Sentences with phrase «new head of government»

Not exact matches

Nicolas Shea, who heads innovation initiatives for the Chilean Ministry of Economy and founded Start - Up Chile, says the government's $ 40 million investment in the program will be worthwhile if it can build ties with interesting new companies, even if they don't stay in the country over the long term.

Mattar al - Tayer, head of Dubai's Roads & Transportation Agency, announced the aim at the World Government Summit, the New York Times reports.

The federal government is clearly headed down this path with the introduction of Bill C - 25 and actually, the Quebec government had joined the road forward with the creation of new VRSPs - another acronym that simply means Voluntary Registered Savings Plans - similar to the PRPP model.

On Monday, over 150 heads of state and government leaders spoke at the conference, including the newest addition to their ranks: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

«India is one of the governments around the world that agreed at the UN's COP21 meeting to a new global climate accord, and its plans to boost renewable energy capacity is very substantial,» says Andrew Salvoni, head of Morgan Stanley's green and sustainable bond syndicate desk.

A Washington consultant who was removed from President Trump's transition team for using his business email address for government work played a central role last year in planning a trip to Australia for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and then took steps to disguise his role, new documents show.

India Newsmakers Arun Jaitley, a corporate lawyer by training, has emerged as the rising star of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and chief troubleshooter in the new government, headed by prime minister Narendra Modi.

Government officials say the new head of the top U.S. public health agency has asked for a cut to his record - setting pay.

The head of the Murray - Darling Basin Authority says he is concerned the New South Wales and Victorian governments might act on their threats to potentially walk away from the plan.

The result of this is that the Prime Minister, although tasked with being the head of government, can be removed by Queen / GG, which forces a new election - but the Queen / GG can't actually wield power directly.

Commenting today on the Government's announcement that it will support a new build indemnity scheme, Paul Broadhead, BSA Head of Mortgage Policy, said:

In these circumstances it does not fall to the Queen to decide who shall be First Minister, or in Ireland to the President; under their constitutions it falls to the newly elected parliament, whose first business (after election of a presiding officer) is to elect the head of the new government.

In each case the newly elected parliament elected the head of the new government.

In those cases the election of the leader of the majority party to head the new government would be a formality.

This also brings into the picture a different dimension in the race between these two parties which lead the polls which estimate that Syriza has anything up to a 2 % lead over New Democracy (a remarkably small lead considering the supposed unpopularity of the government which New Democracy heads): the question of Europe.

Bill Jeffrey, the current head of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, has been confirmed as the new government security co-ordinator.

A question from Ian Graham: «The Labour Party is now the only party with a significant presence in each of England, Scotland and Wales, while the new government's base turns the West Lothian Question on its head: the Coalition's partners hold 12 of 59 seats in Scotland, and 11 of 40 in Wales.

«These new members of Congress will head to Washington committed to our shared values — free enterprise, more efficient government, policies that create jobs and the fortitude to keep America safe,» Cox said.

In cafés and taxis I hear jokes of the «entire political body» jailed in the maximum security prisons of Kondengui and New Bell: «They need only add a head of state to make a complete ruling government!»

According to a statement issued in New York last Thursday, President Mahama was one of the more than 100 Heads of State and Governments who had confirmed to attend the summit.

Even for a man claiming to be a student of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, renaming the new Government House as Flagstaff House, to revive the image of the residence of Nkrumah, when he was Head of State, was a bit bizarre.

I can't think of a clearcut example off the top of my head, but it happens regularly in Europe for topics that target groups that are concentrated in only a few constituencies (e.g. tax increases, NIMBY topics like authorizing a new airport, or extra layers of government regulation).

He said 4,500 head porters, popularly referred to as «Kayayei», would be trained and employed as garment manufacturers under a new module which would be rolled out soon, while 2,000 youth would be engaged under the youth in green Ghana project, an initiative between the agency and the Department Parks and Gardens of the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.

Since the January inauguration of Donald Trump as president, department heads and administrators throughout New York City government have been bracing for negative reverberations, with many expecting slashed federal spending and harmful policy rollbacks.

Kaduna State government has named new heads for two of its tertiary institutions in the state in an effort to reposition its educational sector.

Sean Finnerty, who headed natural gas development at Competitive Power Ventures, said it was a «red flag» when government relations executive Peter Galbraith Kelly told him the money was going to a spouse of a top aide to the governor of New York.

«We were worried, but fortunately the new system developed by the previous government started in 2015, which is the e-salary system, where before salary is paid to the workers at any department, the head of the department must confirm and authenticate the number of workers.

