Gender Bias in the
Healthcare System
may put Women
at a Disadvantage
Caribbean Life, N 26 ovember 15-21, 2019
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
seen other countries which have just
remained constant,” he said.
The prime minister said there still
needs to be a lot of discussion and
debate in St. Lucia before the country
can move forward on the issue.
St. Vincent
The Speaker of the
House of Assembly in St.
Vincent and the Grenadines,
Jomo Thomas
announced that he was
quitting the ruling Unity Labor Party
(ULP) of Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph
Gonsalves.
He said he would leave the post as
speaker early into the new year.
Thomas, a human rights lawyer and
activist, who was the ULP’s candidate
for South Leeward in the 2015 general
election, told reporters that he had no
intention of offering himself as a candidate
in the next general election.
Gonsalves, said general election
would he held by the end of 2020, ahead
of the March 20121 constitutional deadline
.Thomas said he has come to his
decision primarily because the time,
energy, money, effort, cannot be properly
justified, considering the current
state of play in the party.
Thomas, a social commentator with
a 15-year-old weekly column, has long
been critical of the ULP which he has
always said he supports.
However, that criticism did not
wane much after August 2013 when he
became a senator for the ULP administration
and went on to be the party’s
candidate in the 2015 poll.
But after he lost to the incumbent,
Nigel Stephenson, of the main opposition
New Democratic Party (NDP),
Thomas accepted the position of the
speaker of the National Assembly on
the grounds that he would be allowed
to continue his law practice.
Trinidad
The Trinidad and Tobago government
is proposing legislation to decriminalize
marijuana.
This was revealed by Attorney General,
Faris al-Rawi during
the PNM rally for
the Dec. 2 Local Government
Election at the
Queen’s Park Savannah
last Sunday.
He said the legislation will be taken
before Cabinet this week, which will
extend to decriminalizing importation,
expunging the records of persons with
convictions for “weed” possession and
other aspects.
The AG said decriminalizing marijuana
will result in a 76 percent drop in
the forensic workload.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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