve an explanation.\"
Persad-Bissessar said while citizens were lining up to do their personal transactions, Attorney General Al-Rawi's family was collecting millions of dollars per year by renting offices to the Government, including buildings housing branches of the Ministry of Public Utilities, Personnel Department, Ministry of Social Development and Family Services, and the police service.
Persad-Bissessar also inquired about TT Petroleum Holdings Ltd overriding the advice of its own legal team not to appeal TTPH's lost case against AV Oil Ltd, the sale of Kay Donna land and the growth of NCB GlobalFinance.
She asked if the Government had contracted an Israeli company to intercept people's phone calls, claiming a whistleblower had said so, as she recalled a past PNM government once tapping the phone of the then president.
Persad-Bissessar asked why a proposed fuel card was to be distributed by the Ministry of Public Utilities, asking, \"Is this to be another PNM slush fund?\"
On the Police Service Commission imbroglio, she said it was an unprecedented constitutional crisis which demands absolute transparency.
\"In this regard, I wish to advise that I have written to Her Excellency the President, co-signed by all 19 UNC MPs, calling on the President to provide much-needed answers to a series of questions.\"
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[Premium Times] The deceased were a divisional police officer and a station officer.
Bill Barrow The Associated Press - (Source: www.miamitimesonline.com) - Jennifer McClellan remembers her parents recounting life as Black Southerners enduring segregation and the trauma and triumph of the civil rights movement. It taught her that [...]
An early career in health care led to political aspirations for Eddie Bernice Johnson, culminating in her current position representing Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is an advocate for women, children, and human rights.
Born in Waco, Texas, in 1935 to parents Lee Edward Johnson and Lillie Mae (White) Johnson, Bernice Johnson traveled to Indiana to attend college when there were no educational opportunities for her as a black woman in Texas. She earned a diploma in nursing from St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame in 1955. One year later she married Lacey Kirk Johnson. The couple had one son, Kirk, and then divorced in 1970. Bernice Johnson continued her education. She later received a BS in nursing from Texas Christian University in 1967 and a MS in public administration in 1976 from Southern Methodist University.
Johnson was the chief psychiatric nurse at the Dallas Veterans Administration Hospital until 1972 when she was elected to the Texas House of Representatives, the first African American woman ever elected to public office from Dallas. She also became the first woman in Texas history to lead a major Texas House committee when she chaired the Labor Committee. Five years later, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to be the regional director for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. When Carter left office in 1980, Johnson entered the private sector as a business development consultant in Dallas.
In 1986, she re-entered politics and was elected as a Texas state senator who advocated for fair housing, minority-owned businesses, and health care services. The 1990 census created new congressional districts for Dallas, and Johnson served on the reapportionment committee. Her involvement with the redistricting created controversy when she ran for one of the new seats, but in 1992 she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. As a House member, she has served on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee as well as the Committee on Science and Technology.
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Michigan Chronicle Digital Anchor Andre Ash, right, interviews Detroit Charter Commissioner Nicole Smalls, center, and Rev. Horace Sheffield inside the Real Times Media Studio on Tuesday, June 22. The spotlight is on the future of Detroit’s City Charter Proposal on an upcoming Tuesday, August 3 ballot, and is a measure that is not without … Continued
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Austrian hospital officials announced a “tragic mistake” after doctors amputated the wrong leg of an elderly man. Both legs of the 82-year-old man were affected by complications from illnesses he was suffering, but doctors at Freistadt Hospital thought amputating his left leg from mid-thigh was urgent. However, two days after his surgery on May 18, nurses discovered the wrong leg […]
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The new captain appointed to steer the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) ship through choppy seas as a corruption probe engulfs the institution says he will not be going in blind when he takes up the post as interim president on June 1.
The CMU has been in the spotlight since March 2019, when then Education Minister Ruel Reid was booted from the Andrew Holness Cabinet as several state agencies carried out probes into reports of financial mismanagement and corruption at a number of entities under the education ministry, including the university.
A probe by the Auditor General’s Department last year also painted a messy picture of the state of affairs at the east Kingston-based university, raising a red flag over cases of financial and administrative mismanagement.
Duggan said he was “not mad” to take on the appointment, which has tasked him to clean up the facility and move to repair the tarnished image of the CMU in light of the scandal which has also damaged the reputations of the several individuals linked to the university.
Duggan’s latest job is another lead role in post-retirement life as less than a year ago, he was appointed chairman of the board of the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).
Analysis - Exploiting public office to win elections is common but Madagascar and Cabo Verde are making polls more fair.
Eskom, in their 73-page summons, outline how and when they believe Koko and former executives looted the SEO of R3.8 billion.
