A Bill seeking to introduce special measures that can be used to facilitate the giving of evidence by vulnerable witnesses and other witnesses specified, was tabled in the Senate on...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, is appealing to Parliamentarians to abandon adversarial politics and replace it with a consensual system, which embraces the best ideas regardless of...

Several Members of both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday (November 13) paid tribute to former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson for his role in shaping Jamaica’s post-Independence Parliamentary...

Some 18 delegates from over 10-member countries of the Caribbean, Americas and Atlantic Region of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) are in Jamaica for a three-day Regional Staff Development Workshop....

A levy of US$1 has been imposed on each pound of conch exported during the 2012 conch season. The House of Representatives on Tuesday (October 30), approved the Conch (Export...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday (October 30), approved the withdrawal of $1.8 billion from the Capital Development Fund (CDF), to provide budgetary support for the 2012/13 financial year, as...

The operations and activities of the nation's Parliament are one step closer to being transformed, through the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister,...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday (Oct. 16), approved a motion for the United Kingdom (UK) and specified British Overseas Territories to be brought under the ambit of the Mutual...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has hailed former Prime Minister the Most Hon. Edward Seaga as "one of the granite figures of our time". "He is supremely...

Former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, is to be honoured during a special joint sitting of the Houses of Parliament at Gordon House on Tuesday (October 9), as...

Cabinet has instructed the Ministry of Justice to ensure that priority is given to the passage of legislation such as the DNA Bill and regulations to accompany the Sexual Offences...