Today, Saturday November 7, 2020 the Ministry of Health received confirmation of 13 new cases of COVID-19. This brings the total number of cases diagnosed in country to date to 123. Case #111 is an 80 year old male from the Soufriere district Case #112 is a 60 year old male from the Castries district Case #113 is a 53 year old female from the Gros-Islet district Case #114 is a 29 year old female from the Vieux-Fort district Case #115 is a 23 year old female from the Vieux-Fort district Case #116 is a 49 year old female from…
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Joe Biden has won the presidency. Kamala Harris will be the nation’s first Black and South Asian vice president, and first woman to hold that office.Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral votes put Biden over the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
North Windward MP Montgomery Daniel will be sworn in tomorrow as interim Deputy Prime Minister. The Prime Minister announced that the ULP will elect a new Deputy Leader next year who will become the New Deputy Prime Minister.
At the Unity Labour Party (ULP) celebratory rally taking place at the decommissioned E.T. Joshua Airport at Arnos Vale, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves announced that the Cabinet swearing-in ceremony will take place next week. The Prime Minister also announced that he will be sworn-in by the Governor General tomorrow on her invitation. He further announced that Dr Orando Brewster, Curtis King and Carlos James will be among his top Cabinet picks when the list is announced next week. Celebrating his unprecedented 5th term in office since March 28th, 2001, the Prime Minister thanked thousands of supporters who gathered. A…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden was on the cusp of winning the presidency on Friday as he opened up narrow leads over President Donald Trump in the critical battlegrounds of Georgia and Pennsylvania. Those put Biden in a stronger position to capture the 270 Electoral College votes needed to take the White House. The winner will lead a country facing a historic set of challenges, including a surging pandemic and deep political polarization. The focus on Pennsylvania, where Biden led Trump by more than 9,000 votes, and Georgia, where Biden led by more than 1,500, came as Americans entered…
A Georgetown man who has been involved in the scrap metal trade for a number of years is among the persons being sought locally in connection with the 23,000-pound cocaine bust in Belgium. The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit today announced that their investigators are looking for Georgetown resident, Marlon Primo to question him about the drug shipment. Primo, according to CANU, is listed as the shipper of the container. CANU has already arrested the Customs broker who overlooked the shipment from Guyana. He is likely to remain in custody over the weekend. The container which was packed with scrap metal…
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP)— The death toll from the calamitous storm Eta in Central America has soared after the Guatemalan military reached a remote mountainous village where torrential rains had triggered devastating mudslides. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said on Friday the number of dead and missing were estimated to total about 150. Many of the dead were buried in their homes in the remote Queja village in the central region of Alta Verapaz, where about 150 houses had been swallowed by mudslides, Guatemalan army spokesman Ruben Tellez told Reuters news agency, citing preliminary figures. It appeared the area around Queja…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Judges in Georgia and Michigan quickly dismissed Trump campaign lawsuits Thursday, undercutting a campaign legal strategy to attack the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could mean President Donald Trump’s defeat. The rulings came as Democrat Joe Biden inched closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, the Trump campaign won an appellate ruling to get party and campaign observers closer to election workers who are processing mail-in ballots in Philadelphia. But the order did not affect the counting of ballots that is proceeding in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Election officials in key battlegrounds pressed forward Thursday with presidential vote counting as Democrat Joe Biden urged patience and President Donald Trump pursued legal options with little success, insisting the processing of ballots should be stopped. The president spent Thursday at the White House, working the phones and escalating efforts to sow doubt about the outcome of the race. In a series of tweets, he pushed baseless allegations of electoral misconduct and said the ongoing vote count of ballots submitted before and on Election Day should cease. Trump followed up with an all-caps official campaign statement. “IF…
By Jemarlie John Many years ago, Dr.Ralph Gonsalves boasted that his Unity Labour Party has a well thought out philosophy and a far more compelling narrative than the New Democratic Party. In the early days, the ULP campaigned on the slogan “better by far”. Notwithstanding their usual pompous campaigns, the ULP has steadily lost support since romping home to a resounding 12-3 victory in 2001. For instance, in 2001 in my constituency of South Windward, the Unity Labour Party won by nearly 1500 votes. That is how the NDP went into opposition – by losing several of their seats by…