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Vol. 31, Issue 33 BROOKLYN EDITION August 14-20, 2020
Senator Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s selection as his running mate, appears on stage at
a First in the West Event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., Nov. 17, 2019.
REUTERS / Carlo Allegri / File
By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American Democratic
Congresswoman Yvette
D. Clarke Tuesday night
described as “a historic milestone”
United States Democratic
Presidential Candidate
Joe Biden’s selection of Caribbean
American Sen. Kamala
Harris as his vice-presidential
running mate.
Biden, a former US Vice
President, on Tuesday picked
Harris, the daughter of a
Jamaican father and an Indian
mother, in the Democratic
race to defeat Republican
President Donald J. Trump in
November’s US Presidential
Elections.
Senator Harris, 55, is the
first Black woman and the first
person of Indian heritage to
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By Bert Wilkinson
When it rains it really pours in
CARICOM. The 15-nation Caribbean
Community and its five
associate members are about to
stage yet another general election
in 2020, with Jamaican
Prime Minister, Andrew Holness
Tuesday ordering the island to
the polls on Sept. 3 even as
results of Monday’s razor thin
contest in Trinidad are amazingly
on hold pending recounts
in six districts.
Fearing low turnouts could
affect the reelection chances of
his governing Jamaica Labor
Party (JLP) because of increasing
COVID-19 positive cases,
Holness named Tuesday, Aug.
18 as nomination day calling
an election months before it is
constitutionally due early next
year.
Holness and top JLP officials
had in recent days given every
indication that a snap election
would have been called,
by expressing worry about the
impact of the pandemic on campaigning
and turnout. The move
has also come at a time when
the main opposition People’s
National Party (PNP) is still trying
to organize itself and conclude
the process of choosing
candidates for electoral districts
to match those of the JLP.
But as the region took a deep
breath with the announcement
of yet another general election
in 2020, victory celebrations in
Port of Spain, Trinidad’s capital,
were muted after the election
and boundaries commission
agreed to recount ballots in
six so-called marginal electoral
districts at the behest of losing
candidates from the opposi-
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Kamala Harris VP candidate selection
‘a historic milestone’: Clarke
JAMAICANS
PREPARE
TO VOTE
Trinidad and Tobago polls on
hold as recounts start
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