good afternoon I am Andrea Chism with the midday news a special welcome if
you're watching on one spots media.com the Jamaica Defence Force JDF is
investigating reports that members of a joint police military team were
responsible for yesterday's fatal shooting of a disabled woman in August
on Saint Andrew 44 year-old Susan Bogle of Bryce Hill Road was allegedly shot
inside her home by a solider Member of Parliament for Saint Andrew east fable
Williams said residents are angry about the killing because you would have
expected this to happen - of course shock you know everybody was shocked
there didn't happen and questions and demanding answers as to what happened
the Independent Commission of Investigations Indicom says it has
already collected statements from family members and members of the security
forces we responded to the scene and began our investigation we have spoken
to residents family members and also members of the security forces were
involved today the team has returned to the scene to conduct further
investigation including a forensic reconstruction of the scene - including
that the home of the deceased this reconstruction will assist us in when
our search to determine how she died and by whom we will also send the weapons
from the security forces for ballistics testing and we will know more also what
the post-mortem examination has been conducted emotions boiled over in
Clarendon yesterday as residents took to the streets to
demanded justice for a man who died reportedly at the hands of the police
more from Dwayne Anderson the security forces in Clarendon were kept busy for
most of Wednesday morning removing debris from the roadway residents of
Havana Heights staged a demonstration for the killing of one of their order
reportedly at the hands of the police
union tarantella fuckin ass burn through we otherwise can believe him to die
knowing that residents view aside the circumstances surrounding the incident
are not immediately clear the police have oliver confirmed that a
service unit assigned to the client and police was involved in the crash that
led to the young man's death the Independent Commission of investigations
in Lacombe has been made aware of the incident and is looking into the matter
the latter is good news for residents as they do not want any cover-up they are
demanding that all the officers who were assigned to a silver Toyota Hilux from
the client and police on Labor Day be questioned in relation to Tyrone Taylor
for residents and relatives the young man's death is even harder to take
because of what they say was the nonchalance of the police in taking the
young man to hospital after he was struck from his motorcycle the residents
who claim to have knowledge of the incident say the police were more
concerned about seizing the motorcycle after the crash
you got the security forces managed to restore order to the area with traffic
eventually finding smooth passage doing Anderson TVJ news Parliament is now set
to debate the report which recommended changes to the Indicom Act to give
Indicom the power to arrest and prosecute members of the security forces
Justice Minister Delroy chalk on Wednesday table the motion be it
resolved that this house of representatives II agreed to consider
the report in light of the recent pivot cons the decision and the institutional
strengthening of the OU DPP with a view to adopt such recommendations in the
report as it sees fit and B adopt such measures to strengthen in the calm and
its investigative capabilities earlier this month the Privy Council ruled that
the independent commission of investigations Indicom has no
jurisdiction to arrest or prosecutor members of the Jamaica Constabulary
force as part of its investigation into an incident the court determined that in
the comms powers are limited to investigation in the comm Commissioner
Terrence Williams later called for the recommendations of the parliamentary
committee to be urgently implemented the pediatric Association of Jamaica is
reporting an approximately 70% increase in cases of child sex abuse in Jamaica
during The Cove in nineteen pandemic Jamaica's first case of the virus was
reported on March 10 pediatrician dr. Curtis price says the increase is mostly
against girls 3 to 12 years children in abuse well physically you know sexually
and otherwise but we have noticed for the past actually quite recent
you know in the number of cases of sexual abuse you know especially young
girls coming in and being molested by adult men you know 40 species the girls
are between the ages of 3 and 12 and you know it has been very concerning or very
concerning to us pediatrician dr. price says the increase in cases was expected
you know the trend because we know you know yunus-bek and other organization
have documented clearly that during periods of lockdown when you have you
know hurricanes floods and that sort of thing and with the absurd in you know in
this as teachers and students prepared to return to the classroom more concerns
about occupational health and safety during the COBE 19 pandemic issues were
raised in this morning's zoom meeting hosted by the Jamaica Teachers
Association president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association Anil grant
said urgent adjustments are needed before teachers return to school work in
classrooms that are not safe um you are you have teacher-student ratios that are
not ideal you have various rules and regulations about how you work where you
work that are not ideal and so we have to look at all of these in terms of
health and safety and how it is that occupational safety and health bill is
now going to address the risks that we face
educators are apprehensive about returning to the classroom on June 8th
to prepare students for cxe exams start in July schools are scheduled to be
