House Matters

On this week’s edition of House Matters: Traffic Ticket Amnesty extended and Road maintenance act repealed.

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On this week’s edition of House Matters: Prime Minister Andrew Holness pledges to ban corporal punishment and House passes Building Act.

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Mount Salem Zone of Special operations to continue for another 60 days, infrastructural work coming for Denham Town and government considers extension of traffic ticket amnesty

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On this week’s edition of House Matters: Debate continues on building act; and parliament passes bill to absolve national heroes from criminal liability.

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Debate begins on bill to absolve national heroes from criminal liability and parliamentarians discuss building act

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On this week’s edition of House Matters, debate begins on MOCA Bill and Health Minister provides update on HPV Vaccine programme for Grade seven girls

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In House Matters this week, Jamaican troops in Dominica to support hurricane recovery, Prime Minister says women to be included in next intake of National Service Corps recruits and finance minister provides update on public sector reform initiatives.

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Legislation to establish a national identification system gets the green light from the Lower House, government to begin work on additional space for the court of appeal and justice minister renews call for greater use of plea bargaining

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Conch (Export Levy) (Rate of Levy) Order Resolution 2017 approved in the Lower House, and Senate approves bill for single anti-corruption agency.

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House approves withdrawal of funds from Capital Development Fund

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Prime Minister Andrew Holness lauded for taking decisive step in the fight against crime and violence

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More resources for security forces and social intervention programmes and Bill to allow withdrawal from NHT passed in the Lower House.

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Former Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller to resign as Parliamentary representative for South West St Andrew- Parliamentarians laud her contribution to politics and nation building.

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In this edition, Debate on bills to address progress of criminal matters through the courts gets underway in the Lower House.

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Debate begins on the National Identification and Registration Bill and Parliamentarians pay tribute to the late lady Cooke.

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Debate on the Building Bill gets underway in the Lower House, while the Plea Bargaining Bill gets approval in the Senate

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Government taking steps to deal with Gender based violence and Revised National Culture Policy drafted.

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Parliament urged to be meticulous in carrying out Lawmaking task and Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 gets approval in the House

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Jamaica surpasses IMF Primary Surplus targets for the 2016/17 fiscal year by over 12 billion dollars and Government implementing strategies to reduce incidents of Praedial larceny.

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7 Billion dollars needed to complete key justice reform activities by 2020 and Bill to amend the public debt management act gets approval in the House.

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