good afternoon I am Andrea Chism with the midday news for this Tuesday January
21 a special welcome if you're watching on one spot media.com the parliamentary
opposition has signaled that it intends to table a censure motion in the House
of Representatives against House Speaker Pernell Charles for his handling of the
Auditor General's report on the CMU the Caribbean maritime University CMU has
been at the center of several financial and procurement breaches Member of
Parliament for Saint Andrew South Eastern Julian Robinson says mr. Charles
misled the house last week about reasons for not tabling the report he says that
was a breach of a parliamentary procedure this become misled the house
by indicating that he did not have a report from the Auditor General which
was in fact in his possession and it's very important that we treated letter
seriously the Auditor General is a constitutional position the speaker is
obliged once he receives our portátil it immediately and we had a cleanness where
the report was delivered late December to their host and the speaker intimated
that he didn't have the report thereby mislead in the house now you cannot have
a case where a political representative can have a veto or block a report of a
Auditor General I regard the actions of the churches are extremely grave and
unfortunate and as such I am feeling a sense of motion against it
consumer optimism remains high that's according to the latest JCC business and
consumer confidence report it reveals that business conditions and future job
expectations are the contributing factors for the boost in consumer
optimism approximately 42% of participants in the survey indicated
that they expect to get better jobs in the future at the same time 39% of
participants indicated that business conditions will get better according to
the report consumers have strong confidence in the economy as more
persons are finding jobs particularly in the construction sector 600
residential consumers participated in the consumer confidence survey with the
statin reporting and decline in the country's unemployment rate economists
and opposition senator dr. Andre Horton says there might be trouble if that data
does not filter into other economic results TV J's or Shane masters explains
on Friday study released reports were sure to Jamaica's unemployment rate
dropped to 7.2% as at October 2019 this is 1.5 percentage points lower than it
was at this time last year that means 29,200 more people were
employed in October last year when compared to October 2018 but for
economists and opposition senator dr. Andre Horton the reduction in the
unemployment rate is not being reflected in other economic indicators such as the
country's gross domestic product GDP he says this is cause for concern
especially for the government when you look at the broader economy and your
zero and I start the blocks it you're meticulously scrutinize the numbers you
realize that most employment is really lower level unskilled jobs
criticisms also for statin based on their method of gaining data for the
unemployment figures dr. Horne believes statins method of serving persons who
have worked for a week is flawed and should be revisited in my opinion if you
were to classify somebody as being employed this somebody would have to be
on a kind of shock after the permanent employee
I saw honest I really like the work that's nothing is doing I don't want to
crush them but at the same time we have to think carefully what is our objective
as a country is our objective to report I saluted numbers just to look good
because we want to say okay employment is this and that just for 40 papers or
is our objective to provide real work real employment for people who have
suffered and has been through so much when asked if his viewpoint was
political as this method have been used by statin for decades he gave this
response this is the reason I entered politics because a lot of things that
have been done in the past have not been done in the benefit of the country and
the benefit of Jamaica if this is the measure that we are employing and we are
saying that peace employment should be supplied is defined as fever dr. Horne
was speaking on power 106 morning agenda on Tuesday Oh shade masters TVJ news the
Jamaica Teachers Association JTA has added its voice to the call to stem the
dengue crisis for the JTA president in addition to impacting communities and
the health sector the education sector is also being affected the fight to stop
the spread of dengue continues the Health Ministry outlined the related
statistics noting that health care facilities are being impacted by the
increasing number of cases president of the Jamaica Teachers Association JTA oh
and speed has allotted the government's January 24 to 26 cleanup project as a
great initiative as he says several schools have lost students because of
dengue it is not a good thing that we are having so many of our children and
in fact we have had our adults dying from dengue as well he did not give
details on the numbers from each school but note that each fatality has a ripple
effect on the schools and others around it puts a strain on us at school because
we don't have the necessary manpower sometimes the human resources are
lacking in the schools and when children lose their siblings and they come to
school we have that to deal with we have to be we have to be the counselors for
these children and out of that it just puts a lot of pressure on the system
last week the Health Ministry announced that on January 24 the national cleanup
will focus on schools and businesses on the 25th the focus will be on towns and
communities while on Sunday January 26 it will be on households mister speed
has added his voice to that of the Health
Ministry with this plea to residents to clean up their surroundings and to get
rid of those instruments that may help to breed mosquitoes because that is the
cause of this this whole episode that we are facing and as far as I am concerned
it is going on too long and it's time for a break but stay with us here on the
midday news we have more stories right after these messages
welcome back and we're continuing the news relatives and friends of two
brothers who died in Sunday's motor vehicle accident in Falmouth Trelawny
are still trying to come to grips with their loss 34 year old Omar Russell and
