good afternoon and Milton Walker with the media news special welcome if you're
watching on one spot media.com the Constitutional Court has ruled that the
criminal trial should go ahead for the three soldiers charged with a murder of
Chartered Accountant Keith Clark mr. Clark was killed in 2010 during the
search for then fugitive Christopher Dodd us coke TVJ Sandra Chisholm reports
the trial of corporal Adele Buckley Lance Corporal Greg tingling and private
Arnold Henry was halted for the court to decide if their certificates of immunity
were valid the certificates were signed in 2016 by former national security
minister peter bunting here's justice linton Pusey with the ruling a majority
of the Court concludes that one in the circumstances of this case the issuing
of the good faith certificates was manifestly unfair and unreasonable and
therefore the good faith an invalid to the defendants this is the first three
defendants may not rely upon the good faith certificates of a child of this
battle the certificates were issued after the soldiers were charged for the
fatal shooting of Keith Clark on May 27 2010 mr. Clark was shot at his Kirtland
Heights home members of the security forces reportedly went to his house
during the search for Christopher daughter's cook who was wanted by us
prosecutors not a good fit certificates or any certificate issued on the 22nd of
February 2016 by the minister of national security outside of the
emergency period were issued in circumstances that were manifestly
unreasonable and on and are therefore not on void and
without infection in the meantime the court also ruled on the powers of the
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions despite certificates of
immunity the minister's power to issue good food certificates under the
emergence opposed recognitions do not infringe and are not in conflict with
the principle of separation of powers enshrined in the Constitution to the
emergency powers regulations do not infringe on the prosecutorial powers of
the Director of Public Prosecutions under the Constitution 3 the criminal
proceeding should be restored to the child list
Andrea Chisholm TVJ News a prime minister Andrew Holness has responded to
the protests for water in South East Clarendon over the weekend residents of
Salt River took to the streets to demand the precious commodity they say they
have not been they have been without consistent water supply for too long and
wanted addressed the issue of water in southeast Clarendon has been placed at
the forefront of the ongoing by-election campaign in South East Clarendon I can't
get to buddy all at once but rest assured this
government has a commitment to increase continuously the resources for rural
water supply development and to increase the peace at which we deliver those
projects so other people demonstrating and you know rody broke them but with
the demonstration business and you know demonstrations are a part of the
political landscape I'm not here appealing to anybody not to exercise
your right for civil protest once you do it within the law what I have to do as a
political leader and the Prime Minister of the country is to improve the peace
of delivery of public service to the people so that the people don't have to
protest residents of toes matters in st. Catherine are pleading with their health
authorities to urgently resolve a sewage problem which has been clique in their
community TV J's and analog reports overflowing manholes whether open are
shot are the nightmare residents of the Taj Meadows community in st. Catherine
have been living with for the past three months when our news team visited the
community we were greeted with the stench from raw sewage that could easily
be seen on the streets in the area the residents complained that the issue
worsens whenever they attempt to flush their toilets we can't say no when they
look on sea floor top I'm mosquitos or whatever so we have a
lot of Bachchan flush it one over people come just I look at and say wow look - a
man city grass can chop or not and cannot do
it yet because it won't as a quaint I'm with Russia bottom its up hop hop just a
bubble the government is on a drive to rid the country of the dengue outbreak
and the residents believe their community has been forgotten
kiala validus with small children here and they won't come until somebody
are they here children die as somebody Daffy time we are tired of it so a
couple months we honor this well well it's the base of it no and we have our
hampi animal you said it done fool now whatever we don't get a response and
about three months now this office stop man my god we need Wally Parr and brawny
man Anthony look tbj news nearly four hundred teachers have left the
classrooms in September and the figures expected to grow while addressing the
issue and TVJ smile Jamaica this morning president of the Jamaica Teachers
Association or in speed says it's a worrying trend T V J's Prince more has
the details mister speed says the shortage of
teachers is affecting the education system while commending the Education
Ministry for considering measures to alleviate the crisis he said there are
other suggestions being made that would not be effective one of the suggestions
that was made by the Honorable Minister is that he would be thinking of merging
some classes if you merge classes then it's overload on the teachers because
already you have classes with 45 and if you are going to merge two classes with
45 or 30 even 30 you're gone all the way up to 60
the reassurance schools should be ideally 1 to 25 Prime Minister Andrew