The Bertram Collins College of Public Service which was shut down recently is set to be used as a secretariat for the government’s scholarship programmes.
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Joe Biden is on the cusp of formally securing the Democratic presidential nomination after winning hundreds more delegates in primary contests that tested the nation’s ability to run elections while balancing a pandemic and sweeping social unrest.
On Tuesday, voters across America were forced to navigate curfews, health concerns and National Guard troops — waiting in line hours after polls closed in some cases — after election officials dramatically reduced the number of in-person voting sites to minimize the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.
Voting rights watchdogs in multiple states on Tuesday expressed concerns about access to mail ballots, confusion about deadlines and a shortage of poll workers that led to long lines.
Two other states holding primary elections on Tuesday, Idaho and Iowa, chose their presidential nominee early in the year.
In a New Mexico race for an open House seat, ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame lost the Democratic primary to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez, a professional advocate for Native American communities and voting rights issues.
Over a period of less than two months, public pronouncements by heads of key regional development support organizations including Head of the Caribbean Development Bank, Dr.
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CANBERRA, Australia — Thousands of Australians have rallied across the country, calling on political leaders to make greater strides towards equality and ending violence towards women. Crowds were out on the streets of Australia chanting, “enough is enough.” They gathered in front of the front lawns of Parliament House in Canberra, within a few hundred meters of where political leaders can […]
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Minister of Energy and Energy Industries Stuart Young has met with BHP Petroleum executives in Texas where he was updated on the group's merger with Woodside Petroleum of its global oil and gas assets, including in Trinidad.
The meeting included Michael Stone, BHP TT’s country manager, Graham Salmond, general manager of BHP Petroleum North America and the Caribbean, Selby Bush, head of corporate affairs, and Rohan Goudge, head of appraisal. It took place at the World Petroleum Conference in Houston.
The BHP executives told the minister the merger, worth an estimated US$28 billion, was progressing as planned.
Young was also updated on the ongoing appraisals of BHP's Bongos 3 and 4 wells, provided with details on its joint venture with Royal Dutch Shell and its efforts to minimise costs as they work toward commercialising the LeClerc and Victoria wells.
In BHP’s third quarter report released in October, it announced that it encountered hydrocarbons in the Bongos 3 well and a sidetrack, Bongos 3X, is being drilled for further appraisal. Bongos 4 was spudded in August. The operations for Bongos 4 was suspended until the completion of the operations on Bongos 3X.
BHP’s 2017 discovery of natural gas to the tune of 4-5 tcf at the LeClerc deepwater was hailed as the first deepwater gas discovery at the time. Production of the well, in which BHP and Shell are partners, is expected to begin by 2026, according to reports.
In a release issued on November 22, BHP announced that it signed a binding share sale agreement for the merger of BHP’s oil and gas portfolio with Woodside, which comes after the signing of a merger commitment deed in August.
“On completion the merger will create a global top ten independent energy company by production and the largest energy company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX),” BHP said in the release.
“The combined company will have a high margin oil portfolio, long life LNG assets and the financial resilience to help supply the energy needed for global growth and development over the energy transition.”
Young and energy ministry officials also promoted the 17 deepwater blocks open for bids in Trinidad during the conference which started Sunday was expected to end Thursday.
