House of Representatives of Jamaica

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband to Serena Williams, has announced a new invitational track event for the world’s top female sprinters which ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/alexis-ohanian-announces-highest-paying-womens-track-event/

Jamaica Labour Party leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness is being urged to go to today’s meeting of the party’s Central Executive with political guns blazing ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240421/holness-urged-clean-house   #GLNRToday

Bloodied but unbowed. Jamaica’s first woman Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn walked away from the job Sunday ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/paula-llewellyn-walks/

The Integrity Commission has recommended that former PNP lawmaker Dwayne Vaz be charged for failing to provide information sought on his income and liabilities ... Show more   #GLNRToday

House Speaker Juliet Holness has tabled the attorney general’s opinion on the tabling of reports from the auditor general and the Integrity Commission ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Member of Parliament for Clarendon North Central, Robert Morgan, has resigned as the head of the public relations committee of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/robert-morgan-resigns-public-relations-chairman-jlp   #GLNRToday

Jamaica Labour Party stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith says the changes coming out of Sunday’s Central Executive meeting are not enough ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240423/not-enough   #GLNRToday

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

Generation 2000 (G2K), the young professional affiliate of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party, says the rise in the number of Jamaicans with a positive view of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240424/g2k-lauds-rise-positive-view-countrys-direction-pnp-calls-change   #GLNRToday

Reports reaching Observer Online are that several schools within and around the boundaries of a recently imposed curfew in sections of St Catherine have ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/st-catherine-schools-turn-online-classes-due-tension-area/

The attorney general, the Government’s chief legal advisor, on Tuesday indicated that he has filed its appeal to clear up what is being described as an ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/fight-onattorney-general-cites-17-grounds-appealing-courts-ruling-dpp/

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the parliamentary Opposition may ask the court to compel House Speaker Juliet Holness to release the legal opinion of the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240420/golding-threatens-legal-action-over-shielded-ags-opinion   #GLNRToday

After five months of stonewalling, Juliet Holness, the Speaker, finally relented on Tuesday and tabled the opinions by the Attorney General’s Chambers on the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20240425/editorial-speakers-right-move   #GLNROped

Great technical execution, great performances all around, visual presentation spot on and glitch free, and a gigantic stage that rivals any major music event ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/high-praises-fun-sonheadliner-kirk-franklin-brings-dance-party/

Residents of Trelawny Southern have thrown their support behind former independent councillor, now prospective candidate for the People’s National Party’s ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240422/residents-support-patmores-bid-represent-trelawny-southern   #GLNRToday

Opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell raises concern that tributes are being made to retired Clerk to the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis without her being ... Show more   #GLNRToday

President Mark Golding and members of his People’s National Party (PNP) on Friday celebrated the latest in a series of victories against the Government ... Show more

The Constitutional Court ruling on Friday in relation to the extension of the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn is the latest in a ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/21/court-defeats-raise-questions-legal-advice-given-pm/

As Government and Opposition legislators prepare to get back to work in Gordon House today, the people’s representatives have unfinished business as they had ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240423/jfj-says-holness-should-withdraw-curtis-letter-today-make-public   #GLNRToday

If the Andrew Holness administration enacts legislation making Portmore a parish without direct consultation with its residents ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240415/fitz-jackson-makes-pledge-portmore   #GLNRToday

The Minister of Culture, Olivia Grange, says he has been left saddened by the death of Bishop Dr Ronald Blair, who passed away today at age 86 ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/grange-saddened-death-bishop-ronald-blair   #GLNRToday

Opposition Leader Mark Golding says Attorney General Derrick McKoy and Justice Minister Delroy Chuck should resign for saying Paula Llewellyn remains director ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240421/golding-demands-resignation-justice-minister-attorney-general-over-dpp-crisis   #GLNRToday

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GLNRToday

Senior Superintendent Christopher Phillips has dismissed criticisms that the Jamaica Constabulary Force is not applying the heat evenly to the two main gangs ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240424/police-pan-idea-bias-treatment-clansman-one-order-gangs   #GLNRToday

Even as Education Minister Fayval Williams expressed concern that students of Irwin High School do not feel they are being heard ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/teacher-told-irwin-high-boys-write-report-fatal-stabbing/

Claudette A Thompson, the senior deputy director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has been appointed the ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/claudette-thompson-acting-dpp/

