Jamaica’s Criminal Loving Judges:

On July 14th of this year this web­site was born, con­trary to con­ven­tion­al wis­dom I launched with­out an appre­cia­ble vol­ume of con­tent as would have been the pru­dent thing to do, the rea­son I could­n’t wait for con­tent was an issue that enraged a lot of peo­ple, the killing of Young Khajeel Mais. I wrote my first blog then and titled it

JAMAICAN POLICE STILL HAS NOT RELEASED NAME OF SUSPECT.

 Khajeel Mais
Khajeel Mais

Readers may go back and read that vir­gin blog , but I would like to tell you about this young man whom I nev­er met ‚but whose death unearthed some­thing inside of me.

17 years old school-boy Khajeel Mais was killed in an appar­ent case of road rage gone ter­ri­bly wrong .
Young Mais, an inno­cent vic­tim rid­ing in the back of a Cab to a fête at a high School, became the vic­tim of a ter­ri­ble case of road rage, when the cab in which he was a pas­sen­ger alleged­ly ran into the back of a BMW-x6 sport util­i­ty vehicle.
Its is alleged that the dri­ver of the sport util­i­ty vehi­cle emerged from the vehi­cle fir­ing at the cab, the cab dri­ver it is report­ed turned his cab around and head­ed in the oppo­site direc­tion ‚with the x6 dri­ver still fir­ing. The cab dri­ver lat­er dis­cov­ered that young Khajeel was killed shot through the head.

Without rehash­ing the sto­ry, the killer was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Patrick Powell a busi­ness-man with a lot of influence,Mister Powell had tak­en off to the United States after the shoot­ing, Police, des­per­ate for his return to the Island arrest­ed his son on an out­stand­ing war­rant for what we were told was a felony wound­ing , the vic­tim is report­ed­ly now a crip­ple after the assault by the junior Powell. The rea­son he was not arrest­ed before is open to your spec­u­la­tion and as such I will not bela­bor that point here. Patrick Powell returned to Jamaica after a series of con­sul­ta­tions with Jamaican pow­er­house lawyer, Patrick Atkinson who rep­re­sents him.

Fast for­ward to November 10th 2011:

Patrick Powell was offered bail by Supreme Court Justice Carole Beswick. Beswick is a part of the Jamaican Judges hall of shame two days ago we fea­tured anoth­er of the crim­i­nal cod­dling judges that are called his/​her lord­ship. Powell remains in cus­tody as the pros­e­cu­tor has the right to object to bail under the bail act. Beswick has grant­ed Powell bail in the sum of 10 mil­lion dol­lars ‚he is to sur­ren­der his trav­el doc­u­ments and report to the police three times week­ly. As a for­mer police officerI was enthralled by this non­sense, report to the police? All one needs is to get out of jail , if a sus­pect wants to run the police can wait for that first vis­it all they want , a sus­pect could be any­where with a new identity.

Patrick Powell
Patrick Powell

This is not a stretch of the imag­i­na­tion, he ran before. Beswick tried to insu­late her­self from the howls of con­dem­na­tion that she knew was sure to emanate from her actions, brought to bear by vig­i­lant cit­i­zens like yours tru­ly and oth­ers, here’s what she had to say. Quote ” I am for­ti­fied by the law and cas­es from the judi­cial com­mit­tee of the United Kingdom Privy Council that bail was not to be with­held as a form of pun­ish­ment

Ok I am not a lawyer , but where is the pun­ish­ment? The kid is dead Khajeel Mais will not get a chance to enjoy the life God gave him,what part of this does these morons that pass for judges do not get. One of the pri­ma­ry rea­son for the denial of bail is that the sub­ject is a flight risk (will run) unlike­ly to turn up for trial.Patrick Powell is demon­stra­bly a flight risk , he already ran and had to be lured back to the coun­try. The oth­er is that the sub­ject may interfere,with or be a threat to poten­tial wit­ness­es slat­ed to tes­ti­fy at tri­al. From all appear­ance Beswick has no evi­dence that he won’t , so why not err on the side of cau­tion? What is it that dri­ves Jamaican Judges to love crim­i­nals so much? We are post­ing a cur­rent list­ing of all of the Judges in Jamaica who are mak­ing these egre­gious decisions,decisions which are result­ing in the destruc­tion of our country,not all of them are crim­i­nal cod­dlers ‚you decide , every­thing is a mat­ter of pub­lic record, this list was pulled from the Supreme court web­site. Every Jamaican must avail them­selves to these facts, these are the peo­ple who are releas­ing crim­i­nals back onto the streets ‚as I have said some of the Judges are seri­ous Jurists,but not enough of them ‚when the Magistrates are thrown into the mix we get a pic­ture of why crime is at those lev­els. Judges sim­ply refuse to lock crim­i­nals away. We will con­tin­ue to shine a light on the atro­cious behav­ior of these malig­nant tumors eat­ing away at the Jamaican nation.

Current Judges

The Hon. Miss Justice Gloria Smith (Senior Puisne Judge)

The Hon. Miss Justice Kay Beckford

The Hon. Mr. Justice Horace Marsh

The Hon. Mr. Justice Donald McIntosh

The Hon. Mr. Justice B. Andrew Rattray

The Hon. Mrs. Justice Carol Lawrence-Beswick

The Hon. Mr. Justice Lennox Campbell

The Hon. Mr. Justice Patrick Brooks

The Hon. Mrs. Justice Marjorie Cole-Smith

The Hon. Miss Justice Paulette Williams

The Hon. Mr. Justice Courtney Daye

The Hon. Miss Justice Ingrid Mangatal

The Hon. Mr. Justice Raymund King

The Hon. Mr. Justice Bryan Sykes

The Hon. Miss Justice Jennifer Straw

The Hon. Mrs. Justice Almarie Sinclair-Haynes

The Hon. Mr. Justice Leighton Pusey

The Hon. Miss Justice Christine McDonald

The Hon. Mr. Justice Martin Gayle

The Hon. Mrs. Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop

The Hon. Mr. Justice Bertram Morrison

The Hon. Mr. Justice Glen Brown

The Hon. Mrs. Justice Sarah Thompson-James

The Hon. Mr. Justice David Fraser

The Hon. Mr. Justice Frank Williams

The Hon. Miss Justice Carol Edwards

The Hon. Mr. Justice Kirk Anderson

Acting Judges

The Hon. Mr. Justice Evan Brown

The Hon. Miss Justice Nicole Simmons

The Hon. Miss Justice Sharon George

Masters

Mrs Audre Lindo

Mrs Sonia Bertram-Linton

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JUDGE : For Yourself.