«What's been going on in New York State government lately is simultaneously heartbreaking, head - scratching and almost comic,» he said, echoing remarks he made last month in front of the Kentucky Legislature.

Due to the fact many services provided by the County of Erie, State of New York are fully or partially paid for by the federal government, on March 16, 2017 County Executive Mark Poloncarz ordered certain commissioners and heads of departments that rely on federal funding to review the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint and provide a report on the expected impact of it on Erie County services, including, but not limited to, the identification of any programs impacted by the Trump 2018 Budget Blueprint (including the expected cut in funds received), possible reduction in direct county jobs as a result of any cut, impact on third parties that receive funds from Erie County that are received from the federal government, as well as any other known impact.

Whilst showering praise on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for scrapping the «nuisance levy» imposed by the previous government on head porters (kayayei) and for its determination to stem the tide of rural - urban migration through the one - district - one - factory and one - village - one - dam policies, the organisation also called for a probe into the running of the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA).

Those present at the FEC meeting include; the minister of sports and youth development, Solomon Dalung; the head of service to the federation, Winifred Oyo - Ita; the new secretary to the government of the federation, Boss Mustapha and minister of communication, Adebayo shittu.

The new head of MI6 who will head up Britain's foreign intelligence and espionage operations will be current UN ambassador Sir John Sawers, the government announced today.

State GOP Chairman Ed Cox and Conservative Party head Michael Long say that the next president should reappoint Bharara so he can keep going after corruption at all levels of New York government.

The government's new prostitution proposals have been criticised as unenforceable, by the UK's head of anti-trafficking.

John Healey MP makes the call in a new publication, MPs and politics in our time, which was compiled with Mark Gill, head of political research at Ipsos - Mori, and Declan McHugh, director of the Hansard Society's parliament and government programme.

«It kind of flips things on its head,» said Alex Camarda of the government watchdog group Citizens Union in New York.

The joint letter by the three heads of state, to UN secretary general Ban Ki Moon, calls for the summit to take place before the end of the year «right after the inauguration of the new Afghan government».

The Commonwealth's decision to hold the heads of government meeting in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo was wrong, according to a new report.

Thinking they could demand his head as the price of a deal was anyway always a bit implausible: Britain could not be left in limbo waiting for a government while the Lib Dems spent six weeks or so choosing a new leader.

«The Tory leadership is battling to head off a backbench ambush over a new tax break for married couples... Tim Loughton, the author of the amendment, said that it presented Mr Cameron with a «golden opportunity» to show his Government was capable of enacting true Conservative policies.

Revenues from the ongoing Wall Street rally will be a «bright spot» heading into potentially difficult state budget talks complicated by the federal tax overhaul, but New York government leaders shouldn't count on stock market gains to cover a deficit projected to be in the billions of dollars, the state's top fiscal officer said Tuesday.

Italian voters head to the polls next spring to elect a new national government, but if Sicily is a preview of Italian politics to come, then Italy and the European Union are in for a rough ride.

In another private room, at The Capital Grille on 42nd Street, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, Rep. Joe Crowley, state party leaders and about 10 of New York's most powerful union heads spoke for more than an hour about taking back congressional seats held in New York by Republicans as well as taking over the State Senate to sweep its hold of state government.

He said school heads are excited about the new development because they do not have to issue threats of closing down schools as a result of government's indebtedness.

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Whenever Andrew Cuomo would rant how New York State is being choked by the stratospheric number of local government entities — 10,521, by his count — around the state, he surely had a picture of Green Island in his head.

The Municipal Chief Executive of the New Juaben Municipal Assembly, Madame Comfort Asante, has assured head teachers of basic schools in the Municipality of government's support in ensuring they deliver quality tuition to students.

If Syracuse and Onondaga County try to merge governments, they will be headed into an uncharted area of New York state law.

A new Commissioner of Police would lead a Tompkins County Department of Police and be appointed along with other government department heads.

The Governor's Airport Advisory Panel is charged with producing recommendations on redesigns and modernization for our region's airports, and is comprised of the following appointees by the Governor: Amanda Burden, former commissioner of the New York City Department of City Planning; Tony Collins, co-chair of the North Country Regional Economic Development Council; Jose Gomez - Ibanez, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard's Graduate School of Design; Queens Borough President Melinda Katz; DanTishman, CEO of Tishman Construction Corporation; Jacqueline Snyder, former head of the New York City Public Design Commission; John Zuccotti, co-chair of Brookfield Office Properties.