good afternoon it's Wednesday June 5 I'm Herman green with a midday news special
welcome to those of you watching online at one spot Mediacom there are concerns
this afternoon from the opposition that enough is not being done to address
crime according to the opposition spokesman on national security Fitz
Jackson more money's needed for social programs to reduce crime and violence
across the country TV Jason masters tells us more mayhem and frustration
across sections of Ireland as gunmen continue to wreak havoc it has left many
questioning is the government doing enough to deal with the crime situation
despite various meetings with a number of organizations the results are not
evident the government in 2017 instituted a state of emergency in st.
James which resulted in a decline in murders
however months after the SOE was lifted in January murders increased again
leading to the re-imposition of the SOE in April but the opposition spokesman on
national security Fitz Jackson says the SOE and other security measures are just
band-aid solutions he says the permanent fix is Sushil
intervention look at the level of crime adoption in the central kingston area
with the PM a 70% reduction no state of emergency but that's the president
reduction never took place in one budgetary item allocation it never take
place in any three-month state of emergency in there and that's what makes
it sustainable so we have the tools we don't need to organize and mobilize
towards it are implemented mr. Jackson says if a country is to move forward in
tackling the issue bipartisan support including passing of legislation is
needed compromise that's the other government what is the mentality by this
prime minister that we will pull so we can do it and you describe do it alone
as a result we need what is the kind of one-upmanship that is standing anyway
the Kairos crime forum private sector group church group everybody GU para and
the Prime Minister refused to even put get everybody give a for over one year
know why that kind of immature self-centered can approach it at
Angelica's interest machine masters TPJ news the old Harbor police have released
the identities of the men and woman who were shot and killed in the market on
Market Street in Harbeson Catherine on Tuesday they are 37 year old vendor
Donovan young otherwise called Fargo and 24 year old ocean Moncrief both of old
harbour addresses reports from the police are that the two were at Young's
shop sometime after 2 o'clock in the afternoon when armed men entered and
opened gunfire hitting them both they were taken to a hospital where they were
pronounced dead no motive has been established for the killing the body of
former prime minister Edward Seaga is now lying in state at the Jamaica Labour
Party GOP headquarters on Belmont Road in st. Andrew the proceedings at the GOP
headquarter began this morning at 11 o'clock and will continue until 2
o'clock this afternoon it's the first of several locations where members of the
public would be able to pay their respects Mississauga's body will also be
lying in state in st. James at the Montego Bay Civic Center at Sam Sharpe
square on Wednesday June 7 from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon then at st. John's
Anglican Church in ultra via st. Anne from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday June 10
from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. it would be at the Tivoli Gardens community center
then a denim town community center from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday June 11 the
state funeral for Edward Seaga will be held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral on
North Street in Kingston beginning at 12 noon on Sunday June 23
an urgent call is being made for the public to be on the lookout for signs of
human trafficking within our surroundings the car follows the recent
sentencing of a Clarendon resident asked on Alcock for human trafficking and
sexual exploitation of a 13 year old girl speaking on TV J's smell Jamaica
program and choose them senior prosecutor the Office
of the Director of Public Prosecutions Sharon Millwood more said there has been
a misconception when children are seen in uncommon situations
she says adults tend to willfully be blind when they see some of these
situations the instinctive response of too many of us in society is the person
is bad a bad Shabbat that's why this happened or that's why this was
happening what we need to recognize is that irrespective of what could be a
decision on the part of a child a child cannot consent or anybody for that
matter to be exploited nor can a child consent to being engage in sexual
intercourse she wants parents to be wiser as there is a troubling trend
where women are playing lead roles in the human trafficking of children it's
often even when there is a man at the front we as a society need to recognize
and ask ourselves where we are really heading because many times they're women
who played prominent roles in the organizations and they helped to
befriend and gain the trust of the child in the meantime mrs. Millwood more
stated that investigators are following another angle in the case
he says Alcock was able to gain the trust of a teen who he found at a bus
stop in Denham tone Kingston after offering her food and then he
asked her if he would she would wish to go to Mandeville she accepted his offer
and went to Mandeville eventually the situation was to become one where what
she was made to do was to perform acts of sexual intercourse for the purpose of
entertainment in exotic clubs both in Manchester and in st. Anne she revealed
that participants in the sexual assault of a child are being pursued this recent
conviction is the sixth since the trafficking in persons Act was passed in
2007 and the first conviction since the Act was amended in 2018 following the
announcement by mining minister Robert Montague that no mining is taking place
or planned for in the cockpit country protected area the Jamaica Environment
trust jet is calling for the boundary to be completely verified on the ground
gazetted and declared protected on the Jamaican law according to a release from
the organisation there's nothing to stop mining taking place in the protected
area in 2018 the government of Jamaica had granted a special mining lease turn
around a new day bauxite company which allows bauxite mining in sections of
coppered countries and an ant colony which were left out of a designated
protected area jet also noted that special exclusive protecting licenses
which overlap the designated cockpit country protected Arab boundary in
sections of Manchester st. Elizabeth and st. James are yet to be amended by the
government with that jet says a number of assurances were needed from the
government it says for one greater clarity on where the cockpit country
protected area CCPA boundary lies
so what the government considers to be important versus nothing important what
were these factors that established this bond where is it and why is it fair jet
also says needs a detailed updated timeline for the underground