BuildingK20120214NGI had a con­ver­sa­tion this morn­ing with a retired Jamaican teacher; I have the great­est regard for this lady; she is charm­ing and likable.
For me, there is just some­thing about some­one who has the patience and ded­i­ca­tion to spend their life edu­cat­ing others.
She was a lit­tle angry but deter­mined that she want­ed to return to Jamaica and find a way to do some­thing about how chil­dren, seniors, and the des­ti­tute are treat­ed; she expressed exas­per­a­tion and trep­i­da­tion regard­ing whether or not she could actu­al­ly make a dif­fer­ence. I told her truth­ful­ly that I had no way of know­ing whether she would be impact­ful or not, but she def­i­nite­ly will have no impact if she decid­ed to do noth­ing. I told her Rosa Parks def­i­nite­ly made a huge impact by just sit­ting down.

I strug­gled with that as a young police offi­cer in Jamaica, was I mak­ing a dif­fer­ence? I ulti­mate­ly con­clud­ed that yes, I was mak­ing a dif­fer­ence; how­ev­er, the dif­fer­ence I want­ed to make was not going to be accom­plished if I stayed with the Department. I con­clud­ed that had I stayed, I would have been behold­en and answer­able to the archa­ic inane sys­tem I was repulsed and opposed to. Ever since I depart­ed, I have strug­gled with how I can make a dif­fer­ence in a sys­tem where even those charged with being the guardians of the peo­ple’s rights and inter­ests are the very ones lim­it­ing and vio­lat­ing those rights? Every Jamaican, at home or abroad, knows that their polit­i­cal lead­ers are some­times the very peo­ple who sup­ply guns and ammu­ni­tion to their neigh­bors to intim­i­date and kill them, which allows them to stay in office, where they per­pet­u­ate the vicious cycle that keeps them, fam­i­ly mem­bers, and friends well off. The same crim­i­nal politi­cians are respon­si­ble for draft­ing and pass­ing leg­is­la­tion that would make it worse for those whose busi­ness it is to com­mit crimes.
Do you believe crim­i­nals are going to put them­selves in Jail?

Sources on the ground have con­firmed that the only rea­son Politicians are not giv­ing guns to com­mu­ni­ty activists like they are used to is that the activists have their own guns and do not need any­thing but polit­i­cal cov­er from politi­cians any­more. So they have not expe­ri­enced an awak­en­ing as some believe.
The gang­sters have their own guns, plain and sim­ple. Even so, some are still ensnared and entan­gled with street crim­i­nals who are killing their fel­low Jamaicans.
What makes this for­mer teacher’s frus­tra­tion so rel­e­vant for me is that I share the same frus­tra­tion about the crime sit­u­a­tion in our coun­try and the lack of will to take the nec­es­sary steps to once and for all estab­lish the rule of law cor­ner­stone of our fledg­ling democ­ra­cy. As is cus­tom­ary, we seek to point out the facts to come to our own con­clu­sions. As is cus­tom­ary, we are com­pelled to point to the glar­ing dis­par­i­ties in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem regard­ing how crim­i­nals are treat­ed. This runs the length of the process from how they are per­ceived when they com­mit heinous crimes to the way police are scru­ti­nized when they are cap­tured or killed, to the sen­tence giv­en them on the rare occa­sion they are ever con­vict­ed. As such, we have writ­ten a series of blogs called Jamaica’s mad lib­er­al judges. We do not write because we are opposed to the Judges, but because we are opposed to the kid gloves with which they treat crim­i­nals, there are numer­ous cas­es, too many to men­tion, where the inter­est of crim­i­nals and those who sup­port them take prece­dence over crime vic­tims. We feel this is an affront and is tan­ta­mount to pun­ish­ing the vic­tim. Criminals in Jamaica start with a huge advan­tage, from the gen­er­al pop­u­la­tion to the last court of appeals in the coun­try, there are a stom­ach and an appetite of lenien­cy toward even those who have com­mit­ted the most egre­gious crimes and do so over and over again.

This has bred a don’t care atti­tude in some police offi­cers. It cre­ates a more sat­is­fied pub­lic with the jun­gle jus­tice dis­pensed by local thugs, which is usu­al­ly swift and deci­sive, or mob jus­tice, which includes mul­ti­ple com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers tak­ing the laws into their own hands. Generally, with the sen­tence of death being the ver­dict for all infrac­tions, offens­es that can range from a traf­fic acci­dent where a car hits a well-liked mem­ber of the com­mu­ni­ty to rob­bery or mur­der, it does­n’t mat­ter the offend­er is giv­en a death sen­tence. The sen­tence is car­ried out with ruth­less and bru­tal alacrity. If we choose to ignore the fact that the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem does not work for any­one, that it erodes the trust cit­i­zens had in the rule of law and the pow­er of the state to pro­tect them, to the point they believe report­ing crimes to the agents of the state is a waste of time. They are bet­ter served to go to the local (don) than we risk slip­ping deep­er and deep­er into the abyss of anar­chy daily.

