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nocotecDavid Smith of OLINT fame today was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was sentenced after being found guilty on 23 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and money laundering. David Smith was previously sentenced to six and half years in the Turks on Caicos in 2010. David Smith ran OLINT as a foreign exchange (FX) outfit that promised persons high returns that averaged 10% per month. In reality OLINT was a massive Ponzi that managed to rake in reportedly over US$220 million from over 6000 investors.
History
OLINT started sometime in 2004 as a quiet members club whose growth depended on word of mouth referrals. By 2006 however the Unregulated Financial Organisation as it was called began to face scrutiny in Jamaica from the Financial Services Commission (FSC), the financial services regulators in Jamaica. Despite many public warnings by the FSC and leading bankers at the time money continued to flow into OLINT via intermediaries that would become know as feeder clubs and ‘pigs’.
In 2006, after a raid on OLINT and LewFam Investment, they shared adjoining office areas, by the FSC, the club then moved to Turks and Caicos where it operated. David Smith was also connected to TCI FX, a registered company in Turks and Caicos. OLINT was registered at different times in Panama and St. Kitts. David Smith also formed a partnership with the principals of I-Trade FX (now defunct), a foreign exchange platform owned by the operators of the Market Traders Institute(MTI). In late 2007 the formed a partnership called GotradeJamaica.com and also launched the OLINT foundation.
It has been reported that David Smith was hailed by the FX Chief as one of the greatest foreign exchange traders something that would later turn out to be false. The National Futures Association investigation in 2009 of I-Trade FX would show that David Smith/OLINT did little to no FX trading and when they did they lost. The same was fate of Ingrid Loiten of May Daisy apparent attempts at FX trading.
Influence
OLINT was acknowledged to have supported both political parties in Jamaica but the Jamaica Labour Party(JLP) is reported to have garnered significantly more support than the Peoples National Party(PNP). In fact some have argued that OLINT funds had a bearing on the outcome of the Jamaica elections in 2007. Information available indicate that politicians from both sides of the divide in Jamaica, leading money market experts in Jamaica, doctors lawyers and the likes are those that invested in OLINT. One politician, Errol Ennis, a former minister of state in the Finance ministry, described the raid, on OLINT at the time, as a vulgar abuse of power by the state. Audley Shaw the current Finance minister was reported to have said in the Gleaner of January 31, 2007, that FSC’s actions against Olint, an entity which offers attractive interest rates, were unacceptable.
OLINT also sponsored the 2008 Jazz and Blue Festival, an annual music festival held in Montego Bay, Jamaica or its environs.
Former heads of the FSC, Byran Wynter, now the present governor of the Bank of Jamaica and George Roper the acting head 2007-2008, took much heat from the public for their strident opposition to the unregistered and unregulated financial operators or alternative investment schemes as OLINT and others like Cash Plus, May Daisy and Worldwise etc became known as.
Impact on the Diaspora
OLINT word of month referral led to the investments coming from Jamaicans living in the USA, Canada, UK among other countries. The impact of the OLINT crash was particularly felt in Florida often referred to as Kingston 21.
In 2008, after the Ponzi ran into difficulties paying its customers and Money Laundering and other charges surfaced in July 2008, David Smith was arrested in Turks and Caicos and the famous confession letter surfaced. He was later charged and convicted and subsequently brought for trial in the USA in 2010.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Smith is to serve his sentence in the Turks and Caicos then the rest of time in the United States.
Filed under: Lewfam, May Daisy, Olint | Tagged: David Smith, Olint, TCI FX |
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All of the ponzis bosses should do life imprisonment, it is so many lives they have ruined by stealing their hard earned cash. Noel Strachan and his mother are two is others that i am praying that America will put under manners pretty…….they too have stolen a lot of money from the Jamaican and foreign people and is still running the scheme because that office is still opened and they are not paying back anyone, it is opened as a front…….please someone do something about Noel strachan
I sincerely hope that the 30 lenient years given that thief was in exchange for information on where he stashed the rest of the loot. His wife and family are still spending our money.
David Smith is to return to TCI to serve out his 6 yrs after which he will return to the USA to start his 30yrs sentence.
So the Olint chapter is over, will the Jamaican authorities use this case in determining the CashPlus outcome, I seriously doubt it.
Hahaha…the T.V. Station outside the courthouse asked someone what they thought of David Smith and the reply was “Bangarang like that fi go a prison..”
How exactly do you spell that asked another reporter….
hhaahaha….
Selection for that one…haha
What a powerful lyric ehh Smitty, “baby if I told you the right words at the right time you’d be mine…”
AUG. 12, 2010 – BANKER WHO SET UP SHOP AND CONTINUED IN TCI AFTER HIS OFFICES WERE RAIDED AND CLOSED IN JAMAICA IN 2006 GETS 30 YEARS IN USA COURT
[Editors’ Note: David A. Smith’s light sentence, 6 and a half years in the Turks and Caicos Islands and 30 years in the United States, compared to Bernie Madoff who received 150 years in the United States for his ponzi scheme, is due to Mr. Smith co-operating fully with authorities in detailing which Turks and Caicos politicians and attorneys assisted him in his exploits. This was in exchange for leniency and his wife not being charged along with him.
After having his office raided and shut down in Jamaica by police authorities in 2006, it is truly mind boggling that David Smith was able to immediately move and setup shop in the Turks and Caicos Islands under the watch of our Financial Services Commission, FSC, and with the blessings of our government and opposition politicians.]
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/aug-12-2010-–-banker-who-set-shop-and-continued-tci-after-his-offices-were-raided-and-closed-jamaica
Smith jailed for 30 years
The TCI Belonger, 42, had been facing life behind bars after pleading guilty in March to 23 fraud and money laundering charges in Florida.
Mr Knighton said international financial intelligence experts had recently dubbed the Olint case one of the “most interesting” in the world.
“I am pleased that it’s come to an end but there are still proceedings ongoing which may involve other jurisdictions, and proceedings have yet to be concluded with David Smith in the TCI.
http://tcweeklynews.com/smith-jailed-for-years-p2461-1.htm
Commenting on Smith’s sentence, Mr Knighton added: “It is unfortunate that his children and wife’s lives have been affected by such a huge sentence.”
Education budget will be cut too, says Holness
THE education ministry’s budget will be cut as will the allocations to all other ministries as a result of Jamaica’s loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Minister of Education Andrew Holness indicated yesterday.
The Ministry of Education’s budget has been on a downward trend over the past three financial years.
Minister of Finance and Planning Audley Shaw,
( http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853 ) in a nationwide broadcast on Sunday, warned of further belt-tightening across central government in order to meet fiscal targets under the country’s IMF loan arangement. He said the Government had no choice but to further cut expenditure and adjust the budget given the IMF’s concerns about medium-term targets, which contributed to the delay of two quarterly reviews.
“There comes a time when with all the challenges, the foundation of a country should not be challenged. I am confident that in the Cabinet, the minister of education will carry the voice of the education system and make sure that we rigorously oppose any cut to the sector,” he stated.
Here is how we could all get our money back. I am making a move, well, a documentary of sorts, about the Olint saga ( after all it has just been dubbed “the most interesting swindle case ever”). So I am going to make a huge profit, say, 10% per month average.
All wee have to do is pool our money because it costs alot to make this documentary. Please click below to make your donations…….
A little levity folks.
It is very painful to watch this thief walk away with a thirty-year sentence (of which he may spend a mere 7 or 8 locked up). His mother, brother, wife and those other idiots who have the disgusting nerve to say that this dirty thief is ” a good man” , because they are now rich from our money, shall all burn in hell with him.
To all who lost, please try to stay strong. I am trying to do just that.
To good to be true? GREEDY? Happy Birthday FSC?
BRACE, Idiots, you’re in for a ride Jamaican Einsteins…you are now participants in a new out the box program called the FDX (figure it out).
“Such returns are impossible” Think and check the facts before you chat…
New Managed Forex Account – FXCM Sentiment Aggressive Fund
alan
Thanks to a fellow blogger who runs The Shark Investor blog I found out that FXCM is increasing their minimum account size from $1000 to $5000 on all of their managed forex account offerings starting Dec 1’st 2007. My original intention was to wait a bit and open an account with them and then do a full review here. Well, it appears time has pressured me to rush things a bit, so as a consequence I just quickly funded my existing account (currently trading with GalleonFX) via credit card and then completed the LOD (Letter of Direction) which instructed them to take funds from my current account and use them to fund my new account. The whole procedure took like 5 minutes, if not even less.
Now the only problem is that most of you won’t be able to get in on this one with the current $1000 minimum. If you are a new FXCM customer, most likely by the time you complete your account paperwork you will reach the deadline of Dec 1’st 2007. Sorry, but what can I say, c’est la vie. You can always get in with $5000, which now that I think of it might be a “safer” account size.
Note that FXCM has two managed funds on offer: Sentiment Fund & Sentiment Aggressive Fund
The only difference between the two is the account leverage. Obviously the Aggressive Fund uses high leverage and is therefore a much riskier fund, but naturally the performance level is much higher.
Here are the performance levels for both funds so far:
Sentiment Fund:
2006:
Nov Dec
1.04% 1.44%
2007:
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept Oct
0.24% 1.60% 5.42% 0.25% -1.57% -1.12% 7.68% 5.84% 4.02% 5.73%
Sentiment Aggressive Fund:
2007:
July Aug Sept Oct
15.41% 9.83% 8.23% 10.97%
As always I will be making regular update here about how my account is performing.
Details about these Managed Forex Account can be found at FXCM’s website:
http://www.fxcm.com
BTW for those who try to label Olint members stupid, greedy etc. Saying “obviously” Smith was a “Ponzi” you might want to note that he got 30 years for other crimes, not for Ponzi….
We need some remedial reading classes Minister Holness. Even for media practitioners and others in the “top echelons.”
Well Floridian, that is because there is no crime defined as “running a Ponzi Scheme.” However, the Fraud for which Smith was convicted was the essence of his ponzi scheme. False misleading representations that he was trading successfully on the F/X market, with the intent to lure “investors.” He has admitted to this fraud in his plea. He admitted to doing little or no trading and to using new funds to pay old investors: The very definition of a Ponzi Scheme!
[Bernie Madoff was not convicted of running a Ponzi Scheme either. Madoff was convicted of the crimes of fraud and numerous other state and federal crimes.]
This FRAUD was what was obvious to dispassionate intelligent onlookers. I maintain that Smith’s claims were so incredible that those who “invested” simple chose to ignore the corollary, numerous, and blatantly obvious red flags.
Smith is now where he belongs. One can only hope that Jamaicans have learned a few valuable lessons from this: if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is; if someone has done you wrong, for God’s sake, don’t sit on your ass, do as Belcher, Walker et al have done, TAKE ACTION! [We are still seeing people popping in on this and other fora, asking questions about world wise, lefam, f1 etc., as if they are just siting there waiting for someone to act on their behalf.]
Disagree with their approach all you want, one has to reserve some appreciation and admiration for the persistence they showed in seeing to it that Smith faced the music.
Well it has certainly been REAL. Good luck to all who still have work to do. Put your shoulder to the wheel. Nothing in this life comes easy it takes hard work.
Nocotec, I make a special mention to you above and beyond all the others (a few others were of substance but the rest a bit hapless).
Thank you Nocotec (Nonco), thank you for challenging me by saying that ALL the things I wanted could not be done.
Now at this time, with every one of my goals completed I must salute the one who motivated me just that little extra by saying it could not be done.
Thank You Noncotec!
Of course I do agree Nonco that the wider “student body” shall not reap the success I bask in today and that is unfortunate. They must confront their own demons.
But the lesson learnt (for youth in Jamaica in particular) is never say never and all things are possible as long as one is prepared to work hard. Keep you eye on the prize. No obstacle is insurmountable. No matter how high the bar you ‘canna cross’ it if you really want.
Good luck to those who just starting to do something for themselves. Turn you han’ of course! Who else going do it for you???
All the very best.
See Nonco, cases against the feeders sprouting from all over now…
August 9th 2011
Click to access Dowe_v_Issa_2_USA.pdf
Ha ha Floridian…As I stood in that courtroom, I too couldn’t help but think of your friend Nonco. What a class act that guy is…..
I talk to all of you idiots who thought the little place in the Turks and Caicos did, and the big Jams were scared to do, were we right?
You guys who thought he was the Messiah of FX trading in the early days of this blog, absolute shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wrong blog, you must be talking about this lot http://invest4life.wordpress.com/
@floridian
Olint was a Ponzi. Miak summed it up well.
Tafari:
Have you located DS hidden funds? Your past claims hinted at various locations you have identified which would lead to recovery for Olint Investors. When are you going share this info with us and US authorities? BTW, what were you doing in the Court Room? I hope you were not expecting some form of payout in court…were you? 🙂
Hail John Doe
From time to time I pop in and have a look but as i wrote a few years ago history has absolved us detractors. The Sage did see it in vision :).
Oh how much I would love to talk to the people who kicked us off the #4 bus.
Patricia
StressnowBless, the high priestess
Kevin the driva (Bruce?)
DSilverlining
RedP! we di I deh?
I only hope lesson learnt but since the mother of the stupid is always pregnant, I will not hold out much hope.
Hail Robin,
Dr McAllister thinks money is out there and David will trade again.
The ACOM better plant acorns. I believe McAllister once set up shop as a financial adviser. Shows how much the Idiot knows.
Hail Robin Irie.
Good to see you and Jay still around. Hope Nocotec is doing okay too.
Please don’t believe that all $126M the Feds have identified to be recovered from O’lint will be absorbed by claimants in the US and T&C. No interest payments will be made with any claim, and lots of investors can’t meet the requirements for claims. Get your docs together and get the Jamaican courts working on behalf of Jamaicans.
Not in my town…Govna…dig it up…
From: David Lazarus dhplaz@gmail.com
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
2/6/2007
Barry,
Below is the names you asked for:
1. Neil Andradie
2. James Robertson
3. Charlene Robertson
4. Patricia Nicholson
5. Justin Ogilvie- plus any in his wifes’ name.
6. Gassan Azan
7. Andrea Hughsam
8. Patrick Tempral
9. Ansel Tempral. new & old.
10.Charles Condell. (Eric)
Hope this will do.
David
Backra work never done?
The government as employer is somewhat like backra: an anonymous, faceless factor X to which one is not personally accountable.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110821/cleisure/cleisure3.html
Smitty, is you cause this you know. Every time I seek a little R&R them want mi discipline a bad behaviour BACKRA ….one just like you.
You out to make me too wealthy Smitty….
http://www.lngworldnews.com/tag/fsru/
Abort LNG project – OCG
The Office of the Contractor General (OCG), says its investigation into the award of a contract in relation to government’s proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project has uncovered glaring irregularities which require criminal investigation.
The investigation related to the emergence of the Exmar Consortium as the preferred bidder for the construction of a floating storage and re-gasification unit for LNG.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=28884
Always learning:
Learn this…..There are some things you don’t need to know. I get your major contribution ……Sometimes we try to be funny and end up looking foolish.
Bart Lavent paid US$4 Million of Gratuity to Ian Moore, James Robertson, Steven Wedderburn and Don Creary. Moore and Robertson also flew on David Smith’s Olint Plane. The US$4 Million has to be paid back to Bart Lavent because the LNG Project is both corrupt and dead in Jamaica.
The LNG Scandal will take the same course as Olint. Jamaica’s DPP will ignore it, under political pressure, the US would step in because the bribery involved breached US jurisdiction. An American grand jury will indite the major actors and everybody will wonder why nothing was done when all the evidence was in Jamaica in the 1st place. History will repeat itself.
James Robertson’s return to Jamaica might be a big mistake.
“Most of today’s politicians realise that nobody in their ministries, or any of their expensive consultants, can tell them what is going on any more. They have a steering wheel in their hands without a clue what – if anything – it is connected to. Our leaders are reassuring us that the ship will certainly survive the growing storm. But on closer inspection they are either quietly pocketing the silverware or discreetly making their way to the lifeboats.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/aug/24/inside-secret-world-of-hackers
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1955109913/
Panama and the British Virgin Islands will be the Chancellor George Osborne’s next targets as he extends his crackdown on tax havens used by rich Britons to salt their assets away.
HM Revenue and Customs will aim to reach information-sharing agreements with Panama and the Virgin Islands similar to the one with Switzerland announced on Wednesday which will net the Treasury more than £5bn in unpaid tax.
After targeting bank accounts in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, HMRC will now turn the spotlight on wealthy Britons who use “disguised ownership” to keep the taxman at bay.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osbornes-targeting-of-overseas-tax-havens-appalling-deal-for-uk-2344106.html
“I have sent my documentation support to the appropriate Jamaica agencies. ”
Jamaica has no “appropriate” agencies.
John Doe, looks like this blog might have a second wind with JA, MD and others going at it. Interesting.
Once the election date is called I will rock the world of this blog for the people of Jamaica. floridian has not one iota of “substantiating” problems…
BTW excellent strategy by the Kenyan in the women’s marathon. That race should be used as a teaching aid for (non sport) subjects in our schools.
Having endured the polygraph, the Labour MP can see a role for deploying lie-detectors as a means to help restore the public’s faith in politicians.
“I think an annual polygraph test for MPs would be a damn good thing – it would actually show that we’re willing and keen to do it.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14669084
Defendant shall cooperate in the collection of DNA, shall be prohibited from incurring new credit charges, etc., shall refrain from engaging in any employment related to stocks, securities and investments…
Court Reporter: Koretta Stanford (NBL)
In light of the fact that the Facebook “Defenders” and the “Supporters” of David Smith are retreated temporarily (they will be back to hold Jamaica back in some form or another it’s just a matter of time) I thought I might lead those interested to understand Smith and the wider Jamaican society about the reasons for the fraud and why so many are involved.
1. Read Prof. Hicklings/paisely’s work DISMISS IT ONLY AT THE PERIL OF THE NATION.
2. Consider that far greater number of letters of support for David Smith than letters recommending society be protected from him were sent to the court.
3. Note also that many ‘supporters’ tried to simultaneously line up for money back that Smith confessed he stole from them while telling them in COURT the whole entire thing was pure fraud. (Kool Aid in Mona and Hermitage? In the bottled water?)
4. The overseas unit who has the money is startled by this aspect of Jamaican culture being so prevalent. Not to mention the sheer size and numbers of this backward groupthink. i.e I write to not let David Smith go to jail but thinking I can not be seen I try to go in the back door and take money having done nothing and in many cases MANY things to let Smith escape). Conscience? Shameless?
Perhaps a dedicated thread here Jay. For our people are broken en masse.
In the meantime do the reading and understand that the country is in trouble. Almost every letter ‘in favor’ of Smith is laced with tell tale narcissistic clues. Some to the point that one wonders if certain supporters who wrote were actually trying to get him a long sentence while expressing their own “god gifts” to the court. Trust me no Judge in America cares for any “special” status (real or imagined) that obtains for any of us in Jamaica.
The ABUSE of RELIGION must also be considered. So intertwined in our society that I am tempted to say it is the most destructive force in Jamaica but alas, we have politicians and the more comprehensive issues of CORRUPTION in Jamaica.
David Smith? His supporters? The zealots?All you have to do is read…
“Spiritual materialism or spiritual narcissism are terms used to describe mistakes spiritual seekers commit which turn the pursuit of spiritualism into an ego building and confusion creating endeavor.”
“Physical materialism is the belief that possessions can bring release from suffering. ”
“Psychological materialism is the belief that a particular philosophy, belief system, or point of view will bring release from suffering. So seeking refuge by strongly identifying with a particular religion, philosophy, political party or viewpoint, for example, would be psychological materialism.”
“Collective narcissism is related to ethnocentrism; however, ethnocentrism primarily focuses on self-centeredness at an ethnic or cultural level, while collective narcissism is extended to any type of ingroup beyond just cultures and ethnicities.”
“Codependency is a tendency to behave in overly passive or excessively caretaking ways that negatively impact one’s relationships and quality of life. Narcissists are considered to be natural magnets [David Smith the ultimate MAGNET?] for the codependent. ”
See Narcissism…
SUPERVISED RELEASE: 3 years, unsupervised if the defendant leaves the United States and does not voluntarily re-enter after being deported or removed.
Jamaica needs to wake up to the realities before a master Charlatan returns…
“unprincipled narcissist: including antisocial features. A charlatan—is a fraudulent, exploitative, deceptive and unscrupulous individual.”
And the multitude of them running around town right now “Drunk with Power.”
Who knows what when…That is the next question to be answered. Floridian you say Panama and the VI….The brits alone?
City Kingston
Stocks and Securities Limited
24-26 Grenada Crescent
Ground & Floor One
Kingston 05
Jamaica, WI
webmail.sslinvest.com [72.252.251.42]
Name Fiscal Services (EDP) Limited
Handle FSEL
Street 235B OLD HOPE ROAD
KINGSTON 6, JAMAICA
Organization Bank of Jamaica (BANKO-108)
Name CHISHOLM , JONAH A.
Handle JAC1-ARIN
Company Caribbean Systematics Limited
Street 53 Knutsford Boulevard
Name Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Handle KLNNKF
mail.wardkim.com [70.88.37.101]
What is the above about?
Map the servers. Columbus as well. Columbus will be you know who.
Most all took the bait early August..11th 15th Ochi on the 16th and BOJ on the 19th 2011.
Thx. Will ever get some down time?
BENTLEY COMMENTS TO REUTERS ON MADOFF “NET WINNERS”
December 28, 2010 Reuters
Corporate Restructuring and Bankruptcy partner Philip Bentley was quoted in a December 28, 2010 Reuters article about the increasingly likely prospect that Madoff’s victims will be reimbursed for a majority, and possibly all, of their losses as a result of the litigation recoveries obtained by the Madoff trustee from allegedly culpable parties. In light of this prospect, Bentley observed, the trustee should consider suspending his efforts to collect from the more than one thousand innocent investors whom he recently sued: “We would hope that Mr. Picard would focus his efforts on the parties he alleges were culpable, and put on hold suits against the thousand innocent investors he’s suing to recover profits.” Bentley represents a sizeable group of “net winner” investors who have been sued by the Madoff trustee.
Jamaican druglord Christopher Coke pleads guilty to racketeering and assault
By BRUCE GOLDING
Court papers say one of the victims was marked for death after stealing “drug proceeds” from Coke, who then administered his own brand of “Scarface”-style justice.
