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IMDb Celebrity News
| over 1 year ago
As 2011 drew to a close, Corbett found out he was to receive a Commander of the Order of the British Empire medal (Cbe) and he marked the accolade with a family meal. However, Corbett fell ill during the dinner and was taken to Croydon University...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
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...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Greg Christie has written to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller outlining a raft of anti-corruption recommendations that his office wants her administration to give urgent consideration, with a view to early implementation. Christie's letter to...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Smith, who travelled to Jamaica last Thursday for the swearing in of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, said it was essential that the new government provide incentives that would allow for small and large companies to do business with the country.
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The Globe and Mail
| over 1 year ago
When it comes to celebrating the Queen's 60th year on the throne, the governing Conservatives don't want to spend a king's ransom. New documents show Heritage Minister James Moore's office balked at the initial quote for Diamond Jubilee festivities.
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Daraine Luton, Senior Staff Reporter The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) yesterday described Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller's decision to appoint three other women to the Cabinet as 'jobs for the girls'. Simpson Miller on Friday unveiled a 28-member...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Speaking with members of the media following a church service with members of her Cabinet at the Portmore New Testament Church of God St Catherine, the prime minister said it was still too early to divulge details. "We had a meeting yesterday with...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Portia Simpson Miller, leader of the People's National Party, at the victory rally of the parliamentary elections in Kingston, Jamaica, 29 December 2011. Photograph: Collin Reid/AP A friend of mine once told me how her son, then eight years old, had...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Ralph Thomas, Contriburtor It was a perfectly ordinary day when the thunderbolt of lightning struck. The day began with just a faint tint of orange colouring the morning sky and the greenery of four years of rainfall covered the land. In the palace,...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Ian Boyne, Contributor "It is shining time again," Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller announced at her inauguration last Thursday, and she certainly shone in that well-constructed, highly strategic, conciliatory and inclusive inaugural address. Yes,...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Same narrow set of policy options for dealing with the same old problems...This year marks the 50th anniversary of Jamaica's Independence. One of Bruce Golding's last official acts before demitting office as prime minister was to launch the planned...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Easton Douglas, the man who twice chaired the campaign team which secured the presidency of Portia Simpson Miller in the People's National Party (PNP), says getting her own mandate is "the most beautiful gift that she could achieve at this time in...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
One of Jamaica's leading gay activists, Maurice Tomlinson, says he may be forced to flee the country following media reports about his marriage to a male police-officer-cum pastor in Toronto, Canada, recently. Tomlinson, a lawyer, married his '...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Flip-flopping on her previous position on big government while she was in Opposition, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has named a 28-member executive that will cost taxpayers close to $200 million per annum, at current rates, in salaries and...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in her swearing-in speech announced that the country would be making significant strides towards cutting ties with the British Monarchy. The Sunday Gleaner posed this question to the public: "Do you think Jamaica...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles "I love the Queen, she is a beautiful lady, and apart from being a beautiful lady she is a wise lady and a wonderful lady, Simpson Miller said after swearing the oath of office. "But I think time come. As we celebrate our achievements as an...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
58 Jamaica's new prime minister has said that it is time for her country to cut ties with the British monarchy and declare itself an independent republic. Speaking at her inaugural address on Friday, Portia Simpson Miller, said her government would "...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Portia Simpson Miller has attempted to defend the size of her executive, which comprises 20 Cabinet ministers and eight junior ministers. "I have added some young persons so that they can begin to understudy the seniors. What I am trying to do now is...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Newly appointed Minister of Finance, Planning and the Public Service Dr Peter Phillips (left) is greeted yesterday by Brian Wynter, governor of the Bank of Jamaica, at the ministry's Heroes Circle, Kingston, offices. Portia Simpson Miller yesterday...
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The Independent
| over 1 year ago
From the blogs If you were looking for the heart of European brewing, you wouldn't necessarily start in the Netherl.....While we're all going doolally over which malignant Republican replicant is the least tragically fla... According to this report,...
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ITN
| over 1 year ago
Reuters Jamaica's new Prime Minister has promised to abandon the Queen as head of state, saying her administration would adopt a republican form of government. Making her inaugural address in the capital Kingston, Portia Simpson Miller said: "I love...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Must Read Sponsorship Link Like us on Facebook While capital punishment is legal in Jamaica, it is rarely allowed by the judicial body, but with the Caribbean court of justice having the final legal say in such matters that could change. The Prime...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
In her inaugural address, Ms Simpson Miller said the time had come for Jamaica to break with the British monarchy and have its own president. The announcement comes ahead of celebrations to mark 50 years of Jamaican independence from Britain. The...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Jamaica's prime minister Portia Simpson Miller hugs a supporter Photograph: Ratiba Hamzaoui/AFP/Getty Images For even the hard-nosed observer of Caribbean affairs, Jamaica 's newly elected prime minister has been saying some pretty stunning things...
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The Observer
| over 1 year ago
Jamaica's prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, is greeted by supporters at her constituency office in the island's capital, Kingston. Photograph: Hans Deryk/Reuters Fifty years after independence Jamaica is set to loosen its colonial ties with...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
It's his first overseas trip where he'll be representing his grandmother. It's a visit which is meant to be celebrating her Diamond Jubilee. It's a visit which has now taken on added political significance. Prince Harry will be travelling to a...
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Jamaica Daily Gleaner
| over 1 year ago
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer Tony Rebel of Flames Productions tossed a math puzzle into the mix of speech and music at Tuesday night's Pepsi Rebel Salute 2012 launch at the Wyndham in New Kingston, as he aligned the 50th anniversary of Jamaica's...
