The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is appealing to electors for patience and cooperation as they process requests for letters of identity and the renewal of voter identification (ID) cards and their distribution. “We have noticed, with concern, the long lines at our offices and we just want to appeal to our electors to be patient at this time as...

Director of Elections at the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), Glasspole Brown, is maintaining that the country has a clean voters’ list. For several years, various local lobby groups have indicated that the voters’ list needs to be updated to show the true number of persons that are enumerated in the country. Mr. Brown is refuting the claim that the...

The Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) is reporting that close to 150,000 deceased persons have been removed from the voters’ list through its Dead Elector Removal Exercise. Director of Elections, Glasspole Brown, who made the disclosure to JIS News, said that significant gains have been made under the process to clean up the voter’s list, which is ongoing. “We did...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness has reiterated that no elections will be called during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and his focus is to get Jamaicans out of the crisis. Speaking in Richmond, St. Mary on Friday (October 15) during a vaccination mobilisation, where he answered questions from the media regarding a reported call by the opposition that an...

Beginning October 11, electors will be able to collect their new voter identification (ID) cards from Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) constituency offices across the island. Announcement of the distribution of the new voter ID cards was made by the Director of Elections, Glasspole Brown, at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’, where he provided details about the voter ID renewal...

It has come to the attention of the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ) that a number of employers are advising their employees who served as Election Day Workers that they must quarantine for a period following the General Election. The EOJ is of the view that this is not necessary as measures in line with WHO and PAHO standards were...

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has been re-elected to serve as Government for a second consecutive term, after winning the General Election, held on (Thursday) September 3. Preliminary results show that the JLP, led by the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness, has won 49 seats, while the People’s National Party (PNP), led by Dr. Peter Phillips, won 14 seats. In his victory...