Alison Redford
Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat on Sunday shrugged off concerns about Canadian consultant Alison Redford being at the helm of a team that has been hired to review work done on ExxonMobil’s Field Development Plan for the Payara oil field because she has been fingered in alleged misuse of public funds in her home country.
“Some of the criticism I think is a bit unfair. It is politically driven and there are people, who are behind it too with probably different interests at the same time,” Mr, Bharrat said. “We have confidence in the Canadians and they recommended her so we’re willing to work with her,” he added. The Natural Resources Minister said President Irfaan Ali would have to be first satisfied with the documents that he would be signing. Continue reading
US Politics: Harris ‘electrifies’ West Indian voters — and gives Biden a new edge in Florida – Politico
The Black West Indian diaspora community is a little-discussed but increasingly influential slice of the electorate of the nation’s biggest swing state.
Calls from Caribbean radio show hosts flooded the Biden campaign from South Florida. And a jolt of excitement shot through the crowd of early vote poll workers at the Lauderdhill Mall, in the midst of Broward County’s growing Jamaican community.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/15/kamala-harris-west-indian-voters-395554
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