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Jamaicans for Justice Executive (JFJ) Director Mickel Jackson has raised concern about a plethora of private members’ motions and a few bills moved by the parliamentary Opposition that have been languishing on the Order Paper of the House of...

A legal challenge is looming for the release of some 300 mentally ill detainees languishing in prison, some for decades, awaiting trial for various crimes. A group of attorneys representing human rights advocates Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and...

The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is promising to overhaul how accountability is exercised within municipal corporations, outlining that it will, among other things, require them to show how taxpayers’ money is being spent. The PNP also...

Questions are being raised about the absence of manifestos for both political parties, a week shy of the local government election, even as campaigning intensifies. Representatives of both the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the opposition...

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...

Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) has made an appeal for the Government, in 2024, to reconsider its legislative policy on excessive mandatory minimum sentences, especially for children. The human-rights organisation is pushing for a rethink of the policy...

Human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is urging Olivia Grange, minister of gender, to postpone passage of the Domestic Violence bill today and establish a joint select committee by the latest mid-January 2024 to review the...

Civil society actors have expressed concerns that human rights are under attack in Jamaica and globally. Former Jamaicans for Justice Executive Director, Carolyn Gomes, who was speaking at the launch ...

Jamaica trains Haitian police National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang said the Haitian National Police has been receiving specialised training in Jamaica. The first 16-member cohort of the Haitian police were equipped in security-...

"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got," said, Henry Ford. In a much more forceful manner, Albert Einstein expressed similar sentiments, when he famous...