Bill to hold double polls tabled

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Bill to hold double polls tabled

Jamaicans could for the first time exercise their franchise in two elections on a single day if a bill tabled on Tuesday in Parliament, to be piloted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, is taken and passed at the next sitting of the Lower House. At...

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