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KINGSTON – Prime Minister, Hon Bruce Golding, has said that the circumstances surrounding the request from the U.S. for the extradition of Christopher “Dudus” Coke, would not have allowed him to distance himself from the matter. Mr. Golding was testifying before the Commission of Enquiry into the handling of the extradition, on Friday March 25, at the Jamaica Conference Centre,...

Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, has testified that within 10 days of receipt of the extradition request for Christopher Coke, he was informed by Attorney General, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, that there were difficulties with the request. Cross examined by People’s National Party (PNP) lead counsel, K.D. Knight, the Prime Minister said that, based on information he received from the Justice...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding told the House of Representatives yesterday that the issue of the final appellate court for Jamaica, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has to be addressed as part of the constitutional reform. He was making a contribution to the Charter of Rights Bill which was read for a third time and passed. “I have said so...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has hailed the support from Jamaica's bilateral partners in fighting narco trafficking, but underscored a need to return to the rebuilding of values and standards as an essential move in fighting corruption. “Fighting corruption requires much more. It requires a coalition of forces and a coalition of efforts. It involves the government, it involves the media, it involves civil...

Approximately 180 public sector employees, representing 42 Government departments and agencies, are to participate in the inaugural staging of the Customer Service Monitoring and Evaluation System (CSMES) training programme. The course, which is being undertaken by the Cabinet Office and the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), is designed to provide training to Government employees in implementing the CSMES within...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, says that the Government has an obligation to ensure and safeguard the constitutional rights of all Jamaicans. Mr. Golding was referring to the issues which were at stake in the United States’ Government’s request for the extradition of Christopher Coke in 2009, as he opened his submission at the Commission of Enquiry into the...

KINGSTON – Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator, the Hon. Dorothy Lightbourne, has maintained that an e-mail allegedly sent to Solicitor General Douglas Leys from her office was not written by her. Under cross-examination from Attorney, Lord Anthony Gifford, Senator Lightbourne explained that all e-mails sent by her, are sent through her work e-mail address. “It is not my...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding says that development applications are benefitting from the National Environment and Planning Agency’s Development Assistance Centre (DAC). Mr. Golding noted that last month, of 123 applications, 77 per cent or 95 applications were completed within 90 days. Mr. Golding, speaking at the launch of the NEPA DAC on March 16 in Kingston, said that the target...

The Government is expanding the National Customer Service Programme, as part of overall efforts to modernise the public sector, says Chief Standards and Monitoring Officer, National Customer Service Programme, Public Sector Modernisation Unit, Cabinet Office, Michele Gordon-Somers. Speaking at  the opening  of the Customer Service Monitoring and Evaluation System (CSMES) inaugural customised training course, at the Management Institute for National...

The effective and efficient delivery of products and services by the public sector is pivotal to the realisation of the country's National Development Plan, Vision 2030. This was emphasised by Chief Standards and Monitoring Officer, National Customer Service Programme, Public Sector Modernisation Unit, Cabinet Office, Michele Gordon-Somers, at the opening of the Customer Service Monitoring and Evaluation System (CSMES) inaugural...

MANDEVILLE – The Canaan Heights community in Clarendon has received four computers and other office equipment from the Social Development Commission (SDC), as part of the agency’s community safety and security initiative funded by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Director of Governance at the SDC, Sherine Walker-Francis, told the handing over ceremony at the Canaan Heights Community Centre on...

KINGSTON - The 2011 Housing and Population Census will assist policy makers in making critical decisions in the areas of transportation and communications. Director General of the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN), Sonia Jackson, in an interview with JIS News, said that unlike the last census, questions relating to these sectors have been included in the 2011 survey instrument. “The...