Robust Security As MPs & Senators Are Sworn in
There was robust security in the precincts of Gordon House aka Jamaica’s Parliament. Some 500 ;police were deployed to protect the integrity of our democracy. With the results of the elections razor thin with a majority of only one it behooves all to cooperate and work for compromise.
It was a spectacle worth witnessing as the who is who in the Jamaican society decked out in their finest attire came out. Diplomats, and foreign representatives witnessed the historic occasion of the Swearing in of the Upper and lower Houses of Parliament in Jamaica W.I.
Picture and story by Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie who is Senior International Correspondent & Photojournalist for Vision Newspaper Canada.
Picture of armoured Truck, believed to be bullet proof … should an official have to be extracted.
Alwin Marshall-Squire is the Editor-in-Chief of S-Q Publications Inc., overseeing editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today, and Vision Newspaper. He leads the publications’ mission to deliver bold, original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and the global Caribbean diaspora.
Also writes for GTA Weekly and GTA Today.