Some argue that each case rests on its own mer­it; we agree. Some argue that a tri­al Judge knows the case and the evi­dence in each case, and as such, he or she is in the best posi­tion to make a judg­ment call one way or the oth­er. We agree. Some argue that judges should have free rein, with­out prop­er safe­guards in place, and that they should be allowed to adju­di­cate with­out over­sight from any oth­er Government branch. We disagree.

Even though mem­bers of the judi­cia­ry may not be as cor­rupt as oth­er lead­ers in oth­er parts of Government, giv­ing them carte-blanche in the dis­pen­sa­tion of judges with­out no input from the peo­ple through their rep­re­sen­ta­tives in par­lia­ment, do exact­ly what we say we do not want, we end up with cor­rup­tion, only from dif­fer­ent peo­ple. Those who argue for an unre­strained Judiciary say they argue because they are afraid of polit­i­cal inter­fer­ence, a fair­ly rea­son­able argu­ment to make. Still, if we allow judges to oper­ate with­out over­sight and restraint, we end up cre­at­ing the very sys­tem we say we do not want; we end up cre­at­ing lit­tle gods who are answer­able to no one. Their lord­ships.

Jamaican Judges are answer­able to no one, and as such, we have seen the sys­tem den­i­grate to where we are today as a nation, dan­gling pre­cip­i­tous­ly close to the abyss of being a failed state. Crime and ter­ror are ram­pant; there is no under­stand­ing or will to erad­i­cate it from our coun­try; those who lead loves it the way it is; after all, a pop­u­la­tion that does not know it deserves bet­ter, prob­a­bly does not deserve better.

As is cus­tom­ary, when­ev­er we come across a case where we feel a judge has crossed the line and has betrayed the trust placed in him/​her, we high­light the case, we com­ment. Still, ulti­mate, you are the ulti­mate judges, and it is you who should decide if we are rea­son­able in our assess­ment of Jamaica’s judges.

Daily Gleaner sto­ry high­light­ing this man.

Judge David Fraser

This Judge sen­tenced a man who bru­tal­ly raped a 12-year-old girl, stran­gled and buried her when he thought she was dead, to 12 years in prison. 

Twelve years, as bru­tal and heinous as the crime of rape is, let’s put that aside for a sec­ond, this man tried to kill this child, then buried her, which demon­strates that in his heart he felt that the deed of “mur­der” was com­mit­ted, he then went to the next step that applies when some­one kills anoth­er, dis­po­si­tion of the body, he did that.

Based on his actions, this man raped this lit­tle girl, killed her (in his mind), then buried her; she brave­ly clawed her way out of the hell he placed her in only to be raped once more and abused by Judge David Fraser, and the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.

Jamaica’s Chief Prosecutor, Paula Llewelyn, and mem­bers of the Police Force, and most impor­tant­ly, the lit­tle girl’s moth­er, felt they were once again left hang­ing by the all-mighty Judge Fraser.

Here’s what Llewelyn had to say.

Sentencing is the sole pre­rog­a­tive for His Lordship, the judge,” Llewellyn said last week Friday. She said when she got the report from the crown coun­sel in the case, she was some­what sur­prised and sad­dened because “in this mat­ter, the facts to which the accused man plead­ed guilty are extreme­ly grave.” She was, how­ev­er, quick to point out that the nor­mal pro­to­cols that obtain between Bench and Bar would pre­vent her from mak­ing any fur­ther com­ment on “this unfor­tu­nate scenario.”

Natural pro­to­cols that obtain between Bench and Bar, she said.

All Prosecutors and Judges in Jamaica are lawyers; if any­one want­ed a clear and unequiv­o­cal feel for where the ordi­nary man stands in all of this, the above statement/​slip of Paula Llewelyn’s tongue is proof pos­i­tive that they do not matter.

My whole feel­ing about this, as I have always felt, this con­nivance between Bench and Bar amounts to noth­ing more than “bull shit” for the aver­age citizen.

Here lie ladies and gen­tle­men, the rea­son why Judges must be giv­en strict guide­lines when they are deal­ing with seri­ous crimes like the ones in this case.

This poor young girl has been bru­tal­ly raped and buried once again by arro­gant Judges that get referred to as quote “his lord­ship.”

Judge for yourself

Jamaica’s Mad Liberal Judges:

A third per­son is now being sought in the dou­ble mur­der of Neville and Norma Lyn-Hall of Discovery Bay Saint Anne. Steve Sylvester Stewart,20 year-old oth­er­wise called ‘High Top’ of Fortland Road, Discovery Bay, St Ann, is want­ed for ques­tion­ing in con­nec­tion with the mur­ders of senior lec­tur­er Norma Lyn-Hall of the Brown’s Town Community College and her hus­band, busi­ness­man Neville Hall, were dis­cov­ered, two per­sons were detained. We are still not aware what kind of infor­ma­tion St Ann Detectives have regard­ing this sus­pect. We would how­ev­er ven­ture to say that they have gleaned valu­able intel­li­gence from the oth­er sus­pects in their cus­tody. Here is some­thing I would like read­ers to note, this sus­pect Steve Sylvester Hall was out on bail, after he was arrest­ed and charged with shop-break­ing and lar­ce­ny. There are those who berate us when we talk about the lib­er­al­ism that obtains in the joke of a jus­tice sys­tem in Jamaica. We are not argu­ing that a judge could pos­si­ble know that this sus­pect would have gone out and joined with oth­ers in killing this unfor­tu­nate cou­ple. We are not argu­ing that a judge should keep all per­sons who break into shops locked away. images (40)What we are say­ing is that the per­va­sive lib­er­al agen­da of Jamaica judges lit­er­al­ly give crim­i­nals carte ‑blanche to con­tin­ue, and even grad­u­ate to more seri­ous crimes, because of the lack of puni­tive com­po­nent in the penal­ty for crimes.Criminals know they will be back on the streets in no time. It was com­mon fare for sus­pects arrest­ed to tell me they would be back on the streets in no time, true to form their high-priced lawyers would have them out in a mat­ter of hours.We will be watch­ing this case, and we will as always con­tin­ue to shine the spot­light on this case , prob­lem is the police may not be able to keep them locked up as at their first entrance into a court room they will be released back onto the streets.