Holness who is currently the Minister of Education recently announced that 51
retired teachers will be brought in to help fill the gaps
mr. speed addressed concerns about whether these teachers are familiar with
the new prep curriculum those retired teachers would have been experts in the
field there no other subject areas and merely you have retired teachers in the
high school set up not dealing with those in the primary school is doing so
because what you find is that they in the primary schools it's easier to have
replacements for those teachers than to get specialist teachers for the for the
high school meanwhile he renewed calls for Prime Minister Andrew Holness
to appoint an education minister he noted it's approaching 1 year and the
Prime Minister has not been active within his rule I don't
think this Prime Minister's were serious about education he has held on to the
responsibility I don't know why the fact of the matter is that they he has to put
more belief in the men around him and I would like to say clearly that if they
if his cabinet is so shallow then maybe he needs a break front prints more TVJ
news and it's no time for break here on media news we'll be right back
welcome back continuing the news the police ins and James is caution in
political parties against extending their times for rallies or spot meetings
it comes as the country prepares for a general election although it's
constitutionally jus in 2021 Deputy Superintendent Ainsley McCarty says the
police will be enforcing a noise abatement act which must be adhered to
by all during the period of champion no political meeting can be held beyond
midnight and midnight is only for a period of time between nomination day
and the day before election for public meetings that has political tones it is
11 o'clock the agriculture sector is bracing for the worse in the coming
weeks amid a forecast that the current dry spell in sections of the island will
continue until April farmers are worried that a crop production will be affected
due to the decline in rainfall in a manner similar to last year president of
the Jamaica agricultural society Leonard Fulton says while most farmers have been
coping with the dry conditions that could change by early next month
and some level of dryness I don't know if it is clear to call it drought as yet
but it is getting very dry along the sand cut wrinkly and parts of Portland
and sent Mary along they they're not course but up in the hills right in guys
Dylan a Ladakh where you are parish potato bill they are getting area here
has their own brownstone Claremont I have been you know only frequent show
are these a shower per week so we are not yet seriously affected by the job
and sent Elizabet itself is having a dry spell and in the sent Elizabeth primo
some salts and a little bit but it'll matter each the proportion Livadia
threaded drought is seriously affecting production if it continues all over for
another two week it will be devastated at the height of last year's dry spell
in July was revealed that nearly six thousand farmers were affected the
Barbados space climate outlook forum recently warned of a long term drought
in the region it's a jamaica would be among the
affected countries the national solid waste management to authority the NS w
ma is reiterate and a call for citizens to properly dispose of their garbage the
call comes amidst concerns raised at agencies annual training session held
recently at the medallion hotel in st. Andrew Operations Director Dennis table
me Aretha MacFarlane explained that
improper garbage disposal especially the disposal of needles poses a health
hazard for sanitation workers we have been hearing a number of concerns from
or COO it ranges from the needles that people are disposing of in the garbage
people are or people are being stopped by needles
we have complaints about people to throw in dog feces in the garbage and just
generally hold people little the areas and another concern are skips people
just show the garbage and when they go to a site to clear that
area it takes them up to two or sometimes three hours in order to clear
the area so they are saying it is taking them too long and they're calling on the
residents of Jamaica to properly containerize their garbage because it
will help with the overall efficiency and the turnaround time for collections
in the meantime is MacFarlane said several training sessions will be
conducted across all four regions to focus on safety the NS table me believes
that the work that our people do it is important that they are trained in
safety they are to observe safety while on the job and we encourage them to
observe off the chavez will a news overseas Japanese authorities have
announced that passengers on board the diamond princess will be allowed to
disembark as long as they have been officially tested negative for the novel
coronavirus although there's still some uncertainties about what else what is to
come those who have been tested recently continue to wait details from the CNN
well more bad news off of this cruise ship docked in the harbor in Yokohama
with the news coming from Japan's Ministry of Health and an additional 88
people have now tested positive for the corona virus that brings the total
number of cases on board to 544 but this news comes just one day before the
process of getting all these passengers off the ship as the quarantine period is
set to end that's gonna begin starting on the 19th let's tell you the details
of what we know about this process so far the Japan's Ministry of Health says
this process will go on the 19th to 20th and the 21st and that's largely based