Breaking News: Jamaica Could Call A General Election Soon!

Jamaica Observer

Posted: 2/27/2009 10:06:33 AM

THE Court of Appeal this morning ruled that the seat of West Portland is to be decided by by-election after People’s National Party (PNP) challenger Abe Dabdoub failed in his bid to unseat Daryl Vaz of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) who won the constituency in the September 2007 General Election but was later ruled ineligible for holding dual citizenship

The by-election date will be

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The Fleecing of Returning Residents to Jamaica

I do not know the Statistic, but I can guess that Jamaicans have to fall within the top 10 countries whose residents return home after spending years abroad. However, returning home to their homeland after years of hard work is not a pleasant experience for many. Returning residents have now become

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Florida Man Accused Of Raping Jamaican Child

Florida Man Accused Of Raping Jamaican Child

 


Accused Rapist Noel Kelly
 

CaribWorldNews, PALM BAY, FL., Thurs. Feb. 26, 2009: A 34-year-old Palm Bay man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a Jamaican-born child.

Palm Bay police arrested Noel Kelly on a warrant for five counts of capital sexual battery on a child under the age of 12 and one count of sexual battery on a child over age 12.

Police allege that Kelly befriended the

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Will Jamaicans See A General Election This year?

Court gavel The Jamaica Court of Appeal is set to hand down a ruling this Friday on whether Member of Parliament (MP) Daryl Vaz has the constitutional right to hold that position. A lawsuit was filed by Abe Dabdoub after he lost the seat to Vaz in the last general election. Daddoub is contending that Vaz holds US citizenship and he is barred by the Jamaican Constitution to hold the position of MP. Dabdoub won the first round but Vaz appealed the lower court decision.

This is getting to be very interesting. The ruling JLP party now holds 32 of the 60 seats and there are a few more seats in contest for the same citizenship question. Prime Minister Bruce Golding had indicated that he would rather call a new general election than hand over power as a result of court ruling. Stay tune.

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Can Mavado Put DanceHall Back On the US Map?

A better tomorrow for dancehall?

Published: Tuesday | February 24, 2009

Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer


Mavado (right) with superstar Wyclef Jean, one of his many hip hop admirers. – Contributed

IT'S BEEN some time since a dancehall artiste made a big mark in the United States. Fans have to look back to 2006 to Junior Gong's Welcome to Jamrock to find a massive seller stateside.

Some pundits in the US believe

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Jamaica Ban Sex, Violence From Airwaves

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican regulators say they are forbidding all explicit references to sex and violence over the airwaves. The new rules from the island's broadcast commission ban any song or music video that depicts

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Drug Smuggling, a Dangerous Way Out for Many

Drug mule It is now in the news that many people included Jamaicans are taking more risk in this trade. As the economic hard times increases so does the risk.Over the years many, especially young people, have tried various ways of smuggling drugs out of Jamaica. People have been caught with cocaine in their stomach, marijuana in their underwear and other parts you could only imagine.

Why would they

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Is This Picture Really Rihanna?

Rihanna Rihanna bruise The pictures shown here are supposed to be those of Rihanna before and after the Chris Brown incident. If the pictureto the right is authentic, that means she got beaten up badly. No wonder Rihanna's home country of Barbados banned all Chris Brown's music from the air. Rihanna made Barbados proud with her entertainment achievement so they must be pretty cut up over there.

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