Readers of The Gleaner’s Facebook page have been commenting on the first political debates just ended featuring a team from the People’s National Party (PNP) and another from the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The debate focused on socio-economic issues from a youth perspective. The PNP comprised Dr. Dayton Campbell, Lisa Hanna and Raymond Pryce while [...]
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On the eve of nomination day for the December 29 general election, the country’s two major political parties have claimed a slate of clean candidates. This comes against the background of a controversial dual-citizenship saga that engulfed the nation after the last polls in September 2007. Legal challenges brought through the courts found that five [...]
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TERRENCE WILLIAMS, commissioner of the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), has submitted key recommendations to the Jamaica Constabulary Force to properly identify lawmen carrying out their duties. Williams argued that the implementation of these recommendations was critical to reducing the too-frequent incidents of “anonymous police officers” involved in misconduct. He was speaking yesterday at a [...]
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SOME 25 youth from different communities under the Youth Upliftment Through Employ-ment (YUTE) programme have been working with the Nature Preservation Foundation, operators of Hope Gardens and Hope Zoo, to upkeep the Hope Botanic Gardens. On Thursday, YUTE representatives gave members of the Australian government (AusAID) and the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) a [...]
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MINISTER WITH responsibility for the public service, Senator Arthur Williams, is to chair a joint parliamentary committee, which will examine proposals for the reform of pension in the public sector. Williams will be joined by senators Warren Newby, Kamina Johnson-Smith, Ian Murray, Hyacinth Bennett, Navel Clarke, Norman Grant and Mark Golding. Legislators from the Lower [...]
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