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Orando Brewster, the Unity Labour Party’s candidate for Central Leeward at the party event last week, where he also said he has a “doctorate in medicine”. (Photo: Lance Neverson/Facebook)

Brewster says he mixed up medical degree, doctorate

The ruling Unity Labour Party candidate for Central Leeward Orando Brewster says he did not know the difference when he said he had a “doctorate in medicine” rather than a…

27 Aug 2020 5:22AM

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Bernard Wyllie, who was voted out of office in Marriaqua in 1998, is once again the NDP's candidate in that constituency. (Photo courtesy Colin Graham.)

Wyllie says he ‘is the people’s candidate’

27 Aug 2020 5:02AM

NDP President and Opposition Leader Godwin Friday, right, visited Marriaqua ahead of the central committee meeting to hear directly from constituents. (Photo: NDP/Facebook)

‘I am here to win an election,’ Friday says of Marriaqua candidate selection

25 Aug 2020 5:46AM

Then-workers at Buccament Bay Resort make their point during a protest over non-payment of wages on Dec. 3, 2016. Opposition Leader Godwin Friday says that the money owed to the workers should be given to them from Harlequin's share of the resort sale deal. l(IWN photo)

Subtract ex-workers pay from Harlequin’s share of resort deal — Friday

23 Aug 2020 9:40PM

The government has been repairing roads across the country.

‘Scramble’ to repair roads shows gov’t in ‘a panic situation’

23 Aug 2020 9:23PM

NDP leader, Godwin Friday, centre, poses with the party’s Marriaqua candidate, Bernard Wyllie, second from right, as well as, from left, Philip Jackson, Kirk Da Silva, and Curtis Bowman after last Thursday’s candidate selection exercise. (Photo: NDP)

NDP chooses Wyllie over Kirk in Marriaqua

Bernard Wyllie is the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP)’s candidate for Marriaqua in the next general elections, expected by year-end. The NDP’s central committee confirmed and ratified Wyllie as…

21 Aug 2020 12:22AM

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