{"id":22527,"date":"2018-12-12T02:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=22527"},"modified":"2018-12-12T03:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T07:27:21","slug":"rastas-urged-to-get-involved-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/rastas-urged-to-get-involved-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Rastas urged to get involved in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne on Tuesday called on the Rastafarian community to get involved in politics.<\/p>

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He invited the community to join his party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWe are quite willing to accommodate Rastafari in any aspect of our government. If y\u2019all want run on the Labour Party slate next election, I\u2019ll accommodate a Rastafari, my team will accommodate a Rastafari\u201d, he said.<\/p>

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\u201cI\u2019d approached Kai Davis and others prior to the last elections to get a member of the Rastafari community to serve in the Senate,” the Prime Minister revealed.<\/p>

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“Unfortunately, they declined.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, the nation’s leader continued to urge those in the community towards possible future political aspirations.<\/p>

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\u201cYou may want to revisit it because I think there is an opportunity there for Rastafari to step up and to serve at all levels. Rastafari are supposed to be in the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda. You should be serving in all the councils of the world,\u201d Browne concluded.
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