Member of the House of Representatives of Jamaica

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) wants People's National Party (PNP) Westmoreland Western aspirant Ian Hayles to withdraw and apologise for marking claims about ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/jlp-chides-ian-hayles-over-water-tank-distribution-claims-demands-apology   #GLNRToday

Constitutional expert Dr Lloyd Barnett has described as “unfortunate and sad” the so-called letter saga in which Speaker of the House of Representatives ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240418/curtis-holness-may-have-resolve-issue-through-mediation-barnett   #GLNRToday

🔊SOUND ON🔊 The Opposition says it is appalled, though not surprised, by Information Minister Robert Morgan's pushback against public debate over whether House ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/opposition-rebukes-morgan-dismissal-juliet-holness-valrie-curtis-reprimand   #GLNRToday

Former Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis has said she will accept nothing less than a public withdrawal by House Speaker Juliet Holness of a ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240416/curtis-breaks-silence   #GLNRToday

The attorney general’s denial of an access to information request for the advice provided to Parliament on how to handle reports by the auditor general is not ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240412/editorial-go-court-ag-opinion   #GLNROped

Two weeks after the House of Representatives completed its debate on the Appropriations Act, more commonly known as the Budget ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240410/budget-backtrack   #GLNRToday

Education Minister Fayval Williams today revealed that her Ministry is investigating another private facility that caters to foreign children in Jamaica ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240417/education-ministry-investigating-another-private-school-foreign-children   #GLNRToday

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz has expressed relief that the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) driver who was on Thursday morning stabbed by a passenger is ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240411/update-vaz-expresses-relief-stabbed-jutc-driver-not-seriously-injured   #GLNRToday

The bilateral aviation agreement between Jamaica and the Dominican Republic has fostered increased cultural exchange in tourism and increased commercial trade ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240418/jamaica-dominican-republic-bilateral-aviation-agreement-yielding-significant   #GLNRToday

Minister of Transport Daryl Vaz says he is deeply saddened by the passing of three employees of the Jamaican Urban Transit Company ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240408/vaz-saddened-passing-jutc-workers   #GLNRToday

House Speaker Juliet Holness is facing the heat over her failure to make public Attorney General (AG) Derrick McKoy’s opinion on the tabling of reports after ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240409/ag-denies-ati-request-leaves-speaker-release-opinion   #GLNRToday

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says his ministry has not been able to spend funds allocated by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240415/chuck-desperate-justice-ministry-spend-available-funds   #GLNRToday

Mayor of Montego Bay, Councillor Richard Vernon, says track and field events will return to the Montego Bay Sports Complex soon ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20240413/mayor-vernon-track-and-field-will-return-mobay-sports-complex-soon   #GLNRSports

Deputy Prime Minister Dr Horace Chang has indicated that land at Albion Heights in St James would be transferred to the Rastafari Coral Gardens Benevolent ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240403/land-transfer-rastafari-community-imminent-says-chang   #GLNRToday

Minister of Transport Daryl Vaz is appealing to Jamaicans to exercise greater care and precision while traversing the nation's roads amid recent fatal crashes ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240404/vaz-bemoans-fatal-crashes-calls-increased-police-enforcement   #GLNRToday

After nearly three decades working in Jamaica’s Parliament – the last three years as its Clerk – Valrie Curtis retired yesterday ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240407/editorial-valrie-curtis-matter-alive   #GLNROped

Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has stressed that the success of the Supporting Victims of Violence (SVOV) Activity programme rests on victims of abuse ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240412/do-not-be-lonely-victim-abuse-violence-chuck   #GLNRToday

Political and education leaders have lauded the Jamaica Teachers’ Association for its emphasis on advocacy for its members and academic uplifting of the ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/01/jta-applauded-for-60-years-of-advocacy/

As the day comes to a close, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange ... Show more   #ReadyFiDiRoad   #GLNREnt   #CarnivalInJamaica

Transport Minister Daryl Vaz says operations are back to normal at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) while negotiations between the company's ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240405/normalcy-restored-jutc-union-negotiations-continue   #GLNRToday

House Speaker Juliet Holness’ back-pedalling that allowed last week’s tabling of two reports by the Auditor General, Pamela Monroe Ellis ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240331/editorial-when-are-ministers-told   #GLNROped

Eleventh grade science student Jayden Hinds’ creation of an app that helps homeowners and businesses monitor their energy use pushed him to the top of a ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/30/energy-counting-app-snags-win-for-jayden-hinds/

Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s criticism of the appointment of Juliet Holness, who is the prime minister’s wife, as Speaker of the House of Representatives ... Show more   #BudgetDebate   #GLNRToday

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, says she has decided to table the outstanding reports from the Auditor General’s Department as she ... Show more   #GLNRToday   #BudgetDebate

The sitting of the House of Representatives has been delayed by more than 20 minutes. Lawmakers on both sides are seated in the chamber, however ... Show more   #GLNRToday   #BudgetDebate

Transport operators have reportedly agreed to delay implementation of the 16 per cent fare increase, which was set to take effect on April 1 ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240328/transport-operators-agree-hold-16-fare-increase   #GLNRToday

Juliet Holness’ continued obduracy in refusing to release Attorney General Dr Derrick McKoy’s opinion on procedures for tabling reports by the auditor general ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240328/editorial-speaker-blunders-again   #GLNROped

