More Collaboration In Ministries

Minister with responsibility for Information, Daryl Vaz, urged communications practitioners across the various Ministries to collaborate more with each other so that important messages for public information are not overlooked by media outlets. The Minister met with the group at Jamaica House on March 11.

The Government and Extradition Requests

Extract from Statement to Parliament on March 2

Since this Government assumed office in September 2007, we have received 26 extradition requests from the United States. The Minister has issued the authority to proceed in 13 of those cases. In the cases of 9, these requests were made through provisional warrants which went directly to the Courts and therefore were not subject to the Minister's authorization.


One request was based on a provisional warrant which has not yet been executed as the subject has not yet been found. One request was withdrawn as the subject was subsequently arrested overseas. Apart from the Coke case, additional information has been sought in respect of one request and the last request which was received on December 7, 2009 has not yet been submitted to the Minister for a decision.

STRONG WORDS FOR DELINQUENT PARENTS

"If you have them and you are not prepared to honour those obligations, then you are going to be punished. If we have to take over the child to try to make sure that we fill that gap as best as we can, then you must understand that you have violated the rights of that child and you are going to have to be prepared to accept the consequences of that," he argued.

PILOTS NEED TO PROVIDE MORE

The most recent proposal submitted by JALPA provides little evidence that it is or will be able to do so. Further, it is based on key assumptions that are factually incorrect.

LEGACY OF REX N

Prof. Rex Nettleford's life can never die. National Dance Theatre Company, the University's fourth campus and the Trade Union Education Institute "must now carry on his (Prof. Nettleford) work with the same zeal with which he helped to build them."

COME TO JAMAICA AND DO GOOD BUSINESS
Jamaica wants to move its relations with China to a new phase, one that will look at establishing greater investment links with that country.