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On Tuesday night, the Prime Minister acknowledged the bad state of the country’s roads and promised to focus on road improvement.

Speaking at a PNM public meeting at the Belmont Community Centre on Tuesday night, he said, during the pandemic, the government had to prioritise people’s lives.

“This government acknowledges that the roads in this country would have deteriorated considerably. We acknowledge that. You know why? During 2020 and 2021, we spent the money keeping you alive and there was not sufficient money to spend on road repairs.”

Dr Rowley said, because of the $13 billion budget deficit in fiscal 2021, the money was being borrowed “from the bank.”

Now that the country was in a better financial position, he said Cabinet approved a road-repair company in the Ministry of Local Government and a board was appointed.

Soon, Rowley said, the Finance Minister would make money available to the company and contractors would be mobilised to fix the roads.

He said the government would also reform local government as the Local Government Reform Bill was passed in the Senate on June 14. However, it was yet to be proclaimed and the whole bill would not be proclaimed all at once.

He recalled arranging a meeting of local government officers on August 9 at the Government Campus Plaza, Richmond Street, Port of Spain for the government to tell them how the reform would be operationalised.

“Guess what? The Opposition not supporting that. And the leader, hysterical in her virtual appearance in one of her Monday night rants, telling her members, ‘Don’t go because the Prime Minister go bouf you.’

“What a stupid woman! I never know that ignorance is a position of strength.

“So you want to be ignorant about the proclamation of the law, so you don’t come, so you remain ignorant, and then, of course, you will go by your friends in the media and talk all kinds of nonsense after. Because you refuse even to know what the government intends to do.”

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Former Tourism Minister Dominic Fedee has declared that he welcomes any investigation by a Special Prosecutor.

He made the comments during a recent appearance on the Hot 7 Television programme ‘Good Morning Saint Lucia’.

Regarding whether he had anything to fear, the former Anse La Raye-Canaries MP said he welcomed a probe.

“I want them to begin every investigation. In fact, I will make every record I have available. I will open up all of my assets. I will open up my house. They could come any time they’re ready,” Fedee told programme Host Shannon Lebourne.

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His remarks came against the backdrop of the recent enactment of the Special Prosecutor Act.

It empowers an attorney-at-law appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission to serve as Special Prosecutor.

The legislation also authorises the Office holder to receive complaints and investigate credible reports of corrupt conduct by incumbent public officials and also public officials who have demitted office.

But while making it clear that the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) supports any measure to clean up government, Fedee advised the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) government to look within.

“I would say to this government you need to start with your own cabinet,” the former MP asserted.

“There are very unsavoury characters within the cabinet of the Saint Lucia Labour party that the government must take a hard look at itself, look very deeply in the mirror and ask itself whether it has the moral authority to make any pronouncement, much less to investigate corruption,” Fedee stated.

He also raised questions regarding the constitutionality of the Public Prosecutor Act, asserting there would be ‘some collision’ with the duties of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

According to Fedee, the government could have beefed up the Office of the DPP which has been crying out for resources.

“When you look at how the Public Prosecutor is appointed, you have that the Legal and Judicial Services Commission will consult the Attorney General. Now, why should the Legal and Judicial Services Commission consult the Attorney General?”

As far as Fedee was concerned, the commission should make the appointment, resulting in a ‘proper separation’ of the executive and the judiciary.

“I believe this is clearly political,” he asserted, adding that the Special Prosecutor measure was suspect and a witch-hunt, despite claims to the contrary by the government.

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Dos hermanas gemelas estadounidenses que se casaron con otros gemelos y quedaron embarazadas al mismo tiempo revelaron que sus hijos no solo son primos sino también hermanos genéticos, recoge New York Post.

Briana y Brittany Deane, del Estado de Virginia, y Josh y Jeremy Salyers son los padres de los gemelos cuaternarios Jax y Jett, que se llevan solo tres meses de diferencia.

Según WebMD, se trata de un fenómeno increíblemente raro y ocurre cuando dos gemelas idénticas tienen hijos con otro par de gemelos en un período corto de tiempo, generalmente menos de nueve meses. Debido a su rareza, sólo existen 300 familias cuaternarias en el mundo.

Las hermanas conocieron a sus futuros esposos en un festival de gemelos en 2017 y seis meses después los dos hombres les propusieron matrimonio con anillos idénticos. Posteriormente, las parejas se mudaron a la misma casa y se encuentran criando a los niños como una sola unidad familiar.

Noticia original de RT en Español.

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