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The United Workers Party of Saint Lucia stands in solidarity with the United Workers Party in the Commonwealth of Dominica in its decision to boycott the general election called on 6th December 2022 by PM Roosevelt Skerrit, despite the fact that Election Reform is needed to facilitate free and fair elections.

Prime Minister Skerrit has completely disregarded the will of the people with the announcement of snap elections before electoral standards have been put in place. 

Sir Dennis Byron, former President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), had been tasked with preparing a report on Dominica’s electoral reform, which the Prime Minister promised to table in Parliament.

Recently, Byron had written to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, as well as the Opposition Leader, Lennox Linton, indicating that he was “working towards expediting the presentation of my Recommendations for the improvement of the Electoral Process in the Commonwealth of Dominica”.

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Despite this, the government of Dominica has reneged on the promise of election reform which stood as a priority to the people of Dominica during the last election.

Although a schedule of timelines for the improvement to the electoral process, the draft Registration of Electors Bill and draft Registration of Electors Regulations, are with both the government and Opposition for review the government has chosen to subject the people of Dominica to the same inadequate and unjust electoral processes that existed in the last election and to which Dominicans raised strong objection. Without the promised electoral reform, aren’t Dominicas being deprived of their democratic right to due process and fair elections ?

We support and encourage the Dominica Opposition United Workers Party’s to stand firm in its commitment to ensuring the electoral process meets election standards.

Anything less is than firm adherence to the tenets of a well functioning democracy is regressive.  It is imperative that our region continues to strengthen its democracy.  

SOURCE: United Workers Party

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The St James Police have charged 33-year-old Rushawn Patterson, otherwise called ‘Chizzie’, of a Harvey River in Hanover, with the murder of 35-year-old social media influencer, Aneka Townsend, otherwise called ‘Kayan’ or ‘Slickianna’.

Townsend’s body was retrieved by the Marine Police from the sea in the Reading area of St James on October 21, 2022.

A post-mortem examination on her body, conducted on November 5, concluded that her death was caused by strangulation.

The police said in a release Friday that the post-mortem estimates that Townsend was killed some time between 11pm October 20 and 9am October 21.

“During the course of this investigation, an abundance of forensic, cyber-forensic and other technological evidence has been collected. Following consultations with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the JCF Legal Services Division, Patterson was formally charged with murder this afternoon (November 11, 2022),” the police said in its release.

According to the police, on October 20, Townsend travelled from Kingston to Montego Bay, St James, where she was picked up by Patterson at approximately 7:30pm.

During the course of the evening, they visited a restaurant in Hanover and a guest house in St James, the police said.

At some point during in the night, an argument developed between them, which resulted in Patterson allegedly strangling Townsend and disposing of her body.

The police said, too, that 47-year-old security guard, Rohan Rose, otherwise called ‘Early B’, was charged with misprision of a felony in relation to the same matter.

“In the three weeks since the investigation into her death began, the St James and Hanover police have conducted a high-level investigation that has benefitted from the support of the Area 1 Operational Support Team, the Communication Forensic & Cybercrime Division (CFCD), the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), the Technical Services Division (TSD), the Specialised Operations Branch, the Jamaica Defence Force, as well as Jamaica Eye,” the polie said.

Patterson was arrested on November 2 during a high-level, intelligence-driven operation.

The police said he was later charged in relation to an unrelated case of assault that occurred in the St Andrew South Police Division.

“This charge is stemming from an incident that occurred in 2018, where he was alleged to have physically assaulted a female after a jealous rage. That matter will be mentioned in the Kingston and St Andrew parish court,” the police said.

The police also said that investigations are ongoing as it is suspected that Patterson may have been involved in other incidents similar to those for which he has been charged.

Detectives are, therefore, appealing to the public for any information that may assist in the investigations. Persons may contact the Montego Bay CIB at 876-684-9080, Crime Stop at 311, Police Emergency at 119 or the nearest police station.

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