good afternoon it's monday november 30. i'm giovanni dennis with the midday news
special welcome if you're watching online at onespotmedia.com there's more trouble
in the people's national party as vice president damian crawford unleashed a series of criticisms
against saint anne southeast member of parliament lisa hana and the party president mark golding
this in a series of leaked conversation being circulated online shimla pulling has the details
a leaked voice note that has been circulating on social media with pnp's vice president damian
crawford criticizing pnp president mark golding and saint and southeast member of parliament
lisa hanna may open up a can of worms for the party in the 23-minute long voice note mr
crawford said mr golden's presidency will only be fitting for the next two years i mean mark is the
most ready for the next two weeks but next time it's not the next two years i will change again
yeah that's the unfortunate reality we have here we can nobody can come to your time come say home
already no no no but where i never got from them he says mr golding is very capable of leading the
party however the people's opinions are different cavalry is that something i'm calling really
one one one of four hundred one one one two two hundred and the next one one or eight countries
if you put four hundred man from the 800 they're definitely not gonna make it enough
mark is a very good 400 meter runner very capable etc but the people are up the opinion
so we need an angel as a result he believes the party could have a hard time winning the
local government election especially because according to him the pnp president may have
fall here to peter bunting's enemies the problem is that all i want dmv i say yo we're not going
back you understand all of that animosity in their mind so much unfortunately inaudible
enemy the pnp vp adds that he's the most committed to the party's ideology and then went on to
downplay lisa hannah's popularity miss hannah lost the pnp presidential election following
her defeat from the vice presidential bid i am the most committed to the ideological party the most
and when people say lisa popular she has never gotten the trial immediately come out on pmpd
she has never gotten the other reason i'm gonna get when me not irregular people never
listen i get to cheer with dave and gamble get winning reach out on png
for how that population has transitioned to anything else shameless tvg news
in the meantime the people's national party is insisting it's ready to start its preparations
for the next local government election this after the party elected a new chairman and general
secretary on sunday during its national executive council meeting at jamaica college in santandro
details in this report on sunday dr dayton campbell was elected general secretary for the
people's national party and already he has plans to organize the party and prepare it for election
dr campbell believes he can make the party winner before the next election
the local government election was postponed until 2022 which dr camber believes means the
pnp has one year to get its act together before facing the electorate under its new leadership
the first order of this is to go to the hq and meet with the staff there and to ensure you know
that we start moving the party forward uh there are some imperatives organization and imperatives
that we have to get on some of these things we can't discuss in the media obviously things are
on enumeration and canvassing and you don't know training programs and those things so there's a
lot of work to be done but uh i have a manifesto that i had shared with the comrades and those are
things that we're committed to achieving we also have a work program uh for the the party leader we
have to make preparations for the local government election that is coming up meanwhile the pnp's new
chairman phillip paul well says he will relinquish the post of vice president of the party speaking
with our news center sunday night mr polwell said this will be done shortly now that i have been
elected chairman of the party i want to devote my attention to the role as chairman of the party so
shortly i will vacate the position of vice president obviously i have to be in discussion
with the party leader on the timing of that but i believe that it is only reasonable that
another comrades occupy this position both dr campbell and mr palwell were elected during
the party's national executive council meeting nec at jamaica college on sunday
286 of 336 members of the nec participated in the election process dr camera went up against
the former deputy general secretary raymond price and one with 147 votes that's nine more than his
opponent while mr paul well gained 153 votes defeating his sole challenger dr angela brown
burke who received 133 votes shamala polan tvj news an 87 year old woman from westmoreland is
the latest to die from kovid 19 in jamaica the country's death toll has now increased to 257.
the health minister says one more death is being investigated meanwhile 54 new covid19 cases are
recorded in jamaica sunday pushing the total to 10 763 their ages range from 12 to 83 years old
kingston and saint andrew recorded the most of the new cases the ministry of health says 70
persons are hospitalized with the respiratory illness nine patients are critically ill
in the meantime local government minister desmond mckenzie says the wholeness administration is
moving to institute stiffer penalties for illegal parties he says the details will be announced soon
mr mckenzie's pronouncement comes against the background of continued floating of kovite 19
rules with one person being shot at an illegal party in port morris and catherine saturday
night
what this is saying to us that there can be no consideration for any activities in that form
for the christmas you know the government has to be firm on the position that you have taken
the debt update of the individual at an illegal party in port more is a clear clear indication
of the content and the disregard for for law and order which i think we are going to have to take
some serious steps you know and and in the coming weeks you know more will be said and some of the
measures that will be taken as the festive season approaches the trelawney police have
stepped up surveillance in areas where there will be heightened commercial activities commanding
officer superintendent kirk ricketts says despite seeing a reduction in some criminal offenses
things can change during the yuletide season he says the police will not be taking any chances
as it relates to robberies we are looking at a
53 percent reduction we're looking at reductions in in break-ins which is i think uh 45 reduction
in break-ins and at 25 reduction in last night so um nevertheless we are prepared for increased
activity you know pedestrian vehicle uh you know activity within the commercial spaces
uh we have um the the strategies that that and and tactics that would have worked for us last year
and with covet 19 a major issue superintendent ricketts says they have all the resources in place
to carry out their duties effectively he added that while persons in trelloni have been
largely compliant with the kovid-19 protocols there are those who still disobey the orders
however as the as the the the restrictions prolong over time we have seen where you know some amount
of frustrations uh on the part of the citizens the residents would have led them to from time to time