“While the victim was tied down, Coke killed him with a chainsaw,” prosecutors Joceyln Strauber and John Zach wrote.
In court this afternoon, Coke spoke with a lilting accent as he admitted conspiring to ship at least 3,000 kilos of marijuana and 15 kilos of cocaine to the United States between 1999 and June 2010.
He also admitted ordering the 2007 knifing of a Bronx drug dealer who owed money to one of his cronies.
“He got stabbed in his face,” Coke said of the unidentified victim.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/jamaican_druglord_christopher_coke_e0W0yrd52zJTNikveT4Q2J#ixzz1WeGnjPOl
Federal authorities to go after Dudus’ assets
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=31567
Nonco, how Dudus Olint account fit into that?
We hope that Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke will sing his heart out
Observer Editorial
The instinct of the Jamaican people about former Tivoli Gardens strongman, Mr Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, was correct all along.
Tenuously but strenuously holding onto a legal technicality, the administration resisted with might and main the US’s attempts to have
Mr Coke extradited, from August 2009 to June 2010.
During that time, it flatly told the Jamaican nation that its desire to yield to the extradition request was unconstitutional and wrong. The people were very willing to have that tested in the Jamaican courts, but that too was thwarted by the steely resolve of Mr Golding’s faithful Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne.
We felt then that Mr Coke might be willing to call names of powerful people and that he might even have been fearing for his life here, hence his decision to surrender to the Americans.
Between now and then, we hope that Mr Coke will ‘sing like a bird’, naming names and pointing fingers. In a small society such as ours, it is not possible for Mr Coke to have been able to run such a ‘successful’ organisation without the involvement of well-placed individuals in both the public and private sectors. Not to mention the beneficiaries of his nefarious activities.
Sing, Mr Coke, sing your heart out.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/We-hope-that-Mr-Christopher–Dudus–Coke-will-sing-his-heart-out_9579010
Dudus can rest his throat Observer. Smitty, who has been sentenced to more than Coke faces will be behaving at the mike and be well in tune. He will follow the lyric sheet without mistake for as they have said, “We nuh play…”
Even when birds choose not to sing there is a plethora of other stock in the arsenal.
Mark. Mark. My words?
The payment of stamp duty is one of the principal sources of revenue for the Turks and Caicos islands. I am therefore concerned, not only to carry out his Lordship’s wishes in this particular case but also to establish whether the practice of deliberate underpayment has prevailed more widely throughout the TCI and if so, whether there is evidence of the commission of criminal offences.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/sept-1-2011-tcig-press-statement-attorney-general
Click to access Christopher_Coke.pdf
The plea deal does not require him to cooperate or to testify on behalf of the government in any proceeding.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Dudus–lawyer-reveals-details-of-plea-deal#ixzz1WjPPmZDU
http://www.caribjournal.com/2011/09/01/op-ed-david-rowe-on-the-end-of-the-line-for-christopher-coke/
One in 25 business leaders may be a psychopath, study finds
Psychopaths use charm and manipulation to achieve success in the workplace, according to a US study
The study, conducted by the New York psychologist Paul Babiak, suggests that they disguise the condition by hiding behind their high status, playing up their charm and by manipulating others.
“Part of the problem is that the very things we’re looking for in our leaders, the psychopath can easily mimic.
“Their natural tendency is to be charming. Take that charm and couch it in the right business language and it sounds like charismatic leadership.”
The survey suggests psychopaths are actually poor managerial performers but are adept at climbing the corporate ladder because they can cover up their weaknesses by subtly charming superiors and subordinates.
“But if you look at their actual performance and ratings as a team player and productively, it’s dismal. Looked good, performed badly.
“You have to think of psychopaths as having at their disposal a very large repertoire of behaviours. So they can use charm, manipulation, intimidation, whatever is required.
“What this allows them to do is use words to manipulate and con and to interact with you without the baggage of feeling your pain.”
• Horizon: Are You Good Or Evil? is on BBC2 at 9pm on Wednesday 7 September
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/sep/01/psychopath-workplace-jobs-study
60 member Parliament in Jamaica so at least 2 psychopaths. Which ones are they?
http://www.olintja.com/uploadeddocuments/20100304-182949-157-Prezi-50.JPG
6. (C) In 2004, there were a number of graphic illustrations
of the weakness of law enforcement and political institutions
in combating crime. One particularly stark example: at the
time of his murder in July 2004, alleged Spanish Town “One
Order” gang leader Oliver “Bulbie” Smith was using a vehicle
registered in the name of his alleged criminal deputy, Andrew
“Bun Man” Hope, and Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) MP Olivia
“Babsy” Grange. (Ref B) Police questioned Grange for several
hours regarding her connection to Smith and Hope. She denied
knowing Smith and claimed that she only guaranteed a loan for
Hope, who is one of her “constituency workers.” During a
four hour search of Smith’s home, the police found a green
Jamaica Labour Party t-shirt with the words “One Love Babsy
Cares” written on the front and “One Order Central St.
Catherine” written on the back. The investigation into
Grange’s relationship with Smith has been dropped.
(C) Deputy Commissioner of Police Lucius Thomas, who is
to become the new Commissioner of the JCF on January 19 (Ref
C), recently told Poloff that every illegal operation in
Jamaica – gangs, drug runners, extortionists, etc. have at
least two to three JCF officers involved. He stated frankly
that it is impossible for illegal activity to take place in
Jamaica without some sort of JCF assistance.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2005/01/05KINGSTON100.html
(C) Summary: Finance Ministry Financial Investigations
Division (FID) Chief Technical Director Mike Surridge told
Pol/Econ Chief March 4 that FID is investigating a
naturalized Jamaican of Pakistani origin for suspected
narcotics-related money laundering. The suspect, Mohammed
Tufail Ahmed, (aka Mushtaq Ahmad Mian) owns Zulfiqar Motors
in Kingston. Acting on a tip, FID uncovered suspicious
information about Mian before recently seizing approximately
120 cars from the dealership. Surridge said that due to
possible money laundering/Miami links uncovered by the
investigations, and given Mian’s original nationality,
Minister of Finance Omar Davies had instructed him
immediately to bring the information to the attention of the
Embassy.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2005/03/05KINGSTON622.html
The collapse of Olint was brought on by the withdrawal of funds by its two most
influential clients, who took out an estimated USD 500
million, causing a fatal run on the assets.
Roper believes Olint had about 3,000 accounts listed,
but the actual number of participants could be 20 times
larger based on the number of entities that served as feeders
including F1 traders, Lewfam Investments (operated by Neil
Lewis and Janice Lewis), various churches and individuals who
deposited money for others who did not have an account.
According to Roper, Olint’s CEO David Smith had a
serious gambling problem and may have used clients’ funds to
cover his gambling losses. Dennis Chung, a respected
accountant and advisor to the Ministry of Finance, who knows
Smith well, agrees telling Emboff, “Smith had three vices:
women, gambling, and drinking which distracted him from
trading.” The collapse appears to have been brought on by
two clients, Joseph Issa (owner of highly successful
Shell/Cool Oasis petrol and service stations across the
island, and son of John and Ida Issa, owners of SuperClubs
resorts) and businessman Peter Bovell (son of well known
attorney, Christopher Bovell, of the firm Dunn Cox and
Treasurer of the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP)). They were
personal friends of Smith, but lost confidence in his
currency trading skills so they withdrew their funds. The
Bovells and Joe Issa are also known to be JLP fundraisers.
(C) According to Roper, Issa brought his unease about
Smith to Donovan Davis Jr., the Managing Partner of Capital
Blu Management, an asset management firm based in Melbourne
Florida that has a currency trading division. NOTE: Davis
gave an interview to the Observer newspaper on April 25 in
which he questions the promises of 10 percent a month returns
being offered by schemes in Jamaica. Davis himself said he
averages returns of 3 to 5 percent a month. END NOTE.
According to Roper, Davis asked Smith if he could see Olint’s
financial records, which Smith refused. Davis then asked to
see Smith’s currency trading platform and strategy, which
Smith also refused. Davis allegedly told Issa and Bovell to
pull their money out of Olint, fearing Smith might be a
fraud. Issa and Bovell may have had up to USD 500 million
combined in Olint; the withdrawal caused a run on the
scheme’s funds leading it to collapse.
Roper said the USD 500 million appears to have been deposited with Davis for currency trading in the U.S. NOTE: Emboffs also have heard
that Issa and Bovell asked Smith to give them a part of his
business since they were the biggest clients; when Smith
refused; the two chose to withdraw their funds in
retaliation.
Olint Partied Until the End– Ties to Political and Business
Elite
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¶7. (C) Just prior to the collapse, Smith held a lavish party
in the Turks and Caicos, where he had moved his operations
(reftel A). According to Roper, Smith rented a private jet
from Donovan Davis to make nearly 20 trips between Jamaica to
Turks and Caicos to shuttle in guests. Smith also owns his
own private jet. Roper said he has been told that important
names in the Jamaican business community as well as some
politicians from the ruling party attended. Emboffs said
they heard Member of Parliament for West Portland, Daryl Vaz,
and James Robertson, Minister without Portfolio, in the
Office of the Prime Minister, are rumored to have attended
and Roper, responded “so then you already know.” Chung told
Econoff on August 18 that “he had no doubt” that Vaz and
Robertson were at the party, but said he believes there were
more politicians from both the JLP and PNP at the event.
Financial journalist Keith Collister told Emboff that he also
heard that Vaz and Robertson were at the party in addition to
other high ranking politicians.
Who Is David Smith?
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¶8. (C) Smith banked on his reputation in the financial sector
to build up Olint’s reputation. He had worked for seven
years as a licensed representative of the respected Jamaica
Money Market Brokers (JMMB) where he specialized in foreign
currency trading. A January 25 Observer newspaper article
listed Smith as one of the “hotshot traders,” and “perhaps
the best known and now renowned FX traders to come on to the
scene in recent years.”
However, Smith’s career was not
untarnished. While at JMMB he sold foreign currency reserves
on behalf of the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) at a premium and
pocketed the difference from the official rate. Although
never formally charged with a crime, Smith was fired from
JMMB.
Hayden said that despite Smith’s talents he would not pass a “fit and proper”
assessment from the FSC because of his prior infraction
related to the BOJ currency issue; and therefore refused to
apply for regulated status with the FSC.
Chung said he was also concerned that Smith was
becoming associated with “questionable individuals” adding
“it was not good that he became involved with these kinds of
people.” Chung said concern about these associations led him
to sever his relationship with Smith.
(SBU) Olint also sponsored the high profile Air Jamaica
Jazz and Blues Festival in January and launched the Olint
Foundation to help poor Jamaicans in December 2007. The
foundation was started with a USD 1 million donation by Smith
and the guest speaker was Michael Missick, the Premier of
Turks and Caicos. NOTE: Smith appeared to have a close
relationship with Missick which was also one of the factors
that led Smith to move his operations to Turks and Caicos and
buy a US multi-million dollar house there. END NOTE. Jared
Martinez of Market Traders Institute in the US attended the
event and pledged USD 140,000 at the annoucement of the
foundation.
Roper said the demise of Olint has the potential to
be more economically devastating to Jamaica given the high
profile of the members which include members of the middle
and upper classes. A large number of lawyers, doctors,
politicians, pilots (who invested in the feeder F1), and
business owners made up account holders.
records.
Some in the GOJ may not want the full list of
clients brought to light for political reasons, and also for
fear that the deposits they made would indicate far higher
earnings than have been reported in tax returns.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/08/08KINGSTON726.html
JLP’s Funding Difficulties
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5.(C) Golding then noted that, historically, the JLP had relied on
corporate donors for 70 percent of the Party’s funding; however, the
“levels of money needed” had “grown beyond corporate donors’ ability.” He estimated the election would cost 250 million Jamaican dollars (3.7 million U.S.). Once the elections had been called, the JLP’s donors would be “more forthcoming.” However, the most recent results from pollster Bill Johnson, published in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, purporting that the PNP currently enjoyed a seven-point lead nationally were “not helpful” in raising donations. The JLP was “going after” about nineteen constituencies normally held by the PNP, and money was “key” in swinging the marginal constituencies.
Corruption Endemic: Polls Suspect
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7.(C) Golding then observed that there were “not many things in Jamaica without a price tag: newspaper stories are for sale.” He described corruption as “endemic,” and acknowledged its presence within the JLP. Casting cold water on the Bill Johnson poll in the Jamaica Gleaner, he said “if you want a poll, it’s for sale.”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=486
NAS Director met with Derrick Smith, Shadow Minister for National Security, on June 26. Smith was confident that the opposition JLP party would win the next election. He expressed the JLP’s disappointment that the U.S. has not come out in favor of a JLP administration, levied criticism at the current Minister of National Security for poor resource management, called for reform of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, and expressed skepticism regarding the need for international extradition.
(C) When questioned about the JLP’s emotional and financial ability to sustain the campaign if the Prime Minister waits until later in the year to call the election, Smith was confident that the “friends of the JLP,” an admittedly quiet group that is made up primarily of business leaders, would continue to provide monetary support.
Smith does not appear to be a proponent of international extradition. When challenged about whether drug king pins would be prosecuted
if they remained in Jamaica, Smith agreed that they would not, and that for the moment, seemingly despite his own personal reservations, it was better to remove the individuals to the United States.
C) The DEA is currently investigating Christopher Coke, a known drug dealer, crime boss, and JLP supporter. Coke’s indictment and arrest, even if it occurs before the next election, would not result in extradition to the United States until at least three or four years of legal challenges to the arrest and extradition had occurred. The current Minister of National Security has been the driving force behind the 2004 arrest and March 2007 extradition of Drug King Pin” Leebert Ramcharan and Donovan Williams. Given his less that enthusiastic support of international extradition, if Smith were to become Minister of National Security, he would have to be carefully cultivated in order to ensure that he would not stand as a roadblock to the removal of major crime figures such as Coke.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2007/06/07KINGSTON1012.html
(C) Should the JLP win the upcoming elections, Samuda stated that curbing crime and good governance would be a top priority stating simply “break the law, go to jail.” Under a JLP led government, Samuda promised a greater collaboration with both theU.S. and the UK in tackling crime, drug trafficking, and corruption. He also stated the JLP would: work to reduce the time between the criminal act and ultimate punishment (NOTE: Jamaican courts are notoriously over-burdened with cases taking years to make their way
through the judicial process.
Samuda conceded that these changes would not happen quickly. “We need to restore law, a sense of morality” which, according to Samuda,
may take years.
Additionally, Samuda agreed that corruption has become endemic throughout the GOJ and the island, but stated that the JLP’s plan “can’t work if you make exceptions because your friends are involved.” Samuda promised that JLP members would be asked whether they “are on the side of law or the side of compromise?”
When pressed further about ridding the JLP of members who are either corrupt or connected to criminal enterprises, Samuda stated “Any JLP MP involved in crime or corruption are out!”
The PNP, according to Samuda, believes that businessmen are
corrupt; therefore, the PNP weighs down the business community with more and more rules and regulations to “keep them from cheating people.” The JLP, Samuda stated, believes the opposite: businessmen are basically honest and should not be subject to overly burdensome regulations. While noting that the JLP will “have severe consequences for those (businessmen) who violate the law,” Samuda stated the JLP will loosen the regulatory environment.
See: JIS Website, Samuda’s testimony under oath at the Manatt/Coke Commission of Enquiry.
11. (C) The only crack in Shaw,s confidence came when DCM
asked what effect the Prime Minister,s announcement of
August 27 as the election date was having on JLP finances.
Shaw said it had strained the budget, as JLP was gearing
their effort for a late July election. DCM asked whether the
JLP,s normal donors (generally, in the business community)
might not step up and provide more funds. Shaw indicated that
they were already squealing before the election date was
announced.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
SLAVERY BEING PRACTICED IN JAMAICA!
The Victim
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¶2. (C) The alleged victim is a Burmese national who the GOJ believes was brought into Jamaica in 2000 to work as a domestic. She speaks very limited English (e.g., “yes,” “thank you,” “hello,” etc.). The victim reported she was responsible for cooking and cleaning for a doctor, the doctor’s husband, and their son. She was not allowed to go outside of the home without the doctor accompanying her. The victim stated that between 2000 and 2006 she was not paid any money; however, she said the doctor told her that she would put money away for her starting in 2006. The victim claims the doctor has opened a savings account for her, but that the account is in the doctor’s name. The victim has no idea how much money is in the account. The victim reported that she had her own room, that the doctor bought clothes for her, and that she took care of two cats. The victim ate at set times of the day. She described a typical day as starting after morning prayers. She then makes the beds in the house. She then moves to work in the garden. She cooks lunch and then returns to the garden until dark. At 5:00 pm, she prepares dinner (which, according to the victim, takes two hours). In between, she is responsible for cleaning the entire house (three stories). She has also been tasked with cooking food for a local monastery. She reports she has no days off. Finally, she reported that the doctor gave her parents USD 150.00 for her.
She is reportedly more concerned about who will take care of her cats than the 7 years she lived as a slave.
After securing a translator, the translator promptly withdrew after only one interview. According to Bryant, the Burmese community “got to him.” Bryant believes that because the doctor and her family are
prominent members, they have threatened or intimidated the rest of the community into not assisting with the MOJ investigation.
The Traffickers
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¶5. (C) The doctor and her family are prominent within the
Burmese community. They also are Jamaican citizens and are
believed to travel under both Jamaican and Burmese passports
and have U.S. visas. They live in a three-story mansion in
the Beverly Hills subsection of Kingston. As the name
implies, this subsection is one of the wealthiest parts of
Jamaica indicating that the family could easily afford paid
labor.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2007/07/07KINGSTON1131.html
Senior Opposition JLP Senator confident of victory, but not
complacent
(E) Pervasive corruption had been a problem in Jamaica for
many years, but had yet to resonate with the electorate as a
high priority; therefore, the JLP’s campaign had not dwelt
upon it. However, once in power, Golding would do his utmost
to clean up crooked contracting and other government abuses.
5.(C) Even as we spoke, Collister received cellular phone
calls from economist and editorialist John Rapley and from
PSOJ Chairman Chris Zacca asking whether, through his
editorial connections with the “Gleaner,” he might have any
inside information regarding the Stone poll to be released
the next day;
(B) He was very concerned about the long-term effects of
“CashPlus” and other Ponzi schemes operating in Jamaica.
Thousands of lower income people were being lured into
investing their meager savings. When, inevitably, this scam
eventually collapsed, widespread unrest could ensue; the risk
of violence would be even greater than on Election Day.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2007/08/07KINGSTON1317.html
Derrick Smith Minister of National Security
12.(S) There have been allegations in the past from British High Commission contacts that Smith was involved with known gang leaders. Sources stated that Smith, along with then JLP boss Seaga, were complicit in weapons trafficking in a 2002 Department of Defense report. At the time the British had placed phone taps on suspected gang members in Jamaica, and recorded a phone call from Derrick Smith to a known gang leader ordering them to Qquiet things down for a while.Q Source stated that for about two weeks after the phone call there were no indications of weapons trafficking.
In the past in his role as Shadow Minister for Justice, Smith expressed interest in DEA policies and operations in Jamaica.
James Rudolph Edward Robertson
Robertson was associated with a group of young JLP followers, with the moniker Qthe Young TurksQ, who sought to push Edward Seaga
out of the party leadership during the 1990s.
26.(C) In 2004, Robertson was named along with fellow JLP members, Shahine Robinson and Horace Chang, as being involved with money laundering and organized crime by local sources. According to DEA sources he was involved with Norris Nembhard, a drug kingpin awaiting deportation to the U.S. The source alleged that RobertsonQs father, Ishmael Robertson, was forced to hand over acres of land to settle his sonQs drug debts to Nembhard. Robertson has also has had frictions with fellow JLP stalwarts in the past. In
2003 he defeated Babsy Grange as Deputy Leader, and caused
her to lose her composure and shout expletives from the podium during a party conference. In the past he also was critical of Bruce Golding for not standing up to Seaga earlier and for walking away and forming the new party instead of fighting it out.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2007/09/07KINGSTON1470.html
Renowned investment banker and Chairman of NCB, Michael Lee Chin, expressed concern to the U.S. Ambassador saying he is receiving “threats” from those who have the incorrect belief that he is responsible for clients of Cash Plus not receiving their money.
5. (C) The Jamaican Ministry of National Security (MNS) told Emboff that Prime Minister Bruce Golding plans to meet with the CEO of Cash Plus, Carlos Hill soon as part of some pending GOJ intervention with the scheme.
The PIOJ contact said it will be difficult to address the issue because there are rumors that a number of politicians, judges and private sector leaders may be involved in the schemes.
The Managing Director of Olint is David Smith who recently launched the USD 1 million Olint philanthropic foundation in Jamaica. The event was attended by several government ministers and Prime Minister Michael Missick of the Turks and Caicos islands where Olint recently moved its headquarters.
If the scheme collapses it will create a ripple effect to other alternative investment schemes in the country and create a major political challenge for the relatively new Jamaican Labor Party-led government as it tries to explain to Jamaicans that it will not provide assistance to those who lost their savings.
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express out thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards,
Bruce Golding.
¶8. (SBU) Prime Minister Bruce Golding has told the press (see
reftels) that the GOJ will not offer a bailout. Widespread press reporting of the schemes has also resulted in political finger pointing by the ruling Jamaican Labor Party (JLP) and the opposition Peoples National Party (PNP). JLP Finance Minister Audley Shaw claims GOJ attorneys advised the former Finance Minister, Dr. Omar Davies, to take action in regulating the scheme, which Shaw claims Davies failed to do.
——- Original Message ——-
From : Audley Shaw[mailto:fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com]
Sent : 11/11/2006 11:01:13 AM
To : dsmith@kasnet.com
Cc :
Subject : RE: fx trading
It was a pleasure meeting you and your dear wife. I’m glad that you shared your knowledge and concerns with me. A friend of
mine is keen on investing and would like to talk with you or better yet, he wants to meet with you if possible. He has asked me
to fly over with him to see you when it is convenient to you. Please let me know.
