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3 - The slimmest margin of victory in a general election. This was recorded in 1993 when Dr Neville Gallimore of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) beat the People’s National Party’s Glenville Shaw, in the process becoming a seven-term member of...

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THE Opposition People's National Party (PNP) believes the time may be ripe for new competition in the telecommunications market, with inefficiencies in service and the increasing demand for data over voice having been brought even more sharply into focus during this COVID-19

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Daniel F. Malan

Daniel F. Malan , in full Daniel François Malan (born May 22, 1874, near Riebeeck West, Cape Colony [now in Western Cape, S.Af.]—died Feb. 7, 1959, Stellenbosch, S.Af.), statesman and politician who formed South Africa’s first exclusively Afrikaner government and instituted the policy of

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Campbell rakes JLP councillors for shoddy roads

Being in the unenviable position of having no councillors umbilically linked to his People’s National Party (PNP) operating inside the St Ann North West constituency, two-term Member of Parliament Dr Dayton Campbell has fired a salvo at the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) local government

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13 years later, no charges in police-involved father, son killing

FORMER deputy spokesman on justice for the Jamaica Labour Party Harold Malcolm says 13 years after his brother, Winston Malcolm, and nephew were killed in an incident involving the police, his family continues to suffer as charges are yet to be laid despite the Coroner's Court giving the go-ahead

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Derrick Smith tells all

The former senator and Member of Parliament (MP) for St Andrew North Western, who served the people of that Corporate Area constituency for 35 unbroken years, also held Cabinet appointments in National Security; and Mining & Telecommunications in Jamaica Labour Party

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Hinds wants COVID protocols for return of sporting events

People’s National Party caretaker for Eastern Hanover, Wavell Hinds, is calling for the establish protocols regarding the return of sporting events being hosted in Jamaica in keeping with regulations around the COVID-19

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Nine more cruise ships with homesick J’cans – Chang

National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says that like the 1,044 Jamaican crew members who returned to the island this week via the Adventure of the Seas, there are nine other cruise ships on the high seas with nationals eager to come

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PM, JLP officials pay tribute to former May Pen mayor

PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was among Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) officials who paid tribute to former mayor of May Pen Milton Brown, who died peacefully

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Johnson Smith refutes claims that SOEs/ZOSOs not working

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, assured the Senate on Friday that the Government is working towards introducing more zones of special operations

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DPP counters claim in police-involved father, son killing

“In 2009, after receiving outstanding documents from the investigators, the ODPP ruled that the matter be referred to the Special Coroner's Court for it to be determined in an inquest whether any charges should be laid against any of the persons involved in the shooting incident which led to the

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I will act on corruption when necessary, says Phillips

MONTEGO BAY, St James Opposition Leader Dr Peter Phillips says he will not fail to discipline members of his party who are found guilty of corruption when it is warranted, but currently there is no need for him to to do so.

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Mom, we’re home! - Portmore woman anticipates emotional reunion with three sons after COVID-19 adventure on the seas

CONROY STERLING begged his mom, Joan Spence, not to break down and cry as he, twin Conrad, and adopted brother Rohan were repatriated to the island aboard the Adventure of the Seas cruise ship on Tuesday

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Ja should push back against US attempt to sanction Cuba's COVID-19 medical missions – PNP

The Opposition People's National Party (PNP) says it is gravely concerned about the silence of the government on the efforts by a United States legislator to introduce a new law targeting countries that have accepted Cuban healthcare workers in the fight against the COVID-19

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Pressure on Phillips - Bunting-backed Comrades demand meeting with PNP president

THERE IS another political flare-up in the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) as its president, Dr Peter Phillips, has yielded to a demand by a Peter Bunting faction to discuss the

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Mayor reports $400,000 Portmore COVID cleaning programme

Portmore Mayor Leon Thomas has revealed that the municipal corporation spent just under $400,000 for a major sanitisation programme at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in the

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Phillips chides PM; declares PNP has answers

OPPOSITION Leader Dr Peter Phillips on Sunday chided Prime Minister Andrew Holness for suggesting that the country's crime problem has evolved beyond the capacity to contain

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PM ‘embarrassed’ by inhumane prison death, discloses proposal for new facility

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new

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Campbell, Lee relish looming election battle in St Ann NW

There is no doubt in the mind of People’s National Party (PNP) standard-bearer Dr Dayton Campbell that pulling out the voters in the upcoming general election will be difficult, but he believes he has the organisational machinery in place to trounce Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) rival Krystal

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Police widen Hannas contracts probe amid difficulty finding witnesses

The police say they have widened their investigation into the award of contracts involving St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament, the People's National Party Lisa Hanna and her husband Richard Lake.

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Vaz calls Phillips 'chief hypocrite'

CABINET Minister Daryl Vaz yesterday labelled Dr Peter Phillips “chief hypocrite” in response to the Opposition leader's call for sanctions against him arising from his (Vaz's) failed attempt to lease land at Holywell in the Blue and John Crow Mountains national

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New St Ann’s Bay mayor to replace Belnavis today

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) councillor Sydney Stewart is expected to be elevated today from deputy to mayor of St Ann’s Bay and chairman of the St Ann Municipal Corporation upon confirmation of the resignation of Michael Belnavis. Dalas Dickenson,...

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Ninth St James businessman held in $26m cocaine bust

Western Bureau: Days after a major operation in which eight St James men were arrested for their suspected involvement in an international drug syndicate, another man has been nabbed as cops made a $26-million cocaine seizure on the weekend....

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