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Vol. 33, Issue 3 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN January 21-27, 2022
Barbados
PM Mottley
dominates
snap elections
By Bert Wilkinson
Barbadians gave the governing
Barbados Labor Party
(BLP) all 30 of the parliamentary
seats for just the second
consecutive time in general
elections held Wednesday,
ignoring fears that doing so
would make the economically
challenged, tourism dependent
Eastern Caribbean nation an
administrative or ‘elected’ one
party state.
Prime Minister Mia Mottley’s
gamble to call elections
18 months before they were
constitutionally due gave her
massive returns as voters once
again rejected the main opposition
Democratic Labor Party
(DLP) as DLP supporters did
not show up in large enough
numbers to make a difference.
The BLP’s complete washout
of the opposition is only the
second such electoral annihilation
in the 15-member bloc in
living memory, following on
the three consecutive wins by
Prime Minister Keith Mitchell
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley casts her ballot to vote in the country’s fi rst election
since it became a republic by removing the British Queen as its sovereign, at Eden
Lodge Primary School in St. Michael, Barbados, Jan. 19, 2022. REUTERS/Nigel R. Browne
Nothing
less than
green
cards:
NYIC
By Nelson A. King
After the Senate Parliamentarian,
an unelected
bureaucrat, ruled that Congressional
Democrats’ plan
to provide temporary work
permits without a roadmap
to citizenship, does not meet
the Senate requirements
of reconciliation, the New
York Immigration Coalition
(NYIC), an umbrella policy
and advocacy organization
for more than 200 groups in
New York State, has made it
clear that “our communities
don’t deserve anything less
than green cards.”
NYIC has joined national
partners in calling for Senate
Majority Leader Charles
“Chuck” Schumer to include
a roadmap to citizenship in
the Senate’s version of the
Build Back Better package,
which would allow otherwise
law-abiding immigrants
without legal status
who have been in the United
States continuously since
Jan. 1, 2011, to apply for a
green card and eventual citizenship.
“Enough is enough!
Immigrant Americans have
proven how essential we are
to the nation during this
global pandemic, and now
it’s time for our Democratic
leadership to live up to their
promises and prove that
we are more than pawns to
be bargained with by politicians,”
Murad Awawdeh,
NYIC’s executive director,
told Caribbean Life.
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