Jamaica Vs. Barbadoes:

Recently a Jamaican woman Shanique Myrie alleged that she was fin­ger raped by Barbadian Customs Officials on March 14 th of this year when she attempt­ed to enter that coun­try. Miss Myrie told the Jamaica Observer that it was her first ever trip out of Jamaica, she stat­ed that she was sub­ject­ed to inva­sive cav­i­ty search by the offi­cials who added insult to injury by hurl­ing insults about Jamaicans at her. However, Barbadian author­i­ties counter-claimed she was lured into the island by a known human trafficker.She has lodged a for­mal com­plaint with the for­eign min­istry, in which she report­ed the inhu­mane treat­ment met­ed out to her at the hands of Border Services Officers at the Grantley Adams International Airport​.Read more: http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​J​a​m​a​i​c​a​n​-​f​i​n​g​e​r​-​r​a​p​e​-​v​i​c​t​i​m​-​v​i​s​i​t​i​n​g​-​B​a​r​b​a​d​o​s​#​i​x​z​z​1​U​O​e​C​z​GtT.

This is not the first alle­ga­tion of sex­u­al abuse lev­eled at law enforce­ment author­i­ties in Barbadoes by Jamaican women.

In anoth­er inci­dent, a Jamaican woman caught attempt­ing to smug­gle gan­ja, accused two Barbadian offi­cers of rap­ing and sex­u­al­ly assault­ing her while she was in cus­tody. Two cops have since been charged with sex­u­al assault and aid­ing and abet­ting but a third cop accused of rape can­not be found and Barbadian police say they believe he may have fled the island. As far as Authorities in Barbadoes are con­cerned there is a bur­geon­ing prob­lem with Jamaicans traf­fick­ing drugs into that coun­try, and enter­ing Barbadoes for the pur­pose of pros­ti­tu­tion. This has caused some fric­tion between the Jamaican Government and Barbadian Authorities. The Jamaican Government of course always quick on the trig­ger with its knee jerk respons­es, and absolute unwill­ing­ness to appro­pri­ate­ly deal with the vex­ing issue of crime in Jamaica. No one knows for sure what is the truth involved in the mat­ter of miss Myrie except her and the offi­cers involved in that inci­dent, we do hope that the truth will come out and if there was wrong doing on the part of the offi­cers , jus­tice will be done. One can only imag­ine how hor­ri­fy­ing that inci­dent must have been for her trav­el­ling out of the Island for the first time, irre­spec­tive of any crimes oth­ers may have com­mit­ted pre­vi­ous­ly, she cer­tain­ly did not deserve to be treat­ed with such indig­ni­ty for the trans­gres­sions of others.

Just last week.

Eight Jamaicans who were among twen­ty peo­ple detained on sus­pi­cion of smug­gling drugs into Barbados remain under police guard, as the process to retrieve the con­tra­band from their stom­ach continues.Two Barbadian nation­als were also held fol­low­ing their arrival, Wednesday, on a Caribbean Airlines flight at Grantley Adams International Airport.Public Relations Officer for the Royal Barbados Police Force, Inspector David Welch who pro­vid­ed an update on the inves­ti­ga­tions revealed that the num­ber of per­sons detained in this week’s drug bust sur­pass­es the num­ber of for­eign­ers arrest­ed at any one time for con­tra­band, on arrival in the island.“We have put mea­sures in place in order to con­tin­ue to keep the sur­veil­lance of air and sea­ports for an activ­i­ties like this” he said.The Barbados police spokesman was unable to pro­vide details on the amount of drugs retrieved from each individual.He says at the end of the process, the Drug Squad will tab­u­late the amount and sep­a­rate charges will be laid. Investigators are yet to deter­mine whether those arrest­ed were trav­el­ling as a group.

Meanwhile, two women caught import­ing cocaine into Jamaica were on Thursday sen­tenced to 18 months in prison and slapped with heavy fines. Those con­vict­ed are 30-year-old Alecia Williams of May Pen, Clarendon; and 25-year-old Babeth Bowland of Alexandria, St Ann.The two plead­ed guilty when they appeared before the Half-Way-Tree Criminal Court. The nar­cotics police had report­ed that on July 27, Bowland was return­ing to the island on a flight from Guyana; at Norman Manley International Airport; when she was stopped and searched.Nearly three pounds of cocaine was found in a pair of sneak­ers in her suitcase.The fol­low­ing day, Williams was return­ing on a flight from Trinidad; when she was also stopped and searched. The cops say she was found to be in pos­ses­sion of near­ly two pounds of cocaine​.In addi­tion to their 18-month sen­tences, the two were each fined 650-thou­sand dol­lars. They will serve an addi­tion­al six months in prison if they fail to pay the fines. Fri. Aug.05,2011 8:00pm(cour­tesy RJR news)

I post­ed these news clips from media hous­es in Jamaica , there were sim­i­lar reports in the Barbadian dailies. What is obvi­ous is that the Barbadian Officials are cor­rect in what they say about Jamaicans bring­ing drugs into their coun­try, as is evi­denced the Royal Barbados Police are more deter­mined to stamp out this scourge. If those Jamaicans still under Police guard were actu­al­ly sus­pect­ed of hav­ing the con­tra­band in Jamaica they cer­tain­ly would not be under Police guard.

