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Hayles accuses Gov’t of bypassing PNP constituencies as it expands water supply

KINGSTON, Jamaica–Opposition Spokesman on Water and Special Projects, Ian Hayles, has stated that communities represented by the parliamentary Opposition are being starved of water projects.Hayles made the charge while pointing to 34 projects listed by the Minister of Water, Matthew Samuda, in his recent contribution to the Sectoral Debate to demonstrate the plan to expand access by constituency.“The challenge is that he listed 34 projects across the country at a cost of 4.2 billion Jamaican dollars. But 3.65 billion, or 85 per cent of this money, was being spent in constituencies with a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Member of Parliament,” said Hayles.“My question is simple: do only constituencies with JLP supporters need expanded access to water?” he said.Addressing Samuda, he said, “Minister, I put it to you, Jamaicans who voted for the PNP (People’s National Party) Members of Parliament also need access to water. And to further make my point, remember that JLP supporters also live in constituencies with PNP Members of Parliament”.Hayles said it was for this reason that he was recommending a transparent system for identifying projects to expand access, and that these projects be published with a quarterly project update.“Without this, we will be unable to know whether meaningful progress is being made. In addition, I believe that the country needs a master plan outlining how water access will be expanded. Jamaica deserves to know,” he said.

WATCH: David Lammy assures 'every decision' made by Labour is based on 'public safety'

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has told MPs that every decision made by the Government is based on public safety, as he is grilled by Shadow Housing Secretary James Cleverly on the early release of dangerous criminals, including grooming gang perpetrators.Mr Lammy told the Commons: He asks about a very serious issue, and every decision we have taken has been based on public safety in delivering justice for victims. Let's talk about the context.The last Labour Government built 28,000 prison places. We're building 14,000 by 2031. We've already delivered 3,200 under the Tories. They closed 23 prisons. Gloucester, closed. Shrewsbury, closed. Portsmouth, closed. Holloway, closed. Northallerton, closed. What are they now? A block of flats. That's why we have to have an early release scheme. That's why we passed the Sentencing Act. And we're putting community powers locally to make sure that we protect the public.WATCH ABOVE. Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter

They Ain’t Going Away, Donny

Gotta laugh to keep from crying Sign Guy’s message last week was “WHERE ARE THOSE EPSTEIN PROSECUTIONS?” Not files. Not investigations. Not indictments. Prosecutions. Because the issue behind the Epstein saga goes beyond sexual abuse of underage girls. It’s the elite impunity of the Epstein Class. It’s that the uber-wealthy across the planet consider themselves beyond the reach of common law. Above the law. Untouchable. People feel it in their guts even if they don’t say it out loud. Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, his sweetheart deals with the Department of Justice — and Ghislaine Maxwell’s special treatment — stand in for the very “malefactors of great wealth” FDR referenced in 1936. Only he was criticizing the fact that a handful of financiers controlled “the purse strings of the Nation.” Today, men far wealthier have bought themselves control of the nation itself and immunity from any financial, moral, or legal obligations to it. It’s teeth-grindingly apparent. Especially with Trump’s vandalizing the people’s property. If Democrats cannot bring Epstein Class members to heel — to prosecutions, not BS “accountability” — someone turn out the lights on the last 250 years. Asheville Sign Guy signs archived at avl_sign_guy.

9News Brisbane | Saturday 4 July | Full Bulletin

Almost 50 residents were forced out of their Gold Coast apartment late last night as an abandoned neighbouring complex went up in flames. In other news, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is packing his bags ahead of a trip to Pacific nations, some of which are pressuring Australia to cut emissions faster. Meanwhile, both Albanese and Angus Taylor will hurt looking at these new numbers as new polling shows younger voters are fleeing the major parties. | *Subscribe and 🔔: http://9Soci.al/KM6e50GjSK9* *Get more breaking news at 9News.com.au: http://9Soci.al/iyCO50GjSK6* FOLLOW 9News Australia ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9News/ ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9news/ Join 9News for the latest in news and events that affect you in your local city, as well as news from across Australia and the world. #9News #BreakingNews #NineNewsAustralia #9NewsAU

Archbishop of Canterbury vows to help Palestinians achieve 'freedom you deserve'

