Jamaican elections end tonight as minister says gays “threatened his life”
Voting is set to end in Jamaica’s parliamentary elections tonight, while a government minister claims that he was threatened with his life for questioning whether the international gay community was...
View ArticleNew Jamaican PM to be sworn in, with promise to review anti-gay law
Jamaica’s new Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller, who has said she will review the criminalisation of homosexuality in the country and not forbid gays from serving in her cabinet as former Prime...
View ArticleLawyer: Jamaican Prime Minister has betrayed gay voters by refusing to lift...
A leading Jamaican LGBT rights lawyer has accused Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller of a “blatant betrayal” for refusing to abolish Jamaica’s buggery law. Maurice Tomlinson, a legal advisor of...
View ArticleDiane Abbott: We are seeing ‘encouraging signs’ out of Jamaica on LGBT rights
PinkNews Exclusive Labour MP Diane Abbott says Jamaica is taking “encouraging” political steps to rid itself of its homophobic shadow. The Hackney MP, whose parents are from the Caribbean island,...
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