Checks and balances of independent commission of Parliament that reports to the very Parliament that they investigate. What more check is needed?
Are there ways that communication can improve to reduce the constant political uproar? Sure.
But y’all want silence, not checks.
Jamaica’s plan to dispatch a trade mission to Ghana next month is a potentially important development, not only for the island but for the Caribbean Community.
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On October 8, “the only thing that had happened” was not the Hamas-led attack on Israel, as The View co-host Sarah Haines claims in the clip below.
By the time Darializa Avila Chevalier attended the October 8, 2023 rally, at least 413 Palestinians had already been killed in Gaza. The Israeli military had struck 426 sites across the Strip, according to official Israeli figures, and more than 2,200 Palestinians had been reported wounded during the first 48 hours of Israel’s bombardment.
Note: Haines also repeats claims about mass rape on October 7. Nearly three years in, not a single Israeli victim of rape has been confirmed, according to all leading human rights organizations.
Dear @UNmigration in a radio interview on @NationwideRadio on 21/6/26, Prime Minister @AndrewHolnessJM said your institution will, quote "assist in managing" Jamaica's Third Country National arrangements with the US. Please clarify what role the IOM will be playing exactly.
@ciann___@1ashermorris_ The grade 4 and 5 test factors into the overall score, used to determine which school you’re placed in. So there’s considerable pressure to perform well on them
#CARIBBEAN: The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has agreed to establish a high-level advisory team to guide negotiations with the United States over requests for member states to accept a limited number of non-criminal third-country nationals and refugees.
🚨🇨🇺 US Supreme Court Clears Exxon to Sue Cuba Over Property It Nationalized 65 Years Ago
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Exxon Mobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts for more than $1 billion over an oil refinery, terminals, and hundreds of service stations that Cuba nationalized after its 1959 revolution, handing Washington a fresh weapon against the island it has blockaded for decades.
The 6-3 decision, written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, held that the 1996 Helms-Burton Act strips Cuban state enterprises of the sovereign immunity that normally shields foreign governments from US lawsuits. The court’s three liberal justices dissented, with Justice Elena Kagan writing that the law contains no such provision.
Helms-Burton is the 1996 law that codified the decades-old US embargo of Cuba into statute, stripping any president of the power to lift it alone. Its Title III provision lets US nationals sue over property the Cuban government reclaimed from foreign corporations after the revolution, and sue all companies that later do business using those assets. The provision was considered so aggressive, and so likely to anger allies whose firms invest in Cuba and to poison any future US-Cuba settlement, that every president continued to suspend it in six-month incremental waivers for over two decades, until Trump let the suspension lapse in 2019. Exxon sued the same day.
The ruling lands as Trump tightens the screws on Havana, which is already reeling under a renewed US oil blockade that has caused brutal shortages and hardship across the island. Together with a similar decision last month (Havana Docks Corp. v. Royal Caribbean Cruises), it opens the door to thousands of pending claims, nearly 6,000 certified ones worth almost $2 billion before interest, seeking to extract wealth from a nation the US has worked to isolate since Cubans first took control of their own resources in 1960.
(Based on information from the Supreme Court ruling and reporting by the AP, CNN, and Bloomberg Law.)
📸 Photo: March 12, 1996, President Clinton signs the bill into law.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court said a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by prison guards could not sue them for money. https://t.co/wiJuvxa9Hq