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The Parliament of Jamaica has two chambers:
* The House of Representatives has 60 members, elected for a five year term in single-seat constituencies.
* The Senate has 21 appointed members: 13 chosen by the Prime Minister and 8 by the Leader of the Opposition.
The PNP has already forced three by-elections in JLP seats on the grounds of dual citizenship. Daryl Vaz (West Portland), Desmond Gregory Mair (North East St Catherine), and Michael Stern (North West Clarendon) all retained their seats in by-elections.
SCARCELY a week after the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) defeated a no-confidence motion brought by the parliamentary Opposition against Prime Minister Bruce Golding by a narrow 30 to 28 votes, a group of some 100 Jamaicans chafing for action have called for an interim government.
The recommendation was one of several coming out of a Solution Action Forum dubbed "Take Back Jamaica" held at the University of Technology (UTech) in St Andrew yesterday, the brainchild of attorney-at-law Carlene McFarlane.
Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at UTech, and "Take Back Jamaica" member Dr Carol Archer said the movement sprang out of a "feeling of frustration, impotence and outrage" at last month's events in Tivoli which virtually shut down the capital city for several days and before that the spiralling crime rate.
She said the "unexpected holiday" caused by the "Dudus phenomenon" had given time for serious introspection and was the "catalyst for action".
"We recognised we simply could not continue this way. We realised that as Jamaicans we all wanted the same thing. A better Jamaica, a new social order," she said.
Participants spoke, and spoke loudly with almost one voice. "Corrupt governance has to go" they said, declaring further that members of parliament must live in their constituencies, must use the healthcare system in Jamaica, must use the public transport system and the education system for their children from the primary to the university level.
Other suggestions from the floor were that no private persons in Jamaica should provide funding for political parties until the politicians "cleaned up their act". In addition, they were unanimous in their call for the elimination of garrisons, constitutional reform and for political parties to open their books.
"We have to, as civil society, sit down and write the job description of politicians," Paul Jennings insisted.
The group, which hopes to engage Jamaicans across the island, will next draft a manifesto to reflect its views, the proposed launch date for which is August 17 coinciding with the anniversary of the birth of National Hero Marcus Garvey. A suggestion that the function be held in Tivoli was met with sounds of enthusiastic approval.
The group was, however, clear that what was now needed was an immediate alternative government formed by volunteers as they "could not work with what is now in place". Furthermore, they were firm that they did not want a "coalition JLP, PNP government as they can't and won't lead the country forward".
"We need to create a manifesto of our own, for years the politicians have told us what they think we need, we now need to tell them what we need," said Bradley Finzi Smith. "We [are] also calling for a separation of powers; you can't be both member of parliament and minister of government and do both properly."
The Jamaican Government, and Prime Minister Golding in particular, have been taking a severe battering for the handling of the extradition matter involving former West Kingston don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, and the engagement of US law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips to lobby the United States to drop its request for Coke.
Christopher ’Dudus’ Coke, an accused Jamaican drug lord wanted by the US on federal drug and weapon charges, has surrendered in Jamaica.
Jamaican police said he was in custody yesterday and they were preparing to turn him over to US authorities.
’Coke is in custody,’ drug enforcement officials told ABC News yesterday.
The DEA Air Wing is standing by and once it is clear that Coke will be turned over to US authorities by the Jamaicans he will be transported to the Southern District of New York, where he is under indictment.
Coke’s attorney contacted US authorities yesterday advising that Coke was considering turning himself in to the US.
US Marshals, DEA agents and federal prosecutors had worked hand in hand with senior Jamaican military and police officials in an effort to effect Coke’s surrender and extradition.
More than 70 Jamaicans, including both civilians and security officers, died after Jamaican authorities began moving in on Coke’s barricaded West Kingston neighbourhood in an attempt to capture him late last month.
The US has wanted to extradite Coke since 2009, but the Jamaican government had resisted until May.
Country_Bookie wrote:If Dudus somehow suffers some kinda accidental or mysterious death while in jail, then Jamaicans will realize that not only is their PM a crook and a liar, but also a murderer.
Hook wrote:^^^ yup! Sounds like the good reverend pulled himself out of the situation with that lame story.
AH HEAR it went down like this
Greypatch wrote:man wear wig and shave....
his brother seh de man "run like ah puss when de 1st bomb drop"
real bad man eh...
Hook wrote:deh tek dat fitst picture without flash awha?
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