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed disappointment over the length of time the first artisan village in Falmouth, Trelawny ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/pm-officially-opens-long-overdue-artisan-village-falmouth/

Minister of Education and Youth, Fayval Williams, has revealed that she is awaiting a report from the board of the St James High School in relation to a matter ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/23/education-minister-awaiting-report-st-james-high-school-board-regards-student-expulsion/

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

The Jamaica Labour Party's fight for the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation has reached the Supreme Court as its losing candidate for the Kintyre ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/jlps-fight-ksamc-reaches-supreme-court-0   #GLNRToday

Education Minister Fayval Williams is hoping Jamaican children will learn how to solve conflicts without resorting to violence ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240424/williams-pray-our-children-wont-normalise-violence   #GLNRToday

The Constitutional Court handed down a decision yesterday that the extension given to the director of public prosecutions (DPP) last year was unconstitutional ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240420/opposition-expressed-grave-concern-first-reading-bill   #GLNRToday

Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Claudette Thompson has been appointed acting DPP, replacing Paula Llewellyn who has stepped aside over a ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Entrepreneur Paul Patmore of Lowe River in Trelawy is set to represent the People's National Party in the constituency of South Trelawny in the next general ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240414/paul-patmore-represent-pnp-south-trelawny   #GLNRToday

In her absence, Government members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday paid tribute to former Clerk of the Houses of Parliament Valrie Curtis ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/24/cloud-lingers-issue-curtis/

A government agency is refusing to disclose the names of two entities with which it has entered into contracts costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240414/stifling-transparency   #GLNRToday

The Government is looking to establish a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics innovation teaching centre at National Heroes Circle in Kingston ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240425/govt-establish-stem-innovation-teaching-centre-heroes-circle   #GLNRToday

Jurgen Klopp said his decision to trust the depth of his squad had been rewarded after a 3-1 win at Fulham on Sunday took Liverpool level on points with ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/22/klopp-backs-massive-quality-liverpool-squad-launch-title-fight/

Three weeks into his new job as police commissioner, Dr Kevin Blake declared his intention to arrest Jamaica’s nagging problem of public disorder and sent a ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/public-order-push/

Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator Matthew Samuda has responded to videos being circulated on digital ... Show more

The Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says it will be seeking “guidance” from the country’s data protection regulator, which has contradicted its claim that the ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240421/taj-seek-guidance-office-information-commissioner-disputes-dpa-block   #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

Junior Foreign Affairs Minister Alando Terrelonge says a member of his team was responsible for posting a photo to his Instagram account with images of former ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Information Minister Robert Morgan has described as “immaterial”, public debate over whether House Speaker Juliet Holness should withdraw a letter of reprimand ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/morgan-dismisses-critics-holness-ex-clerk-reprimand-withholding-ag-opinion   #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 Director of Corruption Prosecution has ruled that former PNP MP Dwayne Vaz should be charged for failure to provide information to the Integrity ... Show more   #GleanerMinute

Jamaica's data protection regulator says the law does not prevent releasing the names of parties to a contract, contradicting Tax Administration Jamaica which ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240419/data-protection-regulator-contradicts-taj-says-law-supports-transparency   #GLNRToday

The new chairman of the Finance Committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) has alleged that the former administration spent more ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240409/new-leadership-request-audit-alleged-88m-overspend-salaries-ksamc   #GLNRToday

Music producer Tarik “Rvssian” Johnson is quite upbeat about his involvement in the Supreme Ventures Money Time campaign, which launched a little over a month ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/money-time-vibes/

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) said Sunday that it remains gravely concerned about the House Speaker’s failure to withdraw the letter to former ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/08/pnp-renews-call-withdrawal-letter-former-clerk-houses/

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

Now in the winter of his political career, Fitz Jackson, the seven-term member of parliament for St Catherine Southern, has found a spring ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20240414/fitz-jackson   #GLNRToday

Vice-Chairman of National Road Safety Council (NRSC) Dr Lucien Jones has added his voice to those urging young male drivers to take better care on the roads ... Show more   www.jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/10/careless-young-men-cause-many-road-crashes-says-jones/

A call has been made for the PNP's Dennis Gordon, chairman of the finance committee of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) to withdraw his ... Show more   jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240410/williams-wants-pnps-gordon-withdraw-comments-about-municipal-cops-ksamc   #GLNRToday

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