After holding two reports from the Auditor General’s Department for more than two months, Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness yesterday ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240327/augd-reports-tabled   #GLNRToday

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Juliet Holness, has resisted the Opposition’s attempts to get her to comment on her letter of reprimand to Clerk to ... Show more   #GLNRToday

After experiencing years of delays, Sport Minister Olivia Grange says the upgrade of the National Stadium will begin next year, increasing its capacity to 40 ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/28/stadium-renovation-begin-next-year-grange/

#BudgetDebate : Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the pressures that existed in 2002 when then finance minister Dr Omar Davies made his now infamous statement of “run ... Show more   #GLNRToday

🔊 Acting House Leader and the minister responsible for gender, Olivia Grange, says Opposition Leader Mark Golding has brought the House of Representatives into ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240319/goldings-comments-about-house-speaker-disturbing-and-hypocritical-grange   #GLNRToday

President of the Senate Tom Tavares-Finson has accused Opposition Leader Mark Golding of seeking to undermine the integrity of House Speaker Juliet Holness ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240320/tavares-finson-criticises-golding-comments-against-house-speaker   #GLNRToday

When the House of Representatives sits today, the Speaker, Juliet Holness, must, before any other business, do two things. She must confirm, or reject ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240326/editorial-clarify-stance-aug-reports   #GLNROped

House Speaker Juliet Holness on Tuesday allowed the tabling of two reports from the Auditor General, essentially for now ending a stand-off between the two ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis says she will be dispatching two reports to Parliament on Monday that had been previously sent by her for tabling in the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240323/ag-return-reports   #GLNRToday

Deputy Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake will take over as commissioner of police of Jamaica on March 19. National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang confirmed the ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams, says that empowering teachers with technology not only benefits students but also helps educators stay ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240328/education-minister-emphasises-importance-empowering-teachers-technology   #GLNRToday

JLP MP Robert Chin was due on Monday to visit the Integrity Commission, regarding information being sought on companies in which he is a director … There’s a ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Political commentator Lloyd B. Smith, asserting that the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) showing in the recent local government elections has created a ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240306/tough-test-holness   #GLNRToday

Government Minister Daryl Vaz has promised that State resources will not be distributed from his ministry on a partisan basis ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/01/not-on-my-watch/

While beaming at the Jamaica Labour Party’s 7-5 win over the People’s National Party in last Monday’s local government elections ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/03/message-sent-message-received/

The new commissioner of police to replace Major General Antony Anderson will come from within the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240308/jcf-looking-within-new-commissioner   #GLNRToday

Senate President Tom Tavares-Finson has accused Opposition Leader Mark Golding of seeking to undermine the integrity of House Speaker Juliet Holness ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Construction works on the US$350 million Pinnacle project in Montego Bay, St James has started, with the driving of piles on which the four skyscraping towers ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240323/construction-works-begin-us350-million-pinnacle-project-montego-bay   #GLNRToday

Controversial former government minister Everald Warmington was the subject of a stern rebuff from Minister of Science and Technology, Daryl Vaz ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240305/vaz-slams-warmington-public-funds-disbursement-issue   #GLNRToday

Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, says the police will "reorganise and focus" on tackling the problems of illegal gun imports ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240309/police-focus-cutting-illegal-income-guns-drugs-and-scamming   #GLNRToday

National security minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government has agreed to take in some Haitian orphans and World Bank workers as the security situation ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Security Minister Dr Horace Chang has revealed that nearly 100 Jamaicans have been identified for extradition to the United States to answer lottery scamming ... Show more

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) official results for the February 26 local government elections showed the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) winning seven ... Show more

Even as the Government shores up its defences against a possible influx of Haitian refugees from the crisis-riddled country ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/08/open-to-orphans/

Prime Minister Andrew Holness and wife, Juliet Holness, make their way to the Mona Division polling station in St Andrew Eastern to cast their vote in the 2024 ... Show more   #JAElection2024   #LocalGovernmentElection

Deputy Commissioners of Police Dr Kevin Blake and Fitz Bailey are among the leading contenders to succeed Major General Antony Anderson ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240303/bailey-blake-tipped-succeed-anderson-police-chief   #GLNRToday

Security Minister Dr Horace Chang on Thursday clarified what is considered overtime within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and sought to clear up any ... Show more

On the same day that the Opposition sacked its caretaker candidate Dennis Meadows for his glorification of lottery scamming ... Show more

Minister of Transport Daryl Vaz has indicated that the government will continue the railway service for about 400 students in the Linstead, St Catherine area ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240305/govt-keep-school-rail-service-despite-losses   #GLNRToday

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says the Government has agreed to take in some Haitian orphans and World Bank workers as the security situation ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

The Government says Jamaica’s security apparatus has been galvanised and monitoring heightened as part of a blockade against any of the more than 4 ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/03/06/eye-on-haiti/

The presence of piles of debris and trees growing in the Sandy Gully in the vicinity of Riverton City, which poses “a clear and present danger” to residents in ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240307/funds-allocated-sandy-gully-cleaning-year-says-samuda   #GLNRToday

Former Government minister Dr Omar Davies said Monday’s local government election is more complicated than winning or losing ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/02/26/watch-former-minister-omar-davies-says-local-government-election-winning-losing/

Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, says the Government is committed to ensuring the safety of the island's schoolchildren. “Education is a right ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240229/safety-schoolchildren-high-priority-agenda-dr-chang   #GLNRToday