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A Private Member's motion, seeking the establishment of proper family values and the protection of the nation's children, has been referred to a Joint Select Committee of the House of Representatives for further debate. Minister of Education and Leader of Government Business, Hon. Andrew Holness, while contributing to the motion in Gordon House on Wednesday January 27, said it was...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday January 25 approved a report from a joint select committee on the review of Jamaica’s libel laws. The contents of the report will now go to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel for the Bill to be prepared, which will then be signed off on by Cabinet. “It will come back here, so, we will have...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has sent the “whistleblower” bill for revision to address matters brought up during debate in Parliament. Mr Golding says he remains committed to having the bill passed soon, as he considers it to be a tool against corruption in public matters. “That bill really is intended to address matters of corruption. The bill really is not intended...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw, says several key issues pertaining to economic growth strategies are to be discussed at this weekend’s Cabinet retreat. Speaking at Mayberry Investments Limited’s first monthly Investors Forum for 2011, at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on Wednesday (January 19), he said key among these are matters pertaining to loan...

Cabinet has approved a $190 million contract to D.R. Foote Construction Company, to undertake the rehabilitation of infrastructure works at Lilliput III, St. James. Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, made the announcement during a Post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on Wednesday (January 19). Lilliput, an informal settlement in Montego Bay, St....

Cabinet will this weekend be focusing its attention on stimulating growth and creating jobs through investment and expansion for 2011. The one day retreat gets underway on January 22. In his New Year’s message, Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that to this end, consultation on policy direction had already started with the private sector and trade unions. He said growth and expansion...

A Joint Select Committee of Parliament will be formed to examine the issue of dual citizenship. The move was agreed to during the sitting of the House of Representatives on Wednesday (January 19). Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, had made the recommendation on Tuesday (Jan.18) as he contributed to a motion brought by Member of Parliament for Central Kingston,...

The Ministry of Education has developed a Green Paper on Safe School Policy, which will, among other things, abolish the use of corporal punishment in all schools. The policy is to be submitted to Cabinet soon and tabled in Parliament by next month, said Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, at Wednesday’s (Jan. 19) session of the House of Representatives....

Cabinet has approved the issuing of drafting instruction to the Chief Parliamentary Counsel to develop legislation for the establishment of a Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission. This commission will be the national oversight body for the tertiary education system. Making the disclosure January 19 at the first post-Cabinet Press Briefing for 2011, Minister with responsibility for Information, Daryl Vaz said that the...

 The Government of Jamaica has pledged J$1 million support to the Menzies family whose three children suffer a neuro-degenerative disorder. The announcement was made at this morning’s (Jan 20) National Leadership Prayer Breakfast at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel by Prime Minister Bruce Golding where he read the first lesson. The Menzies family is from St. Ann. The children, ages- nine; five and...

The House of Representatives has agreed that a Joint Select Committee of the Upper and Lower Houses would be the best medium to examine the issue of dual citizenship, giving particular attention to sections 39, 40, and 41 of the Constitution. In a debate sparked by a motion on the matter, brought to the House on January 18, by Member...

A Bill providing for the establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor as a department of Government was passed in the Senate on Friday, January 14. Minister of Justice and Leader of Government Business, Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, who piloted the Corruption Prevention (Special Prosecutor) Act, informed that the department will be responsible for the investigation and prosecution of corrupt...