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CARNIVAL
techno driven event.
Minister of Culture, Randall Mitchell
told local television CN3 that carnival
generates up to $50 million and efforts
would be made to organize an alternative
event bearing in mind the corona
pandemic.
“So yes, with the aim of generating
economic activity, consideration will be
given to having carnival celebrations
later in the year. This would also assist
in reviving and revitalizing the creative
sector and all the sectors that support
this festival and its events.”
As Trinidad tries to come to grips
with no major carnival events in 2021,
authorities in the Caricom associate
member state of Bermuda fear that the
pandemic could also seriously affect
a major political event this week-the
holding of general elections on Thursday
of this week.
Premier David Burt, seeking a second
consecutive term in office has been
persistently appealing to supporters to
turn out and ensure the Afro-dominated
People’s Progressive Party (PLP) is
returned to office over white supported
opposition parties.
Officials in Hamilton, the mid Atlantic
island’s capital, point to Jamaica’s
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Caribbean L 12 ife, Oct. 2-8, 2020
Sept. 3 elections as an example, noting
that only 37 percent of the eligible
electorate had bothered to turnout and
cast ballots. That was a record low for
Jamaica. Burt said all precautions will
be taken to ensure safety.
“A low voter turnout does not benefit
democracy. What we want to have
is a great democratic event so, from
that perspective we are pulling out all
the stops to ensure that persons feel
safe and secure when exercising their
right to vote. Everything is being done
to ensure that voting on election day
will be safe and secure. Our candidates
through this campaign have been
masked and canvassing in a socially
distant manner.
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the presidential debate in Cleveland,
OH and that no one turned his microphone
off.
“I never thought that anybody should
reduce themselves to being on the stage
with him, because we know what his
behavior was going to be like,” said Pelosi,
in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning
Joe.
Pelosi has previously suggested that
former Biden shouldn’t participate in any
of the debates, according to Yahoo News.
“I’m just sorry that they didn’t turn off
the microphone when it was Joe Biden’s
turn to speak and turn it on when it
was the president’s turn to speak, and
we would have not had this disruption,”
Pelosi said on MSNBC. “You would have
thought that would have been a simple
thing to do.
“He’s been enabled his whole life, and
now the American people are paying
a price, paying a price for the fact that
no one has ever said to him, ‘no’”, she
added.
The House Speaker also said that
it was a “sad night for our country”
because Trump refused to “disassociate
himself from white supremacists.”
“I lost a lot of sleep last night over
that one fact. I think one thing he did
present was the authenticity of who he
is,” she said.
While many Republicans lauded
Trump’s behavior during Tuesday’s
debate, some offered less stellar reviews,
according to Yahoo News.
“It was awful,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
R-Alaska, told reporters Wednesday on
Capitol Hill.
Ben Sasse, R-Neb., called the debate a
“s—show.”
Asked if he found Trump’s comments
on white supremacists concerning, Sen.
Tim Scott, R-S.C., said, “I think he misspoke,
I think he should correct it. If he
doesn’t correct it, I guess he didn’t misspeak.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,
R-Ky., said later Wednesday that
he wanted “to associate” himself with
Scott’s remarks, clarifying when pressed
on the matter that Scott had “said it
was unacceptable not to condemn white
supremacists, and so I do so in the
strongest possible way.”
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said “of
course” Trump should have condemned
white supremacists when asked to disavow
white supremacy during a part of the
debate that was focused on race, according
to Yahoo News.
But Romney, it said, added that he
doesn’t know “what impact the debate
will have.”
“I can say I watched the debate last
night,” he said. “It was not a Lincoln-
Douglas debate, that’s for sure.”
Romney subsequently told reporters
that the debate was an “embarrassment.”
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Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
Keith Rowley. Government of
Trinidad and Tobago
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