There would be howls of protest demand­ing that they be released. And a deaf­en­ing cho­rus from Elitists, argu­ing with increduli­ty, that police time could be spent in such triv­ial ways . It is evi­dent that Authorities in Jamaica still do not under­stand that prob­lems of crime , vio­lence, and ter­ror­ism must be nipped in the bud and erad­i­cat­ed before they have a chance to take root. Just this week a promi­nent Jamaican Journalist Dennie Quill wrote a col­umn berat­ing the Police for doing exact­ly what they were sup­posed to do, uphold the laws.

In his grandios­i­ty this is the rea­sons he has a prob­lems with the police.

Quote” Here are exam­ples of what I mean.

(1) In the first case, a motorist leaves home on a lazy Sunday to buy the news­pa­pers a short dis­tance away. He has the exact change for his intend­ed pur­chase but has left behind his wal­let with his iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. He is dri­ving his girl­friend’s car. He is stopped by the police and can­not pro­vide his licences. He is threat­ened with arrest, the car is about to be seized and an ugly scene devel­ops. Eventually, he is accom­pa­nied to his home where his girl­friend is present and assures the police that the car belongs to her and that it had not been stolen and that the man dri­ving it had her per­mis­sion to do so.

(2)Then there is anoth­er case in which a motorist is being dri­ven to the air­port by her son, who is a duly licensed dri­ver. They are stopped by the police and the car papers are not in the vehi­cle. The own­er of the vehi­cle and moth­er of the dri­ver, explains that she changed her hand­bag that morn­ing and had inad­ver­tent­ly left the car papers behind since she would not need them for her trip over­seas. This sounds like a rea­son­able expla­na­tion. However, the police­man is not buy­ing it. He threat­ens to seize the car until proof of own­er­ship can be estab­lished. He accom­pa­nies them to the air­port and then to the near­by police station.

(3)And, final­ly, a moth­er of a five-year-old is tak­ing her daugh­ter to school one morn­ing. It is the end of the month and the police are strate­gi­cal­ly placed all over the city car­ry­ing out their spot checks. She is stopped and her insur­ance has expired. She explained that she had been over­seas and had just returned to the island overnight and would have it rec­ti­fied that day. The police­man was not con­vinced. He was on his phone in a flash and before she could tell her name, the car was seized she was left on the side­walk to explain to her child what had just occurred.(Jamaica Gleaner .com Aug 3: 2011)

In all three instances here the motorists are wrong, broke the law and the actions of the police jus­ti­fied, except fol­low­ing the motorist to their homes to ver­i­fy their sto­ries . The police has absolute­ly no oblig­a­tion to fol­low a motorist home to ver­i­fy a sto­ry , that is a mat­ter for the courts, the offence was com­mit­ted, take the car, arrest the offend­er , tell it to the judge. At least that is what hap­pens in a coun­try of laws and peo­ple who obey laws , not in wild west Jamaica. as if this igno­rance was not enough this jour­nal­ist had more to say .

Quote: In all the above cas­es, I am point­ing to the man­ner in which the law is applied by the police. It is arbi­trary and situational

What I have to say to Dennie quill is this. In all of the above cas­es the police was right , go get a copy of the road traf­fic act read it and don’t open your damn mouth untill you get a clue.

The offi­cers must nev­er accom­pa­ny any­one any­where to ver­i­fy any­thing, this opens them up to all kinds of accu­sa­tions of crim­i­nal­i­ty and cor­rup­tion , if the police are guilty of any­thing , it is doing too much. Arrest the offend­er , take the vehi­cle , let them tell it to the judge. The Irony inher­ent in that Article by Quill was the abil­i­ty of one fool to make many , there was a pletho­ra of ” yes boss yes boss” type respons­es to the non­sense . The usu­al anti police , anti rule of law com­ments we have all come to expect from Jamaicans. I urge the police author­i­ties to con­tin­ue to arrest for minor infrac­tions and do not wait for large crimes, let the vil­lage lawyers like Quill, and all the oth­ers com­plain, as long as they have their papers with them when they dri­ve, they are enti­tled to free­dom of speech.

What I want to point to how­ev­er, is the sen­tence met­ed out to the women by the Jamaican courts Alecia Williams was sen­tenced to 18 months for bring­ing almost 2 pounds of cocaine into the coun­try and fined J$650.000 . Babeth Bowland was sen­tenced to 18 months in prison for bring­ing almost 3 pounds of cocaine into the coun­try and fined J$650;000 , both ordered to serve an addi­tion­al 6 months in jail if they do not pay the fine. Message to all Drug deal­ers ‚Jamaica is open for busi­ness, this is absolute­ly the place for those who wants to deal drugs. I mean are you kid­ding me what kind of luna­cy is this ? Are the brains of these Judges cor­rod­ed with cob­webs? these moron­ic Judges have lit­er­al­ly turned the coun­try into a banana republic.

Mark Myrie (Buju Banton) sen­tenced to 10 years in Federal Prison after being con­vict­ed of con­spir­a­cy to deal in nar­cotics, he did not deal the con­tra­band. 10 years . In Jamaica peo­ple get caught bring­ing pounds of nar­cotics into the coun­try and gets slapped on the wrist with feath­ers. Anyone won­der­ing why Jamaica is one of the mur­der cap­i­tals of the world needs look no further,.

I write on this sit­u­a­tion in these blogs under the title (Jamaica“s mad lib­er­al Judges) about the absolute dis­grace of a jus­tice sys­tem that obtains there. The bro­ken sys­tem cre­ates all kinds of back­lash, police apa­thy, police tak­ing bribes, esca­la­tion in seri­ous crimes, wit­ness killings, wit­ness tam­per­ing, vic­tims not report­ing crimes, dis­re­spect for the rule of law, alleged extra- judi­cial killings, mob killings, no con­fi­dence in the sys­tem to dis­pense jus­tice, and the list goes on and on.

