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Parliamentarian Fitz Jackson says he will be seeking clarification from the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) regarding penalties for deposit-taking institutions (DTIs) that breach the new service standards for the operation of automated banking machines (ABMs...

Chairman of the Economy and Production Committee, Dwight Sibblies, yesterday resisted a proposal by opposition lawmaker Fitz Jackson for the police to appear alongside Bank of Jamaica officials to discuss losses suffered by account holders at banks...

Opposition welcomes tabling of AGD reports, but...

Information Minister Robert Morgan says Cabinet has approved a map for the proposed parish of Portmore. The disclosure came during Wednesday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House in St Andrew. Morgan said that the map was prepared by...

October 1 has been set as the date for a ruling on the lawsuit filed by Member of Parliament (MP) Fitz Jackson against financial giant Scotiabank in the Supreme Court over the fee applied to encashing a cheque. Lawyers representing the...

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An attempt by legislator Dwight Sibblies to block questions asked by Fitz Jackson of the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development concerning boundary changes in Portmore, St Catherine, was shut down during Tuesday’s meeting of the...

Debate on a Bill to invest the nine-member Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) with the duties of the Office of the Political Ombudsman ahead of the looming local polls was stalled on Tuesday after Opposition members back-pedalled, citing new-found fears that it was too much of a gamble and would “injure” the reputation of the commission, which has gained respect for being non-partisan worldwide. The proposal to amend the Political...

The Government’s attempt to rush a bill through Parliament to subsume the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO) into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) was met with strong resistance from a former government minister as well as the...