Sunday Brew &mdash; December 20, 2020

PM ignoring the polls

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader, Prime Minister Andrew Holness is taking no comfort from public opinion polls which are projecting a comfortable victory for his party when the votes are counted on September 3.Having led the JLP to defeat in 2007, Holness then staved off an internal challenge from

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

Some JLP supporters in North East St Catherine against outside candidate

Some Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters in North East St Catherine say they will reject any outside candidate selected by the party hierarchy to replace Leslie Campbell, who is not seeking

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

New St Ann’s Bay mayor to replace Belnavis today

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor Sydney Stewart is expected to be elevated today from deputy to mayor of St Ann’s Bay and chairman of the St Ann Municipal Corporation upon confirmation of the resignation of Michael Belnavis. Dalas Dickenson,...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

PNP hurt by JLP strapping

STRUGGLING to deal with a thrashing, the likes of which the People's National Party (PNP) had not received since 1980, the majority of the party's leaders were absent from their Old Hope Road headquarters last night as it was confirmed that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had decisively won a second

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

Fanfare missing in St Andrew East Rural but voters in high spirits

THE usual fanfare surrounding polling activities was noticeably subdued in St Andrew East Rural yesterday as Jamaicans cast their ballots for the 18th time to choose a new Government, but supporters of both major political parties were in high spirits despite the absence of the usual large crowds

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

Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts

Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Ghana: A look at the man Jerry John Rawlings | Africanews

He was Ghana’s longest serving

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Youths bat for Hanna

With a clear split in the ranks of the People's National Party (PNP) Youth Organisation in the lead-up to Saturday's vote to elect the sixth president of the party, three young Comrades have decided to take their plea for support to the delegates themselves.The three are backing Lisa Hanna as she

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

Confident PNP ready to roll

THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) has declared its readiness to contest and win the next general election, whenever it is called by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.With speculation mounting that Holness will call Jamaicans to the polls in a matter of weeks, PNP General Secretary Julian

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

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, is half the size of Illinois. Guinea, in the north and east, and Liberia, in the south, are its neighbors. Mangrove swamps lie along the coast, with wooded hills and a plateau in the interior. The eastern region is

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

PNP says Central Kingston needs crime plan

Member of Parliament for Kingston Central, Ronald Thwaites and the People’s National Party’s (PNP) candidate for the constituency, Imani Duncan-Price, are insisting that an atmosphere of peace and law and order will only be achieved through genuine collective community

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Broadcaster Markland Edwards applies to become JLP candidate for Portmore mayor

Broadcaster Markland Edwards has disclosed that he has applied to the Jamaica Labour Party to be its candidate for mayor of the Portmore Municipality in the next local government polls. “I believe I have the vision, drive and energy to help...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Guyanese likely to be the perennial losers again no matter who wins the elections

A casual perusal of the delivery of past campaign promises resulting in the ‘Guyanese Dream’, whether it was the PPP’s New Guyana Man or the PNC’s Small Man is the Real Man or the Coalition’s Good Life, will show that neither the PPP nor the PNC has made that dream possible for Guyanese for over

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Holness urges JLP supporters to listen to the public

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is urging his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) supporters to pay more attention to what the public is saying about current issues.

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

PM expected to announce election date today

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness is expected to name the date of the next general election in the House of Representatives today.Holness is expected to bring an order to Gordon House to end the current states of emergency (SOEs), which have been imposed in the Hanover, St

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

Magisterial recounts start in Westmoreland Eastern on Friday

THE first of three magisterial recounts requested by lawyers for Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidates with close losses in last Thursday's general election will be held on Friday in Westmoreland Eastern.One of the lead attorneys for the candidates, Caroline Chuck, confirmed yesterday afternoon

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

Chang wants thorough probe into murder of JLP supporter in Clarendon

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Dr Horace Chang wants a thorough police probe into last night's murder of a Labourite in the Clarendon South Eastern community of Rocky Settlement. The man, identified as Paul Henry, was attacked at...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Malawi ruling party cries foul over presidential vote re-run

Malawi's governing party has called for a third presidential election, citing irregularities and intimidation in this week's re-run vote as unofficial tallies show incumbent President Peter Mutharika losing to the opposition

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Source: The East African

50 years in prison without trial

Isat Buchanan, the attorney hired by the civil-rights group Stand Up for Jamaica to represent Williams, disclosed yesterday that his now 69-year-old client has been declared “fit to plead” but has not been to court in 48

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

‘It’s worse than 1980’ - Blythe shocked as Westmoreland Central falls to JLP

Even before the election was called, word on the ground was that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had Westmoreland Central in its cross hairs. That target was hit in devastating fashion, with candidate George Wright, councillor for the Petersfield...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Peter Phillips resigns

President of the People's National Party Dr Peter Phillips this morning indicated that he plans to resign as party head and Opposition Leader. Phillips told a press conference that he has written to the party chairman...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Wife of murdered activist rules out political motive

The wife of murdered Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) Clarendon South East polling division captain has ruled out politics as the possible reason behind her husband’s gruesome killing, though she cannot pinpoint a motive. What she knows, however, is...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Phillips wants legal assurances on 2-in-1 election

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, is demanding assurances that the legal and technical issues involved in staging both the local government and general elections on one ballot be ironed out before concluding on what would be a historic

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Trinidad's Opposition Leader wants international observers for August 10 poll

Trinidad (CMC): The leader of the main opposition United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad Bissessar, has written to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley requesting that international observers be present in Trinidad and Tobago...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

JLP to seek magisterial recount in two more constituencies

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it will be requesting magisterial recounts in two additional constituencies. Earlier today, it reported that an application for a magisterial recount had been filed for the Westmoreland Eastern constituency...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Guinea

Konaté kept his word in the June 2010 race. The first round of the election was inconclusive, and former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo faced opposition leader Alpha Condé in the run-off vote. Condé, a professor and opposition leader who has spent much of his life in exile in France, prevailed

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

PNP: Dismantling of local governance structures opens the door to corruption

President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, says there has been a systematic weakening of the local government structures by the Jamaica Labour Party-led municipal corporations. Phillips says this has had the...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Robert Chin's triumph and the end of a dynasty

NEWPORT, Manchester - Parachuted in as a late replacement for former standard-bearer Junior Robinson who bowed out suddenly one week before nomination day, the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Robert Chin took many by surprise as he unseated the People's National Party's (PNP) Michael Stewart at the

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

Crawford slams Parchment Brown as partisan

Rhoda Crawford, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) standard-bearer who is seeking to unseat the incumbent for Manchester Central, Peter Bunting, in the upcoming general election, has signalled that her contract ends this month and she will shortly be...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

#JaVotes2020 | Montague and Wheatley in self quarantine

St Mary Western standard bearer Robert Montague and St Catherine South Central's Dr Andrew Wheatley are now in self quarantine. In a statement, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) said both men will today be nominated by senior...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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