News from April 2018
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Tunisia is a constitutional republic with a multiparty, unicameral parliamentary system and a president with powers specified in the constitution. In 2014 the country held free and fair parliamentary elections that resulted in the Nida Tounes (Call of Tunisia) Party winning a plurality of the votes.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Pecos, NM: Beginning June 14, 2018, Pecos National Historical Park will be offering fishing permits for interested anglers along the Pecos River within the park boundaries. The 2018 summer fishing season will begin June 14th and end August 6th.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: The Union of the Comoros is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country consists of three islands-Grande Comore (also called Ngazidja), Anjouan (Ndzuani), and Moheli (Mwali)-and claims a fourth, Mayotte (Maore), that France administers. In 2015 successful legislative elections were held. In April...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Saint Lucia is a multiparty, parliamentary democracy. In free and fair elections in June 2016 the United Workers Party (UWP) won 11 of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly, defeating the previously ruling Saint Lucia Labor Party. UWP leader Allen Chastanet became prime minister.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Defendant Failed to Pay Employment and Social Security Taxes on more than 50 Employees for the last Ten Years.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Tajikistan is an authoritarian state dominated politically by President Emomali Rahmon and his supporters. The constitution provides for a multiparty political system, but the government has historically obstructed political pluralism and continued to do so during the year. Constitutional amendments...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Defendant Sold Heroin that Resulted in a Man’s Overdose Death.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: The Oriental Republic of Uruguay is a constitutional republic with an elected president and a bicameral legislature. In 2014 in a free and fair runoff election, Tabare Vazquez won a five-year presidential term, and his Frente Amplio coalition won a majority in parliament.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: Kuwait is a constitutional, hereditary emirate ruled by the Al Sabah family. While there is also a democratically elected parliament, the emir holds ultimate authority over most government decisions. The last parliamentary election was held in November 2016 and was generally free and fair with several members of the opposition winning seats.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: The Commonwealth of the Bahamas is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’s Free National Movement won control of the government in May elections that international observers found free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that an illegal alien from Sierra Leone was sentenced last week to 30 months in prison for refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Tajikistan is an authoritarian state dominated politically by President Emomali Rahmon and his supporters. The constitution provides for a multiparty political system, but the government has historically obstructed political pluralism and continued to do so during the year. Constitutional amendments...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Kurtis Walter, age 24, of Troy, New York, was arrested today on a charge of distributing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Cote d’Ivoire is a democratic republic ruled by a freely elected government. In legislative elections held in December 2016, the ruling government coalition won 66 percent of National Assembly seats. The main opposition party, which boycotted the 2011 legislative elections, participated and won seats.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Singapore is a parliamentary republic where the People’s Action Party, in power since 1959, overwhelmingly dominated the political scene. There was no voting for the 2017 presidential election because only a single, ethnic minority Malay candidate qualified for the ballot, due to criteria specified in...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - On Thursday, approximately seventy officers, agents and homeland security professionals were hosted by the Providence Police Department for a United States Attorney’s Antiterrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) training event.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A methamphetamine dealer from South Charleston was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Carl “Yogi" Clark, 40, previously pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine. The investigation was conducted by the Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Network Team (MDENT), with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Seven defendants charged in an indictment returned in November 2017 were sentenced in recent weeks by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings for their roles in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Lubbock, Texas area, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: The Kyrgyz Republic has a parliamentary form of government designed to limit presidential power and enhance the role of parliament and the prime minister. During presidential elections on Oct. 15, the nation elected former prime minister and member of the ruling party, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, to succeed...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2018
Release: Moldova is a republic with a form of parliamentary democracy. The constitution provides for a multiparty democracy with legislative and executive branches as well as an independent judiciary and a clear separation of powers. Legislative authority is vested in the unicameral parliament. The 2014 parliamentary ...
