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Money well spent for Jamaica, says Morgan

The Government is maintaining that the country received value for money despite Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed quest to unseat Baroness Patricia Scotland as the Commonwealth secretary general. It is not...

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