The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we wait to act. Ministers here in Madrid must strengthen the final decision text, to respond to the mounting impacts of climate change that are devastating both communities and ecosystems all over the world.
Alden Meyer – Union of Concerned Scientists
Appearing in a metal cage in the courtroom in Khartoum, ousted Sudanese dictator, Omar al Bashir, has been convicted and sentenced to two years in a correction facility for corruption and illegal possession of foreign currency. Sudanese law requires any person over the age of 70 to be sent to such a facility instead of prison. Mr. al Bashir is 75 years old. He is alleged to have received US$25 million in cash from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is yet to face trial for other charges levelled against him, including his alleged involvement in the 1989 coup that brought him to power.
A letter writer in the Kaieteur News asserted that there is no need for the President to dissolve Parliament ‘as a result of the non-extension of its life by a two-thirds vote as required by the Constitution, for such extended period as determined by the National Assembly’. The person was referring to the date of 18 September 2019, the end of the three months after the CCJ ruling that the 21 December 2018 vote of no confidence in the Government has been validly carried out. Article 106(7), however, refers to the date for elections and not for the dissolution of Parliament. For the latter, we need to go to Article 61 which states that ‘[a]n election of members of the National Assembly shall be held on such day within three months after every dissolution of Parliament as the President shall appoint by proclamation…’