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Edmond Campbell, Senior Staff Reporter
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness has challenged the Portia Simpson Miller administration to place the decriminalisation of ganja and a review of the country's buggery law before Jamaicans in a referendum in the next local government elections due by March next year.
In his contribution to the Budget Debate in Gordon House, Holness also urged the Government to allow Jamaicans to decide on whether to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Jamaica's final appellate court and retain The Queen as head of state in the same referendum.
"There is great uncertainty in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community - and [among] ordinary Jamaicans alike - about your promise to review the buggery act," Holness said as he addressed Prime Minister Simpson Miller, who sits across from him in the House of Representatives.
"The issue is very sensitive. I am sure you will agree...
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