Gays in the Cabinet, priority of sins - the Caribbean IRN Update 20 January

In this update, we share the reports from Jamaica and Guyana who held their elections within the last two months, and other updates from the Caribbean media.

The Jamaican elections became more interesting when PNP candidate after    Portia says nothing is wrong with gays in Cabinet and this generated many responses as in this Coverage of the pro-LGBT stance taken by Ms Portia Simpson Miller

and most recently Dealing with the gay rights issue . Lloyd D'Aguilar also launched the short documentary NOT in My Cabinet : Homophobia in the Caribbean

The news that Jamaican gay activist, Maurice Tomlinson, married a Torontonian was also carried in the Jamaican media with headlines such as Jamaican gay activist marries 'soulmate'

In Trinidad & Tobago we learn of the work of two persons in Is being gay...grounds for discrimination? and this article is published by a Caribbean Legal Scholar Homosexuality and the Consitution

The whole issue of sin, and the multitude of sins is dealt with in these two articles from Diminishing reason, diminishing respect and this Belize Times Commentary in REID BETWEEN THE LINES of 25 November, 2011

In Guyana, the News reports about Guyana and LGBT Rights on the UPR process reveal among other things, that Government expects SASOD to "convince the religious community and not have the Government do their work"