Hugh Graham, the People’s National Party (PNP) candidate in St Catherine North West, wants urgent structural changes aimed at lessening the unjustifiably lengthy detention of people during states of public emergency, including the one underway in the constituency he is seeking to represent in parliament. He, in a statement last evening (December 14), called for…
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States of emergency to end | PNP votes against extension
The parliamentary opposition headed by Dr Peter Phillips has voted against further extension of the three States Of Public Emergency (SOPE), paving the way for them to end in January 2019. The government, in a bid to curb crime, had imposed the SOPEs in the St Catherine North Police Division, St James, and the area…