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JFJ Press Release: JFJ Appalled at the Lack of Urgency Displayed By the Government
March 9, 2010
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release JFJ Appalled at the Lack Of Urgency Displayed By the Government Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica - Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ) is making available to the press, (enclosed) an open letter written and sent yesterday, to Prime Minister Bruce Golding, outlining our concern and outrage at the lack of urgency displayed by the Government of Jamaica in response to the continued abuse of children in its care, as documented by the Armadale Report of Justice Harrison and the preliminary report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, as well as the Prime Minister’s own statement in Parliament. The letter outlines the steps JFJ is calling on the Prime Minister to make. The Hon. Bruce Golding March 8,...
Joint Press Release: Immediate Withdrawal and Complete Overhaul of CDA Job Description Needed
March 8, 2010
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Immediate Withdrawal and Complete Overhaul of CDA Job Description Needed Monday, March 8, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica – Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) and Hear the Children’s Cry call for the IMMEDIAT E withdrawal and complete overhaul of the job description of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Child Development Agency (CDA) as outlined on the Ministry of Health’s website. The job description posted on the website of the Ministry of Health appears oblivious of the need for the CDA head to have as his or her primary responsibility the ‘best interests of the nation’s children’ but instead focuses on what is best for the CDA in attaining its ‘corporate goals and objectives.’ The job description outlined also fails to insist on tr...
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JFJ Press Release: JFJ Delighted over Long-Awaited Verdict in the Hapete Henry Case
March 5, 2010
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release JFJ Delighted over Long-Awaited Verdict in the Hapete Henry Case Friday, March 5, 2010, Kingston, Jamaica - Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is very elated and relieved that a twelve-year wait for a verdict in the Hapete Henry case has FINALLY arrived. A Coroner’s Jury recently found that the police officer, who shot and killed Hapete at a football match at the National Stadium in April 1998, was criminally responsible. JFJ is not only thrilled that there is some amount of closure for the family, but is also overjoyed that the verdict handed down is one of Manslaughter, which will allow the accused to be tried at the Circuit Court. George Henry, the father of Hapete, was also overwhelmed with joy and relief by the culmination of what had seemed like a never-ending Coroner&rsqu...
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My bodyguard's killer not a 'mad man', says mayor
February 22, 2010
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Observer staff reporter ?dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com MAYOR of Kingston Councillor Desmond McKenzie is dismissing suggestions that the attacker of his late bodyguard Special Constable Norman Nunes is mentally challenged. The 29-year-old Nunes was last Friday assaulted while drivin...
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Man in custody for two years without trial
February 22, 2010
BY T K WHYTE Observer correspondent ?editorial@jamaicaobserver.com SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine — A man who has been languishing in the Spanish Town police lock-up for two years without trial, last week appealed to Senior St Catherine Resident Magistrate Marcia Dunbar-Green to release him “because he was tired of the confinement”. However, the accused, Michael Jackson, 64, did not get his wish and was remanded in custody until April 15, when the case will again come up for mention. “Your honour, I have been in the lock-up for so long. A beg you don't put me back there for is two Christmas me spend in there without a trial and me want go home now,” pleaded the feeble, untidily dressed senior citizen. “A beg you don't put me back in there,” Jackson pleaded when the matter came up for mention the 1...
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20 years not enough! Parents of slain Sandside boy say killer's sentence too light
February 18, 2010
ANDRIA Folkes -- the mother of 11-year-old Aamir Scott whose dismembered body was found in a rice bag at the foot of a tree in his hometown of Sandside, St Mary, in September 2008 -- is devastated over the 20-year sentence given to her son's killer. On Tuesday, the high court handed down the senten...
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Protest against police killing
February 12, 2010
1/1 Residents stand behind the police tape on Ashley Road in Kingston where a bar owner, identified only as 'Old House', was shot and killed by police at his business place shortly after midday. The residents earlier protested against the police shooting of the bar owner, who some said wa...
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Defence, Crown argue over phone recordings
January 6, 2010
BY KARYL WALKER Crime/Court Desk Co-ordinator walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com Wednesday, January 06, 2010 THE trial of former junior minister Kern Spencer and his co-accused Coleen Wright hit a snag yesterday after defence lawyers and Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn haggled over what the attorneys said was information that was being withheld from them. The verbal spat erupted during the testimony of Crown witness Rodney Chin, who said he used two Samsung cellular phones to record conversations between himself, Spencer and the mother of Spencer's child, Sherine Shakes, whom he said was responsible for the running of the Cuban light bulb project. "We are being short-changed," said defence attorney KD Knight, who is representing Wright, as Llewellyn asked Chin what method he used to transfer the recordings. Resident Mag...
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Fire fury: Alligator Pond erupts over police shooting: Police station burnt:Service vehicle torched:
January 3, 2010
Angelo Laurence, Gleaner Writer The usually serene town of Alligator Pond, at the border of Manchester and St Elizabeth, erupted into the first major protest for 2010 as residents' fury flared yesterday following the shooting of two of their neighbours by members of the police force. This was th...
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Deadly decade
January 3, 2010
Howard Campbell, Gleaner Writer "It's been another bloody year in Jamaica," seems to be a bad cliché that just won't go away. But with more than 1,600 murders making the police files in 2009, using that familiar line once more is inevitable even as there is the quiet hope that it will not be rep...
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JFJ Press Release: JFJ Appalled at the Lack of Urgency Displayed By the Government
Tuesday 09, March 2010
Reese goes to local gov’t
Tuesday 09, March 2010
'Cut if off'
Tuesday 09, March 2010
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Tuesday 09, March 2010
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