The NDP chose Mrs Laverne Gibson-Velox as the candidate to represent the party in East St. George for the 2020 elections. Velox gained 14 of the 20 votes, while Renson Haynes and Adriana King took three votes each. Velox will come up against current representative and ULP candidate Camilo Gonsalves who in the 2015 election…

(TELESUR) – “I won’t promote a coup against any president” Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez stressed Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez Thursday clarified his position regarding Venezuela and recognized the legitimacy of the electoral process for the renewal of the National Assembly to be held on December 6. His statements came after international mainstream media announced that he…

(orinocotribune) – The parliamentary elections to choose the new members of the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) will be held on December 6, the president of the National Electoral Council (CNE), Indira Alfonzo Izaguirre, reported on Wednesday. From the headquarters of the National Electoral Council in Caracas, Alfonzo reported that between July 13 and 26, the…

The church-based Jamaica Progressive Party (JPP) will abolish income tax, ban go-go clubs, and raise salaries for civil servants if it gains state power. JPP President Gilbert Edwards, who migrated to the United States when he was 20 years old, says his party also plans to increase the national minimum wage and invest in the…

On Monday 22nd June, 2020, the Unity Labour Party (ULP) regime denied members of the opposition their rights to debate a Private Member’s Motion in parliament. The Motion was on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Management of the Economic and Social Consequences of the Pandemic. It was proposed by Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Godwin Friday. This…

(TELESUR) – Lavrov stressed that this Latin American nation has the strength to counter the U.S. attempts to impose the Monroe Doctrine. Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Sergey Lavrov Wednesday expressed that his country appreciates the efforts that Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is making to preserve a sovereign foreign policy and to maintain a dialogue with…

(TELESUR) – This comes as Trump said in an interview on Sunday that he would consider meeting his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro affirmed Monday that he would be willing to meet and speak with his United States counterpart Donald Trump. “Just as I met (Joe) Biden (former U.S. Vice President during…

(TELESUR) – “I am going to enact the law,” Añez said Sunday in a televised message to the country. Bolivia’s de facto President Jeanine Añez announced that she will enact the Elections Law, to be held on Sept. 6 without further delay, after being accused for several weeks of using the coronavirus pandemic as a…

“Education is the most powerful weapon which can be used to change the world,” Nelson Mandela. If education is to be used as a weapon of change, what are the ammunitions needed to enable us to effectively bring about positive student outcomes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, thus putting us on the path of…

President David Granger on Sunday hinted that a state of emergency would have to declared to pave the way for the reconvening of a Parliament and the approval of funds for government spending, if the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) scraps the March 2, 2020 general and elections. “It is possible…I know it has been done…