Tivoli News

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Alric Campbell, seen her smiling with PNP President and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in 2007, is now at odds with his party over the value of a commission of enquiry into the bloody May 2010 West Kingston army blitz.-Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer Residents stand near a wall pockmarked by bullets traded during gun battles between ... (more)

Having made the right decision to have a Commission of Enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens 'incursion', Cabinet must now ensure that the enquiry is credible so that the outcomes can reduce the chances of the State and political actors repeating this most horrendous episode in our history.

TIVOLI, OH TIVOLI: Will there ever be a day when the community of Tivoli Gardens in Western Kingston can be associated with the humdrum ordinariness of other places? It is almost certain that no other community in this country has ever been in the spotlight as much as this one -- and for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately.

I read with disbelief the report in the Jamaica Observer about the rejection by the PNPYO of the decision to hold an enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens incursion and the resultant killings.

Yes. We do, but it should be carried out by people of integrity, unencumbered by political/financial ambitions and or motives.

ATTORNEYS for former Tivoli Gardens don Christopher 'Dudus' Coke had been negotiating his surrender to the US Embassy in Kingston before the deadly 2010 Tivoli Gardens operation to flush him out, a highly placed source confirmed to the Jamaica Observer last night.

Member of parliament for West Kingston, Desmond McKenzie, yesterday implored the police to be relentless in their hunt for the killers of a Jamaica Defence Force reservist, who was gunned down in broad daylight in Tivoli Gardens less than 24 hours after Cabinet signalled that it had found favour with establishing a commission of enquiry into the ... (more)

THE People's National Party Youth Organisation , the young affiliates of the current Government, says it is against the decision to hold a commission of enquiry into the May 2010 Tivoli Gardens operation.

Jovan Johnson , Gleaner Writer University Lecturer, Dr Jermaine McCalpin, believes a truth commission would be appropriate to probe the issues emerging from the May 2010 Tivoli Gardens Operations.

Justice Minister, Senator Mark Golding, says consideration will be given to the recommendation that the Public Defender be amended to give that office more investigative power.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs wants to replace its 50-year-old human resources application with a sleeker software-as-a-service model.

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Dear Sir: Public Defender Earl Witter claims that he got nowhere with the Jamaica Defence Force because he does not have the power under the Public Defender Act to force that institution to answer his questions.

Those who endured the windy, defensive diatribe and pompous rhetoric in Earl Witter's interim report into "the siege" of Tivoli Gardens will come upon what seems to be compelling prima facie evidence that there could well have been extrajudicial killings by the security forces during the tragic incident of May 2010.

Adina Darby and Lilieth James say an enquiry into the Tivoli Gardens incursion may determine who was responsible, but in the meantime, they need compensation to help them fully recover.

Salt Point: Anthony Cali was named to the fall 2012 dean's list at Marist College in Poughkeepsie.

AN INTERIM report into what Public Defender Earl Witter describes as a "siege" of Tivoli Gardens during a state of emergency in May 2010 has called for a thorough commission of enquiry into activities of the security forces and gunmen.

Jerome Reynolds, Gleaner Writer The Public Defender, Earl Witter, has recommended that a thorough Commission of Enquiry be conducted into the May 2010 incursion in West Kingston.