31 year old um Roy Russell from Portland were among four persons killed when a
car collided with a tour bus TVJ springs more reports tragedy as the reality
sunken for the family and friends of Portland brothers who lived in
free-school Port Antonio they say they will be greatly missed the mother of the
men expressed great sadness in losing her son's but said she is trying to
remain strong
what tears everything I'm just trying to be strong just put
what so insane their father Fitzroy Russell said he had a good relationship
with his sons my god I got are this way for them to live for them to okay and
everything all right with them they said a loving humble I teach them to have
love humble manners to people I may always tell him say - Karim to the world
world and our eyes will I don't leave nothing I will show them the right we're
that they can live right there is a good a - would you Gandhi Omar and um Roy are
the only sons for their parents aunt Patricia Russell Brown described the men
as loving and humble there are so I can explain about those two and never
requiring they never fight the the parents didn't just go in are we away oh
my god they are gonna be miss I love my two Navy
meanwhile the assistant manager at CC bakery in Port Antonio where the two men
worked described them as hard-working Omar Russell and Omar said I've been
working here for a long time very outstanding hard-working young man and
I'm not irregular young - upon the words drinks were hard-working sad that you
missed on this one and our staff member in mourning Arlen winner is here four
men including the two brothers died in the crash one of the three persons
hospitalized is a female Canadian tourist it's understood that the men
were taking her from Portland where she was on vacation - thus answer
International Airport the driver of the car
overtook a line of traffic and collided with the coach which was coming in the
opposite direction Prince more TVJ news US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is
expected to arrive in the island today but CARICOM leaders continue to express
concerns Trinidad and Tobago says it supports barbarous disposition not to
send a representative to the meeting with the US Secretary of State in
Kingston in a statement yesterday Trinidad's Prime Minister dr. Keith
Rowley said the CARICOM Chairman and Barbados prime minister Mia motley has
his country's backing dr. Aldus says he believes in the principles and visions
of Caribbean unity on Sunday miss motley said that as CARICOM chairman she will
not agree to send her Foreign Affairs Minister to Jamaica to meet with Pompeo
when some members of the CARICOM were not invited she described the move as an
attempt to divide the CARICOM region an unidentified man died after he was hit
by a jamaica urban transit company J UTC bus near Marist Memorial Gardens in st.
Catharines Sunday afternoon an alleged eyewitness said the man jumped onto the
side of a moving trailer as the trailer passed the bus I I just wanted upon the
chalk independence era choked on the JATC I come up I get up go down and then
no no J geez now come open da door and upon inside I am now come upon sure the
boss's row being together in between you and him squeeze at him Joppa and jump
back are the boss so probably took over my boss so I choke
we want him go find him get crush in news overseas the impeachment trial for
US president Donald Trump began in the Senate on Tuesday but what can we expect
for that we joined the CNN after days of previewing their cases in back-and-forth
filings the house impeachment managers and president Trump's legal team set to
take the Senate floor Tuesday will open in earnest just the
third presidential impeachment trial in the history of the US and the first in
more than 20 years this is going to be a complex trial with a lot of issues
president Trump Monday night left the White House and Washington for the World
Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland before house managers and
the president's legal team offer opening arguments Tuesday will bring a debate
and a vote on the trial rules proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell McConnell's plan allows the two sides 24 hours each to make their
opening arguments in two 12-hour sessions that could stretch into
late-night hours given the trials 1 p.m. start time each day it also puts off the
question of witnesses until after those opening arguments Senate Democratic
leader Chuck Schumer blasting the plan on something as important and serious as
impeachment Senator McConnell's resolution is a national disgrace to
call any witnesses Democrats would have to sway at least four Republicans to
vote with them for a majority the White House praised McConnell's proposal
saying it protects the president's right to a fair trial and in sports the office
of the children's advocate is reporting an increase in instances of child abuse
in school sports more parents and guardians are however pushing for
justice on behalf of their children TV J's karen nyberg reports in an exclusive
interview with TV jays sports children's advocate diane gordon harrison revealed
that over the three-year period 2017 to 2019 there has been an increase in
incidence according to her four cases were reported in 2017 seven cases in
2018 and twelve in 2019 accusing coaches and sports managers of a gamut of abuses
when we talk about acts of violence we're talking about physical violence
which would be the beatings and so on we're talking about sexual violence and
of course there is emotional violence where there's no physical contact that
is made but the kind of contact one is inappropriate and tends to vitiate they
against the well-being of the child's emotional or psychological state she
also revealed a worrying trend we saw for instance that the vast number of
cases were sexual offense matters in which we had all sorts of propositions
photographs of body parts requests for certain things to be done in terms of
sexual favors of the full gamut really coming into the mean as part of the
focus in fact if a me refer to my notes we saw that thirteen of the reports are
of a sexual nature Gordon Harrison gave details of some of
the cases another seven were physical abuse in the form of beatings and then
we had two forms of negligence and also there was one emotional where the child