JLP Shadow Minister on Mining and Energy, Senator Robert Montague, is asking, in whose interest the government is acting when they refuse to update the nation on alleged mining activity in The Cockpit Country.

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) caretaker for South West St Elizabeth, Floyd Green is today expressing grave concerns about the state of the Black River Hospital and is calling upon Minister of Health Fenton Ferguson and the head of the Southern Regional Health Authority Michael Stewart to urgently intervene.

JLP Caretaker for the Constituency of East Rural St. Andrew, Senator Alexander Williams, is today expressing outrage at school attendance problems affecting children in the community of Bloxburgh. He is calling on the Ministry of Education to immediately remedy the problem which he says is of the Ministry's making.  

Opposition Spokesman on National Security, Mr. Derrick Smith, says the temporary injunction the Government has secured from the Supreme Court to bar the police from taking industrial action not only serves to intensify the escalating wage negotiation crisis, but brings the arrogance and bullying tactics being employed by the Government into sharp focus.

Opposition Leader Andrew Holness rang the bell at the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) to symbolically signal the opening of trading activities for the 2015 New Year.  In his remarks post this ceremonial act he explored the Governments role, as what he termed a ‘market maker’, to ensure that the powerful potential of the stock market could stimulate and foster national growth.