KINGSTON, Jamaica Members of the Senate passed the Domestic Violence (Amendment) Act on Thursday, December 21.
The Act, which is slated to provide greater protection to victims of domestic violence,.
A government lawmaker and an opposition legislator failed to attend a single meeting of a joint select committee reviewing the Criminal Justice (Administration) (Amendment) Act, the Offences Against the Person (Amendment) Act, and the Child Care.
KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Agricultural Produce (Amendment) Act, which will facilitate the imposition of harsher penalties for praedial larceny, was passed in the Senate on Friday.
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Education and Youth Minister Fayval Williams has chastised law makers for being too soft on the sentencing of people who commit murder, including children aged 14 to 17.
Williams made this admoni.
AT LEAST five government lawmakers yesterday supported a proposal to increase the minimum time that a person convicted of capital murder should serve in prison. At the same time, two opposition legislators disagreed with the 50-year mandatory.