NIDS committee to start meeting January 5

Johnson Smith says PM gave 'honest' response to prison rejection issue

Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith says Prime Minister Andrew Holness was truthful when he told the nation on Friday that his administration did not reject the United Kingdom’s offer to help build a prison

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Home, sweet home! - Visually impaired man seizes chance at independence

“Oh, gosh! I’m blown away!” were the first words uttered by Mark Sweeney shortly after he was presented with the keys to and documents for his new home. Two hundred homes were handed over at SilverSun Estate in St Catherine on Wednesday by the...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Fauci Warns: More Death, Econ Damage If US Reopens Too Fast | Afro

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority

Mom, we’re home! - Portmore woman anticipates emotional reunion with three sons after COVID-19 adventure on the seas

CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Jamaica: Cabbie uses G-string as COVID mask

Nicosi ‘Jubba’ McLarty, who plies the Half-Way Tree to downtown Kingston route, says he has been turning heads and making people laugh whenever he wears his ‘mask’ in

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ELECTIONWATCH - PM says economic recovery the focus now, but analyst expects polls sooner rather than later

Even as political watchers zero in on August dates for the next general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness kept his cards close to his chest as he spoke with The Sunday Gleaner a week ago, giving no hint as to when he will summon Jamaicans to the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations (ZOSOs) shortly.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

ELECTIONWATCH - PM says economic recovery the focus now, but analyst expects polls sooner rather than later

Even as political watchers zero in on August dates for the next general election, Prime Minister Andrew Holness kept his cards close to his chest as he spoke with The Sunday Gleaner a week ago, giving no hint as to when he will summon Jamaicans to...

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Phillips chides PM; declares PNP has answers

OPPOSITION Leader Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for suggesting that the country's crime problem has evolved beyond the capacity to contain it.Holness told a meeting with stakeholders on crime last week that investment is needed to rebuild the country's national

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Protesters injured by police before Trump photo-op testify: 'It hurts'

Civil rights demonstrator Kishon McDonald answers a question at a U.S. House Natural Resources Committee hearing examining Park Police response to Lafayette Square protests on June 29, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Bonnie Cash-Pool/Getty

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PM, JLP officials pay tribute to former May Pen mayor

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was among Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) officials who paid tribute to former mayor of May Pen Milton Brown, who died peacefully

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Kenya: Murkomen Turns Down New Appointment in Senate Committee

Elgeyo Marakwet Senator Kipchumba Murkomen has turned down an appointment to serve in the Senate's Devolution Committee in the new changes announced by Jubilee Party on

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tourism timeline - Stakeholders pressure Gov’t to set date for reopening ports

THE ANDREW Holness administration has come under immense pressure from the powerful and influential Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), which has called for a planned reopening date of the island’s borders for international and local

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Billboard names Beenie Man winner of Verzuz battle | New York Carib News

Billboard names Beenie Man winner of Verzuz battle

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Source: The New York Carib News

PM, Clarke copied as Gaming Assn acts on eve of court hearing

Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Minister of Finance Dr Nigel Clarke are among those copied on a letter written by secretary of the Jamaica Gaming Association Sudu Ramani to executive director of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) Vitus Evans seeking to have a study commissioned

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

First phase of drain, gully cleaning starts in two weeks

MINISTER of Local Government and Community Development Desmond McKenzie says the island's municipal corporations will be rolling out the first phase of their disaster risk mitigation programme in two weeks, for the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins on June

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Holness headache - Petrojam scandal resurfaces with force as Wheatley labelled ‘dishonest’ in report

The director of investigation was caustic in his characterisation of Wheatley’s response to specific questions during a probe into donations made by Petrojam to various organisations and causes between April 2016 and March

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

‘Tragic and heartbreaking’ - PM comments on Noel Chambers who died after 40 years behind bars without trial

REACTING TO the national outcry over the death of Noel Chambers, who spent 40 years in prison without a trial, Prime Minister Andrew Holness, last evening, said nobody should be lost in the penal

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‘Twenty Dollars?’ George Floyd’s Brother Asks Congress ‘What A Black Man’s Life Is Worth’

Source: C-SPAN

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ZOSO imposed in Greenwich Town

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) in Greenwich Town, St Andrew. In making the announcement a short while ago, Holness said the move is to improve safety and security in the area, which he noted is facing...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ship workers disembark in Port Royal

Several hundred Jamaicans have begun disembarking two cruise ships as part of the Government's controlled re-entry

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: Uproar As COVID-19 Fund Asks Workers to Donate Shs10, 000 Each

A section of formal workers on Sunday took to social media to air their disgust after the National Response Covid-19 Fund made an appeal asking them to donate Shs10, 000 each, to compliment government's efforts in the fight against

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Source: allAfrica.com

DPP to get three-year extension of tenure

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has recommended to the Governor General that the tenure of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn be extended by three years. The Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips had objected to the extension after...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PM: PNP killed UK prison offer

In a new revelation, the Holness administration is claiming that the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) offer to help build a prison here was “rejected” by the Portia Simpson Miller-led government in 2016 and not the now-ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)....

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Quarantined flight returnees ‘pushed to back of the line’

THE 200 Jamaicans who arrived via air from New York and Fort Lauderdale on May 13 are accusing the Government of giving preferential treatment to the 1,044 Adventure of the Seas cruise ship workers who have already been processed a mere week after docking in

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

China Harbour breaks ground for St Catherine housing scheme

THE Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) on Wednesday officially broke ground for the 1,650-unit Catherine Estate housing project, to be developed in St Catherine, as a joint venture partnership with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a company known for building roads and

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

'It was the experience of a lifetime'

SEVERAL residents in Falmouth, Trelawny, paused yesterday to welcome home the more than 1,000 Jamaicans aboard Royal Caribbean cruise line's Adventure of the Seas which docked at the port shortly after

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

‘Worse than prison’ - Holness, Tufton apologise for quarantine food fiasco

Smarting from backlash over quarantine conditions for returning Jamaicans at two St Ann hotels, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton yesterday apologised for a slew of logistical foul-ups, including rooming delays and substandard

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Dicey juggle for Campbell

THE APPOINTMENT of Leslie Campbell as minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation might represent a gift to a Holness loyalist, says political commentator Dr Christopher

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Voters not moved by corruption, say top pollsters - Johnson, Anderson say J’cans see it as a way of life

Corruption has not featured as a big-ticket item in past general elections and is unlikely to be the factor tipping the scales in one party or another’s favour this time around, the island’s two main pollsters, Don Anderson and Bill Johnson, have...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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