The Government is to table a Bill entitled, an ‘Act to Provide for the Compulsory Acquisition of the Shares Held by PDV Caribe in Petrojam and for Connected Matters’, at the next sitting of the House of Representatives. This is part of efforts to retake ownership of the 49 per cent shares in Petrojam, which are held by the Venezuelan...

Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) 2018 schoolboy football champions, Clarendon College was lauded in Parliament today. Clarendon College was invited to Gordon House by the Speaker of House, the Honourable Pearnel Charles as a show of appreciation for their winning performances. Congratulatory statements came from several Members, including the Prime Minister the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, who praised the school...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (November 20), took note of the recommendations emanating from the recently held National Youth Parliament of Jamaica (NYPJ). The ninth sitting of the NYPJ was held on Monday, November 12, 2018, at Gordon House. At the event, the youth discussed issues in the areas of National Security, Reform of the Electoral System and the...

The Government will be considering recommendations coming out of Monday’s (November 12) staging of the National Youth Parliament. “Coming out of this exercise, for the first time, I will table in Parliament a document that has all your recommendations, so that Parliament can take note of what the youth have to say,” said State Minister in the Ministry of Education,...

A total of $10 million has been handed over to the top-five entrants of the Government’s Houses of Parliament Design Competition. The presentations were made by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, during a ceremony to open the competition’s exhibition of entries at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, on Wednesday (October 10). Chosen from 24 submissions by 178...

The Government will be undertaking an educational campaign surrounding the impending ban on the importation, manufacture, distribution and use of specific categories of plastic packaging materials. Government Senator Matthew Samuda, who made the disclosure during Friday’s (October 5) sitting of the Senate, said the campaign will, among other things, highlight alternative packaging materials. “There is nothing that the Government has...

The design competition for the construction of a new Parliament building has entered its first stage. Providing an update today (July 20) at a JIS ‘Think Tank’, Senior Project Manager at the Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Leighton Whyte, said that 37 teams consisting of more than  200 persons have registered to participate in the competition, which was launched in May...