KINGSTON, Jamaica: August 10, 2022 - Opposition Spokesperson on Justice and Information, Senator Donna Scott Mottley says Information Minister Robert Morgan misled the Jamaican people, when he described the Finn Partners PR contract for the Commonwealth Secretary General Campaign as a “private transaction between Jamaican companies and a US company”.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 11, 2022 - As the Guyana National Assembly continues to legislate without the eight suspended Opposition Members of Parliament, the High Court’s Justice Damone Younge yesterday refused to grant an interim order blocking the suspension while the substantive case was being heard.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 10, 2022 - Guyana’s Opposition APNU+AFC has stepped up its campaign to have the Guyana Elections Commission remove Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), retired Justice Claudette Singh and to update the country’s electoral list to remove dead persons and persons who have migrated abroad.
KINGSTON, August 9, 2022 - People's National Party President Mark Golding has expressed appreciation to Member of Parliament for St. Ann South Eastern, Lisa Hanna, following her letter indicating that she will not offer herself as a candidate in the next election as it is her intention to leave representational politics.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tuesday, August 9, 2022. The Advocates Network, a non-partisan alliance of individuals and organizations advocating for human rights and good governance, says it is not satisfied that Minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s failed campaign to secure the Commonwealth Secretary General position was a “clean, transparent, principled campaign that met the standards of accountability.”
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 9, 2022 - Guyana’s National Assembly on Monday passed groundbreaking legislation which will allow for the cultivation of industrial Hemp in an effort to further diversify the country’s economic base.
KINGSTON, Jamaica. August 8, 2022 - The Opposition Peoples National Party has called for full disclosure of the US$100,000 contract entered by unknown persons with Jamaica Tourist Board’s US Public Relations agency, Finn Partners, to execute PR activities for the Kamina Johnson Smith campaign for Secretary General of the Commonwealth.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, August 8, 2022 - Guyana’s President Dr. Irfaan Ali has dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s threats that no more elections can be held if the electoral list was not cleared of deceased and migrated persons.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 8, 2022 - In the face of mounting criticism and public pressure, the Office of the Prime Minister has jumped ahead of his promised September timeframe to announce that the Jamaican Government has spent a total of $18.2 million on the failed attempt by Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith to replace Dominican-born Baroness Patricia Scotland as Commonwealth Secretary General.
BASSETERRE, ST KITTS, August 8, 2022 – New-elected St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister the Hon. Dr Terrance Drew is expected to shortly unveil his St Kitts-Nevis Labour Party Cabinet, following his swearing as Prime Minister on Saturday as the fourth Prime minister of the Federation of St Kitts and Nevis at a ceremony presided over by Governor General Sir Tapley Seaton at Government House.