physically we'll opened in September and it's time for break here on the midday
news but stay with us we have much more stories right after these messages
welcome back and we're continuing the news prime minister Andrew Holness says
the kovat 19 pandemic has provided an opportunity for the global community to
respond in a more strategic and comprehensive manner to the needs of
developing countries mr. Holness was speaking at a virtual
high-level meeting this morning hosted by the United Nations to address
critical issues relating to the economy this pandemic has demonstrated that
every country and every citizen is vulnerable to build economic and social
resilience we must rethink the traditional indices of vulnerability I
anticipate that the work stream on recovering better for sustainability
will explore this critical area and put forward recommendations that incorporate
agenda 2030 the SDG is the Paris climate Accord and the Addis Ababa
action agenda excellencies together we showed a tremendous responsibility for
effective action in the face of this global challenge this crisis represents
a unique opportunity to remedy socio-economic disparities we have a
duty to ourselves and succeeding generations to put in place a bold
innovative and resilient system to address the profound structural issues
that impact our economies and our people the planning institute of jamaica Pio J
is reporting that the electricity and water supply sector has recorded an
estimated growth of 2.1 percent in the March quarter Pio je director-general
dr. Wayne Henry says the growth is due to increased consumption details in this
report the planning Institute of Jamaica the Pio Chi has started an assessment of
the total losses nationally due to the covert 19 pandemic Pio je
director-general dr. Wayne Henry says it's been done using the damage and loss
assessment and the post disaster needs assessment methodologies a comprehensive
quantification and description of total damage and losses will
undertaken to determine the impact of kovat 19 on the economy and society to
inform the government's policy or program interventions during the
recovery phase so far the core team has been activated and data collection
instruments have been disseminated and reviewed the monitoring and collection
of baseline data is already in process so far the assessment has revealed that
the Cova 19 pandemic has affected electricity and water consumption
according to data collected for April 20 2011 sumption fell by 6 percent this is
due to lower electricity sales in all categories except residential that
segment of the market grew by 15.2% this is partially attributed to the
implementation of the daily curfew work from home and tanah yard initiatives
during the period all other customer categories recorded contractions in
seals ranging from negative 11.1% the negative 45.7%
this altern is expected to continue until these initiatives have ended
meanwhile data for last month indicates that water consumption increased by 5.8
percent dr. Henry explains that this performance can be attributed to a
general increase in the use of water for sanitization purposes as well as the
stair to important call thus increasing residential consumption Nelson Walker
TVJ news the parliamentary opposition is again taking issue with the prolonged
use of states of emergency to fight crime
opposition spokesman on national security Fitz Jackson again raised the
issue in Parliament on Wednesday you're having more murders no than those that
are we don't need of emergency he also indicated that a number of persons are
being stigmatized young men across this country in the areas where
states of emergency have been declared and who have been detained minut amount
of those detained have been charged for any crime whatsoever a minut amount but
what has happened these thousands of persons have no been stigmatized because
yet and in sports the Premier League season is set to restart on June 17 with
Aston Villa taking on Sheffield United and Manchester City facing Arsenal the
matches are the two games in hand a full fixture list would then be played on the
weekend of June 19 to 21 clubs are still discussing the idea at a meeting on
Thursday but it's understood all have a green in principle at this stage there
are 92 fixture still to play the Premier League was suspended on March 13 because
of the Cova 19 pandemic it will be 100 days after Leicester city's Fornell win
over Aston Villa on March 9 that competition will resume games will now
be behind closed doors on Wednesday clubs unanimously voted to resume
contact tracing having started non-contact training last week rageh boy
German inch looks set to be the second Jamaican international after Leon Bailey
to return to competitive action as measures continue to ease in football
leagues across the globe the 29 year old who plays for Thank You anine will play
in the quarterfinals of the Vietnamese Cup on Saturday against Nam Hunnam
everything yeah monkey ah wait for Bremen you know
in the old for so long no League you really see oh boy I really love to give
you know so we just basically can't wait to get back out here and get the chance
again to do what I love the most in one that is free non operculum start again
scored
Lynch has scored two goals in as many games in the 2020 season as the
Vietnamese Cup takes center stage this weekend the v1 League is expected to
resume on June 6 this week Meramec to leading up to the first game you know so
everything was good before Apple pull up another not a practice skill after ball
80 - wasn't anything serious you know that's like I'm not a student name book
nerd unless one we can you know I'm bucking training sir and that's it for
the midday news I'm Andrea Chisholm join us at 7:00 for the prime time news
package on behalf of the news sports and production teams good afternoon