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Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley is concerned that Barbados continues to be run by prime ministerial edict and that it will remain until the end of September.
Yesterday during a special sitting of the House of Assembly, he said while the Emergency Powers Act from years past put power under public health emergencies in the Cabinet, that power was now in the hands of the Prime Minister with the Emergency Management Act.
The House sat yesterday in order to extend the state of emergency for a third time in response to curtailing the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Atherley remained uncomfortable with the power shift from Cabinet to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. He explained that Cabinet, through legislation passed in the House, introduced an amendment that allowed it to give the power for making decisions related to directives and issuing of orders to the Prime Minister.
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15th April 2021
Amnesty International (AI) has noted widespread food insecurity in Botswana during 2020 and restrictions on the right to freedom of expression due to the State of Public Emergency legislation.
In its 2020/2021 report, the human rights body (NGO) observed that in Botswana, “Police subjected political activists to torture and other ill-treatment and death by hanging was maintained as a punishment for crimes including murder.”
Alluding to torture and other ill-treatment, AI stated that, “According to the NGO Ditshwanelo (the Botswana Centre for Human Rights), a 16- year-old boy was flogged at a traditional court in Mahetlwe village in Kweneng District by the village’s Deputy Chief, and on instructions from the police, for not wearing a face mask.”