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Vol. 30, Issue 14 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN April 5–11, 2019
100+ Global CuIsines
International
Beer Garden
Music, Dance,
Celebrating Phagwah
Shri Trimvrti Bhavan Mandir celebrates Happy Holi in Queens.See story on Page 47.
Photo by Tangerine Clarke
CITI FIELD
MAY 18 & 19, 2019
theworldfare.nyc Art & More
By Nelson A. King
On the heels of the release
Monday of the New York State
budget, the Family Homeless
Coalition has made it clear
to lawmakers that “stop gap
measures are not enough,”
saying that, for families at risk
19
of homelessness, “stability is
the answer.”
The Family Homelessness
Coalition represents service
and housing providers, children’s
organizations and advocacy
organizations.
“While the state’s improved
economy is a good thing, rising
rents and a lack of home
affordability are driving more
and more New Yorkers to the
brink of homelessness,” said
the Coalition in a statement.
“This growing crisis calls
Continued on Page 14
By Bert Wilkinson
That absolutely stunning no
confidence vote loss by Guyana’s
government in parliament
in late December continues
to have major political and
constitutional fallout as it has
now forced the resignations of
four of the very senior most
cabinet ministers both from
government and the house
because they all hold citizenship
of a foreign power and
sometimes travel on foreign
passports. This is so because
two local courts have in a matter
of weeks ruled that dual
citizenship for elected parliamentarians
is illegal.
With a beer in one hand and
the radio or mobile handsets
in the next, Guyanese monitored
events in the 65-member
assembly on the night of
Friday, Dec. 21 but when the
time came for lawmakers to
vote on a no confidence motion
brought by the opposition People’s
Progressive Party (PPP)
no one was prepared for what
would happen next. Government
MP Charrandass Persaud
shouted “yes” three times when
it was his time to vote against
the opposition motion, throwing
the parliament into a state
of bedlam and leaving a nation
in a state of deep shock and
uncertainty.
Speaker Barton Scotland
ruled that that single vote by
Persaud that gave the PPP a
majority of 33 of the 65 seats
was legal and sufficient for the
motion to succeed and carry.
Parliament then adjourned and
Persaud went into hiding before
Continued on Page 14
Fight against family homelessness
GUYANESE
MPS QUIT
OFFICE
Dual citizenship for elected
parliamentarians ruled illegal
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