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Feb 05, 2012 - 11:43 AM Kingston, Jamaica
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Director of public prosecution rules that Danvile Walker be charged for obstructing investigations the contractor general into the 2011 scrap metal controversy. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Governor General Sir Patrick Allen has sought to clarify reports that the media were barred from yesterday's swearing in ceremony for Mrs. Sally Porteous as Custos of Manchester at Kings House.
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Minister without Portfolio with responsibility for the Public Service, Horace Dalley, yesterday met with the members of the Public Sector Monitoring Committee to discuss the agenda for ongoing consultations with bargaining units. ...Full Story>>> |
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It’s official. Central Clarendon Member of Parliament(MP) and Jamaica Labour Party(JLP) Chairman Mike Henry has decided not to seek nomination for chairmanship of the JLP. ...Full Story>>> |
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Minister of Health Dr Fenton Ferguson is to visit the Bellevue Hospital this week following reports that the institution has failed to meet critical public health standards and allegations of its poor treatment of patients. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Government will consider a number of options, including a staff monitored programme during the upcoming negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a new agreement.
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Following Prime minister's announcement the first phase of the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme, JEEP, will be rolled out today, the Jamaica Civil Society Coalition is questioning how much funding is needed for the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB loans, and exactly where these funds will come from. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Transport and Works Ministry has revealed that Members of Parliament will play an integral part in the selection of beneficiaries under the Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme (JEEP). ...Full Story>>> |
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Meanwhile, protesters who stage demonstrations against what they view as questionable police killings, will have to be very careful how they disrupt or tamper with objects left on crime scenes. ...Full Story>>> |
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With Dr. Peter Phillips entrusted with the Minister of Finance and Planning portfolio by Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, one Financial Analyst is providing some financial advice to him and by extension the new administration.
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Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is to reveal the members of his Shadow Cabinet at a press conference this morning.
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After the pomp and pageantry, the 63 newly elected Members of Parliament took the Oath of Office in the ceremony to mark the opening of the new session of Parliament at Gordon House. ...Full Story>>> |
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The People's National Party has announced its list of senators. ...Full Story>>> |
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The gruesome discovery of a child's decomposing body in a suitcase has landed both parents in police custody. ...Full Story>>> |
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Ed Bartlett has officially been declared the member parliament East Central St James constituency as the closely watched magisterial recount ended yesterday.
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A promise by Andrew Holness that a forensic audit into the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme by all indications has not been fulfilled. ...Full Story>>> |
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Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says newly appointed Attorney General, Mr Evon St. Patrick Atkinson, QC will be fully accountable through the House of Representatives.
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Despite the fact that Investigations have increased 92 percent at the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM)the commission continues to face challenges in carrying out its function.
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Portia Simpson-Miller has been sworn in as Jamaica's Prime Minister of Jamaica for a second time.
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Portia Simpson Miller will once again be sworn in as Prime Minister of Jamaica.
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The ease and frequency with which Jamaican children are missing for different reasons have become a serious concern for the agencies assigned to care and protect them.
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Local trade union organizations have welcomed news that there will be no mass job cuts in the public sector when the new PNP administration takes up office. ...Full Story>>> |
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Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller is now set to take the reins of Gordon House once again.
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The People’s National Party (PNP) is expressing confidence of winning the general elections saying it anticipates winning at least 37 of the 63 contested seats.
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Opposition leader and People's National Party president Portia Simpson-Miller says she is not opposed to a commission of enquiry into the Trafigura scandal. ...Full Story>>> |
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The police are now reporting that they have found the torso of reputed leader of the clansman gang Navardo Hodges.
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The Jamaica Debates Commission says it is ready for the third and final debate to be from held at the Faculty of Law at the University of the West Indies, Mona.
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The Jamaica Labour Party(JLP) candidate for West Portland Daryl Vaz has condemned the ripping of a banner bearing his portrait and that of Prime Minister Andrew Holness which was on display in east Portland.
