Kenneth Kaunda, the former president of Zambia, who has died in hospital in the capital, Lusaka, at the age of 97, was the last of the giants of 20th century African nationalism. He was also one of the few to depart with his reputation still intact. But perhaps more than any of his contemporaries, the standing of the man who ruled over Zambia for 27 years is clouded with ambiguity.
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GEORGETOWN, June 17, 2021 - The controversy surrounding Guyana’s Police Service Commission intensified last evening with President Mohamad Irfaan Ali announcing that he was suspending the entire Police Service Commission and would be setting up a tribunal to look into their full removal from the entity.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, June 16, 2021 - Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance, Gail Teixeira has condemned what she says is a “malicious and deluded” Facebook post made by Opposition Member of Parliament, Annette Ferguson accusing the Government of “setting up of Death Squad and Black Clothes groups.”
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After two years of repeated and inconclusive Israeli elections, the advent of a new coalition government has ended the long era of Benjamin Netanyahu’s prime ministership. Yet he leaves a legacy of hawkish policies that will likely remain intact.
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JERUSALEM, June 15, 2021 - The next government is not going to be a typical one for the citizens of the state of Israel, and especially for members of the Palestinian Arab minority, who are 20% of Israel’s population. This is the first time the Zionist political parties forming the government are including an Arab party.
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The bombing of Gaza may have ended, the sirens in Tel Aviv silenced for now. Yet as concern over a planned June 15, 2021 march by right-wing Israeli nationalists underscores, the threat of violence in Israel is never far from the surface. It is sustained and fueled by what is at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: land and property ownership.
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HAIFA, Israel, June 14, 2021 - Israel’s 36th government was approved today, with a slim majority of 60–59 in the Knesset (parliament).
The new prime minister is the leader of national-religious party Yamina, Naftali Bennett. A religious person, former commander in an elite army combat unit and successful high-tech entrepreneur, Bennett was forced to form a unity government with centrist Yair Lapid, head of Israel’s second-largest party, Yesh Atid.
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GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, June 15, 2021 - Demewrara Waves - By a vote of thirty-four to thirty-one, shortly after 5 O’clock this morning, the Government used its simple majority in the National Assembly to pass a motion that seeks to oust David Patterson as Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
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KINGSTON, Jamaica: In early 2021, PNP Party President Mark J. Golding reconstituted the Party’s Policy Commission as the Policy/ Vision Commission, and charged it with defining the contemporary political philosophy of the PNP through meaningful policy positioning.
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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 14, 2021 - Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has criticised Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar for making a subtle invitation for public unrest, in response to Rowley’s apology to the nation for his miscalculation in last week's mass vaccination plan.
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