good afternoon I am Andrea Chism with the midday news a special welcome if
you're watching on one spots media.com the controversy surrounding the police's
decision not to charge a motorist captured on camera doing stunts on a
road in the corporate area was discussed at cabinet yesterday the cabinet chaired
by Prime Minister Andrew Holness met with police commissioner Major General
Anthony Anderson and head of the public safety and traffic enforcement branch
Assistant Commissioner of Police dr. bishop dr. Gary Welsh a statement from
the office of the Prime Minister this morning said cabinet discussed the
importance of equal and consistent enforcement of road traffic laws cabinet
reminded the police of the importance of governments zero tolerance approach
policy cabinet was also concerned about the maintenance of a public order and
discipline on the roads the mercedes-benz motor car was seen
spinning around several times on Don Rock
Robyn Avenue before being driven off at high speed some members of the public
have expressed outrage following last week's meeting between ACP Welsh and the
motorist reportedly seen in the video and the head of the public safety and
security branch says come September 1 motorists will be feeling the full brunt
of the law if they disobey the road code he was speaking on Monday at the
inaugural international symposium on traffic crash investigation and black
box analysis at the Caribbean maritime university when you come and you see
that you have number 50 and we are now serving customer number three you can
complain all you want we are here to serve you you might want to ask somebody
ahead of you to exchange places and that's quite okay if you violate expect
to be served ACP Welsh also pointed out as he said
that motorists will no longer be stopped and ticketed along the roadways he says
starting next month offenders of the road code will be taken as he pointed
out earlier to a customer service center immediately after being caught he says
that new approach will help to reduce repeat offenders who fail to either pay
or go to court one woman is dead following a brazen gun attack this
morning TVJ News understands that the woman who was driving a blue Honda
Motors car that's a CRV was shot multiple times along Patrick Drive in
Saint Andrew about nine o'clock it's unclear what led to the shooting
investigations continue and of course we'll have more on that story as details
become available the government is moving to have more developments on the
eastern end of the island that's the word from prime minister Andrew Holness
speaking on Monday mr. Horner said the government will be investing in housing
in that section of Jamaica following the south coast highway improvement project
once we have put that down all the lands in that area become viable for
development so the government is going to be moving with the nhd and the
National Housing Agency to start developments on lands that we own there
are of intentions on and we call on developers to start looking no to the
east to develop the lands that are no made viable
pnp vice-president Daymond Crawford has taken the government to task about a
recent bill which was brought to the Senate he was speaking at a recent PNP
meeting in Clarendon the bill forward yester that you are going to be able to
invest fifty billion dollars but not for the pensioner that mean business people
will be able to borrow fifty billion dollars I mean I'm not against business
people but who you carry a pension bill and the target is not a pensioner the
target is the business you should I carry a business bill and so we want to
make money available to businesses on one ways to make pension funds can
invest the Senate recently suspended debate on the tourism were pension
workers pensions we that's a choice in workers pensions bill which seeks to
establish a defined contribution pension scheme for tourism workers and now the
menacing storm is on track to slam the cabin including Puerto Rico which is
still grappling with the devastation from Hurricane Maria tropical storm
durian has intensified in the Atlantic Ocean with a 60 miles per hour winds
details from the CNN tropical storm durian really doesn't look all that
impressive it's a rather small tropical system that lies just to the east of the
Lesser Antilles but once it pushes through the Lesser Antilles into the
Caribbean we anticipate it's going to encounter more favorable conditions and
actually increase in intensity and as it does by about Wednesday evening it will
be approaching Berto Rico now let's go back two years September 20th 2017 and
it was Hurricane Maria a category four system that just devastated Puerto Rico
from which they are still recovering well this is expected to be a category
one in the vicinity of Puerto Rico meanwhile the National Hurricane Center
has issued a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning
for Puerto Rico as tropical storm durian moved through the windward islands a
hurricane watch has also been issued for the Dominican Republic and the governor
on the government and some parts of the island and a tropical storm watch for
portions of its north and south coasts and it's time for a break here on the
midday news but stay with us more stories right after these messages
welcome back and we're continuing the news raft men in berry del Portland home
of the Rio Grande are lamenting the decline in business there are concerns
that things may get worse even with the winter tourist season just three months
away TV Jays janella pursues reports a
handful of tourists make their way down to the Rio Grande Valley it's a fraction
of what obtained a few years ago when business was booming had the portland
attraction in fact rafting on the rio grande was one of the selling points of
the parish but now it appears to be fading this is some peak time from July
- no we haven't seen no farmer business right now we also have like around
captain - like 90 per week you lure some money by do a 5k power you know find
July - no you have someone doing the cheetah - is until no and it's not just
to the rafters residents living in Barrie Dale are also feeling it in their
pockets I'm ELISA craftsmen buy right now mechanic Adela my liquor chapters
the retinas of the kindnesses where I live yeah so what has led to the drop in
tourists some believe it's a promotional issue business very slow and ok seem
like a market a business hunting like so I'm a teller dad I eat dog trust me
right now others argue that it's because of poor roads you know deplorable
condition right now you know how we are not getting the business because of that
disagreement on the source but the people are united in their calls for
officials in the Ministry of Tourism to intervene general press use TV G news
residents of Mason Hall st. Mary are slated to benefit from a major water
infrastructure project which is scheduled to begin this year T V J's
