Jean-Marie Taubira (born 15 August 1950) is a Frenchpolitician from Cayenne. He was Secretary General of the Walwari party which he co-founded in 1993, later creating the Guianese Progressive Party in 2008.
Taubira has considerable experience in the private sector and economy. He has been Director of the Coopérative des Pêcheurs de Guyane (CODEPEG SA), Director of ATENOR SARL (gold company), Chief Financial Officer of an enterprise group AC: RGI SA (printing), TRIMARG SARL (office), RCI Guyane (radio), Chief Financial Officer for transport, tourism and education, and an advisor to agricultural company E.Z. AGRICOLE.
French Guiana is not a separate territory but is both an overseas région and overseas department of France, with the same government institutions as areas on the French mainland. The administrative center is Cayenne.
Elite Model Management (MM) is a modeling agency that originated in Paris in 1972 and later opened locations in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Barcelona and Toronto.
The Guianese Socialist Party is a socialist political party in the French overseas région of French Guiana, in South America.
Cayenne – Félix Éboué Airport is French Guiana's main international airport. It is located near the commune of Matoury, 13 kilometres (8 mi) southwest of French Guiana's capital city of Cayenne. It is managed by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of French Guiana.
Christiane Marie Taubira is a French politician who served as Minister of Justice of France in the governments of Prime Ministers Jean-Marc Ayrault and Manuel Valls under President François Hollande from 2012 until 2016. She was a member of the National Assembly of France for French Guiana from 1993 to 2012 and member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999.
A société à responsabilité limitée is a form of private company that exists mainly in French-speaking countries, such as France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Madagascar, Lebanon, Switzerland, and Belgium. The primary purpose of a SARL is to conduct commercial activity.
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield SE is a European multinational commercial real estate company headquartered in Paris, France. Its history originates with the formation of two separate shopping centre operators, Unibail and Rodamco Europe, which merged in 2007 and became a societas Europaea in 2009. The company acquired Australian shopping centre operator Westfield Corporation in June 2018.
Arnoud, Count de Pret Roose de Calesberg is a Belgian noble businessman. He is a member of board of the international brewery InBev, Delhaize, Umicore and of Euronext-NYSE.
Coopérative des Pêcheurs de Guyane (CODEPEG) is a fishing enterprise in French Guiana. It is based in the capital, Cayenne, and was formed on June 15, 1983. Former directors include Jean-Marie Taubira.
Articles related to the French overseas department of Guiana(Région Guyane) include:
Minute was a weekly newspaper, initially right-wing but later far-right, circulated in France from 1962 to 2020. Its editorial position is satirical and conservative. According to figures provided by the paper's management, it had a circulation of 40,000 copies a week in 2006. Its headquarters is in Paris.
The 1st constituency of French Guiana is one of two French National Assembly constituencies in the French Guiana département. Located in the eastern third of the department, the constituency contains the capital city of Cayenne.
Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega is co-CEO of Grupo Televisa, S.A., one of the main cable TV operators in Mexico, the leading satellite pay television system in the country, and the leading media company in the Spanish-speaking world.
Primacom is a private cable television network operator in Germany, with around 1 million connected households and approximately 800 thousand customers.
Wafa Assurance is the insurance brand of the Moroccan bank Attijariwafa Bank. It is part of Mohammed VI's holding company SNI.
A by-election was held in French Guiana's 2nd constituency on 4 March 2018, with a second round on 11 March as no candidate secured a majority of votes in the first round. The by-election was called after the Constitutional Council invalidated the election of Lénaïck Adam, candidate of La République En Marche! (REM), in the June 2017 legislative elections on 8 December 2017.
Regional elections were held in France on 20 June and 27 June 2021. At stake were the regional councils in metropolitan and overseas France including the Corsican Assembly, Assembly of French Guiana and Assembly of Martinique, all for a six-year term. The Departmental Council of Mayotte, which also exercises the powers of a region, also participated in this election, because the departmental elections were held at the same time. Eighteen regional presidencies were at stake, with thirteen in mainland France and Corsica, as well as five overseas. Though they do not have legislative autonomy, these territorial collectivities manage sizable budgets. Moreover, regional elections are often perceived as a mid-term opinion poll. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the regional and departmental elections were postponed, first to 13 and 20 June 2021 and then to 20 and 27 June 2021.
Péyi Guyane is a political party in French Guiana. It was founded in 2018. The party has 7 territorial advisers out of 55 in the Assembly of French Guiana.
Marie-Laure Phinera-Horth is a French politician, who was the first woman from French Guiana to be appointed to the French Senate in 2020. Prior to her role as a senator, she was mayor of Cayenne from 2010.
Sépélu was a seventeenth century indigenous Kali'na chief, or yopoto, in what is now French Guiana. Oral histories recount that he sold or ceded land to the French circa 1643, namely the hill of Fort Cépérou which is now named after him. He is also remembered a native leader who resisted colonisation.
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