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Speaking recently in Manchester at a graduation ceremony for officers certified to drive police vehicles, Winston Lawson, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce issued a strong call for Jamaica’s police to stop abusing their powers by using heavy handed tactics and abusive language against citizens when carrying out their daily duties.
He said too often [...]

Letter to the Jamaica Observer editor – Sunday, May 31, 2009
From: Lance Robinson – Lrobinson22@gmail.com
Re: Should The Police Force Accommodate Religion
Dear Editor,
We Jamaicans have a penchant for expending needless time and energy on what can only be construed as engaging in pointless trivia. There is a debate now raging as to whether the police force [...]

Today’s Clovis cartoon in the Jamaica Observer newspaper shows Minister of National Security, Dwight Nelson, anointing the policeman as Judge, Jury and Executioner. The cartoon is a play on recent controversial statements by Nelson about Jamaica’s war against crime causing ‘collateral damage’ and that the police should not have to pay in those circumstances. The [...]

Follow their immediate comments a couple days ago, 7th Day Adventists are now demanding that Commissioner of Police Hardley Lewin withdraw his recent comment that police personnel who believed their jobs conflicted with their religion should resign.
In a statement issued to the press this weekend, the 7th Day Adventist Church said Admiral Lewin’s comments amounted [...]

Police Commissioner Hardley Lewin has attempted to clarify comments relating to work and religion/worship that he made at Thursday’s session of the Police Federation Conference, and which has caused an uproar among members of the constabulary as well as the wider public.
Before a large audience that was attending Security Minister Dwight Nelson’s National Consultation on [...]