{
  "id": 17758410,
  "title": "Gov’t says no parliamentary instructions defied in Cuba vote abstention",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/govt-says-no-parliamentary-instructions-defied-in-cuba-vote-abstention",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-02T06:06:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jamaica Gleaner",
    "slug": "jamaica-gleaner",
    "url": "http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20261102/govt-says-no-parliamentary-instructions-defied-cuba-vote-abstention"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has rejected an assertion by former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson that the Government flouted the authority of Parliament when Jamaica abstained from voting at the United Nations (UN) to lift the United States (US) embargo against Cuba. In a statement on Sunday, she insisted that the Cuban people deserve more than “an annual repeated expression of…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}