WESTERN BUREAU: Residents of the Orchard Housing Scheme in Hopewell, Hanover, are calling for the removal of all political paraphernalia in their community. The call has come over two months after the local polls and against the background of the.
The Constitutional Reform Committee (CRC) is to recommend that the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) be enshrined in the Constitution without the functions of the political ombudsman, a consensus proposal that the Cabinet will be hard-pressed.
JAMAICA LABOUR Party (JLP) stalwart and former Cabinet Minister Derrick Smith says the changes coming out of Sunday’s Central Executive meeting are not enough, asserting that restructuring is also needed among the party’s deputy leaders. Smith.
Opposition Leader Mark Golding says the parliamentary Opposition may ask the court to compel House Speaker Juliet Holness to release the legal opinion of the attorney general (AG) on how reports sent to Parliament are to be tabled. Golding has.