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Vol. 30, Issue 45 BROOKLYN EDITION November 8-14, 2019
New York City Democratic Public Advocate, Jumaane Williams wins election.
Photos by Steve Solomonson
By Nelson A. King
Caribbean American New
York City Democratic Public
Advocate, Jumaane Williams
on Tuesday won the New York
General Elections for Public
Advocate by a landslide.
With 5,332 of the 5,901
polling precincts reporting, or
90.36 percent, Williams, the
son of Grenadian immigrants,
garnered 563,138 votes, or 78
percent.
His closest rival, Republican
Joseph Borelli, received
144,429 votes, or 20 percent.
Devin Balkind, of the Liberal
Party, got 14, 524 votes, or 2
percent.
“Thank you all so much;
feels like we were just here
eight months ago,” Williams
told enthusiastic supporters
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By Bert Wilkinson
Jamaica’s political directorate
this week braced for the
cancellations of more American
entry visas following the
revocation of travel privileges
of a cabinet minister, an opposition
lawmaker and several
senior police officers in recent
days.
Islanders remain baffled as
to why the State Department
would have cancelled the visas
of junior economic growth and
job creation minister Daryl
Vaz and opposition lawmaker,
Phillip Paulwell. Paulwell is
the campaign director for the
opposition People’s National
Party (PNP), while Vaz who
in the past decade was forced
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Landslide win for Williams
VISAS
TAKEN
AWAY
Jamaican officials rocked by
US visa cancellations
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