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It appears that Nomination day yesterday was a peaceful and violent free one.
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National Security Minister Senator Dwight Nelson is refuting claims that he pulled his firearm on a young man while he was in the South East St. Andrew constituency this morning.
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Prime Minister and Jamaica Labour Party Leader, Andrew Holness has admitted that he gave erroneous information on the political platform on Sunday night in Mandeville, Manchester. ...Full Story>>> |
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THE police, military and election day workers are expected to cast their votes on December 22, ahead of the December 29 general election announced by Prime Minister Andrew Holness Sunday night. ...Full Story>>> |
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Jamaicans will elect a new government on December 29. Prime Minister and Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Leader Andrew Holness announced the date in Mandeville Manchester, last night where thousands of Labourites gathered for a mass meeting.
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While focus is presently on the known casualties involved in the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme(JDIP)and National Works Agency (NWA)fiasco the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is calling on the Jamaica Labour Partry(JLP) Government to name the other persons who are implicated in the scandal. ...Full Story>>> |
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Following closely behind the resignation of member of Parliament for Central Clarendon Mike Henry from the Transport and Works portfolio, Member of Parliament for North Eastern St. Ann Shine Robinson has filled this post .The appointment takes immediate effect. ...Full Story>>> |
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THE Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has commenced a formal enquiry into what it said “appears to be serious irregularities” in the procurement by the National Works Agency (NWA) of office furniture, valued at approximately $62 million. ...Full Story>>> |
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It seems as if the damning revelation regarding the scrap metal trade will not die soon. In fact there are more questionable information emerging about the ban on scrap metals by Trade, Industry and Commerce Minister Dr. Christopher Tufton. ...Full Story>>> |
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Transport and Works Minister, Mike Henry, has dismissed claims from the Opposition People's National Party (PNP) that important computer files relating to the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) have gone missing from the National Works Agency (NWA).
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The People™s National Party (PNP) is dismissing as erroneous statements in the public arena that its President Portia Simpson-Miller is being shielded from participating in national debates ahead of the general election.
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The People's National Party Youth Organisation, PNPYO has issued a call to the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) to clean the voters list of the names of dead electors. ...Full Story>>> |
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Director of Public Prosecutions(DPP)Paula Llewellyn has responded to her critics regarding her non-appearance before the committee of Parliament who want to examine office records. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Office of the Contractor General (OCG) has issued a strong call for the issue of corruption be placed on the agenda of the National Debates being organized by the Jamaica Debates Commission, JDC. ...Full Story>>> |
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The opposition People's National Party says a future Government led by the PNP will remove the General Consumption Tax (GCT) on electricity. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Court of Appeal today halted the Trafigura proceedings in the Supreme Court pending an appeal from lawyers representing People™s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller and others. ...Full Story>>> |
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More drama at Trafigura hearing as PNP lawyers file appeal case against decisions by Supreme Court judge. ...Full Story>>> |
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The judge presiding at the hearing of the application for members of the People's National Party (PNP, to answer questions in relation to a probe by Dutch authorities into the Trafigura saga has turned down their request for a stay. ...Full Story>>> |
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The Urban Development Corporation (UDC) says it will complete its controversial sale of a state-owned property at 35 West Parade in downtown Kingston to Bashco Trading Company, based on an advice by the attorney general's department.
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The Betty Ann Blaine Led Citizens United to Reduce Electricity (CURE) is challenging the Office of Utilities Regulation, OUR, to tell the Jamaican public exactly how the testing of new digital meters was carried out and whether or not the testing met acceptable international standards.
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Veteran track and field administrator Howard Aris died last night during a People's National Party (PNP) mass rally in Port Antonio, sending shockwaves throughout the Opposition party and the country. ...Full Story>>> |
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Despite protests from the opposition People's National Party, newly appointed Jamaica Labour Party representative for Central Manchester, Danville Walker says he will handing over several vehicles to the Mandeville police. ...Full Story>>> |
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