Ms. Llewellyn further related (please protect) that she had to endure much from Pantry. She just had to smile and bear it. When Pantryleft, she said he even took his desk with him, leaving her without one. He did not tell her that she had been selected to succeed him until his going away office party. At that time, he pulled an envelope out of his pocket which contained the document officially naming her as the new DPP. Ms. Llewellyn attributed her staying power to her mother who told her that she could accomplish whatever she wanted through hard work and perseverance. Ms. Llewellyn advised that she starts her work day at 4:30 AM.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/04/08KINGSTON290.html
On May 5, Director of Elections Danville Walker announced his immediate resignation. Walker’s resignation marks the latest casualty in the dual citizenship imbroglio that already has forced at least three Members of Parliament to formally renounce their U.S. citizenship (Ref A). Under Jamaican law, the post of Director of Elections may not have sworn allegiance to a foreign power. In his official statement, he stated that he was unwilling to renounce his U.S. citizenship.
The 49-year old certified public accountant took over an organization
that was failing in its basic mission to provide up-to-date voters lists and to allow free and fair elections at all polling stations. However he has been at the center of much of the recent controversy of dual national elected as Members of Parliament (MPs) in contravention of the constitution. Walker’s official proclamations, that all candidates for Parliament had been properly nominated, were cited in the Supreme Court hearings of MP Daryl Vaz of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the election petition filed against him by PNP candidate Abe Dabdoub(Ref A). Walker later came under fire personally when his U.S. citizenship came to light in the media, since the ElectoralCommission (Interim) Act prohibits “allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power or state.”
Dabdoub maintains that he alerted the voters that Vaz was not eligible to serve in Parliament, and therefore any votes for Vaz were ‘null and void.’ Meanwhile, Vaz is using the publicity generated from the suit to
increase his own visibility, and appears more popular than ever among the constituents. (Note: Vaz has renounced his U.S. Citizenship, and Embassy Kingston delivered the Certificate of Loss of Nationality (CLN) to Vaz on May 6. After collecting his CLN documents, Vaz stated to Conoff that when PM Golding returns to Jamaica from his state visit to Cuba, he will deliver an ultimatum to two other JLP MPs to renounce or resign.
The Consular Section remains as busy as ever, and has seen huge demand for their attempts to offer special interview procedures for previous U.S. visa holders to renew their visas.
Thus, despite the controversy surrounding dual nationals serving in high government offices, there appears to be no decline in demand for U.S. travel documents and citizenship determinations among the
general population.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/05/08KINGSTON398.html
Crime Explosion lead to Smith’s Ouster
¶2. (C) It seems that Golding finally lost patience and decided to remove Smith despite his stature as Deputy Leader of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party. Smith, who has a laid back, some would say almost “absentee landlord” style, has been widely criticized since he took office eight months ago for inaction against Jamaica’s spiraling crime rate.
With a potential general election looming (Ref A), Golding will need Smith’s support within the party and one hopes that his appointment as Minister of Mines and Telecom will assuage Smith’s bruised ego.
Unlike Smith, MacMillan is known for being a high-energy, loquacious leader. When Golding was elected in September 2007, MacMillan was rumored to be on Golding’s short list as either a Special Advisor to Golding on Security or as a Special Advisor to Smith. MacMillan made no secret of his contempt for Smith as Minister of National Security, and as a result, ended up with an appointment as a Special Advisor on Corruption and Revenue for the Minister of Finance.
While his reputation for not suffering fools quietly and speaking directly has won him some fans among the international community, his recent rash action to engineer the removal not only of the Director of
the Financial Investigative Division, but also of her Deputy and Lead Investigator, earned him the ire of Jamaica’s main international partners. (Ref. D)
It remains to be seen if the new Commissioner of Police, Rear Admiral
Hardley Lewin, can work with MacMillan. According to Lewin’s wife, who was a member of the Jamaica Defence Force at the time,MacMillan retired from the JDF as a Colonel, because it became apparent that he would not get the one job that he coveted, Chief of Staff.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/05/08KINGSTON421.html
SUBJECT: JAMAICA: THE ALMOST RESIGNATION OF COMMISSIONER OF POLICE HARDLEY LEWIN
He shared with NAS that his decision to resign came after weeks of “oblique” public lambasting by the Prime Minister and his surrogates, such as the owner of Jamaica’s Daily Observer newspaper, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, that accused Lewin of failing to act to stop the recent increase in violent gang-related crime. (Ref B) Lewin stated that he
was also just fed up with the actions of certain restive members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s officer corps, who are supporters of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party. These officers, according to Lewin, have complained bitterly, directly to the Prime Minister that Lewin has not promoted them for their loyalty. Lewin stated that when he took the
job of Commissioner he expected corrupt members of the officer corps to attempt to sabotage him. However, this politically motivated menace caught him off guard.
Lewin and Prime Minister Golding have had a difficult relationship since 2005, when the Jamaica Defence Force, under Lewin’s command, led a raid into the Tivoli Gardens section of Kingston. At the time, Lewin, aptly described Tivoli, which is part of Golding’s constituency as “the mother of all garrisons.” Golding, in defense of his constituency, in turn accused Lewin of playing politics in support of the then ruling People’s National Party, for at the time election rumors were in the air. In January, 2008, again under Lewin’s command, this time as Commissioner of Police, Jamaican Security Forces conducted a joint police/military operation inside Tivoli Gardens. The UK and Canadian High Commissioners that Golding may still bear a grudge against Lewin for these operations and that this grudge is coloring Golding’s decision making.
On June 21, the UK High Commissioner, Jeremy Creswell informed the Canadian High Commissioner, the NAS Director and ICE Attache that there seems to be a “cabal” within Prime Minister Golding’s Government that still wants Lewin out. According to Creswell, immediately after Lewin’s decision to remain as Commissioner, James Robertson, Minister without Portfolio, Office of the Prime Minister, requested a private meeting with Creswell. During the meeting, Robertson, who is believed to have links to criminal organizations, expressed his fury over Lewin’s decision to stay, and criticized members of the Services Commission for persuading Lewin to
withdraw his resignation, calling them the UK’s friends. Creswell told us that he was surprised by and still unsure of the purpose of Robertson’s visit. Creswell’s analysis of an anti-Lewin sentiment within the Golding administration is shared by the Canadian High Commissioner.
Ministry of National Security Senior Advisor on Policy, Ann Marie Barnes, had previously informed the NAS director that Prime Minister Golding never wanted Lewin in the job and only took him when it became clear that there was no international support for his chosen candidate, Assistant Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington.
(Note: Ellington, who is considered by many to be an intelligent and capable officer, is suspected of having links to criminal organizations. The Assistant Commissioner of Police for Anti-Corruption, Justin Felice, a British officer seconded to the JCF, informed NAS that based on a request from Commissioner Lewin, he has pulled together a file on Ellington’s extra-curricular activities. On June 22, Lewin stated that he plans to call Ellington in to discuss his future with the JCF. According to Lewin, Ellington needs to decide whether he wants to be a police officer or something
else.)
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/06/08KINGSTON566.html
JAMAICA: PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING’S GOVERNMENT
Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government took office in September, 2007, amid great expectations at home and abroad. Nine months on, its performance has been checkered:
Although Golding has done little to endear himself at senior levels in Washington, cooperation with us on the ground in critical areas, especially law enforcement, remains strong: the apprehensions here in the past week of U.S. Marshals Top 15 fugitive David Clark and of Polk County, Florida murder suspect Davion Parson illustrate this. The pressures are taking a toll on the PM; an inveterate workaholic who has difficulty delegating responsibility, Golding now looks years older.
By any objective measure, in its first nine months the JLP Government’s accomplishments have included the following:
investigations of major national scandals, including a campaign finance imbroglio:
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express out thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
adroit handling of the dismantlement of “alternative investment” pyramid schemes, to include gradually dampening investor expectations of a government bailout
[RETURNING STOLEN MONEY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH A GOVT. BAILOUT. NO OLINT VICTIM HAS EVER ASKED FOR GOVT. BAILOUT]
[Members of the current govt. were BAILED OUT but not across the board]
7.(C) Comment: Bruce Golding has lurched from one crisis to
another since taking office last September, and his
popularity recently has taken a dip.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/06/08KINGSTON571.html
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/07/08KINGSTON596.html
Through the NAS Director, Llewelyn advised the embassy to not make any entreaties directly to the Minister of Justice, requesting that the U.S. instead allow the DPP to represent our interest with the Minister. This is the same advice that she had earlier passed to the KCO. As this was the first test of Prime Minister Golding’s government on a high-profile extradition, based on Llewelyn’s advice, Post began to work other political channels leaving Lightbourne alone.
July 8, the Minister of Justice signed the first surrender order, for Vivian “Jungo” Dally, who waived his right to a special hearing. On the 9th, Minister Lightbourne signed three more orders: for Robroy “Spy”
Williams; Herbert “Scary” Henry; and Glenford “Toe” Williams.
However, Nembhard’s order remained unsigned. On July 09, Lightbourne received copies of Nembhard’ defense motion requesting leave to appeal to the Privy Council. The Permanent Secretary told the NAS Director that afternoon that “these attorneys have to realize that this is serious business, and the games have to stop.” Late that evening, the ICE AttachQ received a call from MacMillan notifying us that Lightbourne was prepared to sign Nembhard’s order. He asked ICE to “take out the trash.”
That evening, the ICE AttachQ received a call from the Minister of National Security, urging us to have the prisoners removed ASAP. The Minister also informed the ICE AttachQ that he and Minister Lightbourne had been threatened with death if the extradition were to take place. The Minister told ICE he was taking steps to provide additional security to all who were under threat.
Post believes that Minister of National Security
Trevor MacMillan was instrumental in stiffening Lightbourne’s spine between July 5-10 when she signed the extradition orders. It is a very good sign that she apparently now understands the gamesmanship that goes on in Jamaica, and has stated that she will not wait to sign any future surrender orders because she has no interest in giving defense lawyers so much latitude in the future.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2008/07/08KINGSTON677.html
Jamaica: PM Golding concerned Justice System will Collapse
The following is a list of some broad conclusions that they shared with the Prime Minister:
a need for public engagement on corruption (not top-down media campaigns) but community-focused programs that people relate to and support;
— to not lose the confidence of the Jamaican public and the above
key crime fighting personnel, the government has to go after the
“Big Fish,” a large business, a high-ranking police officer, a politician, and it cannot be politically motivated, e.g., just opposition members.
Prime Minister Golding was very receptive to the comments
made by the team. He admitted that the weakest link for the whole
country is its justice system -“Our criminal justice system is in
danger of collapsing.” He is deeply aware of the problems his
government faces with corruption and shared anecdotes about his own personal interventions over the last nine months of his tenure as
Prime Minister: direct intervention to prevent corruption in contracting; counseling of party members regarding public corruption; and, having to get personally involved in witness protection cases to gain agreement from the witness to testify.
He also outlined some of the hurdles that the government continues to face. One example Golding cited had to do with corruption in public contracts. In 2007, Golding’s government tightened up the issuance of public contracts to prevent past practices of the granting ofcontracts to criminal dons. Golding told the team about one contract for USD $12-15 million that was let through a properly run competitive process. However, in classic mafia style, on the contractor’s first day on the job, the local Don showed up to explain “how things really work in Jamaica, and replaced the contractor with his people.” The contractor decided
that it was not worth his life or the future of his business to protest and so he simply privately sub-contracted all the work to the Don, retaining all the liability for himself. The sub-contract went “unnoticed,” until Golding himself visited the job site and saw “familiar faces” among the workers and started asking questions.
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Olint Post Mortem — Political Donations and The Cause of the Collapse
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The NAS Director initiated the request for polygraph vetting in a meeting with the FID Director, Sharon Crooks on May 5 Crooks seemed amenable to the test. (Ref A) However when pressed to actually schedule the exam, Crooks and her sponsors within the Jamaican Government (Minister of National Security and Minister of Finance) circled the wagons and refused raising “national sovereignty.” (Ref B). Because of the ABC’s (U.S./UK/CAN) need to know that the FID Director and Deputy can be trusted, and because of legitimate concerns about Crooks associations (Ref A, B), Ambassador Johnson, the UK and Canadian High Commissioners met with Prime Minister Golding. (Ref B) Letters were also sent by all ABC Chiefs of Mission to the Finance Minister.
The evening before, Ambassador Johnson had spoken with Richard Bernal, former Jamaican Ambassador to the U.S., who warned that Prime Minister Golding considered this matter to be a bilateral irritant that was negatively impacting Jamaica’s relationship with the United States.
The UK Deputy High Commissioner, Martin Fidler, also shared with the NAS Director that the very week we went to see Dep. PM Baugh, the Minister of National Security, Trevor MacMillan, continued his protest over the ABC request for a polygraph of Crooks (Ref. B) and threatened to demand that Fidler and the staff of SOCA (the UK’s Serious and Organized Crime Agency present in Jamaica) submit to polygraph tests before MacMillan would discuss anything with them. Fidler stated that he retorted to MacMillan — “we already are polygraphed by our government so what is your problem.”
There is a great deal of concern being expressed not only by U.S., UK and Canadian law enforcement about Crooks, the Commissioner of Police, and two Jamaican Assistant Commissioners of Police are also
worried. If Crooks fails, the Minister of Finance and Minister of National Security, who have personally vouched for Crooks, will be more than just a little embarrassed.
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The GOJ, from the PM on down the line, to include Jamaica’s
Ambassador in the U.S., do not seem to understand that
Jamaica is not “special,” that it has to compete for USG resources with many other nations that simply have a greater visibility.
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Referring to Golding’s decline of an invitation to
meet the President last March at the White House, Phillips claimed that “there had to be more to the story” than a scheduling difficulty.
Ambassador confided that at one point Golding had indicated to her that he was “waiting for Obama.” Phillips observed that an elementary rule of diplomacy was to respect the office of the head of state rather than the individual, and said “someone needs to give the current government basic lessons.”
Ambassador then observed that Jamaica needed stronger advocacy
in Washington; meetings with Department officials and with key congressional contacts in order to garner support for Jamaica were
vital. Phillips opined that Anthony Johnson had been a poor choice to
serve as Jamaica’s Ambassador in Washington; Golding had appointed him as a political payoff. Phillips said he understood the need for Jamaica to have good relations with Cuba and Venezuela, but could not understand why Golding was not also maintaining traditional close ties with the U.S. Ambassador observed that it was Jamaica’s prerogative to court Chavez and Castro, but a mistake not to actively court the U.S.; for example, during the December, 2007 visit of Admiral Stavrides, high-level GoJ officials had missed an opportunity to cultivate SOUTHCOM, whose assistance in helping refurbish the Jamaica Defense Force (JDF)’s New Castle camp might be invaluable. In response to Ambassador’s inquiry, Phillips said he was “perplexed” over the current Government’s delay in implementingJamaica’s new asset forfeiture laws. Ambassador observed that PM Golding’s proposed national athletic program would be a perfect use for funds acquired from asset forfeitures.
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Yes Starting with his own.
BLACK EYE FOR JAMAICA CONSTABULARY FORCE — AMMO
In May, the FBI, through the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, issued a press release regarding the Brooks case. Copies of the release were sent to the Commissioner of Police and Ministry of National Security. However the Jamaican press did not pick up the story at that time. It was therefore more than a bit of a surprise to everyone when on September 7, the story hit the front page of one of Jamaica’s largest daily newspapers.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Administration,
Gevene Bent, issued a statement that the purchase was made in
error and the officer at the center of it all, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Paul Robinson, breathed a sigh of relief. On September 8, the story seemed to be dying down and it was the JCF and Ministry of National Security’s intention to quietly file for reimbursement of the $20,000 recovered by the FBI.
Robinson is mildly concerned that he will be made a scapegoat
by the Jamaican Government, which has suffered mightily in the press over this “debacle.” (Note: Robinson was also involved in the procurement of the JCF new MP5 weapons from Pakistan, which were of such poor quality upon arrival that they had to be sent back.
Unfortunately, the FBI was only able to recover $20,000 of
the $80,000 of the JCF money.
Scott anticipates that by September 15, the story will have left the papers and will simply go away.
Barnes is not the only one who shares suspicion over Bent’s involvement in this matter — the NAS Director heard similar comments
from both Assistant Commissioner Les Green and Assistant Commissioner Justin Felice (British Officer’s). Note: Green and Felice’s comments need to be taken in context as both are
personal friends of ACP Robinson, who may also be under
suspicion. However, that does not mean that their comments
have no merit.
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The Deputy Commissioner of Police for Crime and the Assistant Commissioner of Police for Organized Crime attributed a spike in killings in May 2008 to a small group of JCF Senior officers and some rank in file members who abandoned their patrol responsibilities in an effort to push Commissioner Lewin out of the force and prevent his mission to reform the JCF. Their inaction led to a record 202 murders, with 49 occurring in the final week of the month. The uproar over the killings and the not-so-subtle campaign waged in the media to lay all the blame at Commissioner Lewin’s feet, lead to his resignation on June 2. (Ref D ) Due to pressure from multiple sources, the Prime Minister relented and Lewin recanted his resignation and remains Commissioner today. In August 2008, Lewin continued his
shuffling of senior staff.
You can “get away with murder” in Jamaica.
On average the MIT is only able to put .5 detectives per murder case. In comparison, police forces in the U.S. normally assign multiple officers to any case. Even when an arrest does occur, the rates of prosecution and conviction are abysmally low. Due to a horrendous backlog of criminal cases, every year, the courts in Jamaica hear on
average only 45 cases for murder. Of those cases, only half end in a conviction. These low rates only reinforce the conventional wisdom that you can “get away with murder” in Jamaica.
In Kingston’s “garrison” neighborhoods, where most of the killing still occurs, gangs have effectively replaced the state by offering their own
gangland rule of law, employment, and to some extent social services
Despite these private and some very public calls by the Prime Minister and other GOJ officials of the need to “dismantle the garrisons,” the reality remains that even when crimes are reported, arrests are few and prosecutions are almost nonexistent as witness intimidation to include murder of family members and wholesale violence against the citizen population to include children is the norm.
When gang-induced violence flares, particularly when a gang-leader is killed or is going to be arrested, the populace in the neighborhood will often turn out en mass to “defend” the don.
The owner of one of Jamaica’s largest daily newspapers, the “Jamaica Gleaner,” recently told the NAS Director that crime and violence unfortunately have become such the norm that people expect to hear bad news and only the most heinous of incidents garners more than a few hours of public tut-tutting. For that reason, from time to time the Gleaner’s editorial board consciously decide to pull crime stories off the front page in an attempt to reduce societal numbness. The next month, the Gleaner will put it back on the front page, above the fold to draw emphasis to the problem and perhaps generate action from the political elite and police.
While this plan was being drafted, the Commissioner of Police had already made a critical personnel change, one that is likely to have the most lasting impact on the reduction of crime, the removal of Deputy Commissioner of Police Linval Bailey to the Port Authority, and the appointment of Assistant Commissioner of Police Owen
Ellington. Ellington has a reputation as a capable police officer, one who can motivate both the officer corps and rank-and-file. He is no shrinking violet when it comes to calling for tough measures against criminals. In a speech before the Jamaica Employers Federation in July, Ellington derided the politicians who support garrison neighborhoods as a means of holding on to political power. According to one of Ellington’s colleagues, the Assistant Commissioner of Police for Organized Crime, Lewin could not have found a better person to tackle operational response to gang
violence.
Ellington bears watching, for he was on Prime Minster Golding’s short list of candidate for Commissioner of Police in 2007 and he would likely be the top choice to succeed Lewin in 2011 at the expiry of Lewin’s current contract. (Ref D) Questions still remain about Ellington’s links to suspected criminals and dirty politicians. As part of the Police Strategic Review, Ellington has agreed to
undergo a polygraph.
Biting the hand that feeds you — will the politicians
actually sanction action against the gangs?
The Prime Minister also has a much too cozy relationship with a reputed Don, Christopher Coke, who rules over part of Golding’s constituency like the feudal king of Tivoli Gardens. Additionally, a recent assessment funded by USAID on the impact of corruption highlighted the umbilical cords that continue to exist between the Jamaican political class and criminal organizations. In private meetings with the Ambassador and Chiefs of the UK and Canadian High Commissioner, the team laid out a stark future for Jamaica. It is a choice between supporting reform or a continued slide into a Haiti-like chaos, which is a future even some Jamaican politicians also fear.
There are strong reform-minded individuals, such as the Commissioner of Police, who have not given up, but it remains to be seen if Jamaica’s political class will bolster that limb that the reformers, such as the Commissioner, have climbed out on, or saw it off.
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Finance Minister Audley Shaw has sought to downplay the potential fallout from the current global financial meltdown in Jamaica’s economy. In order to avoid a crisis of confidence, Shaw has been reassuring Jamaicans that the country’s financial system is not in danger. Shaw told Parliament that depositors, policyholders and pensioners can rest assured that the domestic financial system remains well capitalized, well supervised and has the strong backing of the Central bank and the government. Shaw also indicated that
government’s external capital requirements were being supplemented by policy-based loans from multilaterals at interest rates as low as five percent. Similar sentiments have been echoed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding during his recent visit to Washington D.C.
Thwaites, who is less concerned about the systemic risks being addressed by Shaw, has gone to the extent of warning Jamaicans that they will have to make radical lifestyle changes due to the negative effects of the global economic crisis. His position appears to be resonating with the populace, including government financial advisor Dennis Chung, who is predicting that the crisis will have a devastating impact on Jamaica.
Even before the passage of Tropical Storm Gustav in August, real GDP was declining on the back of weak agriculture, manufacturing and mining performance. This fallout is expected to intensify in upcoming quarters as agriculture and in particular export agriculture sectors were decimated by Gustav (reftels). So bad was the shock to banana exports that the sole exporter, Jamaica ProducersGroup, decided to exit the banana export business. Add to this the likely impact of the slowdown in consumption precipitated by the collapse of the alternative investment schemes (reftels) and the economic forecast look bleaker.
It is highly unlikely that Jamaica will escape the ravages of the current global financial meltdown given its heavy dependence on the external economy.
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The large amount of foreign exchange invested (and now
lost) in the infamous collapsed alternative investment schemes
(reftels) have further reduced the supply of available hard
currency.
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JAMAICA: PRIME MINISTER BRUCE GOLDING’S GOVERNMENT
2008/12/10
Besieged by an alarming wave of violent crime, resurgent inflation, pressure on the Jamaican dollar, high unemployment, heavy damage to the agriculture sector from hurricanes Dean and Gustav, and a recent downgrade of the country’s financial rating, until recently Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) at least
could claim progress in the area of good governance and transparency. Unfortunately, recent events have undermined this claim, leading many to wonder whether the current government is any cleaner than its predecessor.
