Holness to be sworn in for 3rd time
(CNS): The leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Andrew Holness, will be sworn in for the third time as the country’s prime minister on Monday afternoon following his party’s landslide victory last week. Holness is expected to deliver an address outlining his government’s plans for the next term at the ceremony, which will be streamed live at 3pm. Only a small audience will be present as Jamaica is facing a surge in coronavirus cases.
Pundits suggest that this is now the biggest challenge of his political career. During the campaign the JLP focused rebuilding the economy from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Holness is now being urged to set out the plan for the recovery from COVID-19.
The center-right JLP won 49 of the 63 seats in Parliament, the largest victory margin since the 1980s.
In the wake of his emphatic win, Premier Alden McLaughlin sent his congratulations from the Cayman Islands.
“I applaud Prime Minister Holness, the Jamaica Labour Party and the Leader of the Opposition Peter Phillips and the People’s National Party for running a fair and peaceful election. I’m sure it has not been easy campaigning and getting the population to come out to the polls when a pandemic such as COVID is at large in the community,” McLaughlin said.
“The Cayman Islands and Jamaica have strong connections that have endured over the decades. I and my Government look forward to continue working together with Prime Minister Holness and his team for the mutual benefit of our countries and I look forward to once again meeting with him in person when we are able,” he added.
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JLP and PNP are both very corrupt. What have they done for Jamaica? Crime is still rampant, currency is dead, most of the country is poor. Anyone who disagrees and really believes Jamaica’s doing fine needs a reality check. The country is broken. It’s a hard fact and many don’t want the truth. Holness is just like the rest of them, sits in office for how many years and does NOTHING. Jamaica’s biggest mistake was severing ties with the UK. It all went downhill from there. Now we watch Cayman and Bermuda prospering, while we’re here struggling to meet ends meet and fearing for our lives every time we go into Kingston.
Edward Seaga and the Institutionalization of Thuggery, Violence and Dehumanization in Jamaica
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/06/14/edward-seaga-and-the-institutionalization-of-thuggery-violence-and-dehumanization-in-jamaica/
And so the sad legacy of Jamaica continues, while most of our politicians follow the same path.
The JLP are well understood to be aligned with the Shower Posse, formerly headed by Christopher “Dudas” Coke. There are literally Wiki stubs on it. This is only great news for regional garrisoned communities already gripped with drug crime, murder, arms trafficking, racketeering, and terror. You would hope that Cayman would at least pretend to have a neutral affiliation while residing the OECD Black List category and facing review by FATF, having been sighted repeatedly for this exact blindness to corrupt regimes and trafficking affiliations. Another facepalm moment for the Cayman Islands Financial Sector.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_Posse
Not sure if you’ve ever completed a thesis paper…but a wiki is not a reliable source of information as it can be modified by multiple anonymous authors.
6:42 pm you think it’s not a reliable source because it’s true right?
The wiki model keep Wikipedia more accurate than other sources, including government, of information where lies, slanted and inaccurate information are paraded as facts.
That is what is terrifying about certain of our politicians wanting to align us more closely with Jamaica. Greed and power is their game.
Anyone know anywhere else that keeps switching between the same leaders and makes at best modest progress with its huge problems because of this?
Yes teecha – De Cayman Islands.
Leader of a broken nation, how proud to continue the downfall.