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Vol. 31, Issue 25 BROOKLYN EDITION June 19-25, 2020
Caribbean-Americans in Brooklyn protest and rally for justice. Caribbean Guyana Institute
for Democracy
By Nelson A. King
Thousands of Caribbean
Americans on Sunday honored
organizers’ fervent call
by participating in a massive
march and rally for justice in
Brooklyn.
The event, dubbed “Caribbean
Americans For Justice”
featured a march from
Church and Flatbush avenues
in Brooklyn, started at noon,
and proceeded north along
Flatbush Avenue to Grand
Army Plaza, and culminated
with the massive rally.
The march and rally were
organized by Rickford Burke,
president of the Brooklynbased
Caribbean Guyana Institute
for Democracy (CGID);
US Virgin Islands-born Pastor
Gilford Monrose; Minna
Lafortune, president of the
Society for the Advancement
of the Caribbean Diaspora
(SACD); the Rev. Jamaican
Terry Lee of the Byways and
Hedges Church Organization;
Haitian American community
leader Rose Guerrier of
International Cultures United
(ICU);community activist
and youth leader Chris Banks;
and Grenadian Junior George,
host of Ride Along Live.
In, clearly a scene reminiscent
of the West Indian American
Day Carnival Parade on
Labor Day, on Brooklyn’s
Eastern Parkway, Caribbean-
Americans jammed Eastern
Parkway, at Grand Army Plaza,
waving national flags.
But they weren’t strictly
celebrating their cultural
pride, they resoundingly and
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By Bert Wilkinson
Guyana’s elections commission
this week appeared to
clear the way for the Indosupported
People’s Progressive
Party (PPP) to form the next
government after a single fiveyear
term in opposition but a
major row is erupting as to
whether the PPP was allowed
to rig its way into government
with the help of Chairperson
Claudette Singh.
More than 100 days after
just over 400,000 Guyanese
voted for a new government
on March 2, controversy continues
to swirl as to whether
the PPP will be able to take
the reins of power without a
protracted court challenge as
the outgoing administration
of President David Granger
continues to accuse Gecom of
illegally allowing invalid votes
for the PPP to be counted as
official.
On Tuesday, Singh, a retired
judge, instructed Chief Elections
Officer Keith Lowenfield
to tabulate the votes from a
33-day recount and audit of
the elections including thousands
of votes that Granger’s
multiparty coalition says were
illegally obtained by the PPP
through raw stuffing of ballot
boxes, dead and migrated people
voting for the party and
more people voting than were
on the voters list for the PPP
among other ruses coalition
officials said.
Singh in her ruling argued
that Gecom is not a court of
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Caribbean Americans rally for justice
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