Jamaican author­i­ties have sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly failed to put crim­i­nals in jail where they belong. Jamaica is a tri­al lawyers par­adise, they love the sys­tem­at­ic cor­rup­tion with­in the population,to include their own col­leagues, and gross neglect on the part of activist judges. The pop­u­la­tion is at the mer­cy of doped up mind­less demons who sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly rape, rob, and decap­i­tate their help­less, hap­less vic­tims with un-encum­bered aban­don. The dope that is brought in by those very mules, are the dope that trans­forms the mind­less killers to indulge in their ghoul­ish pas­time. Myopic Jamaican Authorities are clue­less as to how to deal with this scourge, but have the nerve to chal­lenge Barbadian Authorities who wants a crime free coun­try, or at least one that is free of Jamaican drug crazed decap­i­ta­tions, they have that right.

It becomes clear­er by the day that the voic­es of anar­chy are get­ting loud­er and loud­er, my father tells me there is a silent major­i­ty of Jamaicans who real­ly want to see change in the oth­er direc­tion . I am a doubter, where are they? At every lev­el of Jamaican soci­ety there is an incom­pre­hen­si­ble sup­port and encour­age­ment for crim­i­nal­i­ty, those who do not sup­port or encour­age it ‚spend their time ratio­nal­iz­ing it. Speaking out against crime in Jamaica can get you killed.

It has become increas­ing­ly hard for the Jamaican Government to open their mouths to the Barbadian Government in light of recent devel­op­ments. On the same day that group was arrest­ed , two oth­er Jamaicans were each sen­tenced to 3 year terms of impris­on­ment in Barbadoes for smug­gling drugs into that coun­try. Those recent events have dealt Barbadoes a pub­lic rela­tions coup , one that will con­tin­ue to rever­ber­ate around the Caribbean, while our peo­ple con­tin­ue in their mind­less quest of mate­r­i­al wealth at all cost, con­se­quences be dammed.

15 YEARS FOR BETRAYING THE PEOPLE:

I have long main­tained, that most of the prob­lems real or per­ceived, inher­ent in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem is cen­tered around the lib­er­al­ism of judges.

So called extra judi­cial killings,witnesses not appear­ing to tes­ti­fy, the killing of wit­ness­es, cit­i­zens tak­ing the laws into their own hands,citizens not both­er­ing to report crimes, all of the afore­men­tioned ‚has at their Genesis , Judges giv­ing slap on the wrist.This police offi­cer betrayed the trust placed in him.A trust that asked him to pro­tect and serve the Jamaican peo­ple , he betrayed that trust in the most egre­gious , stom­ach turn­ing man­ner. This Supreme court Judge Horace Marsh had an oppor­tu­ni­ty to send a strong mes­sage and he failed. He failed the coun­try , but his great­est fail­ure is to the arrest­ing Officers, who had the char­ac­ter to bring one of their own to jus­tice. He had an oppur­tu­ni­ty to send a strong mes­sage, say­ing once and for all, this will not be tolerated.

He failed.

Sergeant Russel Robinson a mid­dle man­ag­er with­in the JCF must have been aware of the image prob­lems the force had . Over the years Police offi­cers had dragged the name of the once proud Agency through the mud, sub­ject­ing the Agency to ridicule, pri­mar­i­ly by those whose char­ac­ter does not qual­i­fy them to crit­i­cize any­one. And oth­ers who have a vest­ed inter­est in tear­ing down, and dam­a­goging the agency .During my 10 year ser­vice I arrest­ed there cops and charged them with crimes.On each occa­sion the case was prop­er­ly pre­pared, all three were con­vict­ed and even­tu­al­ly boot­ed from the Constabulary. My posi­tion was always that we could not be in the same agency.

Despite the fore­gone, nei­ther of those offi­cers I charged ‚were involved in sell­ing guns nor ammu­ni­tion to criminals.This is one of the most egre­gious and rep­re­hen­si­ble cas­es of police mis­con­duct I have ever heard of ‚9’540 rounds of ammu­ni­tion, and 18 guns , this begs the ques­tion, how many guns and rounds of ammu­ni­tion did Robinson sell? .How many peo­ple died because of those guns and ammu­ni­tion, to include police officers.That is not the only issue here, the guns were sup­posed to be in the pro­tec­tive cus­tody of the police. That by itself make my stom­ach turn. Police offi­cers in the precinct of the court alleged­ly voiced their dis­gust at the sen­tence hand­ed down, I can imag­ine how they would feel from an image stand-point , but I assume those offi­cers were also think­ing about all the cops that were killed over the years. Imagining that they could have fall­en vic­tim to those thou­sands of rounds of ammu­ni­tion, and high-pow­ered weapons Robinson put in the underworld.

Again let me be clear clear , Jamaica is not going to solve its ter­ror­ism prob­lem if Judges con­tin­ue to release crim­i­nals back onto the streets with a slap on the wrists, Interest groups such as the crim­i­nal right Jamaicans for jus­tice and tri­al lawyers have argued vehe­ment­ly that judges must be allowed free­dom to make judi­cial deci­sions based on the spe­cial cir­cum­stances of each case.They argue that Politicians/​Parliament seek­ing to add guide­lines is tan­ta­mount to med­dling with the judi­cia­ry an inde­pen­dent arm of Government​.As a cit­i­zen of this plan­et I agree that Judges must be able to look at mit­i­gat­ing cir­cum­stances in each case and issue their judge­ment accord­ing­ly. What I dis­agree with is, that they should have no guide­lines. Race cars are allowed to go real­ly fast, but they are still required to stay on the tracks, Airplanes have wide open skies , but they have routes, Ships tra­verse ship­ping lanes, despite the enor­mi­ty of the Oceans .Judges must be giv­en min­i­mum guidelines.This removes the prospect of cor​rup​tion​.It removes the pos­si­bil­i­ty of advo­ca­cy from the bench.And it puts crim­i­nals where they belong, in jail.Judges are not elect­ed by the peo­ple, it falls on the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives, the Parliamentarians to in fact estab­lish guide­lines for them to fol­low. Disgusting crim­i­nal sup­port­ing groups , and the rapa­cious vul­tures called crim­i­nal Lawyers have their own axe to grind , nei­ther of which includes a safe peace­ful, crime free society.

