The House of Representatives on January 31 approved the Integrity Commission Bill, which is aimed at promoting and enhancing standards of ethical conduct for parliamentarians and public officials. The Bill provides for the establishment of a single body to be known as the Integrity Commission, to promote and strengthen the measures for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of acts...

PUBLIC NOTICE - A Joint Select Committee of Parliament has been appointed to review the “Sexual Offences Act”. This Joint Select Committee will also review the “Child Care and Protection Act”, the “Domestic Violence Act”, the “Offences against the Person Act” and the offences and punishment under these Acts, placing special emphasis on the protection of the vulnerable (women, children,...

The Estimates of Expenditure for the 2017/18 financial year will be tabled in the House of Representatives on Thursday, February 9. This was disclosed by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Audley Shaw during his presentation on the first Supplementary Estimates for 2016/17 in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (January 17). He informed that he will be...

Cabinet has given approval for a Bill to be tabled in Parliament detailing how the boundaries of Local Government city municipalities are to be altered. Speaking at a post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House on January 11, Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, said the Bill, which dictates the relationship between the municipalities and the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says an additional $200 million will be provided to the islandwide mitigation programme, which will go towards the patching and repairing of the road network. In a statement to the House of Representatives on December 7, the Prime Minister said the funds will be provided through the Tourism Enhancement Fund and the Road...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says Jamaica and Cuba have pledged to identify ways to deepen collaboration and exchanges in the areas of trade, tourism, climate change and disaster mitigation as well as culture and education. “We have affirmed the commitment to examine the possibilities at the bilateral level to improve the current state of economic relations and...

The Senate yesterday (November 10) approved amendment to the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) to correct a referencing error in the principal legislation. The Bill was amended to facilitate the substitution of the words ‘Commissioner of Lands’ for ‘Commissioner of Land Valuation’ and will give the Commissioner of Lands the power to undertake necessary action for the State to have...