ashamed masters has more it's a daily Trek to the river for residents of Mason
Hall st. Mary to carry out some of their normal home duties why the lack of water
in their community the residents say that for years they
have been pleading for on water supply as the frequency of
water in their community of mason Hall was not adequate to meet their daily
demands the residents told TVJ news that they pee as much as $500 Werdum of water
but that is not sufficient Titian Powell says a pump house was established in the
community some time ago but she claims that is ineffective Miss Powell says
while your conditions are affecting the island the water situation in her
community has always been dire but this makeshift pipe is one way in which the
community receives water but it soon will be no more with this as Member of
Parliament for Weston since Mary Robert Montague has promised a much improved
delivery system mr. Montague who toured the communities on the weekend was
accompanied by representatives of the rural water supply and Water Resources
Authority the West sent Mary MPs as a water infrastructure project is expected
to cost five hundred million dollars of that sum he says two hundred and seventy
million dollars have been approved in this year's budget for the project is a
major project which also involves the upgrading of the sources White River bog
and passenger springs so it is not something that is going to happen
overnight neither will it take a week or two what the important thing is that the
project will start this financial year and it will bring relief to the people
in the dismount and Barry for Leary he'll miss Nell grant stone went work
mr. Montague says the design for the project is already completed and a
tender is now out for a supplier to provide the pipes for the project or
Shane masters TVJ news Mika and other regional states are being
urged to pay close attention to issues of surrounding FAR's which have been
destroying the Amazon forest in South America coordinator of the Institute for
sustainable development at the UW Mona dr. David Smith cautions that the Amazon
forest is extremely important for carbon dioxide reduction and rainfall the
Amazon rainforest has been on fire for the past three weeks with hundreds of
acres being destroyed the Amazon forest which spans eight countries produces
about 20% of the world's oxygen and plays an essential part in the fight
against climate change in a 48-hour period leading up to Thursday there are
more than 2,500 active fires in the Brazilian rainforest dr. Smith says
continued destruction will have an impact on Jamaica and there are concerns
oxygen and water vapor those of us in the Caribbean a lot of our rain is
generated by the rain forest a lot of material for things like soil and so on
are generated and then transported through the rivers and the seas to the
Caribbean so we would be concerned as people living in the Caribbean for those
reasons
president of the National Association of Dean's of disciplines Samuel Smalling is
be mourning the lack of resources to deal with children mrs. mourning was
speaking to TVJ news at a capacity building workshop in Mandeville on the
weekend in my time when we went to school they were only maybe challenges
in terms of fistfights and so on but today our students come to us from
varying backgrounds virion therein challenges so no we deal with fear in
number of issues from weapons from even gone sometimes Dean's of discipline have
to contend with in all the earth there depends on where which community the
schools are in mr. Smalling pointed to another trend where children are hurting
themselves he's calling on the Education Ministry to provide more training to
deal with mental cases as we part with guidance consoles and
administration the tasks is even getting more difficult as you know we carry out
our duties from time to time we have students who try to hurt themselves and
as Dean's we have to get involved so I would want to say to the Minister of
Education sometimes the resources that Dean's of
discipline are given to do the tasks are not sufficient we think that all Dean's
of discipline guidance courses etc should be given some form of training in
how to deal with these kinds of issues when they occur in our school and in
sports strike a quarry Berg who missed the CONCACAF Gold Cup in the USA is in
line for a return to the national team after being included in a local based
training squad for Jamaica's CONCACAF Nations League match against Guyana in
Montego Bay on September 9 visa problem has prevented quirk representing the
Riga boys in the United States but with Jamaica's the three upcoming games in
the nations League to be played in the Caribbean the striker has been included
in court Theodore Whitmore as a squad according to Whitmore it's tough leaving
Burke on the sidelines if he's fit Bryza he's a Jamaican
easier he's doing some work again he's uncle fitting for us to bring in to see
what condition is in because we need we need every player you know not just
Cobra we need everybody to represent you know we need the services of our core
work so again it's only fitting to see what condition is it and with the lack
of goals in the national team it makes it easy for Wittwer to call up Burke we
can't question on Quora Burke's ability we know what we can do we know where
Burke can put the ball in the back of the net no no question about that
as for the man himself it's a proud feeling being back that was good to put
that in a snack or you know you know after woke up I know I'm back for
animation club hopefully it shall get my business up
and you know a coach Phillip me in the final quote for the games coming up
Burke also sank two national champions Portmore United for helping him to stay
fit I think is the best club in the country
and for me it's a good thing for me to be pitching with boom United which I'm
still chillin with them at this moment and now I'm here in camp with the
national team so I'm allowed to keep my fitness up as I said before he says it's
frustrating for him being on the sidelines every time I see my team
according to playing well you know I can't stomach to watch again so he and
while he gets ready to represent the national team Burke still has to wait
for an overseas contract to resume his club career there was a few teen that
was interested in me and because of the B ratio the there's no interest no more
so I mean waiting for for the for the next move I my agent which I contact him
earlier before teen and he said he's waiting on some some club that the
contact to finalize few papers Jamaica are drawn in Group C alongside
Guyana Aruba and Antigua and Barbuda Dennis
Walter's for TVJ sports and that's the midday news I'm Andrea Chisholm do
remember to join us at 7:00 for the prime time news package on behalf of the
news sports and production teams good afternoon