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‘Warmy’ out, Meadows chopped

The Government has given due consideration to subsuming the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) carefully and extensively, and strongly believes it is the right decision. The ECJ is definitely the...

Sadly, we Jamaicans do not have a lot of choice in the upcoming local government elections. Both major parties on offer have a robust track record of corruption in office, and neither has even made an election promise to put the necessary...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says the work of the Office of the Political Ombudsman would be strengthened by having the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) with nine individuals drawn from different segments of the society engaged, versus the retention of a single person in that Office. Minister Chuck made the remarks while piloting the Bill, which seeks to amend the Political Ombudsman (Interim) Act and consequently amend...

JUSTICE Minister Delroy Chuck is pushing to have a political referee in place by the end of January, and if he has his way, the ref will be able to do more than just blow a whistle at people who b...

The eulogy by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare's epic play Julius Caesar begins with a truism in the life and death of mortals. "The evil that men do lives after them; the go...

BY the first quarter of this year, the Ministry of Justice should have a Cabinet submission prepared detailing how the functions of the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) will be subsumed int...

THE Government is projecting savings of more than $30 million annually with the shuttering of the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) and shifting its functions to the Electoral Commission of ...

This week's featured development as Newsmaker of the Week just ended is the racist tone amid local politics in recent time, including the comments made last weekend by Cabinet Minister Everald Warmington in relation to Opposition Leader Mark Golding'

The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) says it has always been an inclusive party, even as it skirted questions regarding comments made by Cabinet member Everald Warmington regarding Opposition Leader Mark Go...