breach these restrictions uh since march this year we have we have made over 118 arrests for
for breaches of the disaster risk management act but i am i am relatively comfortable and we now
take a break here on the midday news please stay with us we'll have more stories when we return
welcome back and we're continuing the news a deal has reportedly been agreed between
britain's home office and jamaica to exclude people who went to the uk as children from
a controversial deportation flight to the island this week jamaica's high commissioner
to the uk seth romicon told britain's guardian newspaper that this followed diplomatic overtures
prince moore has the details the news comes after 82 black public figures
including modern naomi campbell urged airlines not to carry up to 50 jamaicans on the home office
deportation flight mr ramakhan says jamaica's high commission made representations to the home
office ahead of the december 2 charter flight and an agreement reached not to deport those
who arrived in britain under the age of 12. the home office has declined to comment home office
charter flights are a common way to remove those classified as having no right to remain in the uk
including due to serious criminal convictions the last chart of flight to jamaica was in february
charter flights to jamaica are particularly controversial because of the wind rush scandal
and because some due for deportation went to the uk as children and had families there in 2018 a
home office commissioned report from the former prisons and probation ombudsman steve shaw called
for a new approach to the policy of detaining and removing people who had committed crimes
but lived most of their lives in britain according to the guardian newspaper the home office has not
implemented the recommendation prince moore tvj news the driver of the car involved in
sunday's crash which resulted in the death of eighteen-year-old taj millard has been arrested
and charged he has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving he is to appear in the
mandava resident magistrates court next wednesday his name has not been released now according to
reports shortly after 12 sunday afternoon taje was heading home on his bike when a car believed
to have been overtaking a line of traffic heading in the same direction hit the teen from his bike
the young biker was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead the teen's irate grandfather
everton morrison said he wants justice for his grandson the grandson does live down the road
meanwhile head of the manchester police superintendent gary francis says although that
corridor is regularly patrolled he's appealing to motorists we'll use it with care highway patrol
along this stretch and we will actually step over monitoring given what is happening just now but we
do you know express our condolences to the family just now that are grieving and we want to assure
them that we can will investigate the accident and whomever is at fault justice will be served
and over in saint mary a man is dead following a motorcycle accident on back road in highgate
over the weekend the deceased has been identified as 48 year old glennor brighton a videographer of
highgate of an of a highgate address about 10 o'clock saturday night brighton was driving his
motorbike along back road when he was hit by a toyota pro box all right i stopped to buy some
goods from this fruit place here and while in the process of doing that i heard an impact
and when i looked across the road i saw a manual bike and like it got out
of control and i was going across the road and then a car coming from up the road here
the man was taken to the port maria hospital where he later died
poor weather and body roads have been the main challenges facing farmers recently but for those
who sow crops at holland estate in saint elizabeth there's another concern the invasion of cattle
cattle roaming freely on holland estate farms this is the plight of farmers in the area who say their
crops are being trampled on by the animals hundreds and hundreds of coals just you know
what the property day and night and damaged the farmers crop
the extent of which is not able to be recovered you put in two acres of a particular crop
and because of the coal they lose the entire thing and then some farmers are forced to to use
barbed wire to fence the property are you talking about fencing in some instances
nine ten acres of land the farmers who refused to speak with our news team on camera say the issue
is deeper than it seems as there's a rift between cattle and crop farmers the farmers really the
co-farmers really don't care because they don't want the farmers who are doing crop production to
to certainly underland they want to learn the property for themselves and it's no causing a
problem a rift between the crop farmers and the cattle farmers to the extent where persons have
been being threatened life has been threatened they complain that the issue is costing them a
lot of money which cannot be recouped there is no compensation from the previous establishment who
has given it up now to um to aic it was highland producers before i know aic and the problem with
the codes has gotten even worse since aic has taken time and even as cattle continue to roam
freely on the lands destroying their livelihoods the farmers are appealing for a solution
the agriculture sector needs to do better and the stakeholders who provide land tenure they
need to provide better solutions for the farmers prince moore tvj news in news overseas the united
states is closing in on a potential vaccine for kovite 19 but a number of critical decisions on
the matter are set to happen between now and the end of the year more from the cnn monday november
30th is when white house coronavirus response coordinator dr debra burke says she hopes to
brief president-elect joe biden's administration on america's response to the pandemic it'll be
critical to moving forward we've spent the last nine months really developing sophisticated
databases that are bringing together information from across the count across the country down to
the county level we can see who's being admitted we can see who's getting sick we can see where
this virus is moving in communities then tuesday december 1st the cdc's advisory committee on
vaccines will hold an emergency meeting rick breit a biden covid 19 advisory board member
says it's a good sign they will have further discussions on how to prioritize that vaccine
primarily because we know that the vaccine will be available in very limited doses on december
10 an fda vaccine advisory committee will consider pfizer's vaccine for emergency use authorization
news in sports now persistent rain has resulted in a new result in the third t20 international
between the west indies and new zealand at the bay oval today the caribbean side batting first
reached 25 for 1 after 2.2 overs before the rain came jamaican brandon king who was the
only wicket to fall as he departed for 11. andre fletcher and kyle meyers were left unbeaten on 4
and 5 respectively lockheed ferguson took one for 13 of his one over for the home side
now new zealand won the three match t20 series tunnel the visitors will now turn
their attention to a two match test series with the first begin beginning on december 3
in hamilton and that's the midday news i'm giovanni dennis join us at 7 for primetime news
on behalf of the news sports and production teams have a good afternoon
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