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security colleague Khemraj Ramjattan
have said that the issue will have to be
decided by the courts and this could
further affect the deadline especially if
the case ends up at the Trinidad-based
Caribbean Court of Justice, the country’s
final appellate jurisdiction.
There is also the factor of whether
the elections commission will be ready
to organize general elections in the
stipulated period. Any administrative
hiccup could affect the commission’s
ability to meet the deadline. A twothirds
vote of parliament could extend
the 90 day deadline. Critics say this is
one very possible scenario.
“In order for the government to
be defeated on a vote of confidence,
34 or more votes of all the elected
members in favor of the motion was
required instead of 33. This assertion is
grounded in established parliamentary
precedent and practice and case law in
the Commonwealth,” the document
stated.
Minister Ramjattan said that “we
feel, not withstanding what happened
on the 21st of December, that the numbers
of persons who will constitute that
threshold of elected parliamentarians
is 34, and not 33.”
For its part, the opposition has continued
to demand the resignation of
government and limited spending until
elections. Opposition lawmakers have
been meeting with western and regional
diplomats in recent days, lobbying
them to implore government to follow
constitutional edicts and prepare for
fresh elections by March.
Former house speaker Ralph Ramkarran,
now head of a fledgling new
party planning to contest the next
elections, said at the weekend that the
move by authorities is useless as the
decision has already been made.
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Mexico, El Salvador, United Kingdom
and Israel.
Cuomo said Jamaican Olive Ferguson,
75, was convicted of Attempted
Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance
in the Third Degree in the
Bronx in 1991.
“She has been crime-free ever
since,” he said, adding that Ferguson
is “an active member of her church.
She has remained crime-free for 27
years. A pardon will minimize her risk
of deportation.”
Jamaican Rohan Hylton, 47, was
convicted of Attempted Criminal Sale
of a Controlled Substance in the Third
Degree in 1992 and Criminal Possession
of Marijuana in the Fifth Degree
in 2001 and 2003 – all in Queens
County, the governor said.
He said Hylton came to the United
States over 30 years ago with his family
“to escape political persecution.
“As a father and dedicated family
man, he now lives and works in
Queens,” Cuomo said. “A pardon will
allow him to apply for discretionary
relief from his deportation order. He
has not been convicted of any misdemeanors
or felonies for 12 years.”
Cuomo said another Jamaican, Kerrone
Kay-Marie Parks, 33, was convicted
of Criminal Possession of a
Controlled Substance in the Seventh
Degree in Queens in 2013.
“She is a domestic violence survivor,
a mother of three children on the
honor roll, and currently volunteers
full-time at a nursing home,” he said.
“She has remained crime-free for five
years.”
Jamaican Jeremy Grant, 58, was
convicted of Criminal Sale of a Controlled
Substance in the Third Degree
in 2005, “when an individual in a
group he was a member of sold drugs
to an undercover cop and the entire
group was convicted in Manhattan,”
the New York governor said.
He said Grant “has been in prolonged
removal proceedings since
2006,” and “has remained crime-free
for 13 years.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Associated
Press / Mary Altaffer
Guyana’s Minister Of Public Security
Khemraj Ramjattan. DPI Guyana
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