Member of Parliament for West Portland, Daryl Vaz, has sought legal advice regarding comments made by his PNP challenger, Doreen Campbell on the campaign trail. While addressing a PNP meeting at Buff Bay Primary School on Sunday, Miss Campbell encouraged comrades to...
President of the People's National Party, PNP, Mark Golding, has vowed that if the party forms the next government, its focus will be on improving the country's human capital. He gave the assurance while addressing party faithful in Buff Bay, Portland on Sunday....
People's National Party, PNP, caretaker for Western Portland, Doreen Campbell, has encouraged her fellow comrades to accept money for their vote if it's offered, but to ensure they still elect her as the member of parliament. Miss Campbell made the comment while...
Director of Elections, Glasspole Brown, says systems are in place at the Electoral Commission of Jamaica, ECJ, to thwart attempts at gerrymandering by a political party. Gerrymandering occurs when a political party manipulates the boundaries of a constituency or...
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Venezuela should refrain from taking any action which would deprive Guyana of its sovereign claims over the Essequibo region. The court's president, Joan E. Donoghue, handed down the ruling on Friday. Guyana had asked...
President of the National Parent Teachers' Association, NPTAJ, Stewart Jacobs, says the body would support a policy where students expelled from secondary schools are sent to a military-style academy. The policy, which has been implemented in Trinidad and Tobago, is...
A former head of the Jamaica Defence Force, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, is cautioning against using the military as a tool to correct misbehaving students. He says such a move has the potential to overburden the armed forces. Rear Admiral Lewin, who is also a former...
Head of the Area One Police, Assistant Commissioner, Clifford Chambers, says the police are seeing an increase in the number of people giving information to the security forces, since the declaration of States of Public Emergency in the western end of the island. SOE...
There's more trouble in the PNP over candidate selection. The latest problems surfaced after the party's secretariat rejected the application of Craig Oates to be its caretaker in the constituency of Eastern Hanover. Oates has blasted the PNP's decision to remove him,...
A security guard has been freed of buggery and sexual assault charges, after the evidence of a boy with mental challenges was thrown out by the Court of Appeal last week. The boy alleged that the security guard, Carl Anderson, had raped and sexually assaulted him on...