Noting the numerous challenges associated with dealing with human trafficking, DPP Llewellyn is stressing the importance of strengthened partnerships.

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Alexey Zaytsev, the 53-year-old Russian national who pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of four people by dangerous driving, following a crash in Kingston over two years ago, has been given seven days to pay a $2 million fine.Zaytsev was charged after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a taxi, along the Palisadoes main road on December 11, 2022.

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Popular disc jockey Ron Muschette is moving to clarify recent comments he made suggesting that he made IRIE FM Number One.

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Yesterday JLP members took to the streets of Kingston to share copies of the booklets with the public. This activity was led by party leader Prime Minister Dr. Andrew Holness.

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Reports are that about 10:00 A.M. the truck laden with asphalt was travelling along the road when it overturned. The driver was pinned in the mangled vehicle.

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During his 2016 election campaign, the then Opposition Leader Andrew Holness, promised to commence legislative processes to establish a fixed election, within the first 100 days if the JLP formed the next administration.

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Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response, where persons develop positive feelings towards their captors or abusers. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Paula Llewellyn, highlighted the challenge with the syndrome, during a Caribbean Trafficking in Persons Forum in Montego Bay, St. James yesterday.

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Opposition Senator Donna Scott-Mottley has renewed the call for fixed election dates. She was speaking at a virtual townhall hosted by the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) yesterday.

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Last year, the Office of the Political Ombudsman, which had been vacant since November 15, 2022, was subsumed into the ECJ. This as the Government used its majority in both houses of parliament to pass the Political Ombudsman (Amendment) Act, 2024.

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Jamaicans are more concerned with the performance of the government and how it impacts their communities than they are about the Prime Minister's court challenge to the Integrity Commission.

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