In recent days, Sangster, together with JUTC procurement committee members Dennis Chung and Raphael Barrett, have resigned from the JUTC Board ) thus lending credence to Christie’s allegations.
In a separate development, Agriculture Minister Dr. Chris Tufton has announced a full-scale investigation into the circumstances surrounding the purchase of 6,000 tons of fertilizer by Jamaica Cane Product Sales (JCPS) from the Indian company Shreeji Impex Corp. Under the terms of a deal brokered in March, JCPS deposited USD 1.4 million with agents of Shreeji Impex in New York. However, the shipment of fertilizer, scheduled to arrive in April/May, was never
delivered. JCPS reportedly has recovered only USD 250,000
from the New York-based agents, and thus has lost USD 1.15 million at a time when Jamaica’s vital agriculture sector has been devastated by hurricanes Dean and Gustav and as the Government faces extreme budgetary pressures
On another front, local media have reported that the Government has been unable to recover any of the USD 81,100 expended to purchase ammunition from unlicensed arms broker Lance Brooks.
Commissioner of Police Hardley Lewin reportedly has asserted that “every effort is being made to recover the money paid..
Minister’s Residence Searched in U.K. Investigation
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8.(C) Finally, an ongoing international investigation by the
British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) led the Jamaican Serious
and Organized Crime Branch to search the home of the JLP
Member of Parliament (MP) for East Rural St. Andrew and
Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport and Works
Joseph Hibbert on the morning of December 9. The police
reportedly sought evidence relevant to the dealings of an
unnamed U.K.-based firm in Jamaica some 15 years ago, when
Hibbert served as a civil engineer with the Ministry of
Housing and Works in the previous JLP Government of former PM
Edward Seaga. Hibbert’s attorney has stoutly denied any
wrongdoing by his client, and a JLP press release maintains
there has been no impropriety on Hibbert’s part, and that the
case will be resolved in the U.K. courts. However, post’s
sources indicate that he may have continued to receive
payments after having relinquished his position as a civil
engineer.
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Pilots have beeen placed on alert and Jets have been fuelled. Many may be heading for non extradition countries.
Money laundering, at its simplest, is the act of making money that comes from Source A look like it comes from Source B. Money laundering is a crime if it is used to disguise the origins of illegally-obtained money, because the proceeds of a crime are made to appear legitimate. The methods by which money may be laundered are varied and can range in sophistication.
JI relied on his complex web of companies to willfully conceal his money laundering activities. JI’s MZ Holdings and USIMO Corporation apparently entered into a limited contractual arrangement with OLINT to provide certain vendor services to OLINT. MZ Holdings and USIMO bank accounts were used in connection with its OLINT vendor money laundering obligations.
MZ Holdings and USIMO are companies controlled by JI that are linked to David Smith’s OLINT scheme. David Smith plead guilty to 17 counts of Money Laundering and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering. Mr. Smith was recently sentenced to 30 years in Federal Prison.
COMMENT: The true test of
anti-corruption measures will be if cases go to trial and
convictions are secured. There also has been a general reluctance
to target higher level GOJ officials who are suspected of
corruption. END COMMENT.
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Investment Schemes – Olint Suffers another Blow
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¶10. (SBU) The embattled alternative investment scheme Olint
Corporation has suffered another major blow in its bid to maintain
legitimacy, as the UK-based Privy Council has given National
Commercial Bank (NCB) the green light to close the scheme’s accounts
– Olint’s lawyers did not appear at the hearing. In this regard,
the Privy Council has overturned the decision of the local courts,
which had ruled that Olint’s accounts at NCB must not be closed.
NCB had taken the decision to close Olint’s accounts on the grounds
that Olint did not comply with certain requests such as the filing
of audited financial statements. The Privy Council said it was
clearly of the view that the bank’s reasons for wanting to close the
accounts were valid and that it was entitled to close them. This
was the second major setback for Olint in 2008, as lawyers also were
unable to get the courts in the Turks and Caicos to lift a freeze
order on the scheme’s assets.
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JAMAICA: OLINT’S BOSS ARRESTED IN TURKS AND CAICOS
JLP-OLINT Nexus?
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¶4. (SBU) The OLINT saga is set to take another interesting twist, as
a series of e-mails have emerged linking the ruling Jamaica Labour
Party (JLP) with the floundering investment scheme. The e-mails
ostensibly include conversations between now prominent government
officials, JLP financiers, and OLINT functionaries during the period
leading up to and following the closely contested 2007 general
elections (reftel D). The e-mail chain also contains a list of
investors which includes some of the most influential Jamaicans.
More surprising though, is the list of financial institutions
purporting to be either directly maintaining accounts with the high
paying investment scheme or investing funds on behalf of their
clients. Ironically, one of the listed companies was, and continues
to be, the main critic of alternative investment schemes. Post will
provide further reporting and analysis via septel.
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On March 12, NAS Director met with Richard Reese, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of National Security to discuss Lewin’s rumored departure. In addition to reporting from other channels (Reftel), the NAS Director had also heard directly from two senior police officers about Lewin’s departure, said to be as early as March 30. Reese acknowledged that the Prime Minister was concerned by the lack of apparent progress towards implementation of the recommended reforms outlined in the recent JCF Strategic Review. Reese also commented that there continued to be pressure by police officers who are known ruling Jamaica Labor Party supporters to remove Lewin and appoint another JLP loyalist, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington as Commissioner. Reesestated that these officers have made it clear that they were upset because they believed that Lewin had been blocking their
“political” promotions. Reese opined that much of the international support that the JCF was currently receiving hinged upon having a strong, incorruptible leader like Lewin at the helm. The NAS Director confirmed that Reese’s impressions were true.
3. (C) In addition to the denial of promotions based on political stripe, under Lewin’s direction, in February, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police completed their polygraph review of senior JCF officers. It is likely that some of the officers who either objected to taking the
exam, and/or those who failed, are also pushing for Lewin’s ouster. The first group of ten candidates was tested in late 2008, and as anticipated, nine passed. One of the surprise pass results was ACP Ellington, about whom there previously had been suspicion of police corruption. When the second group was examined, in February 2009, it was anticipated that there would be a much higher failure rate. Of the 48 officers requested to take the exam in February, only 40 consented (DCP Charles Scarlet, former head of the JCF National Intelligence Bureau was one of the refusals. It was anticipated that if he had taken the exam, he would have failed). When it came time for the second round, only 38 of the 40 showed. Of that group, only 17 passed.
According to the Chief RCMP Liaison in Kingston, the exams were extremely thorough and were a combination of both a standard lifestyle polygraph along with a forensic examination where it was suspected that crimes had been committed. The average exam length was six to nine hours and revealed telling cultural anomalies among some officers, who admitted to extra-judicial killings, but truly believed that their actions were “justice.” In the past Lewin had indicated that for all who failed the Canadian vetting, he would sit them down, and lay out the JCF’s entire file against them and give them the opportunity to make a choice, become a police officer and uphold the law, or leave the force.
Due to his failed leadership challenge of the PNP President, Portia Simpson Miller, Phillips has been regulated to the PNP back benches. Although no longer a PNP insider, Phillips still wields some influence and he told the Chargi that he had been instrumental recently in keeping a long-standing member of the Police Service’s Commission, Oliver Clark, on the Commission. In January when Prime Minister Golding submitted his recommended list of appointees for the Commission Clark’s name was noticeably absent. In the past, Clark has been a very active and effective member of the Commission and his retention, announced inFebruary, was welcome news.
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Orane quoting President Barak Obama’s Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said “Never let a crisis to waste” it would be a shame for Jamaica to let this crisis go to waste as it presented the perfect opportunity to make the hard decisions and then blame it on the crisis.
Let us keep in mind that unlike the Canadians and the Americans, the Russians are not known to have a social conscience, Zacca quipped.
On the issue of crime, Orane said the most cost effective way to arrest the problem was to get convictions and then separate criminals from
their assets. In this regard, the leaders thought there was an
important role for the USG to play. Charge Heg then pointed out
that the USG had already helped put the requisite legal framework in
place and it was up to the GOJ to apply the laws on the books.
Zacca also suggested that a win by Vaz should boost the confidence
of the JLP, which is in short supply of positive news.
A loss for the JLP would be a disaster for the country right now, Zacca continued. However, he was also quick to point out that given the challenges facing the country half the members of the PNP would not relish the idea of being in government at this time.
Zacca was not shy about highlighting his discomfort with the PNP, which he branded as a “socialist movement”. Zacca, who represents the largest grouping of businesses in Jamaica, was particularly concerned by recent comments make by elements in the PNP, who suggested that the JLP was too close to big business.
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To: David Smith
From: Audley Shaw (fitzalbert_2@ yahoo.com)
7/30/07
David, as promised, I’m sending you the JLP Manifesto for 2007. Thanks for everything including your companionship yesterday. Regards and compliments. Audley.
Under cover of the following Government of Jamaica
Diplomatic Note No. 5/504/1 of April 6, post has received the
below letter from Prime Minister Bruce Golding addressed to
the President:
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WikiLeaks cables: Jamaica accused of aiding drug smugglers
US embassy cables reveal claims of Jamaican officials being bribed to give drug traffickers free rein across the Caribbean
Jamaican police search for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, in a long sought-after manhunt which US embassy staff claim was delayed because of corrupt politicians Photograph: Hans Deryk/REUTERS
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Bartlett was optimistic about a possible opening of the Cuban market to U.S. tourists and does not see it as a threat. He reasoned that any lessening of travel restrictions to Cuba by U.S. visitors, if it were to occur, would provide an opportunity to market joint Cuba/Jamaican packages. He admitted that the Cuban market would come with a certain mystique given the curiosity of visitors who have not been
able to visit the island in recent history; it was once a playground for American travelers. However, he said the physical infrastructure might not be able to support tourism growth. He said he expected a short term spike in visitors that would taper off, but either way would not have a real negative impact on Jamaica.
Bartlett said it was ironic that Jamaica was currently benefitting from a diversion of visitors from Mexico following an upsurge of drug related violence in that country. However, he said Mexico?s recent challenges are not lost on Jamaica, given the country?s own struggles with crime. ?Crime is a problem in Jamaica and we have to at least show the world that we are doing something about it,? he said.
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Ed and Carmen Bartlett, ponzi investors from Miramar, Florida, U.S.A. being GREEDY and wanting “Something for Nothing” ….how cruel to say that. from their own colleagues as well…
Bartlett i’m sorry you lost your “investment.” BTW you get it back?
Minister Bartlett, you are no FOOL so, you could always go to the other Minister’s son in RAVINIA who claims to represent Jamaicans and “do the paperwork” for the victims recovery unit.
Ravina Refugee?
It’s only US700 to join that con.
The “gas riots” lasted for three days, crippling economic activity and hurting tourism, and only abated after the GOJ rescinded the decision. Jamaica Observer Columnist and Financial Analyst Keith Collister told emboffs that the GOJ was debating a JMD 9-10 flat tax (about USD ll cents) on a liter of gas, which now sells for as high as JMD 65 (USD 74 cents). Collister, a government sympathizer, also alluded to a possible consumption tax on electricity, and told emboffs that he had advised the GOJ to implement the gas tax in smaller tranches over the year. He said if both measures are implemented concurrently, there is likely to be rioting of the proportions seen in 1997.
In confirming this position, Collister said that the proposal was actually accepted by Minister Without Portfolio in the Finance Ministry, Don Webhy, but apparently rejected by Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance and Public Service.
Shaw’s former personal assistant, Sidjae Robinson, told emboffs that Jamaica already was in discussions with the Fund and an early arrangement could well be a reality. She said the process should be aided by the fact that Shaw and current IMF Head, Dominique Strauss Kahn, have developed a good working relationship — Strauss Kahn visited Jamaica at the end of 2008. Courtney Williams also told emboff that internal discussions were ongoing for a possible return to the IMF, but the move was facing resistance from central bank governor Derrick Lattibeaudiere, who ironically stands to benefit (the move would help foreign exchange, interest rate and inflation problems). (Note: Although the central bank falls under the authority of Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance and Public Service, the governor has traditionally operated autonomously. However, this may change if Lattibeaudiere remains at odds with Shaw on key issues like the IMF. Lattibeaudiere caused outrage among the business community earlier in the year when he took measures to raise interest rates. Robinson asked Emboffs for resumes of possible candidates with central banking experience, indicating Shaw may be looking to replace central bank governor.
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In his May 27 address to the Annual Conference of the Jamaica Police Federation (JPF), National Security Minister Dwight Nelson defended police officers accused of official misconduct and promised to recruit lawyers for their defense, eliciting a firestorm of controversy and
demands for an apology from a Jamaican human rights group concerned that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) is sanctioning police brutality and human rights abuses. However, in a May 29 meeting with the British High Commissioner, Nelson promised to retract his inflammatory statements and make clear that police abuse would not be tolerated.
The remarks sparked a firestorm of controversy on talk radio the following day, with the NGO Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) issuing a press release demanding that Nelson issue a retraction and apology, and that Prime Minister Bruce Golding clarify the GOJQs policy and, if necessary, demand NelsonQs resignation.
Ironically, NelsonQs comments came the same day that Amnesty International released a damning report on police and security operations, suggesting that many of the 222 alleged police killings in 2008 were in fact unlawful and criticizing GOJ efforts to rein in police impunity, corruption and lack of accountability.
Charge communicated with U.K. High Commission and Canadian High Commission to coordinate a response to Nelson’s statements. A trilateral demarche was considered, but Charge and High Commissioners did not want to appear to be ganging up on Nelson who was already subject to heavy public criticism.
Nelson explained that his rhetoric was an attempt to calm an Q
intimidating and hostileQ police federation audience that had been whipped into an antigovernment frenzy by opposition Shadow Minister for National Security Peter Bunting who spoke just prior to Nelson.
The Chargi emphasized that failure on the part of Jamaica to continue to pursue police reform and to hold police officers accountable for abuses might jeopardize a number of operational programs the U.S. currently funds in Jamaica. Minister Baugh shared these concerns and assured the Chargi that GOJ was dealing with the statements
internally and that the PM would likely soon issue a clarification as to GOJ policy.
Separately, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Justice, Robert Rainford, stated that he regrets the Minister of National SecurityQs choice of language and agreed that it could be taken as license to the aberrant police officers who come from the Qshoot first, ask questions later school of policing.
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JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY ISSUES RETRACTION
National Security Minister Dwight Nelson has withdrawn his
May 27 statement before the annual conference of the Jamaican Police
Federation (JPF) that seemed to reflect government tolerance of
police misconduct. The retraction followed two days of criticism
from human rights groups, the opposition People’s National Party,
and the diplomatic community.
“I unreservedly apologise…”
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In his address to the convention, Nelson had referred to police shootings as “collateral damage,” expressed sympathy for police facing legal action for official misconduct, and promised that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) would provide legal assistance
to officers in such instances. (Reftel A)
In his May 30 retraction, however, Nelson was contrite, noting that his remarks had “…understandably resulted in general public rebuke. On reflection, my use of the term collateral damage (sic) was unfortunate and I unreservedly apologise to the Jamaican people.”
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Nelson, a former trade unionist with no law enforcement experience, acquired his position in a Cabinet reshuffle just over a month ago. Post believes that his statements reflected his desire to ingratiate himself before a hostile audience unhappy with GOJ backtracking on a promised wage increase. Nelson had likely found that such populist rhetoric had served him well in the past when speaking to labor groups, but was unprepared for the public reaction such comments would make in this venue. His public apology likely reflects the efforts of Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding and his administration to quell the controversy and to reassert the GOJ’s commitment to the rule of law.
Furthermore, the rapid resolution of the controversy and the GOJ’s quick response reflects favorably on the role of the media and human rights groups such as Jamaicans for Justice in drawing attention to the statements and holding GOJ accountable.
JAMAICA: CRIME ON THE RISE
2009/07/08
Nelson stated that although the number of murders is down, Jamaica continues to have one of the highest per capital murder rates in the world. He attributes this to the proliferation of highly organized and internationally connected criminal entities in Jamaica. He said the gangs are involved in the trade of drugs, human trafficking, and
extortion. He commented that gangs are responsible for 80 percent of the murders, and said he was &determined to crush these gangs.8 However, he was quick to note that major success would not be achieved overnight, and said it would take a five-year timeframe to bring crime down to an acceptable level.
Furthermore, both Nelson and
Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance and the Public Service, continue to promise aggressive implementation of the Proceeds of Crime Act; however, the JCF continues to seize and forfeit criminal assets using an older instrument, the Dangerous Drugs Act, which mandates post conviction forfeiture, rather than the Proceeds of Crime Act,s pre-conviction civil forfeiture.
Strong expressed serious disappointment with Nelson,s tentativeness. He also indicated that Nelson continues to spend an inordinate amount of time on his &other job,8 the negotiation of labor contracts for the GOJ. Nelson must find his feet soon and do more than make public pronouncements about the GOJ,s plans. The Financial Investigative Division (FID) Act awaits passage, the Anti-Crime bills continue to languish in Parliament, the management of the Financial Investigative Division has not been properly vetted, and the Police Strategic Review is in slow motion. Action, not words are what is needed from Jamaica,s third Minister of National Security since September 2007. End Comment.
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JAMAICA: IMF NEGOTIATIONS IGNITE DEBATE
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS. A Government of Jamaican (GOJ) delegation led by Don Wehby, Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance, visited Washington the week of July 6 to intensify negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The GOJ’s failure to reach most of its economic targets for the first three months of the fiscal year is adding a sense of urgency to the negotiations. The situation is becoming so dire that in May, for the first time in over a decade, Jamaica did not generate a primary surplus; the GOJ had to borrow funds just to repay interest on its debt.
Even as both parties engage in a war of words over IMF meetings, economic conditions continue to worsen, with the country generating a primary deficit (revenues minus recurrent expenditure net of interest
payments) for the month of May. This is a sign that the country’s gargantuan stock of debt is becoming unsustainable amid declining output and falling revenues.
To make matters worse, there has been a 17 percent decline in remittances for the first six months of the year. Remittances are heavily relied upon by many Jamaicans for the purchase of basic necessities such as food, rent, and education fees. This decline is expected to exacerbate worsening poverty levels. Data for the
first two months of the 2009/10 fiscal year also shows that the fiscal deficit of USD 250 million is running well ahead of target despite a USD 38 million cut in expenditures. This is a troubling development, as it means the increased deficit is solely attributable to the underperformance in revenues, down USD 62 million. This suggests that the extent of the economic fallout was underestimated, and the entire economic framework, thus might well be questionable.
XXXXXXXXXXXX, a senior technocrat at the Ministry of Finance, told emboffs that the GOJ did not make as much progress as it had intended in Washington, but said an IMF program had to be in place within the quarter to stem the fiscal slide.
XXXXXXXXXXXX said the GOJ and the IMF have grave concerns about the country’s gargantuan debt stock and the attendant high interest rates. He said based on the discussions a solution must be found to this problem before an agreement can be reached. with an estimated annualized inflation rate of about 10 percent for 2009,
real interest rates are in the region of 11 percent.
He said the sticking point was whether an interest rate reduction could be negotiated or one would have to be imposed:
an imposition had inherent risks, creating unease among domestic creditors, on whom the GOJ will still depend for new debt, and could initiate a run on the local currency.
Although PM Golding has been approached by domestic creditors interested in negotiating a deal, nothing concrete has materialized to date. Last week, during a meeting the country’s domestic creditors, he stated his desire for the GOJ to reduce interest rates.
But despite the creditors public posturing, it appears
only U.S.-based Citibank is willing to make concessions.
XXXXXXXXXXXX is doubtful that other financial institutions will be willing to voluntarily make the concessions needed for an interest rate deal. When asked about the magnitude of the concession being sought, XXXXXXXXXXXX suggested that even a 5 percentage point reduction would bring much needed fiscal space. The GOJ would like to have a new ceiling on debt at or near a rate of 16 percent per year in the short term and then hopefully to extract further concessions on some of the older debt sourced at rates of18 to 21 percent to bring them in line with the new debt ceiling.
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Government of Jamaica (GOJ) spending had to be slashed by USD 87 million. This fiscal situation triggered a second downgrade in Jamaica’s credit rating to CCC+ by Standard and Poor’s on August 5, drawing the ire of the GOJ. The economy has not been in such dire straits since the economic stagnation referred to as the “lost decade” of the 1970s.
[Commiseration’s Mr. Wilmot “Motty’ Perkins]
Economic Contraction, Fears of Another Lost Decade
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The BOJ’s measures have also impacted the already moribund Jamaican economy, which is estimated to have declined by a further 3.5 to 4.5 percent during the June quarter. This was the sixth consecutive quarter of decline and is the sharpest contraction in ten years. The fall off continues to be led by the Mining and Quarrying sector, as lost output from the closure of three of the country’s four bauxite plants continue to take its toll (reftel D). The stagnation in the construction industry also impacted output growth. The contraction in GDP continues against the background of weak external and domestic demand from the lingering global economic downturn. Jamaica is facing its worst economic situation since the 1970s–referred to as a “lost decade” of growth marked by economic setbacks and job losses.
As Jamaica contemplates a return to the IMF, ratings agency Standard and Poor’s has announced a downgrade of the country’s credit ratings from B- to CCC+. This second downgrade in less than a year was based on what S and P considers Jamaica’s vulnerable fiscal
profile, combined with difficult financing conditions, amidst a weak debt profile. The ratings agency said this could well compel the GOJ to undertake a debt exchange that could be regarded as a distressed debt exchange (default).
Responding to the downgrade, Audley Shaw, Minister of Finance and the Public Service(MFPS), stated that the ratings agency ignored the positive economic developments led by foreign exchange market stability and declining interest rates. He also emphasized that the GOJ does not intend to pursue any transaction with its creditors that could be viewed as a distressed transaction.
PM Golding also maintained that there was absolutely no chance of Jamaica defaulting on its debt, as Jamaica was one of the few countries where the prior claim on budgetary expenditure of debt repayment were guaranteed by a provision in the Constitution.
The S and P downgrade has dealt a major psychological blow to the already beleaguered Jamaican Labor Party (JLP)-led administration, but it might not have any material impact in the short-term, given that Jamaica has been frozen out of the private capital market. In fact, it is the investors who already hold Jamaican bonds who will most likely be affected, which could explain the outrage coming from this sector. Even if the ratings action was premature, as a starting point, the GOJ must acknowledge the fundamentals of the S and P findings–that the country has a vulnerable and precarious fiscal situation. Consequently, the downgrade, coupled with the imminent return to the IMF, should be viewed as another perfect opportunity for the PM Golding and his party to finally address the structural impediments to growth and development. Although this move will be riddled with political risks due to difficult choices, any further postponement of the pain, in order to maintain political capital, could well result in another lost decade.