verification of the CCPA boundary by the forestry department a deadline for when
the CCPA will be declared protected and close to mining on the Jamaican law the
Geo Jays got commitment that no other mining lease or protecting licences will
be granted onto the CCPA has been protected on the law the prosecution's
that will be secured for ecologically sensitive areas of the coffee country
which have been left outside a designated protected area the available
options for coffee country communities which happen to lie outside the CCPA and
do not want bauxite mining in their communities and we take a break here on
the midday news but we'll have more stories right after these messages
welcome back continuing the news Health Minister dr. Christopher Tufton says his
ministry may need to do more to inform people about going to seek medical
attention at clinics this is in response to our highlight on the comprehensive
clinic in Kingston and the harsh conditions patients face while waiting
for the facility to open the minister says while he understands that people
want to get served quickly the administration is not in a position to
give preferential treatment to individuals if you adjust for every
single case then you're going to create chaos there are some rules engaged in
the process I'm not saying we can't revisit those rules but once those rules
are there they're do that here for a particular purpose and again in this
particular circumstances there are security concerns and frankly speaking I
don't think the security guard has the response of the authority to open up the
health center to allow somebody in and it would be unfair to ask them to do
that frankly speaking the Kingston and santan German Isabel Corporation KS AMC
says soon it will be better able to help more homeless people transition back
into society the issue was addressed by local government minister Desmond
McKenzie in Parliament recently may of Kingston general Williams says it's now
closer to reality as a new transitional Center is to be built over the next 18
months this in addition to the Murrey Atkins night shelter on Hanover Street
in Kingston so it's about 80 to 120 persons the Murray Atkins and here it
will be approximately 100 persons so there will be a section for for meals
and and another for females the total in 100 of course that is would not stop so
that is for persons who are residing or sleeping here if that would not stop
other homeless persons from coming in during the day days and having a metre
or show the transition Center is to be built on King Street in Kingston
construction is to begin October this year with an
anticipated completion date of october
2024 Mazar being urged to get with the times and using more modern technology
in the going of their produce the call comes from mining Minister Robert
Montague at a recent function in st. Anne titled
mining meets agriculture with green technology you can have a fire the
business and what we are finding is that within the green OHS process purses of
targets consular agents and they're surpassing the targets
there is a 30,000 pound target for green roses and our people for tomatoes and a
50,000 pound target for sweet peppers and in almost all the clusters they are
surpassing the targets the days of farmers riding a donkey on a mule is
poor because the farmers in the clusters are no menticles
and he also noted the need for new methods of farming such as hydro is
another putting fish so you're growing the fish and you're going the vegetables
so that you'll have a complete meal you have the protein from the fish and here
now is a preview of what's coming up in this evening's health report in the next
edition of the health report we look at the importance of ensuring your water is
safe for consumption will affect you people having sanitation and if there's
not proper sanitation then you can do you won't be able to wash your food
properly to prepare food properly clean your utensils and all that properly and
so you can have disease spreading as a result of that that's the Health Report
this evening in primetime news and now for today's healthy living tip
the following are the common ways to purify your water boiling this is a
reliable way to purify water use chlorine drops chlorine has the ability
to kill bacteria in water use water filter and use ultraviolet light we gone
on to news overseas in the United States the police have arrested the school
resource officer who was on duty during the Parkland School massacre last year
17 people died at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting no Scott
Peterson faces charges for his response during the incident we have more from
the CNN on February 14th 2018 as a gunman killed students and staff inside
a parkland Florida high school Scott Peterson was outside behind stairwell
the Broward County deputy assigned to protect the students at the school had
his gun drawn and wore his bulletproof vest but he stood shielded away from the
gunfire he stood there for some 45 48 minutes and did nothing 17 people died
in the attack he needs to go to jail and he needs to serve a lifetime in prison
for not going in that day and taking down the threat and that led to the
death of our loved ones more than 15 months after the shooting Peterson was
arrested by the deputies from the department he used to serve we swear
know to protect the public that we serve if you don't do your job you will be
held accountable Peterson faces 11 counts including
felony child neglect negligence and perjury
his attorney vows to fight the charges which he calls politically motivated
retribution parkland parents say the developments
are bittersweet we miss our children every day there's nothing that's gonna
bring them back and we know that but just hurt so much and I know that
whatever can be leaked comes our way does it bring back we go down to news in
sports swim coach Rory alvarenga says he's willing to take his recent
disciplinary case with the aquatic sports association of Jamaica to the
highest level as there seems to still be clouds over the status of his suspension
in a story card on TV jet sports this morning
Aasha president martin lin noted that Alvarenga suspension was reduced as
opposed to being lifted now aaj president martin Lin speaking in prime
times was speaking prime time sports on Tuesday however Alvarenga who's
allegedly or rather who allegedly struct his stroke his teenage daughter while
they were in China participated in an exchange program last summer is
concerned about the president's comment the letter dated May 29 sent to
Alvarenga by the air CJ which TV Jays Sports has obtained stated quote as a
result of undertakings requested by the ministry to protect Jamaica China
relationship the conditions of the sanction are now lifted end quote when
we try to get a response from mr. Lin this morning we were told he was in a
meeting and that's the midday news I'm Herman green please join us at 7:00 for
the prime time news package on behalf of the new sports and production teams good
afternoon