Articles Tagged “People’s National Party”
-
`Dudus’ lawyer stands firm on alleged complicity between US & Jamaica
The lawyer representing convicted Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke is standing by controversial statements alleging complicity between United States (US) authorities and the Jamaican government in bringing charges against, and subsequently extraditing, his client. Notwithstanding that the claims have outraged the Jamaican Diaspora here, attorney Stephen H Rosen, in an interview with the Observer, [...]
-
President Obama calls Jamaica’s Portia Simpson Miller to congratulate her.
United States President Barack Obama yesterday placed a telephone call to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, congratulating her on her recent electoral victory. A statement from the White House, the US president’s official residence, indicated that Obama also commended the Jamaican people for their dedication to democracy. Simpson Miller on December 29 led her People’s [...]
-
Over 1.6 Million Jamaicans to Vote Today!
Today Jamaicans will journey to approximately 7,000 polling stations across the island to cast their votes to determine the party which will form the next government. This collective decision will either ratify the ruling Jamaica Labour Party’s (JLP) four-year tenure in office, giving the Andrew Holness-led party a second consecutive term in government, or catapult [...]
<