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PetroCaribe Still Not Winning JLP Friends…
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Despite the benefits derived from the deal, the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP)-led administration appears no friendlier to the Chavez regime and its politics (Reftels D, E, F). Prime Minister Bruce Golding spoke of “cooperation8 on the energy side in the lead up to a proposed one-day visit by Chavez, part of Jamaica,s Independence Day celebration on August 6. Chavez cancelled his visit at the eleventh hour, blaming a dubious softball injury. During the proposed visit, Chavez was to have broken ground on his Simon Bolivar Cultural Center in Kingston. A few days later, Minister of Energy James Robertson was scheduled to visit his Venezuelan counterpart, but Ministry contacts told Emboffs that the trip was delayed by the Venezuelans who claimed “logistical”
issues.
The local press did not report that Robertson had not actually visit Venezuela as planned.
Golding said he hoped Chavez would be &sympathetic to the difficulties8 facing countries like Jamaica.
Emboff contacts, both within the JLP and the private sector, seem to recognize that the PetroCaribe deal is addressing one of the island,s greatest needs, by alleviating some of the pressure of energy costs, but the gesture does not appear to be winning over the Jamaicans. Contacts have been quick to point out that no other country is offering oil under such favorable terms.
When speaking about Chavez with a Ministry of Energy official, he shook his head and chuckled, &Chavez, he does love to see himself as the Father of the Caribbean.8 Most GOJ officials with whom
Emboffs have spoken appear to view Chavez with caution, but recognize that his is currently the only country offering crucial support to the energy sector and thus do not want to jeopardize the arrangement.
Jamaicans seem unemotional about PetroCaribe for the most part and tend to view the arrangement as merely a very favorable business relationship. The recent move by Chavez suggesting he might modify the terms of PetroCaribe would likely create more resentment among the Jamaicans instead of bringing them closer to his camp.
Regardless of public comments made by PM Golding about &cooperation,8 prior to September, 2007, as leader of the Opposition, he was deeply suspicious of Chavez (Reftel G), and has reiterated these concerns in private discussions with Emboffs since becoming PM
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JAMAICA ENERGY MINISTRY: PLANNING AND CHANGING, AGAIN
Marcia Forbes, the Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Energy, resigned on August 20 after serving only four months. She became PS when Minister James Robertson took over the portfolio in April from then-Minister Clive Mullings (reftel A). The PS position has yet to be filled, but the job was offered to former Financial Secretary Sharon Crooks (Reftel B). Jamaica’s energy sector is in dire need of improvement and sound guidance; a pattern of changing leadership will only further delay desperately needed reform.
Robertson had brought Forbes, a dedicated and talented technocrat, from the Ministry of Telecommuniations to assist at the Ministry of Energy. Given the range of challenges facing the energy sector and the extensive amount of reform that is needed, it is surprising that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)-led government would undergo another leadership change at the PS level, particularly as the PS recently released the NEP outlining future plans and goals. Forbes told Emboff that she was to be transferred to the Office of the Prime Minister to serve as Director General for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects. Forbes and her husband own a large multi-media company in Jamaica; she viewed the new posting as a direct conflict of interest. She resigned instead of taking the job.
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The 90-page NEP includes an overview of Jamaica’s energy sector and outlines seven major goals, but offers few specifics. In substance, the stated policies closely mirror those from the 2006-2020 Jamaica Energy Policy “Green Paper.”
Notable changes from Green Paper include a decision to pursue developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) infrastructure and imports, and openness to small-scale nuclear power when it becomes feasible.
Jamaica is almost completely dependent on imported petroleum and nearly a third of the country’s installed capacity is nearly 40 years old (Reftel C). The electricity tariff allows all fuel costs to be passed on to the consumer, resulting in disincentives for production efficiency and source fuel diversification (Reftel C). The high import bill resulting from the oil prices of 2008 for the first time eclipsed export earnings.
Jamaica’s Greenhouse Gas Intensity has been among the highest in the hemisphere, credited largely to bauxite/alumina–a sector that has nearly collaped during the current economic downturn.
COMMENT: Although probably not the goal of the high-level publication, Robertson has set a relatively low bar for specific items for which he can be held accountable. Where the plan does get into specifics, there appear to be some conflicts, based on discussions Emboffs have had with Robertson. For example, in private meetings he indicated that Net Metering, a common policy critical to fostering distributed generation which has been talked about here for at least three years, was a “done deal;” yet, the report calls for more study. Oddly, to support the goal of increasing renewable energy, renewable energy plants that generate less than 15 megawatts are called for on a not-to-compete basis, with only those generating more than 15 megawatts requiring a competitive process, through the independent Office of Utility Regulation (OUR). Such a provision probably only serves to benefit the state-owned Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), which owns the existing Wigton Wind Farm
With a large share of the energy demand related to tourism and the increase of eco-minded tourists, it was surprising the policy did not lean more heavily on that sector through efficiency improvements, sustainable construction minimum requirements, and no/low-carbon transportation.
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2009/08/25
Despite signs of stability in the Jamaican dollar and moderating inflation, the island nation is still far from seeing post-recession green shoots. Even when an economic recovery takes hold in the United States, it will do little to pull Jamaica out of its ongoing economic malaise. Major changes are needed in the market orientation of the island and, to date, the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) seems unwilling to make the difficult choices needed to address its triple intrinsic challenges of high energy costs, high security costs, and a lack of business diversification. Furthermore, two of the three main pillars of the economy, bauxite and remittances, have suffered serious declines. Only the third pillar, tourism, has remained robust. There is cause for concern as the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP)-led GOJ continues to muddle along and undergo changes of key personnel in the face of daunting challenges. The island appears to be one or two events away from a potentially steep and precipitous economic downward spiral. A devestating hurricane, a high profile violent incident against tourists, or the loss of PetroCaribe benefits could well be the tipping point.
The Jamaican economy has been supported by increasing reliance on debt since the 1970s, which has led the country to become the fourth most indebted in the world. The debt-to-GDP ratio is 114 percent, and is expected to climb to 120 percent before year’s end. (NOTE: The rate was once as high as 212 percent in the 1980s, but declined during a brief period of economic growth.
Jamaica is heavily dependant on remittances sent from the Jamaican Diaspora in the United States (53 percent) and United Kingston (19 percent). Total remittances for 2008 were USD 2.02 billion and equal to nearly 20 percent of GDP; it is these funds that help a significant number of Jamaicans to survive day to day. The money is used to pay for basics such as food and rent.
Despite admitting that crime is a priority in nearly every public venue, the GOJ still appears to lack a clear and convincing plan for how it will tackle the island,s violent crime problem.
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson has spoken of &crushing the criminal gangs8 within a few years, but in reality the GOJ has been slow to use some of the legislative tools at its disposal (Reftel H).
For example, the GOJ has promised aggressive implementation of
the Proceeds of Crime Act, but the Jamaica Constabulary Force
(JCF) continues to rely on an older and less robust legislative instrument to seize criminal assets. The Financial Investigative Division (FID) Act awaits passage and key Anti-Crime bills continue to languish in Parliament. Meanwhile, concerns about crime and its associated costs on business operations creates an impediment to investment on the island.
The island appears susceptible to a potentially steep and precipitous
economic downward spiral brought on by issues of crime and exposure in its energy sector.
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JAMAICA: FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER HESITANT ON EXTRADITION
2009/08/28
Charge’, accompanied by EmbOff, paid an introductory courtesy call on Dr. Kenneth Baugh, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, on the morning of August 28. Charge’ requested assistance from Baugh on a recent dipnote regarding the extradition request for Christopher Coke, a Jamaican facing drug trafficking and conspiracy charges in the U.S. reftel).
Baugh was non-committal, stating that he had only recently returned from Organization of American States (OAS) meetings in Honduras, but that he would review the request and proceed accordingly. Baugh recognized the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)’s responsibilities under regional and international agreements, but emphasized that GOJ must feel satisfied that the rule of law and the citizen’s due process rights are being upheld before proceeding.
Charge’ conveyed the USG’s high level of interest in resolving this matter expeditiously and offered to provide additional information if needed.
[SENSITIVE ISSUE]
Baugh responded that it is a sensitive issue, and he must ensure that due process is applied.
(Note: Christopher Coke is a wealthy, powerful area leader for the ruling Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) in the Tivoli Gardens district of Kingston; the extradition request has generated considerable publicity. End Note.)
Baugh acknowledged the long-standing and productive relationship with the U.S. on extradition and other matters and explained that Jamaica is looking to intensify economic cooperation and trade relations. He expressed his concerns about increased drug-related violence in Jamaica as progress on the Merida Initiative in Mexico forces suppliers to look for other transshipment points into the U.S. market. He hopes that funding to combat narco-trafficking and other criminal activity would soon be available to Jamaica through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. Baugh also inquired as to the arrival of the new Ambassador, predicting that she will be well received in Jamaica.
Comment: Charge’ will continue to emphasize the importance of prompt and positive action on the USG’s extradition request with GOJ officials as appropriate.
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“What I did was inexcusable (but) I am not a terrible person,” convicted Olint Ponzi scheme operator David Smith told the United States District Court in Orlando yesterday while he awaited sentencing.
“I also ordered the purchase of firearms and the importation of those firearms into Jamaica in furtherance of this conspiracy,” he told the court.
Until last year Coke enjoyed protection from the ruling Jamaican Labour Party and Prime Minister Bruce Golding whose parliamentary constituency is in the Tivoli Gardens district of West Kingston, which the Shower Posse controlled.
When Coke was first indicted in the US in 2009, Mr Golding fought his extradition, but amid growing local and international criticism, he eventually agreed.
“I’m pleading guilty because I am guilty,” he told the Manhattan court. He will be sentenced on December 8.
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JAMAICA: U.S. REQUEST TO EXTRADITE POWERFUL “DON”
2009/09/02
The U.S. request to extradite a powerful “Don” with close ties to the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has presented Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding’s Government with a dangerous dilemma: the requested extradition could spark violent incidents, ignite rivalries among competing gang factions, and unleash a challenge to the state and to Golding’s own influence in West Kingston and beyond. The Mayor of Kingston warns of “severe repercussions” and “collateral damage.” His fears are not unfounded. End Summary and Analysis.
The Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew, Councillor Desmond Anthony McKenzie, requested to meet with EmbOff on September 1 to discuss an “urgent” matter; the private meeting was held in his downtown office. The Mayor began by stating pointedly that the Government of Jamaica (GoJ) faced a serious crisis because of Washington’s request for the extradition of Christopher Coke to stand trial on narcotics and firearms charges in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (reftels A,B). He predicted that there would be “severe repercussions” and “collateral damage” if Coke were arrested, and that this would “risk destroying everything the Government was trying to do on the economy and crime.”
The Mayor said that in recent years his administration had worked with Coke to reduce crime in the inner cities of Jamaica, particularly in West Kingston.
If he now were extradited, this would “leave a vacuum,” and matters would be much worse. McKenzie noted that in recent days several of his “contacts in the communities” had told him they “would not take this (Coke s extradition) lying down.”
McKenzie then asked if there were any room for further discussions with U.S. officials. EmbOff replied by reiterating that the U.S. expected Jamaica to honor its obligations under the Extradition Treaty, and considered this a case of great importance; however, the Embassy would convey the Mayor’s assessment and inquiry to Washington. McKenzie concluded by observing that his views were not only an assessment, but accurately portrayed the “grim picture of the reality we face.”
Coke reputedly is closely connected with leading figures within Golding’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), including McKenzie.
Coke’s gang provides social and welfare services and turns out the JLP vote in elections, while his business interests profit from lucrative Government contracts.
Analysis: a desperate Mayor, a nervous capital city
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McKenzie’s fears are not unfounded: Coke’s wealth, power, and influence are pervasive, and his sudden removal could spark violent incidents and/or unleash rivalries among competing gang factions in Kingston, Spanish Town, and Montego Bay. He is easily the highest profile figure whose extradition has been requested in many years, and his long-standing ties to the JLP have put McKenzie, Golding, and other leading Party figures in an extremely awkward position.
Local media have focused on the difficult challenge facing the JLP Government in extraditing Coke, but no one (aside from his prospective attorney, Tom Tavares-Finson) seriously maintains his innocence. The “Observer” newspaper, generally sympathetic to the JLP, maintained in an editorial of August 30: “They say he’s a ‘Don,’ a good man who has kept many bellies in Tivoli Gardens full over the years. That may be so, but it cannot be the basis on which to resist an extradition request. We must, as a civilized, democratic society, be prepared to stand or fall with the systems of justice to which our Government has subscribed, bellyful or no bellyful.” A Sept. 1 editorial in the “Gleaner” newspaper (generally more sympathetic to the opposition People’s National Party), referred to: “the dilemma faced by the Golding administration ) a concern that an attempt to extradite someone whom a community views as benefactor could unleash a challenge to the state and to the JLP’s and Mr. Golding’s own influence in West Kingston. And perhaps elsewhere,” but concluded: “we expect the administration, unswayed by politics, to do the right thing ) which Mr. Golding promised would be the hallmark of his leadership. To do otherwise, not only diminishes Mr. Golding, but will hurt Jamaica’s interests,political and economic, in the international community.”
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Political party financing – Time to stop those who pay the piper
I remind you of a simple saying which I am sure all of us have heard — and may even have repeated — “He who pays the piper calls the tune” Putting it bluntly and somewhat crudely, all over the democratic world the wealthy few too often “pay” the piper — the politician and the bureaucrat — with favours, with money, property and benefits. They then call the tune, they exercise disproportionate power and derive disproportionate benefit from the authorities.
When this situation goes unchecked, as in Jamaica, is it any wonder that so little actually gets down to the majority, to provide services for communities, to help the vulnerable and to empower the disadvantaged?
The challenge takes many forms — how to get the rich to pay their fair share of taxes when they are the very ones who exercise disproportionate influence on policy makers, on those who make and enforce tax laws, and, very often, they own the media and are able to shape public agenda and even public opinion in their favour.
First of all, a limit must be placed on how much any individual or organisation can give to a political party, a political candidate or election campaign. In other words, a cap must be put on how much any piper can be paid give.
Second, not any and everybody should be permitted to contribute to political parties, to political candidates and to campaigns. The ECJ proposes, and the JCSC and I agree, that “unregulated financial organisations”, like OLINT and Cash Plus, and so many others which still function, must be banned from making contributions to parties and to campaigns.
Similarly, it is proposed that foreign governments or their agencies be banned. I would propose that foreign companies like Trafigura or Mabey and Johnson should be added to the list of banned donors.
But make no ghost fool you, there is, as you would expect, much opposition from these who now, and for so many years gone, have paid the piper and have benefited from calling the tune. Equally, even those who now support shall weaken, even abandon ship, unless we the public make our voices heard and demand that:
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Where were the diplomatic notes that should have been exposed by WikiLeaks, or was it that his excesses were unnoticed, or fit the then strategy of the world’s superpowers?
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2009/09/04
Peter Bunting, Member of Parliament and the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) Spokesperson on National Security, praised the USG’s August 30 request that Christopher “Dudus” Coke be extradited to stand trial on federal drug charges. Describing Prime Minister (PM) Golding’s position as “between a rock and a hard place,” Bunting affirmed the PNP’s “unequivocal” support for Coke’s extradition. Nevertheless, Bunting was critical of Golding’s handling of the affair and intimated that some within the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) might prefer that Coke be assassinated rather than extradited to stand trial.
Organized Crime “Corrosive” To Jamaican Democracy
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In a September 2 introductory meeting with Embassy Kingston’s new CDA, accompanied by EmbOff, Bunting described the nexus between organized crime and political power, as evidenced in the Coke extradition request, as the most pressing political problem facing Jamaica. According to Bunting, the prevalence and pervasiveness of organized crime in Jamaica threatens democracy and corrupts law enforcement. Describing organized crime’s influence on Jamaican society as “corrosive,” Bunting related how the gangland-style murders five of his campaign workers [BTW OLINT$ Smitty] prior to the 2007 general election depressed voter turnout in his constituency and nearly cost him his seat in Parliament. Although Bunting acknowledged that the PNP had its own ties to organized crime figures, he described the relationship between Coke and the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) as much closer and more insidious.
“Dudus” Controversy Grips Jamaica
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Coke, the notorious “don” and leader of the “Shower Posse” that controls the violent West Kingston garrison community of Tivoli Gardens, has been indicted in the U.S. Southern District in New York on charges of conspiracy to traffic cocaine, marijuana and firearms (Reftel A). Although the diplomatic note requesting Coke’s extradition was submitted to the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) on August 26, the GOJ has yet to issue a formal response despite CDA’s request in a meeting with Foreign Minister Kenneth Baugh (Reftel B). In fact, in a separate meeting between EmbOff and the JLP Mayor of Kingston and St. Andrew, Councillor Desmond Anthony McKenzie warned of “severe repercussions” and “collateral damage” if the request was not rescinded (Reftel C).
While the extradition request has been the subject of considerable media coverage and public debate, the GOJ has yet to issue a formal response to the request and it remains “under review” by Solicitor General Douglas Leys.
With no effective civil authority within the garrisons, “dons” cement their rule by distributing cash, clothing, and school supplies to poor
garrison residents ) financed by drug profits ) while maintaining some degree of order in the lawless communities.
As a result, many Jamaicans have rallied to Coke’s defense, describing him as a community leader and Samaritan while deriding Golding and the GOJ for jeopardizing Jamaica’s sovereignty by acceding to U.S. pressure. Nevertheless, Bunting claimed that there is a silent majority in Jamaica that would like to see Coke and his ilk extradited and imprisoned, but are afraid to say so publicly.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
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Bunting was critical of Golding’s handling of the Coke affair, noting that the GOJ should have had Coke arrested and turned over to U.S. authorities as soon as they learned of the extradition request so as to minimize the political fallout. By equivocating, the GOJ appears indecisive and has allowed Coke the opportunity to leave the tonier neighborhoods of north Kingston where he owns at least one home ) and where he would be more easily taken into custody ) and instead to sequester himself in the Tivoli Gardens garrison community where the GOJ has no effective law enforcement presence. Although Bunting believes that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) could extricate Coke from Tivoli Gardens with U.S. law enforcement assistance and technological expertise, doing so might entail civilian casualties and result in widespread civil unrest.
Bunting described the Coke affair as the greatest political challenge of the JLP’s two years in power, while Golding’s inaction indicated a lack of leadership and a “failure of political will.” Although apparently not close to Coke personally, Golding is the Minister of Parliament (MP) representing the West Kingston constituency in which Tivoli Gardens is located.
(NOTE: Bunting noted that the alliances between political parties and garrison crime syndicates are purely utilitarian, not ideological or based on political convictions. END NOTE
More immediately, Golding’s position as the leader of the JLP might be threatened by a Coke extradition as well. Bunting told EmbOff that, if arrested, Coke has threatened to “squeal” on those within the JLP and the GOJ with ties to organized crime. If true, Golding is certainly under considerable pressure from within the JLP to find some pretense on which to refuse the U.S.’s extradition request.
In fact, Bunting speculated openly that the seemingly intractable political problem might be solved for everyone through Coke’s untimely death. Coke surely suspects as much ) his own father and predecessor as leader of the “Shower Posse,” “Jim Brown”, died under mysterious circumstances while in police custody in Kingston in 1992.
Although critical of the JLP’s handling of the current economic crisis and the caliber of some GOJ ministers ) he referred openly to Finance Minister Audley Shaw as “incompetent” )
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Bunting nevertheless was doubtful that the PNP could regain power were Golding to call a snap election in the next several months. While still popular with the business community, Bunting believes that the JLP is steadily losing credibility with the general public and that it would be preferable for the PNP to wait until the next general
election, which must be held before September 2012.
Bunting’s Conclusion and Analysis
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Jamaica’s political landscape has clearly been roiled by the Coke extradition request, and the JLP-led government appears unable or unwilling to address the issue directly. Confronted by mounting labor unrest (Reftel D), a crushing debt burden (Reftel E), and an economy in the doldrums (Reftel F), Golding could have done without an extradition crisis and he has few attractive options from which to choose. To refuse the extradition request and allow Coke to remain free would make a laughingstock of the JLP’s anti-crime platform, jeopardize U.S. development and law enforcement assistance programs, and allow Golding’s opponents to portray him as cowardly and unwilling to stand up to the criminal elements that support the JLP.
On the other hand, if Golding were to acquiesce to the extradition request and attempt to take Coke into custody, one of two outcomes might result. A JCF assault of Tivoli Gardens in whichCoke were taken into custody might result in widespread destruction, civilian casualties, and civil unrest that could spread throughout Kingston or even across the island, while Coke’s subsequent trial could implicate and embarrass a number of high-ranking JLP officials. Alternately, a JCF operation that failed to
capture Coke would allow the JLP’s rivals to portray Golding’s government as incompetent and ineffective. Either outcome would raise questions within the electorate as to the JLP’s competence and judgment.
Nevertheless, in the face of U.S. insistence that the GOJ live up to its treaty obligations, the Coke affair offers Golding an opportunity to demonstrate resolute leadership by standing up to the criminal syndicates that have for decades dominated Jamaican politics, compromised political parties, corrupted law enforcement, and fomented the island’s spiraling murder and crime rates.
How Golding [Brady, Manatt and the Gang]will respond to that opportunity [Is now absolutely clear to all with the exception of the Commissioners of the Enquiry] remains unclear.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KINGSTON676.html
Predictably the Commissioners and the gang took the low road..
No second guessing necessary with them…
Dudus’ Plea: A Bargain For Jamaica
Ian Boyne, Contributor
We had for too long been in denial about Tivoli. And even today, some, like my good friend, Lloyd D’Aguilar, are still in fantasy land about Tivoli; though, happily, he has been abandoned there by one-time resident Mark Wignall, who has seen the light. The fact of the matter is, if Tivoli had not been invaded and Coke’s headquarters degraded, with occupying security presence, the convicted criminal don would not be in a New York jail today, but his robust criminal enterprise would still be in existence carrying out its murderous reign.
