"I have never really left the road. I have always been engaged with the public," asserted Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who made it clear on Sunday that he will not be daunted as he carries out the people's business.
Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party’s Public Relations Committee, Robert Morgan says the work being done by the Holness administration is being undermined by poor communication from the government.
Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency.
Issues relative to national security and constitutional reform were high on the agenda at Sunday's resumption of the Vale Royal Talks between members of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Opposition People's National Party (PNP).
There will be no criminal charges brought against Prime Minister Andrew Holness in relation to possible conflict of interest in the awarding of Government contracts that emerged from a probe by the Integrity Commission (IC), from which a 107-page Investigation Report was made public on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is pushing back after a concerning recommendation of the Integrity Commission (IC) that he be referred to the Director of Corruption Prosecution in the commission for possible further action in a case involving the award of millions of dollars in Government contracts to a company whose principals he has been associated with.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has expressed his outrage at the murder of nine-year-old Nikita Noel, saying the "horrifying murder is a shock to our collective conscience" and "can only be described as evil”.
In a rare political move, controversial Cabinet Minister, Everald Warmington, has warned former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) President and Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, to back off and desist from criticising the current Andrew Holness-led JLP Government over its handling of the Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) fraud scandal.
By Andrew Clunis
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Usain Bolt must feel like Lewis’ Carroll’s enigmatic character Alice, in the much-celebrated tome, Alice in Wonderland, as the SSL saga becomes ‘curiouser and curiouser’.
In early January 2023, news broke that several depositors at the investment firm Stocks and Securities Ltd., (SSL) had been fleeced of billions of dollars.