Member of Parliament for East Rural St. Andrew Juliet Holness in clarifying her statement on politically marginal settlements, noted that she was casting the blame on poor leadership as the reason why some Jamaicans live in unfavourable conditions.
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The opposition People’s National Party, PNP, says the government’s demolition of houses at Bernard Lodge in St Catherine on Thursday is a blatant disregard for the tenets of the UN Convention on Human Rights and supporting International Conventions to which Jamaica is a party.
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