Organisation smashed
It is not only good that Coke is out of Tivoli, but that his criminal organisation has been smashed. Had those criminals in Tivoli still been allowed to control the territory; had they not been routed in that battle, that centre of terror would be in place today. Any atrocities carried out by the security forces there are reprehensible and should be punished, as I have written before, but I have no tears for the destruction of that criminal enterprise which was headquartered there.
Dudus had grown into a monster who could not be tamed. He was bigger than the politicians. They were expendable to him. In fact, they had become a mutual liability.
But let’s face it: For a long time we just did not have the hard evidence against this man, and no witness would be foolish and suicidal enough to come forward in any court to testify against him. (High praises to Peter Phillips and his much-maligned but much-needed Memoranda of Understanding, which I had backed earlier.) We have little Duduses here today who are getting away with bloody murder (literally), but our legal system is impotent to deal with them, while human rights activists seek to put more obstacles in the way.
I have consistently been tough on crime, wherever it emanates. This country has been too ambivalent on this issue. But thank God for the Americans. And the best is yet to come.
That Dudus did a plea bargain is a grand bonus for Jamaica. We don’t need to hear the evidence against him in a trial. We know what he is made of. What we need to hear are the names of those who conspired with him, those who assisted him, those who gave him succour. That’s what we are eager to hear and what we hope Uncle Sam will help us to find out very, very soon.
The Americans will know how to ferret out the truth from any malicious information concocted to hurt those who did not help him. He has to give good information. If indeed some of our so-called honourable politicians, businessmen and security officers are common criminals, it would be a good day for Jamaica if they were indicted. Let the chips fall where they may.
May the Lord strengthen Dudus’ singing voice. Bless his voice, Lord! If he does not even sound melodic, we will listen to the words, not the voice, as they say. Sing your heart and soul out, Dudus, so that those who have sold us out to criminality and shame can come out of the shadows into the blinding light of justice.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110904/focus/focus1.html
Re: What is a wagonist?
It’s Jamaica’s term for a Fair weather fan.
The types of fans that praise the team when they win, but disown them and curse them when they lose.
They basically jump on the “Bandwagon” when the team is riding high. and hop off when we are going downhill.
http://www.thereggaeboyz.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/60630/page/1
PROSPECTIVE AMBASSADOR TO U.S. SAYS GOJ
SEPTEMBER 8th 2009 8:54 P.M.
Audrey Marks, the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Paymaster (Jamaica) Ltd. and a close advisor to Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding, met with the CDA at Embassy Kingston on September 8, 2009, to deliver a message from the PM regarding the USG’s August 26 extradition request for Christopher “Dudus” Coke on drug and weapon trafficking charges.
[Audrey Marks also counts ballot boxes for David Smith]
[Better Future now David?]
Speaking for the PM, Marks said that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) would be taking “some” action “soon” against Coke, but urged the USG not to publicly pressure the GOJ into action. Marks also relayed that the GOJ would announce her appointment as Ambassador to the United States in November. End Summary.
WILL REACT “POSITIVELY” TO COKE EXTRADITION REQUEST
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Marks relayed that the PM and the GOJ were very concerned about the Coke affair and were committed to acting “positively” to the U.S.’s extradition request, but no timetable was offered. Through Marks, the PM sought clarification as to how “patient” the USG would be in allowing the GOJ time to apprehend and turn Coke over to USG authorities. Marks also relayed the PM’s request for USG “logistical support” in Coke’s arrest and extradition, while requesting that the USG not apply additional pressure to the PM by publicly demanding prompt action.
As suggested Reftels, the PM is very concerned about the prospects for social unrest in downtown Kingston once Coke is taken into custody.
Marks communicated that the PM was surprised by the extradition request, although the CDA reiterated that the PM had been fully briefed on the impending extradition request by the former U.S. Ambassador several months ago.
The PM is committed to good governance and the maintenance of law and order, Marks emphasized, although she admitted that the Coke extradition request had been particularly problematic for the GOJ.
The CDA stressed to Marks how important it is to the USG that the GOJ observe its treaty obligations and cooperate in Coke’s extradition.
Normally such extradition requests are executed within two to three weeks of the issuance of a diplomatic note. The CDA emphasized the USG’s expectation that the GOJ will not refuse the extradition request on a technicality that had not been cited in similar extradition requests.
CDA also noted that the extradition request on an earlier indictment for Mark Clark had not been acted upon. He expressed his hope that inaction would not be the norm for extradition requests.
Marks To Be Appointed Ambassador to U.S.
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Additionally, Marks disclosed that she would be
appointed Ambassador to the United States in November 2009.
The current ambassador, Anthony Johnson, would be appointed
High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KINGSTON680.html
Two days after September 6th 2009 and no mention that Manatt was engaged? No mention to Emboff that dilly dally was planned through the back door in Washington for $400,000?
JAMAICA: GOJ WILL REFUSE COKE EXTRADITION REQUEST; PM
Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding advised CDA that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) would not comply with the USG’s extradition request for Christopher “Dudus” Coke on “technical grounds” and that a dipnote to that effect is being prepared (Reftel A). During a later telephone conversation with the CDA, Foreign Minister (FM) Kenneth Baugh clarified that the dipnote will not be a refusal to comply with the extradition treaty but a request for additional information.
News of the noncompliance of the extradition request will likely hit the media soon after the dip note is released, and post requests guidance as to how to proceed. Post proposes a statement that confirms receipt of the GOJ’s dip note, acknowledges that the request was denied and the USG’s disappointment, and states that the USG will study the dipnote in greater detail before making further comment. Post awaits receipt of dip note scheduled for Friday, September 18, or early next week.
GOJ To Deny Coke Extradition On “Technical Grounds”
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In a very cordial September 18 introductory meeting with CDA, Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding raised a number of issues of concern to the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) and the Caribbean region, several of which he said Foreign Minister (FM) Kenneth Baugh plans to address in his September 25th meeting with SecState at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). After two years in office, Golding was reflective and noted that the challenges his Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) had dealt with were greater than he’d anticipated, especially on the economic front.
The PM acknowledged the receipt of the August 26 dipnote requesting the extradition of Christopher “Dudus” Coke on drug and weapons conspiracy charges, but stated that he had been recently advised by the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) that the request would not be honored at this time on “technical grounds.” The PM was not aware of the complete details of the pending action, but said that the MOJ had concluded that the names of the confidential witnesses cited in the indictment, one of whom claims to be an employee of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), should have been included in the extradition packet so that the MOJ might corroborate the allegations against Coke.
Despite the CDA’s reminder of the importance of a positive response to the USG’s request, as well as the fact that the Coke extradition request had followed the same format as several others that the GOJ had not questioned on similar grounds, the PM gave no indication that the decision not to comply with the request might be reconsidered. The PM said that the USG could expect a formal response via dipnote by Friday, September 18 or early the following week.
Golding expressed deep concern over Jamaica’s tourism industry and the island’s image among U.S. and Canadian tourists. He pointed out that most of the nation’s crime problems are centralized in the downtown Kingston area and that tourists are rarely victims of serious crime. The PM was familiar and unhappy with the USG’s negative description of Jamaica’s safety, security, and crime environment on the Bureau of Consular Affairs webpage. CDA commented that travel language is reviewed and updated on a regular basis and that the embassy very much looked forward to the time when the security situation in Jamaica will have improved.
News of the denial of the extradition request will likely hit the media soon after the dipnote is released; Post requests guidance as to how to proceed. Post proposes a statement that confirms receipt of the GOJ’s dip note, acknowledges that the request was denied and the USG’s disappointment, and states that the USG will study the dipnote in greater detail before making further comment.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KINGSTON697.html
JAMAICA: FOREIGN MINISTER’S VIEWS re HIGH-PROFILE
EXTRADITION REQUEST
2009/09/18
The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has responded to the USG’s request for the extradition of reputed “Don” Christopher Coke, to face charges in New York of trafficking in drugs and firearms, with a diplomatic note (transmitted septel) requesting additional information. The GoJ’s Minister of Foreign Affairs stresses that the timing of the request is “extremely delicate” because of the economic crisis facing the country; the GoJ will have to carefully “review the situation” and adopt “measures to address the social consequences,” weighing the “implications for stability,” and recognizing that “unrest is possible.”
The Government of Jamaica (GoJ)’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade, Dr. Kenneth Baugh, summoned ChargC) to a private meeting on the morning of Sept. 18; Baugh was accompanied by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade (MFAFT)’s Minister of State Dr. Ronald Robinson, Permanent Secretary Amb. Evadne Coye, and Under-Secretary for Bilateral and Regional Affairs Amb. Paul Robotham. Baugh began by saying that, based on input from the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice, the MFAFT was preparing a diplomatic note in reply to the U.S. extradition request for Christopher Coke (reftel A); MFAFT’s note would be ready within a few minutes. He then said he hoped that communications between the GoJ and USG could be treated confidentially, and that no public statements would be made.
ChargC) thanked Baugh for the chance to meet and for the good overall relationship between the USA and Jamaica, and then
reemphasized the importance attached by the USG and the Embassy to
this extradition request. The USG appreciated the 15-20 years of
consistency in effective implementation of the Extradition Treaty,
and was disappointed that the GoJ had stretched out this particular
request so long. The USG had worked judiciously with various
levels of the GoJ to ensure the bona fides of the request, and had
been candid in explaining what was happening and how. Therefore,
we had been perplexed by the GoJ’s expressions of “surprise” and
questions regarding the bona fides of the request. We were not
suggesting that the GoJ should not ensure that the request meets
the standards of due process; however, in light of the care taken,
we were disappointed with the progress to date. We understood that
the GoJ would request that confidential witnesses be named in the
request; Baugh confirmed that this was one of the technical
problems which would be delineated in the GoJ’s forthcoming
diplomatic note (septel). ChargC) pointed out that Footnote No. 1
of the request had addressed this issue; we therefore viewed this
objection as problematic. The USG had given the GoJ the first
indications that this extradition request would be forthcoming over
two months ago, and had sought the GoJ’s counsel at every turn.
Baugh then said that he had no details of whatever
consultations may have taken place before the date of delivery of
the extradition request. He then said that, in any event, the
timing of the request was “extremely delicate” because of the
economic crisis facing Jamaica; the GoJ would have to carefully
“review the situation” and adopt “measures to address the social
consequences,” weighing the “implications for stability,”
recognizing that “unrest is possible.” Current economic conditions
made this extradition request “politically difficult.” He noted
that the Cabinet had met three times in the last week in an effort
to meet the IMF’s conditions for assistance to Jamaica. The
economy had lost 30-40,000 jobs in the current recession, and
remittances were in decline. This extradition had “special
significance” in light of the poverty and economic crises
experienced by Jamaica in the 1970s and 80s; the formal economy had been unable to offer jobs, and therefore many marginalized
Jamaicans had been forced to turn to the informal economy to
survive. Over this period, Jamaica had become a “channel” for
illegal drugs in high demand in North America and Europe; Jamaica
was “at the mercy” of Latin America and North America, but “we
still cooperate” with the USA, even though our people are
“vulnerable” and drugs/arms trafficking had become “embedded.”
The Caribbean Basis Initiative had been conceived as a “mini-Marshall Plan” for the region, but when the Caribbean was not included in NAFTA, the region had “lost ground.” Coke was not just a “drug kingpin;” he was a powerful figure embedded in critical
socio-economic needs of many Jamaicans. Something of aMexican
standoff had evolved: if Coke were arrested, this might be perceived as unjust by many Jamaicans, resulting in an uproar which could end up destabilizing the country.
ChargC) said he knew the case was not an easy one, and
recognized the challenges; nevertheless, the U.S. position was that
the GoJ must honor the provisions of the Extradition Treaty. The
USG was concerned that whole communities had become dependent on the trafficking of drugs and firearms. If Coke were not extradited, this would set a dangerous precedent for possible
future extradition requests; the USA-Jamaica partnership rested not
just on dealing with easy cases, but difficult ones, as well. The
U.S. expected no differences in the steps for handling this particular request. It would be problematic to end this discussion thinking that the GoJ would not adhere to treaty provisions due simply to the social/economic/political concerns that might apply to individual cases..
Baugh then said that the GoJ’s first concern was with the
security of the country; therefore, it must manage the extradition
process carefully, making sure that “everything is on track.” Many
Jamaicans had been denied basic necessities by the “circumstances of birth,” and the GoJ must “establish equity.” In many ways, Jamaica was reaping the results of what was happening in the U.S. and UK. He then said he was happy to work with the U.S. and Secretary Clinton on regional programs to advance the security and economy of the Caribbean. The GoJ wanted to cooperate fully, and was committed to honor the Extradition Treaty – but in ways that “can avoid destabilizing the country.”
ChargC) then noted that a failure to extradite Coke would
represent “a serious step backward.” One of the reasons for
security concerns in Jamaica’s “garrison” communities was precisely because Coke and others were importing firearms and trafficking drugs. ChargC) asked whether the GoJ took the position that extradition treaty provisions only applied to lesser criminals;
Baugh replied that anyone found guilty should be dealt with
according to law, and then noted that the “technical aspects” of
the Extradition Treaty must be decided by the Solicitor General and
Ministry of Justice, bearing in mind the GoJ’s duty to ensure that
the rights of individual citizens were protected. ChargC) then
pointed out that several years ago the Jamaican courts had ruled
that there was no requirement that extradition requests name
witnesses. Baugh said he would be surprised if the Solicitor
General and Ministry of Justice were unfamiliar with the court’s
previous rulings vis-C -vis extradition requests. Baugh then raised
concerns over a recent lawsuit by a Jamaican who had been
extradited to the USA, filed on the grounds that extradition
procedures had not been followed properly. ChargC) noted that a
number of extradition requests in which witnesses had not been
named had been successfully processed by the GoJ; the U.S. was
disappointed that the GoJ had not moved more expeditiously and
positively in the Coke case, but would continue to look for ways to
move forward.
Baugh then again inquired about the possibility of keeping
all communications between the USG and GoJ confidential.. ChargC) assured Baugh that he would continue to alert the GoJ regarding any anticipated USG press releases, but noted that he had no control over what other agencies of the USG may release in the USA. Baugh then noted that the publicity to date surrounding the extradition request had “created disadvantages.” He then asked how word of the extradition request had ended up in the public domain. ChargC) noted that he was equally surprised to see press reports about the extradition request only one day after the diplomatic note had been delivered to the MFAFT. ChargC) noted that the Embassy could not commit to issuing no statements to the press until we had had time to review the GoJ’s diplomatic note. ChargC) also advised Baugh that, during his upcoming visit to New York, he may receive a call from A/S Shannon expressing USG interest in the extradition case.
Baugh then expressed hopes for continued cooperation and
friendship between Jamaica and the USA, and asked that Washington keep in mind that Jamaica’s small economy loses 80% of its human capital to North America and the UK, and got criminal deportees in return, saying “we’re victims, not the cause” of crime, and calling the relationship “asymmetrical.” ChargC) responded that the U.S. wanted to remain a good partner, and by pointing out:
— recent statements by Secretary Clinton and President Obama
acknowledging that the U.S. demand for illegal drugs was a critical
component of the drug problem;
— the need for both societies to take advantage of opportunities
to remove elements of crime and violence;
— and the importance of confidence in the rule-of-law in
attracting international investors and tourists to Jamaica;
ChargC) concluded by wishing the Foreign Minister a pleasant and
successful visit to New York for the UNGA.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KINGSTON701.html
One gets the feeling they are always worried about the public having information. like they want to close down information.
British High Commissioner Discusses COKE Extradition Request
with Prime Minister Golding
2009/09/25
British High Commissioner (HC) Jeremy Cresswell requested a meeting with CDA Parnell to discuss the High Commissioner’s recent discussion with Prime Minister Golding. The High Commissionernoted that he took the opportunity to tell the Prime Minister of his government’s high interest in the timely resolution of the USG’s extradition request. He was surprised that Prime Minister did not tell him that the extradition case was not of interest to the HC and allowed him to state the HC’s expectation regarding the importance of GOJ adherence to signed agreements between two states. He said that the PM told him that the GOJ had provided an initial response to the extradition request and that it was now up to the USG to respond. The PM did not say that a USG response would result in a prompt extradition.
Comment: The High Commissioner has expressed a strong interest in this case since the extradition request hit the press and has let the GOJ know that its response to the request is of high interest to the High Commission. Given that the PM is now claiming that the GOJ awaits a response from the USG, it is very important that a response to its 18 September diplomatic note be forwarded as soon as possible.
We look forward to a request of a draft response for Embassy review and comment.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/09/09KINGSTON705.html
“Jamaica, however, is unable to understand the real concerns of the United States in not wishing to divulge the names of the witnesses in light of its own witness protection service and the fact that persons and associates under the control of drug organizations could launch an attack on witnesses after disclosure is made at trial.”
Dorothy Lightbourne.
“Retaliation against witnesses is most likely in cases of murder.”
Dorothy Lightbourne.
[Dorothy what you mean by “murder?” You mean like murder with a chainsaw Dorothy?]
Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke tells US court: ‘I’m pleading guilty because I am’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/01/christopher-dudus-coke-us-court
JAMAICA: DIP NOTE RECEIVED ON OCTOBER 30, 2009
1. (C) On October 30, CDA received the following diplomatic note,
dated October 30, from the Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne
of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ):
(Begin text of MOJ DIP NOTE)
Re: Request for extradition of Christopher Coke
I have the honour of addressing your Excellency on behalf of the
Government of Jamaica. I refer to the above captioned matter. I
have carefully considered your response dated October 2, 2009. In
accordance with Article IX of the treaty I will require further
information and comments as set out hereunder before I can properly
consider the request as required by the provisions of the Treaty
and domestic legal requirements.
(a) Interference with witnesses is not a new situation.
It is not unique to the United States. It is a tool used by
criminal individuals and organizations to frustrate the process of
justice. Jamaica is not only aware of it but has encountered it
and we have introduced a system of witness protection to ensure
that criminals do not secure their acquittal by eliminating
witnesses. Jamaica recognizes however, that it must balance the
public interest with the right of every accused to know his
accuser. In our jurisdiction the prosecution must disclose the
statements of all witnesses to the defence before trial. Jamaica
recognizes the assurance given by the United States that Mr. Coke
will have the right to confront all witnesses in court. Jamaica,
however, is unable to understand the real concerns of the United
States in not wishing to divulge the names of the witnesses in
light of its own witness protection service and the fact that
persons and associates under the control of drug organizations
could launch an attack on witnesses after disclosure is made at
trial. Jamaica notes that in the recent case of Davion Parson who
was indicted for three counts of First Degree Murder, the names of
the witnesses were disclosed. Retaliation against witnesses is
most likely in cases of murder.
(b) Jamaica notes that the question has not been answered.
The question Jamaica wishes to have answered is whether the
co-operating witnesses are being charged jointly with Christopher
Coke as the evidence in their affidavits suggests that they should
be so charged.
(c) Jamaica notes that the answer to this question is a
qualified yes. It would be of assistance if we had a definitive
answer. However, since your answer implies that the statements of
the co-operating witnesses were not submitted to the Grand Jury,
Jamaica is requesting a copy of the evidence which was presented
before the Grand Jury and which formed the basis for the
indictment.
(d) In the absence of an unqualified yes to the question
at (c) an answer to the question at (d) is required.
(e) This request is now incorporated at paragraph (c).
(f) Jamaica wishes confirmation that as regards the
charge of conspiracy contained in count one of the indictment no
scientific analysis of the substance alleged to be marijuana and
cocaine was done and a certificate placed before the Grand Jury.
(g) Jamaica is aware of the contents of the affidavit of
co-operating witness 2. However we are asking for corroboration of
that evidence from the records of the immigration authorities in
the United States.
(h) Jamaica notes the assertion of the United States that
Mr. Coke has not been designated by the executive of the United
States as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker pursuant to
the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. However on August
28, 2009 the US Drug Enforcement Administration issued a News
Release under the name of Erin Mulvey, Public Information Officer.
This release is captioned – “Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges
Jamaica-Based Drug Kingpin with Narcotics and Firearms Trafficking
Crimes” and it is concerned with Mr. Coke. It states, inter alia,
“Coke leads an international criminal organization known as the
“Shower Posse,” with members in Jamaica, the United States, and
other countries – which he has led since the early 1990s. At
COKE’s direction and under his protection, members of his criminal
organization sell marijuana and crack cocaine in the New York area
and elsewhere, and send the narcotics proceeds back to COKE and his
co-conspirators. COKE and his co-conspirators also arm the
organization with illegally trafficked firearms. COKE has been
named by the U.S. Department of Justice to the list of Consolidated
Priority Organization Targets (“CPTOTs”) which includes the world’s
most dangerous narcotics kingpins”.
Jamaica wishes to know why is the DEA referring to
Mr. Coke as a narcotics kingpin if he has not been so designated by
the executive of the United States?
As regards Jamaica’s concern that details of the
request were passed to unauthorized persons the United States
asserts that the information regarding this request was shared with
officers of the Jamaican Government. We wish to be informed of the
names of the officers of the Jamaican Government with whom the
information was shared. This is of serious concern to the Jamaican
Government.
We note that witness John Doe states that telephone
calls by and to Mr. Coke were intercepted by him, he being a member
of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. The information gathered during
the monitoring of these calls has been used as evidence on which
the indictment is founded. Jamaica wishes to know whether the
information was obtained by the United States in accordance with
the treaty between Jamaica and the United States on Mutual Legal
Assistance in criminal matters and in accordance with the
provisions of the Mutual Assistance (Criminal Matters) Act.
Jamaica wishes the United States to disclose the
name of the witness “John Doe” who states that he is a serving
member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. Jamaica notes that there
should be no concern about interference with this witness.
We look forward to receiving the above mentioned
information which will enable me to expedite my deliberations so as
to fully comply with my obligations under the treaty and Jamaican
law. Should you have any queries in relation to the above please
do not hesitate to contact me.
(End Text)
¶2. (C) Comment: Regrettably, this request for additional
information was not unexpected and was repeated on several
prominent talk radio programs last week. It appears that the GOJ
is looking for reasons to justify its inaction on the extradition
requests and underscores its belief that action might result in
significant social, political, and economic unrest, particularly in
the Tivoli Gardens area of Kingston. End Comment.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/11/09KINGSTON731.html
DECEMBER 3, 2009
EXTRADITION JAMAICA: CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL COKE
1.(C) The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) requests “technical legal
discussions” with the USG regarding the Mutual Legal Assistance
Treaty (MLAT) in reference to the U.S. request for the extradition
of Christopher Michael Coke to face narcotics and firearms
smuggling charges in New York, and in reference to future
extradition requests. In Post’s estimate, this is a delaying
tactic: Coke’s power in Tivoli Gardens and elsewhere in the
country, and influence over Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s ruling
Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), are deeply entrenched. The GoJ
understandably fears bloodshed and civil unrest if he were
arrested. Post recommends that DOS and DOJ comply with the GoJ’s
request to hold direct discussions regarding the applicability
provisions of the bilateral MLAT in the Coke extradition request.
