AN AFFRONT TO PEOPLE’S INTELLECT:

The long await­ed and much over-due report on the Tivoli Grades oper­a­tion has final­ly been tabled in the Jamaican Parliament. This report was long await­ed but for rea­sons unknown to us has being delayed time and again.

Earl Witter: Public defender.

This is the biggest task that Public Defender Earl Witter has been giv­en since this new Agency was cre­at­ed. That office was allo­cat­ed $76.098-million as against $76.56 mil­lion last year.
We have long main­tained that this office is a colos­sal waste of mon­ey, it is a dupli­ca­tion of efforts, mon­ey squan­dered in this ven­ture could be bet­ter spent updat­ing the office of Director of Public Prosecution.

In plain Jamaican ver­nac­u­lar, it is a (eat a food posi­tion), it was cre­at­ed to give jobs to polit­i­cal hacks who can­not cut it in the real world. The Ministry of Justice ought to look to dis­pens­ing jus­tice on behalf of the Jamaican peo­ple, not anoth­er body.

Earl Witter is a long time crim­i­nal defense attor­ney, he has been mediocre at best through­out his car­rear, he has been tasked with run­ning this new Agency. The demand for a com­mis­sion of inquiry into what hap­pened in Tivoli Gardens by Jamaica’s pre­ten­tious Elitists in 2010 fell to Witter’s office.

For the record he was asked to inves­ti­gate in a fair and dis­pas­sion­ate way, what occurred in the Garrison West Kingston com­mu­ni­ty of Tivoli Gardens in 2010. Tivoli Gardens is the for­mer strong-hold of reput­ed con­vict­ed Gun ‑run­ning drug deal­er Christopher Coke who is doing time in a Florida Federal facility.

Of course, Witter has long held anti police views, he has know­ing­ly asso­ci­at­ed him­self with known anti-police antag­o­nist and crim­i­nal-rights group (JFJ) head, Carolyn Gomes.

Witter shares the view, as does Gomes,that all instances of police shoot­ings are ille­git­i­mate, because not enough Jamaican cops are get­ting killed.

One can­not make these things up, these are facts hap­pen­ing in Jamaica. Many peo­ple naive­ly believe that Jamaica is a par­adise Island nation, con­form­ing with International stan­dards, mov­ing for­ward as a devel­op­ing nation behold­ing to the rule of law.

I have not read the report in a com­pre­hen­sive way, most of what’s con­tained in it from my cur­so­ry glance could have been gleaned from any man on the streets. Apart from instances of legalese jar­gon it’s noth­ing more than a run­ning nar­ra­tive of what happened,opinions, and con­jec­ture, and some imper­ti­nent false­hoods and assumptions.

This report will do noth­ing to alle­vi­ate any ill which may have occurred, real or pre­cieved. It glo­ri­fies and gives rev­er­ence to degen­er­ate gun­men and trans-nation­al crim­i­nals, rather than expound on the virtues of adher­ing to and build­ing on a foun­da­tion of the rule of law.

THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE DID NOT NEED THIS REPORT, IT DOES NOTHING TO MOVE THE DEBATE FORWARD, IT DOES NOTHING BUT CREATE VICTIM-HOOD IN THE MINDS OF SOME, WHO ARE NOW DEMANDING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN COMPENSATION. IN OTHER WORDS EXTORTION.