PM @AndrewHolnessJM: As far As I've been advised, No judge has ruled that the SOEs are unconstitutional. None. The government is well within its right to seek the declaration of a state of public emergency and to ask Parliament to extend the state of public emergency. The PM was speaking Sunday at the Central Executive meeting of his @jlpjamaica.

'You're coming in and you already feel defeated ...trying to prioritise the sickest of the sick ...it is an everyday bad day' - healthcare worker on COVID response at #SavannalaMarHospital #COVID19 #tvjallangles It's very sad to know I'm a nurse and I can't help them ...#covid is real. Too many elderly patients coming here ...couple days later they die - nurse #covid19 #tvjallangles

AP: All New York City public school teachers and other staffers will have to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, officials said Monday as the nation’s largest school system prepares for classes to start next month.

apnews.com/article/health… The city previously said teachers, like other city employees, would have to get the shots or get tested weekly for the virus. The new policy marks the first flat-out vaccination mandate for city workers in the nation’s most populous city.

Officials at HEART/NSTA Trust have been wrestling with conflicts of interest claims over the award of millions in contracts to a technology company whose CEO is the State’s multibillion-dollar training agency’s board chairman. jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-s… Edward Gabbidon, the CEO of SynCon Technologies, has been serving as chairman of the Trust since April 3, 2017, and was last month reappointed for another term by Prime Minster Andrew Holness.

#PuertoBueno controversy. @AndrewHolnessJM admin criticized for overturning decision of environment regulator @nepajamaica, allowing mining in home to endangered, endemic species, limestone forest, important fossil cave, etc.

Gleaner Story 1 -Nov 9: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-s… The July 23 decision was inked by then Minister without Portfolio Leslie Campbell, working out of the Office of the Prime Minister, in favour of Bengal Development Limited/Jamaica World LLC, which was denied an environmental permit on May 8. Minister can accept appeal under law.

Barbados to become republic, remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state by November 2021 when nation marks 55th anniversary of independence, announces Dame Sandra Mason, Governor General and the Queen's domestic rep, in outlining upcoming priorities of @miaamormottley admin. "The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind. Barbadians want a Barbadian head of state." - Dame Sandra Mason, Governor General of Barbados.

Auditor General: St Catherine Municipal Corporation

SCMC unaware of full extent of network, condition of roads under its purview, lacked transparent process of determining works under Roads in the Parish, Divisional Allocation and Lengthman programmes'

auditorgeneral.gov.jm/wp-content/upl… Auditor General: "The weaknesses in SCMC’s control system hindered our determination of whether full value for money was received for expenditure on road and maintenance works"

Audit period: 2014-2015 to 2018-2019

CMU says it advertised for director of legal services online only but the Auditor General says it got no evidence to prove this?! - #CMUreport #rjrbth #CMUreport: university reimbursed president Pinnock for purchases covering things like Apple watch, colognes, Baileys rum cream, sunglasses, etc. Auditor General says items not presented for verification, no record of them on CMU's assets register @JamaicaGleaner

A sex worker raped, a 'gratuitously speculative' Jamaican judge and a fact I didn't know -
judges have the power to issue a 'certificate' to support appeal of a person they felt served injustice by imposition of mandatory minimum sentence courtofappeal.gov.jm/sites/default/… Discovered that bit of law in Sept 23 decision of Court of Appeal in case brought by Paul Haughton. In March 2017, Haughton was given mandatory minimum 15yrs for raping a sex worker. Also sentenced to 3yrs for robbery w/violence; 3yrs for unlawful wounding.