The GoJ’s Solicitor General has indicated to Charge’ that he is
willing to travel to Washington for consultations. End Summary,
Analysis, and Recommendation.
2.(C) Per reftel (A), Charge’ delivered the USG response to the
Government of Jamaica (GoJ)’s Minister of Justice Dorothy
Lightbourne’s October 30 letter (reftel D) during a private meeting
with her, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Dr.
Kenneth Baugh, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
(MFAFT) Permanent Secretary Amb. Evadne Coye, and Solicitor General
Douglas Leys, held at MFAFT the morning of December 1. Charge’
reiterated that the USG had been completely above board in pursuing
the Coke extradition request: the former U.S. Ambassador had
advised the Prime Minister in 2007 that the case was under
investigation and that an extradition request could be forthcoming,
and USG law enforcement officials had coordinated closely and
extensively with officials of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)
and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) prior to the request.
While the U.S. had many good programs and initiatives ongoing in
Jamaica, the Coke extradition request was by far the most
important bilateral law enforcement issue and is receiving
widespread attention among USG agencies. The request had been
handled in accordance with the Extradition Treaty; all required
information had been provided. The USG recognized that the Treaty
allowed the GoJ to request additional information, and we had been
as forthcoming as practicable; however, the questions raised to
date by the GoJ should more properly be considered following Mr.
Coke’s arrest, in the course of an extradition hearing in which
his attorneys could contest the content of the request. The USG
recognized that this particular extradition request would not be
easy to implement, but that the USG expected compliance, as had
been the practice in prior extradition requests. However, as a
good partner, the USG offered to assist in any way. Charge’ noted
that he had arrived in Jamaica on August 18, and the extradition
had been requested on August 20; the USG was disappointed with the
lack of progress to date.
3.(C) Minister Baugh expressed concern that the GoJ must follow due
legal process in handling extradition requests. Noting that he was
not a legal technician, Baugh then asked Solicitor General Leys to
explain the GoJ’s position. Leys began by noting that this was not
the best forum for technical legal questions, as USG attorneys
were not present, and the GoJ “fears that the matter requires
technical discussions,” as there were “legal issues to be
resolved.” After examining USG response, Leys said that “we had
expected a more definitive answer.” He then asserted that “this
extradition request is outside the norm,” and questioned whether
it represented a “developing trend” in which Jamaican constables
would give evidence in U.S. courts. He said the Coke extradition
request raised questions as to how similar requests would be
treated in the future. Answers were needed so that he could “inform
the Attorney General Lightbourne as she exercises her
responsibilities.”
4.(SBU) Charge’ then asked whether the GoJ considered the
information provided by the USG in the request insufficient to
meet the requirements of the Extradition Treaty. Leys replied that
this was not the case; however, the Extradition Treaty was only
one aspect of “normal routine.” The steps under the MLAT must be
“better informed,” particularly with respect to wiretap evidence.
Had the wiretap evidence been properly obtained? This
“extraordinary subject requires further dialogue.” If there had
been a possible breach of MLAT treaty obligations, then the
extradition request “can’t go much further;” if, on the other hand,
the USG could confirm that there had been no breach, then “the GoJ
can proceed.” Charge’ noted that, until this meeting, there had
been no suggestion of a breach of treaty. Leys responded that he
was not saying there had been a breach of the Extradition Treaty;
he was only saying that the GoJ needed further assistance and an
explanation from the USG – otherwise, “we must conclude a breach.”
5.(C) Charge’ then noted that the USG had worked hand-in-hand with
the GoJ on this extradition request, which was not outside
commonly accepted practice. He asked that any questions be
addressed following Coke’s arrest during an extradition hearing.
Leys then said there were two issues: the narrow one of “the
courts,” and the larger one of the steps required under the MLAT.
The “larger issue” was whether a trend was developing of Jamaicans
giving evidence in the U.S. without having followed MLAT
procedures. For the USG to say that this question “should be put
before a court of law” missed the larger point: this was a
“threshold decision” for the Attorney General ; therefore, the GoJ
was asking for technical discussions with the USG regarding the
MLAT. Baugh then noted that this was a “technical matter.” Leys
questioned under what authority Jamaican officers had given
evidence in the U.S. Charge’ noted that the evidence had been
given by employees of the GoJ as outlined in the extradition
package, and that his office could make internal inquiries
regarding the steps taken during this investigation. Baugh saw a
need for “clarification of the process.” Leys then noted that this
was a process which the USG and UK had used to “inform other
extradition requests,” and asked why the MLAT was not being used
to obtain evidence. Leys claimed this left him in a “no-man’s
land; I don’t know whether the U.S. is in breach of the MLAT. We
need a better understanding of the mechanism of the MLAT.” He then
asserted that “this will determine future relations, how to go
forward with future extradition requests.”
6.(C) Lightbourne then noted that the GoJ’s question as to whether
“the information was obtained by the United States in accordance
with the treaty between Jamaica and the United States on Mutual
Legal Assistance in criminal matters and in accordance with the
provisions of the Mutual Assistance (Criminal Matters Act” (reftel
D) had not been answered. The USG response was “too qualified,” and
“raised other questions.” Leys also maintained that the USG
response did not address the question of the MLAT. Charge’
reiterated that, if Mr. Coke were to contest the extradition, this
question should be considered during the extradition hearing, and
also pointed out that the extradition request did not hinge on only
one officer’s testimony. In response, Leys maintained that
“without the wiretap evidence, under Jamaican law the case goes
nowhere,” and that “if this extradition request did not include the
wiretap evidence, I would advise the Attorney General against
proceeding.” He described the wiretap evidence as “integral,” and
said that “we need technical discussions to see why established
procedures were not followed.” Leys said the wiretap evidence
represented vital “independent corroboration,” and questioned “how
it was obtained from Jamaica.”
7.(C) Baugh then noted that, when he recently had spoken with
former Assistant Secretary Shannon concerning the Coke extradition
request, he had asked that the USG provide complete answers to the
GoJ’s questions. Charge’ replied that the response delivered to
the GoJ represented the USG’s “definitive answer” on the questions
raised by the Justice Ministry. Leys again asserted that the
question concerning the MLAT had not been addressed, and
maintained “we can deal with the other questions.” In response to
ChargC)’s inquiry as to whether the GoJ questioned whether Jamaican
authorities had had permission to present evidence in the U.S.,
Leys replied that the question was “how the wiretap evidence had
gotten into U.S. courts without following MLAT procedures.” Baugh
then asked whether “technical meetings” could be arranged to
address this “final hurdle.” Charge’ then asked if the GoJ would
no longer insist on the names of confidential informants. Leys
responded that the GoJ now understood that the USG would not
identify the confidential informants in the case, but added that
he did not mean to imply this no longer represented a problem for
the GoJ.
8.(C) Coye observed that the MLAT recognized the sovereignty of
both signatories, and asserted that, when the Jamaican officer had
gone to the U.S. to present evidence without following MLAT
procedures, Jamaica’s sovereignty had been breached. Charge’
observed that “we are setting a bridge too far,” and it seemed
that the GoJ’s new standards were based on the subject involved,
rather than on points of law or our previous practice in
extradition matters. Leys replied that this was the first time the
MLAT issue “has come to the fore.” Charge’ acknowledged that the
question was not insignificant, but would be better handled during
an extradition hearing. Coye said that “what we’re dealing with
goes beyond the Coke case; it’s the principle of respecting the
MLAT.” Charge’ responded that, if Jamaican officers had gone to
the U.S. to present evidence on their own without any coordination
with the GoJ, he could understand this argument; however, this had
not been so, given the cooperation that had existed in putting the
case together. Coye noted that the MLAT Central Authorities had
not been consulted; this was the key point, and “we must stop the
erosion of principle – this is a government-to-government issue,”
adding that “small nations take sovereignty seriously.” Charge’
responded that the USG was not suggesting that the GoJ should do
anything only because we asked it, but because compliance was in
accordance with the Treaty and previous unchallenged extradition
requests. Leys then said that, under the terms of the MLAT and
Jamaican law, the request for wiretap evidence should have gone to
the Minister of Justice (who had delegated authority to the
Director of Public Prosecutions); because wiretaps were involved,
the request then should have gone before a Jamaican judge, for
approval in accordance with MLAT procedures. Charge’ then asked if
the GoJ’s consideration of the extradition request had left it
uncertain as to whether competent Jamaican authorities had
authorized the introduction of evidence in the U.S., and, if so,
whether the GoJ’s request for “technical legal discussions”
regarding the MLAT were intended to “provide information which your
investigation has not answered,” to which Leys replied “yes.”
9.(C) Charge’ then observed that the GoJ appeared to be setting a
standard too high and difficult to Reach, and that applied only to
the Coke extradition. Baugh responded that the MLAT was “well
established.” Leys summed up by saying the GoJ had not yet taken a
position with respect to the extradition request, but instead was
requesting further assistance from the USG in the form of technical
legal discussions. Coye noted that the USG had offered its
assistance with the extradition process; the request for technical
legal discussions was a request for assistance. Charge’ noted that
the question as to whether evidence similarly had been introduced
in previous extradition cases would have to be considered.
Lightbourne replied that, even if this had been so, she was not now
at liberty to “ignore the law;” the key question was whether the
steps required under the MLAT had been followed. Charge’ said the
Embassy would convey the GoJ’s views to Washington. (Comment:
Embassy Kingston recommends that the DOJ lawyers deal directly with
Solicitor General Leys and Attorney General Lightbourne regarding
their MLAT concerns. Leys has indicated to Charge’ that he is
willing to travel to Washington for consultations. Alternatively,
Post can use its good offices to arrange a suitable date / time for
a telephone conversation. Post remains convinced that the GoJ’s
current misgivings about possible violation of MLAT provisions are
an effort to prolong the decision-making process indefinitely or to
deny the request.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09KINGSTON749.html
JAMAICA: OPPOSITION GRILLS PRIME MINISTER IN PARLIAMENT ON COKE EXTRADITION DELAYS
December 10, 2009
1. (SBU) The continuing controversy over the Christopher “Dudus”
Coke extradition request exploded into partisan rancor and
bitterness in Jamaica’s Parliament on December 8, as Peter
Phillips, Member of Parliament (MP) for the opposition People’s
National Party (PNP) and former Minister for National Security,
accused Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding and his Jamaica Labour
Party (JLP)-led Government of Jamaica (GOJ) of “taking longer than
the average period of time” to comply with the request. The PM ,
however, adopted what would seem to be a new tack in the continuing
drama in alleging that in fact it was the U.S. that has been
responsible for the delay by failing to comply with Jamaica’s
Mutual Assistance Criminal Matters Act, although he refused to
provide any details. Pandemonium reportedly ensued, as backbenchers of both parties heckled speakers and House Speaker Delroy Chuck struggled unsuccessfully to restore order. The imbroglio
illustrates both the GOJ’s paralysis over the issue as the Golding
administration flails for new legal points on which to delay a
decision, as well as the PNP’s determination to use the issue as a
means of attacking the JLP’s moral authority to govern. End
Summary.
Golding Moves The Goal Posts
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¶2. (SBU) Peter Phillips, PNP MP and former Minister of National
Security told Emboff that he had tabled a series of fairly
innocuous written questions to Parliament as a means of engaging
the PM as to the status of the Coke extradition request. Amidst
shouting from MPs of both parties, Golding insisted that the
three-and-a-half month delay that has elapsed since the U.S. State
Department submitted the request was “not unusual” and was in fact
necessary in order to ensure that due process was followed.
Furthermore, the PM attributed the delay to the USG’s failure to
“follow proper procedure” in issuing the request. In defending his
administration’s handling of the Coke extradition request, Golding
accused both the PNP and the media of “taking positions in
ignorance” and not having “access to the facts [and] procedures
that must be followed,” while “the Minister of Justice enjoys no
such privilege [and] must uphold the laws of the country.”
¶3. (SBU) The PM implied that the evidence presented in the
extradition request may have been collected in violation of
Jamaican law, although when asked to do so by PNP backbencher
Ronnie Thwaites he would not cite the specific law in question.
“Most requests that have been received depend for their process on
the provisions of the Extradition Treaty with the particular
country and on the Extradition Act,” Golding noted, but added that
“[t]his particular request is somewhat different in that it also
relies for its validity on the provisions of the Mutual Assistance
Criminal Matters Act. The Government of Jamaica has raised with the
U.S. authorities issues regarding its compliance with that Act.”
Therefore, Golding maintained, “it is not a matter as to whether
(Minister of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne) is inclined to authorize
the extradition, it’s a question that the minister would be
authorizing something that she knows would be in violation of the
law.”
¶4. (SBU)(NOTE: In recent demarches on the Coke extradition, the GOJ
has raised concerns that evidence acquired through wiretaps in
Jamaica were apparently not processed through the Mutual Legal
Assistance Treaty (MLAT) and has requested direct consultations on
this point between representatives of Jamaica’s Ministry of Justice
(MOJ) and the USG’s Departments of State and Justice (Reftel A).
The DOJ’s position, however, maintains that the MLAT did not
represent “an exclusive means for sharing of law enforcement
information” (Reftel B). The Departments of State and Justice have
agreed to meet with the MOJ representatives in Washington on
December 17. (Reftel B). End Note).
Pandemonium in Parliament
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¶5. (SBU) Obviously dissatisfied with the PM’s response, Phillips
contended that Golding’s explanation “did not stand to reason” and
pressed for more details. Golding refused, insisting that the GOJ
and the USG had agreed not to discuss the matter publicly. (NOTE:
Golding maintained that he had indicated to the USG that he would
brief Parliament on the status of the case without providing
specific details. Soon after the extradition request had been
submitted, an envoy from the PM’s office had requested that the USG
refrain from publicly pressuring the GOJ over the politically-sensitive issue (Reftel C). Although Post has generally refused to comment on the matter publicly, there has been no such explicit agreement or understanding between the GOJ and Post. End Note). Golding maintained that the delay was not unusual and cited several cases in which the previous PNP-led government had delayed granting extradition requests, in one case for as long as three years. The PM also pointed out that since taking office in September 2007, a total of 31 Jamaicans had been extradited to the U.S.
¶6. (SBU) As the debate continued and became more and more heated, House Speaker and JLP MP Delroy Chuck attempted unsuccessfully to bring order to the proceedings and to prevent Phillips from asking questions that were “inappropriate.” “It is not for trial in the Parliament,” Chuck maintained. “If the Prime Minister indicates that there is a breach of domestic law, why are we inquiring
further?” Amid shouts of “sit down” from JLP backbenchers, Thwaites
replied “Because we need to know. We are the ultimate arbiters of
the law.”
¶7. (SBU) When Phillips referred to a recent newspaper article
alleging that members of the Cabinet had met with Coke and asked
whether such a meeting would be appropriate, Chuck objected to the
question on the grounds that “you have no evidence that that member
met with the person,” while the PM referred to the House’s Standing
Orders in refusing to respond. “The member knows he cannot ask a
hypothetical question like that,” Golding stated. “He may very well
be seeking to grandstand, but he knows it’s against the Standing
Orders.” Golding, however, did make a veiled reference to the PNP’s
own ties to criminal organizations, citing Phillips’ attendance at
the funeral of garrison community don in 2001.
Golding Denies Advance Knowledge of Extradition Request
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¶8. (SBU) Phillips also asked the PM whether USG authorities had
briefed him on the Coke case on assuming office in 2007. Despite
Chuck’s attempt to prohibit the question as “prejudicial” to Coke,
the PM nevertheless responded that he had first received
information about the extradition request the day before the USG
submitted it to the GOJ on August 25. (NOTE: Post disputes the PM’s
recollection, noting that former Ambassador Johnson briefed the PM
on the case in January 2009. Phillips himself reported to Emboff
that as the outgoing Minister of National Security he briefed the
PM on the case shortly after the September 2007 elections that
brought the JLP to power (Reftel D) End Note).
¶9. (C) In comments to Emboff, Phillips noted that he had planned
the altercation with the Prime Minister by tabling the questions
and felt that the PM had been “twisting and turning” in trying to
justify the GOJ’s inaction on the extradition request. Phillips
alleged that the GOJ is “determined to take the side of the Shower
Posse (the criminal organization with which Coke is associated)
rather than that of the people of Jamaica,” and that he’s not aware
of any “timetable for action” on the part of Golding administration. As he’d implied in Parliament, Phillips maintained that two Cabinet members – Minister of Information Daryl Vaz and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne – as well as JLP Senator and Coke attorney Tom Tavares-Finson met with Coke regarding the extradition request sometime between September 21 and 24; when confronted with this allegation in Parliament, Phillips noted that the PM did not acknowledge that such a meeting occurred, nor did he deny it.
PM Fails To Recognize Severity of Situation
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¶10. (C) Phillips maintained to Emboff his belief that the PM
remains unconvinced of the seriousness the USG attaches to the Coke case, and that the PM will not give way on the extradition request without pressure from two sources: the USG and Jamaican public opinion. Given that the Coke issue is the subject of almost daily speculation and debate in newspaper editorials and on talk radio, Phillips contends that without action on the part of the USG the PM is unlikely to budge on the issue and to assume that it will recede
in importance over time. According to Phillips’s sources, the
Golding administration has been quietly reaching out to friends in
the U.S. Congress and the administration through backchannels to
try to circumvent the Departments of State and Justice and to make
their case to the White House. Phillips also told Emboff that many
key JLP stalwarts – Minister of Finance Audley Shaw, Minister of
Education Andrew Holness, Minister of Housing Horace Chang, and
Minister of Foreign Affairs Kenneth Baugh among them – have
expressed to him their dissatisfaction with the Golding
administration’s handling of the Coke extradition request, but that
they’re unlikely to break with Golding over the issue, nor would he
expect any JLP MPs to cross the aisle over the issue.
Concern Over Lack of U.S. Ambassador, IMF Agreement
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¶11. (SBU) The PM also addressed the USG’s delay in naming an
ambassador to replace Brenda LaGrange Johnson, who departed Post in January 2009. Speculation has been rampant in recent weeks that the White House’s decision to nominate Anne Slaughter Andrew as Ambassador to Costa Rica, and not to Jamaica as had been
anticipated, as well as the delay in announcing another nominee was
due to the GOJ’s intransigence on the Coke extradition request.
Similarly, many see the slow progress of the GOJ’s talks with the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a standby agreement as
evidence that the U.S. is stymieing the resolution of the
negotiations (Reftel E). Golding insisted that the delay in naming
a new ambassador was due to “preoccupation with other matters” on
the part of the White House and the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, and pointed out that the “processing and approval of the
President’s nominees for several postings,” such as Trinidad and
Tobago, had taken a great deal of time as well. “We await the
appointment of a U.S. Ambassador, in the same way that many other
countries are,” the PM noted. (NOTE: Post is unaware of any linkage
between the Coke extradition request, the IMF negotiations, and the
naming of a new ambassador. Nevertheless, conspiracy theories are
ubiquitous in Jamaica, and the belief that these issues are related
is widely held. End Note).
Foreign Minister Apologizes
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¶12. (C) On the evening of December 9, Foreign Minister Kenneth
Baugh telephoned CDA to apologize for the PM’s remarks in
Parliament and to express regret that Golding had been put in such
a position by Phillips. Despite the PM’s statements and the
headlines to the contrary, the Foreign Minister assured CDA that
Golding had been misquoted and that it was not the position of the
GOJ that the USG had violated the MLAT or the extradition treaty.
Interestingly, although the Office of the Prime Minister issued a
press release on the morning after the debate highlighting the PM’s
comments on the delay in naming a new U.S. ambassador, there was no press release correcting or reinterpreting the PM’s comments
suggesting the USG was responsible for the extradition delay.
Summary and Analysis
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¶13. (SBU) The GOJ’s raising of the MLAT issue privately in the
December 3 demarche (Reftel A) and now publicly on the floor of
Parliament suggests that the Golding administration is sensitive to
increasing concerns raised in the media and by the opposition that
the GOJ is stalling, grasping for any legal rationale it can find
to forestall the extradition of the politically-connected and
powerful Coke, who controls the garrison community of Tivoli
Gardens in Golding’s own West Kingston constituency. The GOJ
appears to be trying to have it both ways – publicly blaming the
USG for the delays, while privately assuring CDA that this is not
the position of the Golding administration. However, in publicly
accusing the U.S. of violating Jamaican law while blaming his
refusal to provide specifics on a nonexistent agreement with the
USG, Golding can have the best of both worlds – casting off
responsibility for the delay while remaining confident that the USG
will not contradict his version of events.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/12/09KINGSTON753.html
Wayne Christopher CHEN DOB: 02 SEP 1958 POB:
JAM
Subject is alleged to be an associate of XXXX XXXXX.
Local check of Consolidated Consular Database with available
information indicated the following visa record: Visa valid until
April 19 2016. Recipients are requested to recheck CCD to verify.
Name: CHEN, Wayne Christopher
DOB: 02 SEP 1958
POB: JAM
Date of visa issuance: 20 APR 2006
Type: B1 B2 Multiple entry ten year
Control number: KNG 2006110 544 5
Central Bank Turns on Printing Press
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¶4. (SBU) This forced the GOJ to tap the BOJ, which turned on the
printing press to satisfy the credit appetite of its largest
client. During November, the bank extended credit in the amount of
USD 57 Million to the GOJ, of which only USD 28 million was repaid
in December. With the GOJ strapped for cash, the remaining USD 29
million had to be converted to securities. But things took a turn
for the worse in December; with revenues declining at an increasing
rate, the GOJ was forced to seek even more loans from the domestic
capital markets. The GOJ offered two instruments amounting to USD
212 million, of which only USD 12 million was taken up by the
public. With the market shunning the offers, the bank was forced to
prop up the government by purchasing the remaining USD 200 million.
The BOJ has been quick to point out that the practice of
providing credit to the GOJ is a normal part of its operations.
However, this new money, which influences demand, is bound to drive
core inflation the longer it remains in circulation.