This is a per­fect case for the over­turn of the Judicial sys­tem. So that the Country can start afresh.

mike beck­les:

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Liberal Supreme Court Overturns Law That Keeps Criminals In Jail.

A Full Court, com­pris­ing Justice Horace Marsh, Justice Patrick Brooks and Justice Leighton Pusey held on Friday that the amend­ments to the Bail Act were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and made sev­er­al dec­la­ra­tions. Amendments were made to the Bail Act as the Government strug­gled to deal with the high crime rate and was expect­ed to be in place for one year. The 60-day peri­od in cus­tody was sub­ject to the right of the per­son being held to be brought before the court after sev­en days, and there­after at 14-day inter­vals, at which time the court reviews the ques­tion of whether the per­son should con­tin­ue to be held in cus­tody or bail be con­sid­ered. The pros­e­cu­tion also had the right to appeal against the grant­i­ng of bail.

FORMER JUSTICE Minister Senator A.J. Nicholson, QC, has wel­comed the court’s rul­ing that last year’s amend­ments to the Bail Act were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al. The Supreme Court struck down the amend­ments last Friday. He explained that, as leader of Opposition busi­ness, when the pro­posed leg­is­la­tion came to be debat­ed in the Senate he advised that the People’s National Party (PNP) would not lend sup­port to the amend­ments because the Government min­is­ters who pilot­ed the Bill failed to con­vince them that the amend-ments were not in breach of cer­tain sec­tions of the Chapter on Fundamental Rights in the Constitution.(cour­tesy the jamaica glean­er) It was report­ed then that short­ly before six anti-crime bills were passed on July 9 last year, for­mer res­i­dent mag­is­trate Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte had acknowl­edged that the Interim Bail Act to pro­vide for a 60-day deten­tion of per­sons who com­mit seri­ous gun and drug-relat­ed offences was draconian.

One thing is appar­ent , and that is that both sides of the polit­i­cal divide, play polit­i­cal games with crime when they are in oppo­si­tion, recent state­ments from Delroy Chuch (now Justice Minister) and Peter Bunting from the PNP made them unqual­i­fied to hold any office that has to do with crime and nation­al security.These hacks should nev­er be privy to any­thing that has to do with security.

Unfortunately these are the civil­lian boss­es of the Police force and Military, it’s a damn dis­grace that these morons who dis­parge police and the rule of law from their perch­es on the oppo­si­tion bench­es , when elect­ed pre­tend that they are bas­tions of sup­port for the rule of law. These guys should not even be allowed in to clean the floors of the peo­ple’s house of Parliament.

The Ruling of the Supreme Court in this mat­ter shows a cou­ple of things, .(1) That the Architects of this piece of leg­is­la­tion did not take enough legal coun­sel to ensure that it would pass the Constitutional smell test.(2) That Jamaica’s Judges sim­ply does not get it. Now let me has­ten to say I am not a Lawyer, and I must also add that if the piece of Legislation is Unconstitutional then the learned Judges has a duty to strike it down. Clearly from their actions they believe that it was Unconstitutional as con­sti­tut­ed. This brings us to the meat of the matter:Who were the part­ners with the Government in draft­ing this piece of Legislation? it clear­ly could not be the Opposition Party in Jamaica, clear­ly every­one knows that they will take no action against crim­i­nal­i­ty or Terror , .This left the Government with no grown ups , with whom to debate, a com­po­nent impor­tant in get­ting the best results possible.

The Jamaican pub­lic, clear­ly an opin­ion­at­ed but nonethe­less large­ly uninformed,uneducated pub­lic must under­stand that this forms part of the rea­son the leg­is­la­tion was ruled Unconstitutional. On the oth­er hand it is Interesting to take note as we crow about the fact that our Democracy works, that we must ask our­selves ” work for whom” Does this Ruling work for the almost two Thousand peo­ple whom are slaugh­tered each year?. Does it work for the Hundreds of chil­dren mur­dered.? Does it work for the hun­dreds of women Raped each year? Does it work for the peo­ple liv­ing in the Garrisons whose daugh­ters are being abused by Local thugs ‚who are unable to speak out because of fear of their lives and their prop­er­ty.? Does it work for the peo­ple who are chased out of their homes, their homes razed with fire , or tak­en over by thugs.? Does it work for the Police Officers and sol­diers who toil to remove the ter­ror­ists from the streets only to see them released back onto the streets as soon as they are tak­en in.? Does it work for the silent Jamaicans who are too scared or too pow­er­less to open­ly declare that yes they do sup­port the mea­sures of the Government ‚at least in rec­og­niz­ing that there needs to be tough new, appro­pri­ate Legislation enact­ed that have com­men­su­rate penal­ty for the crimes being com­mit­ted. When we remove all of the afore­men­tioned from the equa­tion , just who should be proud of the Supreme Court’s Ruling? Is it the Elitists that reside in the Mansions above Cross Roads,or the Criminals that lit­er­al­ly run the streets ?.

Either way this is real­ly no great vic­to­ry for dea­cent Jamaican people.!!!!

THE MAD LIBERAL AGENDA OF JAMAICA’S COURTS:

THE MAD LIBERAL AGENDA OF JAMAICA’S COURTS.