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From 1960s civil rights activist Bayard Rustin to Chicago's first black female and lesbian mayor, Lori Lightfoot, black LGBTQ Americans have long made history with innumerable contributions to politics, art, medicine and a host of other fields. “As long as there have been black people, there have been black LGBTQ and same-gender-loving people,” David J.... [Read More]
DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Your Excellency, in Genesis, a story is told of the Garden of Eden. It is said that in it, man does not have to work by the sweat of his brow to survive. There is a tree of life located in the middle of the exquisite garden from which man may eat of all he wishes. But, almost in the same breath, the story seems to contradict itself. Henceforth, it mentions yet another tree, the tree of knowledge of good and bad. Here, God instructs Adam in a do-or-die solemnity that as surely as he eats of its fruit, he will die. This story of two trees, one of life and another one of knowledge of good and evil is a popular Sunday school topic. Methinks you were taught it as I was. My mentor, the late John Kapeta, underlined that it was a telling allegory of transcendent insights for cardinal virtue. What adds spice to the story is the appearance of the serpent. After God and Adam had ended their conversation, which went on cordially, the serpent contradicted to Eve what God had told Adam. “You surely will not die,” slyly said the serpent. And, they ate at their peril. Apparently, people reap what they sow. Since time immemorial, the fate of destruction and death is inevitable for people who stray beyond the tree of life. As I see it, whatever people ultimately become, be it individually or collectively, is traceable to the choices they made. It is not mere coincidence that Jesus also affirmed the objective of bringing the Kingdom of heaven here on earth. He pleaded for the beauty and sufficiency of heaven to be replicated on earth. His prayer: “Let it be done on earth, as it is in heaven,” is indeed an earnest petition. Methinks at the heart of this story sits the universal principles of accountability and responsibility. Each time I study this account, importance of obedience and diligence in caring for whatever providence places in my care gets driven deep into my personhood. Also, I get the conviction that the imagery of the Garden of Eden is a portrayal of Zimbabwe. Given the beauty of her scenery and resourceful human and abundant natural resources, she is indeed a country of sufficiency. All things being equal, citizenry may eat all they wish. Recent discovery of diamonds in Manicaland confirmed the riches bestowed on the country. Indeed, Zimbabwe is an earthly Garden of Eden. Yet, sadly, citizenry wallow in poverty. His Excellency, it is due to fateful government choices that the country is in this socio-economic mire. Over the years, government has been blaming a long list of imaginary enemies for impeding viability. But, the basic truth is that its political choices have adverse effects on the economy. Like Adam, it transgresses God’s words, “You surely will die.” Yet, it blames others. As I see it, citizenry should have had a day of national prayer and fasting for deliverance from untoward government policies than from coronavirus. True, divine intervention has power of transmutation. But, methinks our prayer and fasting was a profanity, lip service. Frankly, the challenges bedevilling Zi
The Ethnic Relations Commission, (ERC), undeniably supports an articulate and free press which contributes to the good tenets of a democratic nation.
Mr. Lenox Shuman on 25 June, 2020 during a live Facebook stream of the Kaieteur Radio show made damning imputations of corruption against the Chairman of the Ethnic Relations Commission and by extension, the Commission in its entirety.
Any reasonable person hearing the words uttered by Shuman would come to the conclusion that his proclamations have brought the integrity of the Commission into disrepute.
The Commission assures the public that it takes pride in operating in the interest of what is just and fair and it is a reflection of safeguarding the concerns of all Guyanese.
Decisions made on behalf of the Commission are done collectively by the members of this panel and are not at the discretion of the Chairman of the Commission.
Malian officers upset with a government reshuffle have detained the president and prime minister at an army camp outside the capital, triggering broad international condemnation and demands for their immediate release.
After being held for two days in police custody, former Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) Trevor Benn was charged on Friday with misconduct in public office over the lease of land at Ogle.
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WESTERN BUREAU: Although jury trials have been suspended in COVID-19 era courtrooms locally, lawyers representing three cops charged in connection with the 2014 death of Mario Deane in a Montego Bay lock-up have indicated that they would prefer...
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) says it has not found any evidence to suggest that State House inflated figures when making payments for the accommodation of four foreign guests who were booked at Crossroads Hotel in Lilongwe in July, 2020. Last year, there were allegation that State House spent K65 million on hotel bills for security […]
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Krystian Legierski, an LGBT activist, politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur, is the first openly gay person elected to public office in Poland. He was born on April 22, 1978, in the village of Koniakow in southwestern Poland. His mother is Polish and his father is from Mauritania. Legierski, known for his progressive political and social views, frequently discusses being brought up by his religious mother and grandmother in a traditionally conservative community. He notes, however, that both his family and his community have always been supportive of him. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw.
Legierski was an active member of a left-wing political party, the Greens, since its founding in 2004. He ran unsuccessfully, as a member of the Greens, in the 2005 and 2011 Polish parliamentary elections and in the 2004 and 2009 European Parliament elections. In 2010 he won a seat in the Warsaw City Council. After losing a bid to assume leadership of the Greens, Legierski left the party in 2011, citing internal disagreements over the question of potential coalition partners as his primary motivation. He was not reelected to the Warsaw City Council in 2014. In the 2015 parliamentary election, he ran as a candidate of the United Left, but the coalition did not cross the 8 percent threshold required to gain seats in Parliament.
Legierski’s political interests focus on LGBT rights, affordable housing, accessibility and structure of the public space, and civil society. As an activist, Legierski has been one of the most recognizable advocates of LGBT rights in Poland. He led an initiative to oppose the ban on the Warsaw Equality Parade, an annual LGBT rights event that the conservative authorities of Warsaw attempted to block in 2005. He was also actively involved in the unsuccessful effort to enable homosexual couples to form civil unions. Since 2009 he has been a supporter of a campaign to promote civil partnerships in Poland. The proposed law intends to protect the rights of