Archbishop of Canterbury vows to help Palestinians achieve 'freedom you deserve' The archbishop of Canterbury has pledged to help Palestinians achieve the peace you desire and the freedom you deserve and praised their faithful resistance on a visit to the occupied West Bank. Dame Sarah Mullally, the head of the Church of England, made the comments last Sunday during a sermon at St Peter's, an Anglican church in the Palestinian Christian town of Birzeit. She told the congregation that your faithful, hopeful resistance is also visible as fathers and mothers navigate the web of checkpoints daily to provide an income for their family, or to get their children to school to provide for their future, or as you gather to break bread together week by week in this church. All these acts of faithful resistance point to our hope in Jesus Christ and reflect your ongoing struggle for freedom and dignity. The archbishop added that she was aware that she enjoys certain freedoms that Palestinians don't, such as being able to cross borders and checkpoints, spending time in neighbouring communities, and going to Jerusalem. Read more: Archbishop of Canterbury vows to help Palestinians achieve 'freedom you deserve' Sarah Mullally, the archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome on 28 April 2026 (AFP)

The Jeffrey Epstein Lesson: Predators Need Protectors

Again, predators couldn’t do the damage. Last as long in the shadows. Cultivate as many victims--without powerful protectors. But to the ethically bereft gazing into a magic mirror to inquire who’s the fairest the land, the “it’s one terrible man” horseshit's easy to sell. We love monster stories. They let the rest of us off the hook. If Jeffrey Epstein is the whole story, then we’re not talking about the billionaires who socialized with him. The institutions that knew—and still took his money. The corporate chieftains, lawyers, other elites who covered for him—including Haberman and Swan, who profited from burying their story til it fit nicely with a book-tour. Unlike these protectors, I won’t allow the horrors to be buried. I'm here to remind you of the role of one of the most powerful Republicans of the 21st Century in covering up a pedophile ring of Congress members and underage pages—and his eventual implication in the same crimes. And even though it’s difficult for me, I’m here to name names from my “elite” high school, Horace Mann, which hid a plague of pedophiles, including my onetime mentor. It’s all laid out in a barely seen report by a first of its kind Manhattan DA Sex Crimes Prosecution Bureau.read more

Politics And The Markets 07/02/26

Politics And The Markets 07/02/26

The Future of Media in the Age of AI Propaganda | The West Report

[embed]https://youtube.com/embed/w77AiOrNXpk[/embed] Join us at Dockside July 18 for The Future of Media - the Inaugural MinterEllison Press Freedom (Not) Oration. Michael West Media marks ten years of independent journalism with the Tenth Anniversary Dinner, aka the “BHP Ball”. Featuring Michael West on the Future of Media and Dr Mohammed Mustafa on Palestine and the Media, Wendy Harmer is MC, present will be friends of independent media, key players in independent media, free speech, and government and corporate integrity. Wendy Bacon, Rex Patrick, Michael Pascoe, Kim Wingerei and a host of others will join with those whistleblowers and champions who have been persecuted for their free speech and their integrity. auspol Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1588972 Support us https://www.patreon.com/thewestreport Our Journalism https://michaelwest.com.au Merch https://lonelykidsclub.com/collections/michael-west Linktree https://linktr.ee/michaelwestmedia.com.au

In "Devastating" Immigration Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to "Turn Back" Asylum Seekers

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a major blow to the rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The court ruled 6 to 3 along partisan lines to sanction so-called metering at the southern border, which allows immigration officers at ports of entry to block asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil. “In a time of increasing conflict and climate catastrophe, this will result in many more deaths,” warns Erika Pinheiro of Al Otro Lado, the lead plaintiff in the case. When the turnback policy was first introduced, recounts Melissa Crow of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, who served as co-counsel for the plaintiffs’ case, many asylum seekers became “so desperate that they ended up trying to enter between ports of entry, either by swimming across the Rio Grande or by traversing the desert under harrowing conditions, and many, many of them didn’t make it to the other side.”

