ELIZABETHTOWN With a week to go, municipal election filing in Bladen County is very weak.
The county has 21 spots to fill among the seven municipalities. Through Friday, only seven of those 21 seats had attracted a total of eight candidates.
Newly filed between Tuesday and Friday of last week were two Bladenboro commissioner candidates: Gregory Sykes and Blake Proctor. Sykes is an incumbent, and Proctor a former administrative employee.
The filing period remains open through noon on Friday. Election Day is Nov. 2. Absentee voting, which is inclusive of the method known as one-stop voting, commences before that.
According to an election roster provided by the county board, the following are occupants of the seats up for election this fall:
LeRoy Clarke exhibition dedicated to Haitian people
6 Hrs Ago
Neil Parsanlal, chairman, Nalis board, left; Adaeze Clarke, daughter of master artist LeRoy Clarke; and Paula Greene, executive director (Ag), Nalis. -
AN exhibition of the works of master artist LeRoy Clarke titled The Eye Hayti… Cries… Everywhere, is ongoing at the Heritage Library, Port of Spain.
A media release from Nalis quotes Clarke as saying the collection “is a dedication to the Haitian people…whose courage is unassailable in the struggle to preserve humanity in fulfilling their destiny.”
At the opening of the exhibition last month, Neil Parsanlal, chairman of the board of Nalis, said the drawings should jolt people out of the pandemic of apathy.for which no vaccine other than determined action can cure.
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IMA donates books to Nalis
Monday 8 March 2021
Krystal Ganaselal, information officer/officer-in-charge of Information Centre, left; Dr Rahanna Juman, CEO of IMA; Paula Greene, acting executive director; Primatie Persad, acting director Educational Library Services Division; and Cherylann Quamina-Baptiste, acting director Heritage Library Division of Nalis. -
THE Institute of Marine Affairs (IMA) handed over 162 copies of its new publication, The Mangrove Forests of Trinidad and Tobago, to the National Library and Information System Authority (Nalis) on February 23.
A media release said the book, which was launched in celebration of World Wetlands Day 2021 (February 2), was written by Dr Rahanna Juman, Hamish Asmath, Nikia Gooding and Gyasi Collins, and funded by the Point Lisas Nitrogen Limited.