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The House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 20) approved the withdrawal of $88.4 billion from the Consolidated Fund. The funds are to carry on the business of Government from April 1, 2012 until the budget for the 2012/13 fiscal year is approved. Leader of Government Business in the Lower House, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, who moved the resolution, noted that this...

The government has increased the 2011/12 budget by $11.2 billion. This was revealed in the third Supplementary Estimates tabled on Wednesday March 20 in the House of Representatives. The new budget reflects total government expenditure of $536.4 billion for the rest of the fiscal year from the previous $525.2 billion, which was approved in the Second Supplementary Estimates on March...

Members of the Senate paid tribute to the late Hon. Justice Carl Rattray, OJ, QC, on Friday who passed away Wednesday (March 14). Senator K.D. Knight, who is a QC, remembered Justice Rattray as an advocate of the highest quality, noting that it was a pleasure to hear him addressing the court. “He was meticulous in the way he did...

The House of Representatives on March 6 approved the second Supplementary Estimates for the financial year 2011/12. The new budget reflects total government expenditure of $525.2 billion for the remainder of the current fiscal year from the previous $546.7 billion with spending cut by approximately $22.4 billion The estimates show a decrease in the recurrent (housekeeping) expenditure from $356.4 billion...

Minister of Health, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson, says the Government has drafted a policy relating to gifts and donations, to enhance the mobilisation of resources for the health sector, particularly from charitable organisations. "We have drafted the policy on gifts and donations to ensure an effective system of accepting, documenting and distributing all resources mobilised for the health sector; and...

Sixty Two of the 63  Members of Parliament (MPs) who won their seats in the General Election on December 29, 2011, were sworn in today (January 17), at the opening of the new session of Parliament, at Gordon House. Absent was Member of Parliament for Southern Trelawny, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert. During the ceremony, Member of Parliament for South Manchester, Michael Peart,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says the top priority of her new administration is to work tirelessly to stimulate economic growth, in order to create jobs and further national development. Speaking at the swearing in of the ministers of the new government at King's House on Friday (January 6), the Prime Minister described the Cabinet as a...

KINGSTON — Workers desirous of casting their ballots on Election Day (December 29) are allotted time off from work to do so under the Representation of the People (Leave and Symbols) Regulations, 1944. They are allowed three hours, in addition to the normal meal hour, for voting purposes on a national and local election day. Speaking in an interview with...

KINGSTON — The Houses of Parliament will dissolve effective today (December 8), ahead of the December 29 General Election. This means that all sittings of the House of Representatives and the Senate will end until a new government is formed. Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, told yesterday's (December 7) post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House that all the...

KINGSTON — A community centre is to be built in Rocky Point, Clarendon at a cost of more than $30 million, in honour of late former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament (MP) for South East Clarendon, the Most Hon. Hugh Lawson Shearer. Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, who is MP for the constituency, where Rocky Point is located,...

KINGSTON — The Office of the Parliamentary Counsel was established over 50 years ago, as a dedicated office for facilitating the Government in the delivery of its policies, which require legislation. It consists of a cadre of attorneys-at-law headed by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Mr. Albert Edwards and is supported by a dedicated team of administrative professionals and other categories...

Cabinet has received its first update on the Public Sector Transformation Unit’s (PSTU) Master Rationalization Plan (MRP). Minister with responsibility for the Public Service and Information, Senator Arthur Williams, told journalists at Wednesday’s (November 23) post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House that the update is contained in the first quarterly report, which the PSTU submitted to Cabinet. Pointing out that...