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Uganda: COVID-19 Disrupts 2021 Elections Plan
All planned Election Commission (EC) activities between March and May 2020, including elections for Special Interest Groups (SIG), have been suspended until further
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Dallas dispatchers answer call for help, donate groceries to senior citizen without food – Dallas Post Tribune
By Gerardo Martinez/Fox 4 News/Facebook DALLAS - A group of Dallas dispatchers banded together to help a senior citizen who called 911 for help because she didn’t have anything to eat. Dallas police say Valencia Crowder, a 911 dispatcher, received a call in late March from a senior citizen. The
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Freezing of oil funds among possible sanctions if will of the people subverted - Stabroek News
Jose Cardenas, a political consultant based in Washington, DC, yesterday said that Guyana’s current political situation is “troublesome” and it paves the way for sanctions to be imposed and restrictions can also be placed on the country’s oil funds if the will of the people is not
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Errors raise questions over 2017 polls
Glaring errors in the results of the August 8, 2017, General Election, published on the website of the Independent Election and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), have kicked up a storm, with leaders calling for a reorganisation of the commission before the proposed referendum and the 2022 General
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Trinidad's PM invites CARICOM, Commonwealth to observe August election
Trinidad (CMC): Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has written to CARICOM Secretary General Irwin La Rocque and Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland  inviting them to send election observers to the upcoming general election on ...
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Caribbean HR Solutions celebrates a decade of service
WESTERN BUREAU: Talent matters, especially when fused with hard work and dedication. Caribbean HR Solutions recently paused its busy work schedule to celebrate its 10th anniversary as the Caribbean’s premier human resources outsourcing company,...
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Singing from the same hymn book – To what end?
From Joe Harmon’s extensive statement early in the week, to interviews by Lennox Craig and David Patterson at midweek, then by Amna Ally, Cathy Hughes and Aubrey Norton, all singing from the same hymn book – the elections were rigged by the
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Ghana: Report Evidence of Rigging to Police - NIA to NDC
The National Identification Authority (NIA) has asked the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to report the state agency to the police if the party has any evidence to back its election rigging allegations made against the Authority on Thursday, 14 May
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Holness to be sworn in tomorrow
The nation will get a better glimpse of what the next five years will be like when Andrew Holness, 48, is sworn in tomorrow for the third time as prime minister of Jamaica. Holness’ reappointment will follow formal notification from the Electoral...
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‘If Dr Phillips resign today, ... di PNP dead’ - JLP poses by-election threat if MP steps aside
“Absolute rubbish!” That was the sentiment of People’s National Party (PNP) supporters in Frog City to notions that the St Andrew East Central seat occupied by long-serving Member of Parliament Dr Peter Phillips could swing to the ruling Jamaica...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Dalley undaunted in Clarendon Northern
HORACE Dalley, the self-styled 'Gangster For Life', has scoffed at claims that his Clarendon Northern seat is one of those the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) will take from the People's National Party (PNP) when the votes are counted on September 3.
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Somalia to Delay Elections by 13 Months - Black News Channel
By ABDI GULED Associated Press/ BNC Contributor NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalias election body says it intends to delay the parliamentary and presidential elections scheduled for November by 13 months, citing the countrys security problems. Announcing that a new date for the elections in
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Jamaicans to cast vote without ID | New York Carib News
The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) has confirmed that people without a Voter Identification (ID) Card will be allowed to cast their ballot in the September 3 general election.
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Trinidad: PNM earns fresh mandate with 22-19 win - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) Hard times are ahead for the next two years. The article Trinidad: PNM earns fresh mandate with 22-19 win appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Lowenfield is a ‘runaway’ train, GECOM Chair has to take a stand – Ramkarran - Stabroek News
Describing Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield as a “runaway train” in light of his recent actions, Presidential Candidate of A New and United Guyana (ANUG) Ralph Ramkarran says that Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Claudette Singh will sooner or later have to take
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Uganda: Critics Concerned About Web and Media-Only Election Campaigning
Uganda's 2021 election candidates will have to campaign online and through the media to reach voters as part of new rules to stem the spread of
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Deal to crack down on port smuggling close, says Tapia
A long-gestating pact between Jamaica and the United States to stamp out corruption at local ports is almost ready for ratification but will probably not be inked until after the September 3 general election. The stalled four-year talks may also...
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Malawi: Chakwera Leads in Malawi Opinion Polls - MCP Says Not Taking Anything for Granted
With a month left until fresh presidential elections, opinion polls by Afrobaromete suggest that Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and UTM Party alliance presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera would win the ballot, but MCP has said it will not be
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Malawi: Law Expert Says Ansah Resignation May Delay Malawi Elections
A law expert has said the resignation of Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) chairperson Jane Ansah just weeks into a crucial presidential election has plunged the country into yet another electoral
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Allegheny County plans more pandemic voting options | New Pittsburgh Courier
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Somalia: Ex President Sharif Alleges Farmaajo Govt Plot to Delay Elections
Somalia's former President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has expressed "dissapointment" by the postponement of the The National Independent Electoral Commission Presentations in Parliament which had been scheduled to be tabled on 27th
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Jefferson-Jenkins, Carolyn (1952 - )
In 1994 Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was elected the first African American president of the National League of Women Voters.  She became at that time the 15th president of the League in its 74 year history. A native of Ohio, Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins majored in
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Election D-Day for PNM, UNC
A cliffhanger is expected when the final votes are tallied this evening in the Trinidad and Tobago general election. However, a number of political pundits give Dr Keith Rowley’s incumbent People’s National Movement (PNM) the slight edge over the...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Chief Election Officer directed to prepare report using recount results
Chief Election Officer to prepare report in keeping with Section 96 of the Representation of the Act, Chapter 1:03; paving the way for official declaration of Election Results
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Remove Lowenfield, declare the result - Stabroek News
In a Page One comment on June 25th, Stabroek News stated the following in relation to the Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield: “As we have said before, Mr Lowenfield must be summarily dismissed from his
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
It is hard to argue PNC rigging is all history when history is repeating itself at this very moment.
The reports of the 303 Committee and a memorandum by Thomas H. Karamessines, Deputy CIA Director entitled “Plans of Guyana Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, Leader of the People’s National Congress (PNC), to Rig the Elections Scheduled for Late 1968 or Early 1969” might be a good starting point for
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Trade unionist against election during pandemic
PRESIDENT of the Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) Vincent Morrison says he is opposed to a general election in the midst of the country's struggle with the COVID-19 crisis, but that the organisation would support any party which prioritises the rights of the
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Tanzania: Lissu named main opposition candidate | Africanews
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Major hitch in push for early referendum
“With adequate budgetary facilitation, the commission is ready to deliver on its constitutional mandates, among them conducting elections and referendums,” Mr Chebukati
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Moment of truth approaches for GECOM Chair
As the recount of votes from the March 2nd general elections crawls along it must not be forgotten that what should have been an orderly process with a result within two or three days was obscenely overturned by the Returning Officer for District Four, Clairmont Mingo when he introduced numbers
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