Whether or not readers of this column believe me, I have never been able to afford a new car because of the exorbitant duty. I once purchased one twenty-five years ago. But I could only afford it because I was entitled to duty free as Speaker of the House. I could not otherwise afford a new car then or now, if I have to pay duty. But I look forward very soon to being able to walk into a showroom and order a new car because I will not have to pay the duty , courtesy of President Donald Trump.
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Is there any lesson to be learnt by the dismissal by the Chief Justice of the case brought by three Mocha residents, Roxanne Allen, Junior Allen and Lashonda Ellis, for relief from the High Court for demolition of their homes, deprivation of their property rights, degrading treatment, among a large number ofother remedies?
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The Chair of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, has decided that biometric identification as the sole, mandatory, means of identification in unconstitutional. Under normal circumstances, it would be expected that this decision would bring an end to the Opposition clamour for biometric identification and that its advocates would reorient their campaign for legal reform. Not so!
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The agreement by Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, after being pressured by the emissary of President-elect Trump, Steve Witkoff, was proposed since last May and approved by Hamas in July. After Hamas’s acceptance of the terms, Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu added new conditions. The discussions fell apart, with US Secretary of State Blinken blatantly lying by blaming Hamas for the failure, while tens of thousands of additional Gazan lives, mostly those women and children, were lost to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing. The signing of this agreement with substantially the same terms as that of last May demonstrate that Israel is indeed susceptible to American pressure, as demonstrated in the past. Throughout the 15-month genocide on Gaza by Israel, President Joe Biden, adamantly refused to apply any pressure on Israel, while Netanyahu repeatedly humiliated Biden by violating red line after red line set by him and in his ludicrous defence, leaked stories to the press about how angry he was with Netanyahu as Netanyahu thumbed his nose at him, again and again. Biden dutifully sated his Zionist cravings by sending more and more arms, including 2,000-pound bombs to be dropped on civilians, in complicity with the carnage.
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The Peoples National Congress (PNC), Alliance for Change (AFC) and Working Peoples Alliance (WPA) recently announced that they will be meeting to discuss the establishment of a coalition for the purpose of contesting the upcoming regional and general elections to be held by November this year. Only recently, these parties were part of the coalition, APNU+AFC, (the WPA was part of APNU), which won the elections by one seat in 2015. The APNU+AFC coalition was built around the Cummingsburg Accord which was signed by APNU and AFC on February 14, 2015. Its primary objective was the distribution of ministries and parliamentary seats among the parties in the event that APNU+AFC won the elections. APNU+AFC felt confident at outcome of the elections the time because, with the AFC, it held a one seat majority in the National Assembly over the PPP/C minority Government.In order to be able to form the government the APNU and AFC were forced into the coalition because the constitution did not allow a post-election coalition with a majority of seats to form the government.
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