THE SUPREME Court yes­ter­day struck down con­tro­ver­sial amend­ments to the Bail Act. The amend­ments allowed for per­sons charged with seri­ous offences to be dis­qual­i­fied for bail for a max­i­mum of 60 days.Supreme Court judges Horace March, Patrick Brooks, and Leighton Pusey heard the motion and grant­ed dec­la­ra­tions that the amend­ments were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al and void.

The fore­gone was the lead para­graph in a the Jamaica Gleaner sto­ry regard­ing Jamaica’s Supreme Court Ruling strik­ing down the Government’s amend­ment to the Bail Act.

Attorneys-at-law Norman Godfrey and Marcus Greenwood, who rep­re­sent­ed two per­sons who were being detained under the Bail Act, took the issue to the Supreme Court in May. They argued that the amend­ments were uncon­sti­tu­tion­al, inhu­mane, and inter­fered with the judge’s dis­cre­tion to grant bail for cer­tain offences, includ­ing mur­der. They also argued that the amend­ments removed a cit­i­zen’s fun­da­men­tal right to bail.(glean­er quote)

The Government, in an attempt to curb the high crime rate, had amend­ed the Bail Act in July last year for one year. The act was extend­ed recently.(gleaner quote)

The Supreme court has a right to rule on the Constitutionality and the Un-con­sti­tu­tion­al­i­ty of any law, .
The Parliament, the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives, have a right to make new laws, alter or repeal old, use­less ‚or archa­ic ones ‚and even amend the Constitution.
Those who pre­tend that the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives have no busi­ness inter­fer­ing with laws sim­ply do not under­stand how the sys­tem works , or are disin­gen­u­ous , with acts to grind (enter the tri­al lawyers).
If stronger mea­sures are required to ensure good order ‚then what is need­ed is an amend­ment to the out­dat­ed con­sti­tu­tion, or throw it out all togeth­er, my vote is for the latter.
Over the years the Jamaican Courts have stead­fast­ly refused to keep pace with the rest of the world in the way seri­ous crimes are addressed,the Courts which takes it’s cue from England clear­ly has missed the boat on how to deal with crim­i­nals and terrorists.
Listed here I will show a few cas­es of total mad­ness by Jamaica’s learned Judges , you be the Judge, (no pun intended)

(1) 04/​21/​2010Jamaica Star: Judge grant­ed bail to 6 men who alleged­ly beat a mar­ried cou­ple who were engaged in inti­ma­cy in the pri­va­cy of their own home.The scums alleged­ly accused the cou­ple of freaky sex,then report­ed­ly beat both hus­band and wife with bats, after which they com­menced to gang rape the woman, report­ed­ly doing the same thing the man was doing to his wife in a con­sen­su­al manner,They report­ed­ly then put a gun to her head and forced her to per­form oral sex on all of them.She report­ed­ly passed out.all six were grant­ed bail in the sum of J$300,000.
Presiding Judge MARCIA DUNBAR-GREEN
(2) 04/​21/​2010 Star : Judge pur­port­ed­ly tells Police Officer to col­lect state­ment from inmate Oniel Fraser,The inmate, Oneil Fraser, charged with wound­ing with intent, told the court that he was being abused by the police offi­cers at the Kingston Central jail and that an Inspector stabbed at him with a knife,Superintendent Cornel Messam of the Kingston Central Police Station told THE STAR that he was aware of the accu­sa­tions made by the inmate. However, he men­tioned that the senior offi­cer was wrong­ful­ly accused.

I am aware of the mat­ter, how­ev­er, the inmate is not being truth­ful about the mat­ter,” said Messam.According to the senior offi­cer, Fraser has been involved in a num­ber of inci­dents at the facil­i­ty since his trans­fer from the Half-Way Tree lock-up. Messam added that such a claim is impos­si­ble, since weapons are strict­ly pro­hib­it­ed from enter­ing the lock-ups,
“I know that inmate, he is a trou­ble­mak­er that was trans­ferred from the Half-Way Tree lock-up … Such alle­ga­tions are impos­si­ble because knives and guns are not car­ried into jail,” said the senior officer.

Fraser was sen­tenced to three months in prison last week for using a pad­lock to cause injury to an inmate.

The police said that the mat­ter is being investigated.
Resident Magistrate Georgiana Fraser was very con­cerned about this accu­sa­tion and imme­di­ate­ly asked that a police offi­cer take a state­ment from the inmate and ensure that it is report­ed to the Complaints Division.

(3) Friday July 16th 2010 Activist Judge Judith Pusey grant­ed bail to a 51 yr old moth­er, and her 15-year-old daugh­ter, in the sum of J$150,00, and J$50,000 respectively,the equiv­a­lent of US1’685.00, and US$561.00 , both women were charged with blud­geon­ing to death the 55 yr old father and boyfriend of both accused,nothing more to be said here this is unimag­in­able this is what life is worth in Jamaica the price of a park­ing ticket.

(4) cor­po­rate area Court:A judge releas­es two men with sus­pend­ed sen­tences of one year , after they con­fessed to putting a bul­let through the back of a taxi dri­ver whom they robbed so they could have mon­ey for new sneak­ers and jack­ets to wear to the dance the night of the killing, the deceased left a wife and three chil­dren with­out any form of finan­cial support.
The Judges com­ment on releas­ing them ? I don’t want you men to become more hard­ened crim­i­nals by send­ing you to prison.
My ques­tion is, how much more hard­ened can one become beyond being an armed rob­ber and a murderer? .
If I was to haz­ard a guess I would say this is not the first crim­i­nal act they had com­mit­ted, nor the first life they had taken.

This par­tic­u­lar case has left me stunned beyond words.

The cas­es of Judaical abuse and absolute­ly insan­i­ty are too many to men­tion , but now here in this forum we will be hold­ing their feet to the fire, we will be call­ing them out. and we will not be deterred,

Have your say.

Mike beck­les: