News from March 2017
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Guinea-Bissau is a multiparty republic. It is ruled by a democratically elected government led by President Jose Mario Vaz and Prime Minister Baciro Dja of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC). Vaz took office in 2014 after an election judged to be free and fair by...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Nauru is a constitutional republic. International observers deemed free and fair the parliamentary election held July 9-11. Parliament re-elected President Baron Waqa who was also a member of parliament.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Antigua and Barbuda is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. In the June 2014 parliamentary elections, which observers described as generally free and fair, the ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labor Party (ABLP) defeated the United Progressive Party, and Gaston Browne was elected as prime minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Anthony Shaw of U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command Charged with Receiving More than $1 Million in Cash and Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Clint Wade Green, 42, of Paducah, Ky., was indicted on Feb. 23, 2017 on four counts of receipt of child pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The case is set for trial on April 24, 2017 in Benton, Illinois. Green has been ordered detained pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: New Video and Photos: FBI Seeking "Blues Bandit".
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Palau is a constitutional republic. Voters elect the president, vice president, and members of the legislature (House of Delegates) for four-year terms. On Nov. 1, voters re-elected Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. president for a four-year term in a generally free and fair election.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Chad is a centralized republic in which the executive branch dominates the legislature and judiciary. In April, President Idriss Deby Itno, leader of the Patriotic Salvation Movement (MPS), was elected to a fifth term with 59.92 percent of the vote. While the election was orderly and had a high voter...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Djibouti is a republic with a strong elected president and a weak legislature. In 2010 parliament amended the constitution to remove term limits, facilitating the 2011 and 2016 re-election of President Ismail Omar Guelleh for a third and fourth term. Three independent and two opposition candidates also...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Montenegro is a mixed parliamentary and presidential republic with a multiparty political system. Voters choose both the president and the unicameral parliament through popular elections. The president nominates, and parliament approves, the prime minister. In its October 17 preliminary report, the observation...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Peru is a constitutional, multiparty republic. Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, leader of the Peruanos Por el Kambio (Peruvians for Change) Party, won the June national elections in a vote widely considered free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the UK) is a constitutional monarchy with a multiparty, parliamentary form of government. Citizens elect representatives to the House of Commons, the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament. They last did so in free and fair elections in May ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Colonial Dames of America, Chapter III, will be hosting an open house at the Abner Cloud House this Sunday, March 5, from 12 PM until 5 PM. Located in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal), the Abner Cloud House is operated by the Colonial Dames of America...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Alexandra Foster (619) 546-6735.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Samoa is a constitutional parliamentary democracy that incorporates traditional practices into its governmental system. In 2012 parliament re-elected Head of State Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi. The unicameral parliament, elected by universal suffrage, is composed of “matai" (heads of extended families).
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: Palau is a constitutional republic. Voters elect the president, vice president, and members of the legislature (House of Delegates) for four-year terms. On Nov. 1, voters re-elected Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. president for a four-year term in a generally free and fair election.
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is both head of state and head of government. The government bases its legitimacy on its interpretation of sharia (Islamic law) and the 1992 Basic Law, which specifies that the rulers of the country shall be male...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
Release: Ethiopia is officially a federal republic. The ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), a coalition of four ethnically based parties, controls the government. In May 2015 elections the EPRDF and affiliated parties won all 547 House of People’s Representatives seats to remain...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch, on March 2, 2017, sentenced Gamalier Rohlsen-Arizmendi, 24, of Puerto Rico, to 63 months in prison for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Finch also sentenced Rohlsen-Arizmendi to three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay a special assessment of $100.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James Eldon Osborne, 22, of Inwood, West Virginia, was convicted today in federal court for making a false statement, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
