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The uproar was triggered by the Opposition putting a censure motion on the floor. This censure motion had to do with the government abstaining at the UN in the vote for the US to end the embargo on Cuba. I have said it already. We could vote until God comes; nothing will change until the people and government of the US decide to end the embargo. They have been voting on this matter for many years at the UN, and the USA position still stands.
I don't see how voting on this matter and discussing it will change US foreign policy. Jamaicans definitely would not like to see other countries setting our foreign policy.
The incident inside Gordon House yesterday was dutty and nasty. One MP went over to the government side in a threatening manner as if he was going to physically attack a minister. Other MPs had to restrain him. Can you imagine bad man dey a road and bad man dey eena parliament?
What shocked me was the report from one MP who said that the aggressive MP told a minister, "Go suck yu muma." That is the kind of language you hear from Jamaicans who have been dragged up and not brought up. The language you hear from dutty, nasty, low-dung people. There is more to what happened, but due to the confusion, a lot of the nasty things said got lost in the confusion.
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I just received information about an incident in Gordon House. I was told that one member of parliament was advised not to be disrespectful to the Speaker of the House. The member of parliament who was being spoken to became very irate, and it seems that he wanted to physically attack the member of parliament who cautioned him about his behaviour.
I gather that the irate MP told the other member to, "Go suck yu madda". This was followed by a string of colourful Jamaican words.
Bark Di Trute is trying to confirm whether this happened or not. If it did happen, then the MP who behaved like that should pack his bag and go. We have an ex-con representing the people; already, we cannot tolerate another MP with that nasty behaviour.
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This is shocking. The Permanent Secretary appeal for leniency for two of his staff members who are now facing JAD64.7 million for unaccounted fertilizers which were to be delivered to farmers. This was reported in the Gleaner on November 4, 2026.
Permanent Secretary, Dermon Spence. Mr. Spence, are you the lawyer for these civil servants? Do you know more why you are asking for leniency? Over 11,000 bags not accounted for is not something to ask for leniency for. Have you taken any action against those staff members? Has your department investigated the matter? What action has been taken against those who failed to do their job properly? Probably you need to pack your bags and go Mr Spence.
The next thing you hear is that it was politicians who stole the fertilizer.
The nation must watch carefully what is happening in the public sector.
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF MOTION
Censure of the Government for failing to disclose to this
Honourable House a change in Jamaica's longstanding policy on the United States
embargo against Cuba
Moved by: G. Anthony Hylton, Member of Parliament for St.
Andrew Western
Seconded by: Phillip Paulwell, Member of Parliament for
East Kingston & Port Royal
WHEREAS for more than three decades Jamaica has voted in
the United Nations General Assembly in favour of the annual resolution calling
for an end to the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the
United States of America against Cuba, and that policy has enjoyed the support
of both sides of this Honourable House;
AND WHEREAS this Honourable House, through its annual
debate on the matter, has given the people of Jamaica, through their elected
representatives, the opportunity to examine and affirm that policy;
AND WHEREAS on Tuesday, 27 October 2026, the Minister of
State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade moved, and this
Honourable House approved without dissent, a Resolution on the economic and
humanitarian situation in Cuba;
AND WHEREAS at no time during the debate did the Minister
of State, or any other Member of the Government, inform this Honourable House
that the Government was considering a change in Jamaica's vote at the United
Nations;
AND WHEREAS on Wednesday, 28 October 2026, the day after
the Resolution was approved, Jamaica abstained for the first time on the United
Nations resolution, and the Permanent Representative of Jamaica delivered a
prepared explanation of that vote;
AND WHEREAS on 28 October 2026 the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade publicly acknowledged that the abstention was "a
shift in policy" on which the Government had "been reflecting 
. for some time", which
establishes that the change was under consideration when the Resolution was
moved and debated in this House;
AND WHEREAS the Government, while citing the deficiencies
of the United Nations resolution as its reason for abstaining, made no known
approach to the Government of Cuba, as sponsor of that resolution, and proposed
no amendment in the General Assembly to secure the changes it now says were
required;
AND WHEREAS by withholding its intention the
Government denied this Honourable House the opportunity to debate a fundamental
change in Jamaica's foreign policy before it was made, and caused the House to
approve the Resolution on an incomplete and misleading basis;
BE IT
RESOLVED that this Honourable House:
1. Censures
the Government for failing to disclose to this House, during the debate on the
Resolution of 27 October 2026, the change in Jamaica's long-standing policy
that it was then considering, and thereby misleading the House;
2. Calls
on the Government to make a full statement to this House, within seven days of
the passing of this Resolution, setting out— (a) when, and by whom, the
decision to abstain was taken; (b) when instructions were sent to the Permanent
Mission of Jamaica to the United Nations, and when the explanation of vote was
prepared and approved; and (c) whether any approach was made to the Government
of Cuba, or any amendment proposed, before the vote and, if so, when and in
what terms;
3. Calls
on the Government to apologise to this Honourable House; and
4. Affirms
that, where this House is considering a motion on a matter of foreign policy,
the Government has a duty to disclose to the House any change in that policy
which it is then contemplating.
Submitted
by: G. Anthony
Date: 2nd November, 2026
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