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Holness urged to clean house

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Prime Minister Andrew Holness is being urged to go to today’s meeting of the party’s Central Executive with political guns blazing, ready to crack the whip at the executive and officers, remove members whose time...

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Wrong move - Jamaica Observer

Wrong move

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Atomica The Monarch Again - Jamaica Observer

Atomica

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Flagging the code

As the local government election campaign reaches fever pitch, political flags and posters are being mounted in public spaces in sections of the island in clear violation of the political code of conduct. Across the Corporate Area, buildings and...

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Orville Taylor | Election fever and delirium

My deepest sympathies to the lady, who lost part of her leg in the unfortunate traffic incident, while on the campaign trail. Call it however you want to, but nomination day and some of the rallies before were beautiful spectacles. Of course, I...

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Editorial | ECJ blunders

It is exceedingly rare, if ever, that this newspaper has had cause to disagree with, or criticise, the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ). But the ECJ has never before endorsed, or declared its willingness to give expression to, the Government...

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Gov't uses majority to approve ECJ taking over political ombudsman roles

The Government has used its superior numbers in Parliament to pass a proposed law that will see the Office of the Public Ombudsman subsumed into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), despite strong objections by the Opposition.

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ECJ to assume role of political ombudsman as Gov't uses majority to pass legislation

The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) will officially take over the functions of the Office of Political Ombudsman (OPO) ahead of the local government election scheduled for February 26. The development came Tuesday after the Government used its majority in the House of Representatives to pass the Political Ombudsman (Amendment) Act, 2024. The decision came against strong objections from Opposition members and a warning a week earlier from former Government...

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Bill in the balance

Following last week’s sharp parliamentary divide on the proposed Political Ombudsman Interim Amendment Act 2024, the country will today know whether the Government will use its parliamentary majority to push through the controversial bill. Justice...

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Editorial | Saving the ombudsman

It is reasonable to assume that Delroy Chuck couldn’t have suspended Parliament’s debate on the administration’s controversial plan to subsume the political ombudsman into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) without a signal from Prime...

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