Paradoxes of Openness: Power, Reciprocity, and the Governance of Scholarly Infrastructures

Katja Mayer, The Politics of Open Infrastructures, Open Book Publishers, Jun 25, 2026 This is a chapter from a larger book, the whole of which is worth looking at. This summary doesn't do this complex chapter justice. The first paradox is power: The central issue is no longer only access to scholarly outputs, but who controls the infrastructures through which scholarly communication is organised. This is why I have historically argued for decentralized open access, rather than platform centrlization. The second paradox is 'reciprocity', where proponents of openness have opposed text and data mining (TDM) because the same openness that dismantled subscription barriers also created conditions under which scholarly content could be recomposed as a scalable input for platform economies (readers should remember my many years of advocacy for a non-commercial clause to prevent just this). The third is governance: smaller data infrastructures now find themselves overwhelmed by automated scraping requests, forced to absorb the operational costs of large-scale harvesting while lacking the resources to govern, limit, or benefit from such use. This is why (and my colleagues from EDUCAUSE three decades ago may remember) why I argues for distributed resources and aggregation, rather than federation. Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]

'Foolish': Republican warns of new 'calamity' Trump created by going after immigrants

A Republican lawmaker slammed the calamity the Trump administration has created by revoking Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants. Last year, the Trump administration abruptly revoked TPS for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, a move that impacted approximately 356,000 people currently living in the U.S. The order was swiftly challenged, but the Supreme Court recently ruled that President Donald Trump has the authority to unilaterally revoke TPS, an opinion that stunned many legal analysts. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) slammed the decision during a new interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on The Lead. As I have stressed to the administration for over a year, while I don't dispute the president's ability to end TPS ... it is foolish to do it at this moment because we are going to create a calamity within our own health care system as a result, Lawler said. Lawler, whose district includes one of the largest Haitian immigrant populations in the U.S., noted that many of these immigrants work in health care, caring for the elderly and disabled. He added that he's asked the administration to instead extend work visas to the immigrants, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for decades. Lawler also noted that it would be dangerous to send Haitian and Syrian immigrants back to their home countries, which raises a host of questions about the timing of the move. The fact is, from a humanitarian standpoint, it is disastrous to send them back home at this moment, and it will have a profound negative impact on the American people, Lawler said.

Anti-Labor activist wins Albanese tennis match auction to have ‘very firm words’ with him

Former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint reacts to mortgage broker Joseph Daoud spending $16,500 to win a charity auction tennis match with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Ms Flint said she expects Mr Daoud to have some “very firm words” with the prime minister about the “mess” he’s making of the property market. “At least for once we are seeing the prime minister using tennis for good, because of course the prime minister, when he is usually associated with tennis, he’s running away from a scandal or disaster,” she told Sky News host James Morrow. ​“Viewers would remember when he flew into Alice Springs during the riots for two hours and spent longer at the Australian Open. ​“I think it is wonderful to see democracy in action, whereby someone who has a very important axe to grind with the prime minister about the absolute mess he is making of our property market can do so.”

बागमती प्रदेश सभा: दुई विधेयक बहुमतले पारित

मकवानपुर । बागमती प्रदेशसभाको आजको बैठकले प्रदेश विनियोजन विधेयक २०८३ र प्रदेश आर्थिक विधेयक २०८३ लाई बहुमतले पारित गरेको छ । बैठकमा प्रदेशका आर्थिक मामिला तथा योजना मन्त्री प्रभात तामाङले प्रदेश विनियोजन विधेयक २०८३ लाई पारित गरियोस् भनी प्रस्ताव पेस गरेका थिए। प्रदेश सभाका सदस्यहरू क्रमशः ईश्वर सापकोटा, सृजना सैजु र रत्नप्रसाद ढकालले सरकारको आर्थिक []

Brandon To: Why the Thames Water crisis is a failure of market accountability

Conservatives should not abandon their belief in free markets because of Thames Water. But we should remember a lesson that even Adam Smith would have recognised: capitalism requires competition, and where competition is impossible, accountability becomes even more important. The post Brandon To: Why the Thames Water crisis is a failure of market accountability appeared first on Conservative Home.

Free homes, R1.1m cars and flights: These are the perks Ramaphosa's cabinet ministers enjoy

Free homes, R1.1m cars and flights: These are the perks Ramaphosa's cabinet ministers enjoy