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The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) held a closed-door meeting in Portmore, St Catherine last to address growing tension between supporters of Deputy Mayor Alrick Campbell and Dr Alfred Dawes in the St Catherine South Eastern...
Critics have called it a stunt to invite sympathy. Yet Amuriat says campaigning without shoes is a protest and that those who do not get its symbolism are missing a point.
Uganda is due to hold a general election on January 14. Amuriat and another opposition candidate, Bobi Wine have had their rallies violently dispersed by security forces or been arrested.
In mid-November, scores of people were killed as security forces attempted to quell protests against the arrest and detention of Bobi Wine.
Police has accused the candidates of addressing huge gatherings in contravention of regulations on COVID-19 prevention.
Swollen feet
In an interview with one of the dailies in Uganda, Amuriat said his feet hurt a lot and has to pour cold water on them in between campaign stops for some relief.
Doctors have cautioned him on the potential danger of contracting tetanus from cuts to his feet.
Yet Amuriat remains adamant. He says by refusing to wear shoes, he’s standing in solidarity with people whose wealth and opportunities have been stolen by the country’s longtime ruler Yoweri Museveni.
JUST IN: FDC presidential candidate Patrick Amuriat has been arrested at the border of Rubirizi and Bushenyi districts. The reason for his arrest is yet to be known📹 @MukhayeD#MonitorUpdates#UGDecides2021 pic.twitter.com/xopK4FMoD0
— Daily Monitor (@DailyMonitor) December 4, 2020
Museveni, in power since 1986 is seeking a new term. In 2017, he changed the constitution to remove age limits that would have stopped him from seeking re-election.
FDC is Uganda’s largest opposition party. In 3 previous elections, the party fronted veteran activist and retired army colonel Kizza Besigye for president.
The St Catherine South police have launched a manhunt for a gunman who killed a Portmore labourer.\tNicholas Bent, 44, of Cressa Lane in Braeton, St Catherine, was shot on Tuesday in the division.\tReports are that about 8 p.m., Bent was walking...
The joint select committee reviewing the proposal for Portmore to become Jamaica’s 15th parish met on Thursday and approved the plan, which is to undergo further fine-tuning before being sent to Parliament. However, it did not include any input...
BALDWIN HILLS — A local coalition representing 300 black clergy members has joined the fight to block the sale of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, one of the biggest malls in Los Angeles.
At a June 10 press conference outside the Hancock Park offices of CIM Group, the coalition voiced its strong opposition to the giant real estate firm’s plan to buy the 40-acre property, arguing that it threatens South L.A. and its economic interests.
“This is just the start of a series of protest events we will organize against CIM’s plan for the plaza property,” said the Rev. William D. Smart Jr., CEO and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Southern California.
In May, Los Angeles-based real estate developer Shaul Kuba, CIM Group principal and co-founder, announced the company had signed a purchase and sale agreement to pay more than $100 million for the property, located at Crenshaw and Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards and would reposition the property by ditching prior plans for residential use to instead renovate the 869,000-square-foot mall into office and other commercial uses.
CIM plans to scrap at least the residential portion of Capri Capital Partners’ massive redevelopment plan for the 40-acre property, which was to add nearly 1,000 residential units, a hotel, office space and more retail.
Thousands of people, led by clergy of different faiths, marched through the streets of Cape Town on Saturday in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
At least two of the people said to be eyeing an eventual push to replace Dr Peter Phillips as member of parliament (MP) for the St Andrew East Central constituency once the incumbent steps down are mum on their aspirations. Party insiders have...
President Donald Trump began a solemn Memorial Day railing against North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ahead of the 2020 Republican National Convention, threatening to pull it out of Charlotte, where the convention is expected to be held August 24 to 27.
“I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August,” Trump said in a series of tweets.
“We all want to be in Charlotte, we love North Carolina, but having a sense now is absolutely essential because of the rules and regulations that are involved, and we look forward to working with Gov. Cooper, getting a swift response, and, if need be, moving the national convention to a state that is farther along on reopening and can say with confidence that we can gather there,” he said.
The Republican convention, which is scheduled to be held in the same uptown arena where President Barack Obama accepted his nomination to a second term in 2012, is awash in uncertainty as party officials determine how to navigate a presidential campaign during a public health crisis.
A spokeswoman for the governor, Dory MacMillan, said in a statement on Monday that state officials were working with the Republican National Committee “and will review its plans as they make decisions about how to hold the convention in Charlotte.”
Mr Nathan Nandala Mafabi, who had challenged Gen Muntu for the party presidency, had insisted that though Article 32 of the party constitution provides that the \"term of office for all party officials shall be five years renewable only once\", Gen Muntu serves out only what had remained of Dr Besigye's five-year term.
A tribunal headed by lawyer Ladislaus Rwakafuzi agreed with Mr Mafabi, but a five-member team of party elders led by Mr Augustine Ruzindana, ruled that the National Executive Committee (NEC) meetings that approved election guidelines had \"made it clear that the November 22 election was an election for a party president for five years\".
Speaking to Sunday Monitor on Tuesday, Mr Amuriat said his intention had been to cut his term short by three years, but that the terms of office of other office bearers ends at the end of this month, which would mean that the next internal election would only be held this year, but the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic had forced the party to put some of its plans on hold.
In the aftermath of the changes, Mr Amuriat was accused of hounding those who had supported Gen Muntu out of positions of leadership, but on December 6, 2018, while addressing his first Special National Council meeting at the party's headquarters at Najjanankumbi, Mr Amuriat said the changes were a \"complete functional trinity between the party, Parliament and the Peoples' Government leadership\".
FDC seems not to have suffered at the hands of the NRM as much as other political parties such as the Democratic Party (DP) and Uganda Peoples Congress (UPC), but it has also suffered a number of high profile defections such as that of former national vice chairpersons Alex Onzima and John Butime, Ms Betti Olive Kamya, Eriya Kategaya and most recently Mr Jackson Kafuuzi Karugaba and Ms Beatrice Anywar, who were recently appointed to Mr Museveni's Cabinet.
There seem to be a waning resistance to the idea of the municipality of Portmore becoming Jamaica’s 15th parish on the part of some residents who spoke at the joint select committee of Parliament virtual town hall meeting last Thursday. Since the...
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday fired outspoken deputy information minister Energy Mutodi hours after he insulted three \"abducted\" opposition officials in a tweet.
READ | Zimbabwe official charged for 'insulting' president Emmerson Mnangagwa over coronavirus
A prominent opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lawmaker and two party officials were originally arrested for protesting over food shortages experienced during the coronavirus lockdown.
In his tweet Mutodi claimed the three opposition officials \"went out for a romantic night to Bindura (a small town) with their lovers\", a couple of miners.
Mutodi has also been at loggerheads with information minister Monica Mutsvangwa whom he accused of teaming up with her husband to eliminate him.
Mutodi becomes the second high profile government official to be fired by Mnangagwa, following the removal of former tourism minister Prisca Mupfumira last year.
Lisa Hanna has picked up the endorsement of two key People’s National Party (PNP) operatives as the campaign for the presidency of the 82-year-old political organisation intensifies. PNP Vice President Phillip Paulwell yesterday threw his lot in...
[Nation] Aspirants seeking Deputy President William Ruto-linked United Democratic Alliance (UDA) ticket in next year's General Election have demanded an assurance of fair nominations.
[Premium Times] \"Where there is violence, it will be zero,\" the INEC chair said in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