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On January 16, en route from Port-au-Prince back to
Washington, the Secretary’s plane landed briefly at Kingston’s
Norman Manley International Airport. Golding and Foreign Minister
Kenneth Baugh met for a short time with the Secretary in the
airport’s VIP lounge; Vaz told Emboff that the topics of discussion
included relief efforts in Haiti and the pending IMF agreement, but
that the high profile extradition cases were not raised. On
January 19, Golding announced that former PNP Prime Minister P.J.
Patterson would serve as CARICOM’s representative on a coordinating committee to organize an international conference to develop a strategic plan for Haiti’s recovery and rebuilding.
All That Glitters…
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¶6. (SBU) Nevertheless, despite the recent positive press, serious
issues continue to demand the GOJ’s attention and to roil the
bilateral relationship. Unemployment remains high, consumer prices
continue to increase, and the bauxite industry continues to show
few signs of life (Reftel A). The GOJ continues to trumpet its
intention to bring down the island’s spiraling crime rate, with
Minister of National Security Dwight Nelson promising that
“draconian” anti-gang measures to assist the Jamaican Constabulary
Force (JCF) would soon be forthcoming. However, Attorney General
Dorothy Lightbourne’s recent refusal to extradite Presley Bingham
(Septel) and the ongoing standoff over the Christopher Coke
extradition request raise doubts as to the GOJ’s resolve,
especially when it comes to high-profile criminal dons with close
ties to the JLP.
Perhaps more troubling is the GOJ’s recent recalcitrance in
granting U.S. extradition requests, suggesting a lack of
seriousness in addressing Jamaica’s crime problems, or even the
possibility that garrison dons and criminal elements have
“captured” the GOJ.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10KINGSTON84.html
“Testing the waters” with an Extradition Refusal of Gas Station operator and known Cocaine trafficker Presley Bingham from “out West”
JAMAICA: DENIAL OF EXTRADITION REQUEST: PRESLEY BINGHAM
The Government of Jamaica (GoJ) has formally rejected the
extradition request for Presly Bingham (reftel). Jamaican Minister
of Justice Dorothy Lightbourne asserts that the extradition would
be “unjust and oppressive.”
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10KINGSTON86.html
Bingham you have to be counted as lucky man. The plane was waiting??? But they set for you your family in the U.S.A. is covered.
All because a nervous scoundrel resorted to “test the waters.”
The PM defended Attorney General (AG) Dorothy Lightbourne’s recent refusal of the USG’s extradition request for Presley Bingham (Reftel A) on drug trafficking charges, and hinted that the GOJ would similarly refuse the pending Christopher “Dudus” Coke extradition request on procedural grounds.
JAMAICA: PM LAMENTS LAW ENFORCEMENT PRIMACY IN USG
RELATIONSHIP, HINTS AT COKE EXTRADITION REFUSAL; POST REQUESTS DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE
1. (SBU) On the evening of January 27, the CDA met with Prime
Minister (PM) Bruce Golding in his office at Jamaica House
regarding the bilateral relationship in general and the status of
recent USG extradition requests in particular. The PM expressed
concern that, in recent years, the relationship between the
Government of Jamaica (GOJ) and the USG had gradually become
dominated by law enforcement concerns. The CDA disagreed, noting
that the USG was very engaged with the GOJ through USAID, the Peace
Corps, military-to-military ties, consular services, and other
forms of cooperation. The PM defended Attorney General (AG)
Dorothy Lightbourne’s recent refusal of the USG’s extradition
request for Presley Bingham (Reftel A) on drug trafficking charges,
and hinted that the GOJ would similarly refuse the pending
Christopher “Dudus” Coke extradition request on procedural grounds.
Post requests that Department authorize a demarche to the GOJ to
convey the points delineated in paragraph 8. End Summary and
Action Request.
Concern Over Law Enforcement Primacy in Bilateral Relationship
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¶2. (SBU) The CDA had met earlier in the day with Ambassador Evadne
Coye, Permanent Secretary (PS) in the GOJ’s Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT), to express the USG’s
dissatisfaction over the AG’s refusal of the Bingham extradition
request (Septel). The PS apparently relayed those concerns to the
Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), and by the end of the day the
CDA was invited to Jamaica House to meet with the PM. PS Coye and
Foreign Minister (FM) Kenneth Baugh also were present.
¶3. (SBU) The PM noted that he had been a long-standing supporter of
the bilateral relationship, but was concerned that in recent years
USG-GOJ ties seem to have become dominated by law enforcement
concerns. The CDA countered that this was not the case, and cited
a number of other areas of cooperation, including USAID, Peace
Corps, military-to-military programs, consular services, tax
compliance, and USG support for the GOJ’s pending Standby Agreement
with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) (Reftel B). When
reminded of the scope of the bilateral relationship, the PM seemed
pleased. The CDA also noted that, at the recent Chiefs of Mission
(COM) conference in Washington, Secretary Clinton and Assistant
Secretary (AS) for Western Hemisphere Affairs Arturo Valenzuela had
stressed the importance of the USG’s partnerships in the Caribbean,
while emphasizing that the USG could not divorce law enforcement
cooperation from the wider range of issues and priorities in
bilateral relationships.
Defends AG’s Bingham Decision
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¶4. (SBU) The PM said that he had spoken with the AG regarding the
Bingham case and defended her decision, noting that she had the
legal authority to decide as she had done. The CDA assured the PM
that the USG did not question the AG’s authority, but had been
surprised by the limited rationale that she had provided for her
decision (Septel) The AG had had the opportunity to review the
USG’s extradition request in early 2009 before she had signed the
order to proceed, and had given no indication at that time of any
of the apparent “double jeopardy” concerns raised in the diplomatic
note regarding the refusal. Similarly, the timing of the AG’s
refusal – coming one day before the expiration of the 60 day window
within which Bingham would have to have been extradited – had put
the USG in a difficult position, with U.S. Marshalls having been
placed on standby and a USG plane deployed to the Norman Manley
International Airport to transport Bingham to the U.S. The PM
seemed to acknowledge these concerns.
Displeased With DAS Reynoso’s Coke Comments
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¶5. (SBU) The PM also noted with displeasure that, on her recent
visit to Jamaica (Reftel C), Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) of
State for Central American and Caribbean Affairs Julissa Reynoso
had spoken with local media representatives on the pending Coke
extradition. The CDA reminded the PM that, although the U.S.
Embassy and the GOJ had maintained a “gentleman’s agreement” not to
discuss the case publicly, no such assurances could be made on the
part of the DAS. Nevertheless, the CDA noted that he had advised
MFAFT of the DAS’s visit and the likelihood that she would be asked
about the Coke extradition. The FM confirmed to the PM that this
advisement had in fact taken place and that the U.S. Embassy had
been quite forthcoming regarding the DAS’s media interviews and
statements on the Coke extradition.
Hints At Coke Extradition Refusal
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¶6. (SBU) In their discussion, the PM spent considerable time
questioning the propriety of elements of the Coke extradition
request (Reftel D), demonstrating a great deal of familiarity with
the intricacies of the case and suggesting that he had been
following it closely. Matters of particular concern seemed to be:
the identity of confidential sources cited in the extradition
request; and, the propriety of members of the Jamaica Constabulary
Force (JCF) appearing before the Grand Jury in the Southern
District of New York without appropriate authorization by the
Jamaican courts.
Analysis:
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¶7. (SBU) In the CDA’s estimation, the PM gave every indication that
the GOJ was leaning toward refusing the USG’s Christopher Coke
extradition request, although there was no explicit statement to
this effect, and no time frame for a decision was mentioned. If
this is the case, the Bingham extradition refusal might have been
intended to establish a precedent on procedural grounds for a Coke
refusal. Post will convey any additional information as it becomes
available. End Analysis.
Action Request:
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¶8. (SBU) Post requests that the Department authorize a demarche to
the GOJ conveying the following points:
a. The Jamaican Minister of Justice’s decision not to
extradite Presley Bingham is disappointing and regrettable. Mr.
Bingham is accused of serious crimes involving international drug
trafficking, which have harmed U.S. communities and fueled violence
in Jamaica, with devastating consequences for the Jamaican people
and legitimate Jamaican industries.
b. Our requests for the extradition of Mr. Bingham were
based on thorough investigations and fully satisfied all of the
requirements of our bilateral extradition treaty. The United
States in no way engaged in any undue delay in this case. Indeed,
the GOJ’s failure to issue a surrender warrant in a timely manner
led to the release of Mr. Bingham at the conclusion of the first
set of extradition proceedings. For years, our cooperation with
Jamaica in the area of law enforcement has been considerable,
including on extradition matters. In fact, we consulted with the
Jamaican Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to
prepare both both our first and our subsequent extradition requests
for Mr. Bingham, as we do in all extradition cases. The claim that
extradition would be unjust due to delay is inconsistent with the
MOJ’s decision to proceed in response to our resubmission of the
extradition request.
c. We fully respect the decisions of the Jamaican
courts and magistrates, which in this case validated the USG’s case
against Mr. Bingham. Mr. Bingham chose not to appeal the decision
in a timely manner. This decision by the Jamaican courts has now
been overruled by the Attorney General, although the USG has acted
in accord with our treaty obligations in this case.
d. Post awaits a more detailed explanation from the GOJ
regarding this decision.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/01/10KINGSTON114.html
JAMAICA: EXTRADITION CASES OF PRESLEY BINGHAM AND
CHRISTOPHER COKE
1.(SBU) The Jamaican Attorney General and Solicitor General
maintain that the denial of the USG’s extradition request for
Presley Bingham was an “unusual” case that will not become a
precedent. They also agreed to provide a more complete written
justification for the denial of the Bingham extradition. With
respect to the pending extradition request for reputed narcotics
and arms trafficker Christopher “Dudas” Coke, the Solicitor General
maintains that the key unresolved question is whether critical
information was disclosed to the USG in accordance with Jamaican
law. End Summary.
2.(SBU) In a private meeting with the Government of Jamaica
(GoJ)’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General (AG) Dorothy
Lightbourne and Solicitor General (SG) Douglas Leys on the
afternoon of February 3, Charge’ reiterated the USG’s
disappointment with the GoJ’s denial of the extradition request for
Presley Bingham (reftels) and sought preliminary clarification of
the reasons for the GoJ’s decision. Prior to the arrival of the
AG, the SG indicated to Charge’ that his visit to Washington in
December had been “productive,” and had afforded an opportunity to
discuss issues and problems surrounding extraditions; he believed
the USG had a “growing appreciation of the issues between us.”
Charge’ asked whether, with respect to the Christopher “Dudus” Coke
extradition request, the SG considered the ball to be in the USG’s
court. The SG replied that follow-up actions by both parties
remained; the GoJ had “looked at other cases involving
interceptions,” and had concluded that the Coke case was one of
“first impression.” The main issue in the Coke case was
“unauthorized disclosure” of information to USG authorities which
had not been in accordance with Jamaican law. The SG said he
understood, as a result of his visit to Washington, that the USG
believed that proper procedures had been followed. Upon his return
to Jamaica, he had sent a letter to the Commissioner of Police
inquiring as to the authority by which a Jamaican police officer
had given testimony to a jury in the U.S.; he had not yet received
a reply. The SG noted that he also had sent a draft joint press
release to the U.S. Department of Justice, and was awaiting a
reply.
3.(SBU) When AG Lightbourne joined the meeting, Charge’ expressed
disappointment with the GoJ’s surprising denial of the Bingham
extradition request, noting that this was the first instance in
which the Jamaican courts had ordered an extradition, but in which
the surrender order subsequently had not been followed. Charge’
said that the USG was interested in the details underlying the
GoJ’s decision, and noted that, in keeping with the customary close
collaboration between the GoJ and USG on extradition matters,
ordinarily any problems would have been resolved before the arrest
order had been signed. Charge’ emphasized that, in the initial
extradition request, the 60-day limitation had not expired because
of any delay on the part of the USG, but rather because of the
GoJ’s inaction; SG Leys readily acknowledged this point. Charge’
noted that Bingham initially had chosen not to appeal his
extradition, and had not raised the arguments put forward by the
AG. Charge’ noted that the AG had taken 59 days to issue a
decision regarding the appeal, thus necessitating the USG’s having
to bring in a chartered aircraft to ensure that Bingham could have
been removed from Jamaica before the expiration of the 60-day
limitation. AG Lightbourne said that she had been awaiting a brief
by Bingham’s lawyer, who had been off-island; a Cabinet meeting and
the press of other business had resulted in issuance of her
decision on the 59th day.
4.(SBU) In response to Charge’s inquiry regarding the AG’s finding
that the Bingham extradition request had been “unjust and
oppressive,” Leys said that the GoJ would make a detailed written
explanation available to the USG. Leys noted that, while it had
not been included in the written ruling, in dismissing the initial
extradition request the judge had pronounced that the GoJ should
“not think about” re-arresting Bingham for the same offense. Leys
noted that the Bingham case dated back to 1998, and had taken so
long to be resolved through “no fault of the applicant.” Leys
readily acknowledged that, in processing the initial extradition
request, the Jamaican authorities had been remiss in allowing the
60-day limitation to expire, and said the 17-month delay in the
second extradition request had been excessive. In light of these
delays, it was necessary to “balance the rights of the accused with
the interests of the requesting and the requested states.” The SG
observed that, whenever a defendant is re-arrested after a long
period, “memories fade, documents go missing, and witnesses
relocate.” Charge’ then asked why, when the AG had signed the
renewed authorization to proceed in 2008, these factors had not
been taken into consideration. AG Lightbourne replied that, when
she had signed the authorization, she had not realized that it was
a renewal of a previous extradition request; she only realized this
when, subsequently, Bingham’s lawyer brought it to her attention.
5.(SBU) Charge’ then pointed out that often extradition cases took
many months or years to develop, and asked whether the AG’s
decision in the Bingham case might serve as an unfortunate
precedent. SG Leys replied that the Bingham case had been
“peculiar,” in that the court had discharged the case, and the USG
then had submitted a renewed extradition request for the same
offense. Again, Leys readily acknowledged that the initial
extradition request had been discharged “because of negligence” by
GoJ authorities. AG Lightbourne noted that Section 11 (3) (b) of
the Extradition Treaty “would not make sense” if renewed
extradition requests could be submitted for the same offense. SG
Leys then said that delay was “one of the factors” the Minister had
taken into consideration in “exercising her discretion” under
Section 12 (3) of the Extradition Treaty. In response to Charge’s
inquiry as to whether these factors had been taken into
consideration at the level of the magisterial court, the SG and AG
replied that they could not say, as they had not been present. SG
Leys noted that the “unjust and oppressive” provision of the Treaty
previously had applied in the Walter Byles extradition case.
Charge’ reiterated that, if the GoJ found problems or weaknesses in
the course of extradition cases, they should be brought to the
attention of the USG and resolved rather than waiting until the end
of the process.
6.(SBU) Charge’ then asked whether the USG should submit renewed
extradition requests in the future. SG Leys replied that “it’s up
to you,” and noted that the Jamaican courts ordinarily adhered to a
“fresh evidence” rule when accepting renewed cases. Charge’
reiterated that, in the initial extradition request, the court had
not exonerated Bingham; instead, the case had been lost in the
Jamaican system. The USG considered this a crucial distinction.
SG Leys said he appreciated this distinction, but that it had been
necessary to “balance the rights of the accused with the rights of
the requesting and requested states.” In response to Charge’s
inquiry as to whether the Bingham case might serve as a precedent,
Leys replied “no, never,” and Lightbourne called it “a most unusual
case.”
7.(SBU) SG Leys then said, in reference to the Coke extradition
case, the key question was how information had been given to USG
authorities without “modifications to the order to disclose
information only to certain classes of persons.” Leys said he did
not even know the name of the constable who had testified in the
U.S.; the circumstances were under investigation. He then noted
that the question of whether the Minister of National Security
should have been consulted was “no longer an issue.” The
outstanding issue was whether information had been disclosed to the
USG in accordance with Jamaican law.
8.(SBU) AG Lightbourne then emphasized that she was “fully
supportive of the U.S. Government,” and reiterated that the Bingham
case was “unusual.” Leys said that, in the previous (People’s
National Party) administration, the Minister of Justice routinely
had signed extradition arrest orders and forwarded them to the
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) without careful review.
Since the DPP represented the interests of the USG, from now on the
SG would review extradition requests before the arrest orders were
sent to the DPP. Charge’ reiterated that the USG did not submit
frivolous extradition requests; these requests were only submitted
for serious crimes. Charge’ noted that it was extremely
frustrating to the USG that an extradition case on which the two
governments had collaborated closely should be denied at the last
minute; any possible steps to avoid a repeat of this episode should
be taken. Leys then maintained that the AG could have denied the
Coke extradition request when the USG had not supplied all of the
information requested by the GoJ; instead, the GoJ was working with
the USG in hopes of resolving outstanding questions, and this
should be understood as a sign of good relations. Leys noted that
he had found only one other extradition case involving intercepts;
he believed it was that of Garth Lewis, and that no ruling had been
rendered. AG Lightbourne then cited a case in which a Jamaican
mistakenly had been extradited to Maryland on a charge of first
degree murder rather than second degree murder; the public defender
now was attempting to have the case dismissed. She said this
illustrated the need for careful review by the SL of all
extradition cases. Charge’ concluded by noting the prominent
coverage given to the Coke and Bingham extradition cases by the
Jamaican print and broadcast media; this made coordination between
the GoJ and USG all the more essential.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10KINGSTON174.html
JAMAICA: COKE EXTRADITION CASE; IMF AGREEMENT
1. (SBU) On February 8, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Permanent Secretary (PS) Amb. Evadne Coye advised Charge that Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding wanted to meet with him the following day in the PM’s Office. The PS
advised that she was not aware of the subject of the meeting.
¶2. (C) PM Golding began the conversation by expressing his
understanding that the U.S. Treasury reps had taken a “very hard
line” in their review of the Government of Jamaica (GOJ)’s recent
IMF loan application by insisting on strict adherence to all of the
terms of the loan. He asked if this “hard line” stance was related
to the GOJ’s inaction on the Coke extradition matter (reftels).
The Charge’ responded that, while resolution of Coke extradition
matter was of great importance to the USG and we hoped for an
affirmative response soon, the request had no impact on the U.S.
loan vote, and pointed out that it is reasonable to expect that all
nations abide by terms of their IMF loan agreements. The PM
concluded by reiterating his government’s intention to comply fully
with the terms of the loan.
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10KINGSTON9.html
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Arrest warrant out for ‘Dudus’; Tavares-Finson withdraws
DEFENCE lawyer Tom Tavares-Finson last night withdrew as attorney for Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the Tivoli Gardens strongman facing extradition to the United States on alleged drug- and gun-trafficking charges.
“…I am setting up a team and stepping aside as the matter moves to court in order to avoid conflict of interest,” Tavares-Finson confirmed to the Observer last night, just hours after the police announced that they were in possession of an arrest warrant issued by the court to begin extradition proceedings against Coke.
Moments after Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced Monday night that an authority to proceed with the extradition request would be signed, Tavares-Finson — a Government senator and member of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica — said he would be appealing the order in court.
The Opposition People’s National Party had called for Tavares-Finson to resign as a member of the Senate because of a conflict of interest in his representation of Coke.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Arrest-warrant-out-for–Dudus—Tavares-Finson-withdraws_7627364#ixzz1X2W0Xgbh
According to Wikileaks:
In 2004, [James] Robertson was named along with fellow JLP
members, Shahine Robinson and Horace Chang, as being
involved with money laundering and organized crime by local
sources. According to DEA sources he was involved with
Norris Nembhard, a drug kingpin awaiting deportation to the
U.S. The source alleged that Robertson’s father, Ishmael
Robertson, was forced to hand over acres of land to settle
his son’s drug debts to Nembhard.
I didn’t know there are so many crooked Politicians in one Party! Where is John Azan these days?
Wait…more Wikileaks concerning another JLP MP and former Minister of Security:
There have been allegations in the past from British
High Commission contacts that [Derrick] Smith was involved with known
gang leaders. Sources stated that Smith, along with then
JLP boss Seaga, were complicit in weapons trafficking in a
2002 Department of Defense report. At the time the British
had placed phone taps on suspected gang members in Jamaica,
and recorded a phone call from Derrick Smith to a known
gang leader ordering them to “quiet things down for a
while.” Source stated that for about two weeks after the
phone call there were no indications of weapons
trafficking
Pressure to mount on the Gov’t to reveal the status of the IMF reviews
“I’m going to ask the questions, where are they now and what is the present relationship with the IMF and whether they are going to be renegotiating (with the Fund) if they don’t pass the tests. My mind tells me they just cannot pass it,” she said.
Mrs. Simpson Miller added that the IMF is not the only matter she will be seeking answers on.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/pressure-mount-gov’t-reveal-status-imf-reviews
According to US diplomatic cables…
On June 21, the UK High Commissioner, Jeremy Creswell informed the Canadian High Commissioner, the NAS Director and ICE Attache that there seems to be a “cabal” within Prime Minister Golding’s Government that still wants Lewin out. According to Creswell, immediately after Lewin’s decision to remain as Commissioner, James Robertson, Minister without Portfolio, Office of the Prime Minister, requested a private meeting with Creswell. During the meeting, Robertson, who is believed to have links to criminal organizations, expressed his fury over Lewin’s decision to stay, and criticized members of the Services Commission for persuading Lewin to
withdraw his resignation, calling them the UK’s friends. Creswell told us that he was surprised by and still unsure of the purpose of Robertson’s visit. Creswell’s analysis of an anti-Lewin sentiment within the Golding administration is shared by the Canadian High Commissioner.
(Note: Ellington, who is considered by many to be an intelligent and capable officer, is suspected of having links to criminal organizations. The Assistant Commissioner of Police for Anti-Corruption, Justin Felice, a British officer seconded to the JCF, informed NAS that based on a request from Commissioner Lewin, he has pulled together a file on Ellington’s extra-curricular activities. On June 22, Lewin stated that he plans to call Ellington in to discuss his future with the JCF. According to Lewin, Ellington needs to decide whether he wants to be a police officer or something
else.)
According to the CABLES, Always Learning….Not Wikileaks…
You are right Floridian…I stand corrected!!
(Note: Ellington, who is considered by many to be an intelligent and capable officer, is suspected of having links to criminal organizations. The Assistant Commissioner of Police for Anti-Corruption, Justin Felice, a British officer seconded to the JCF, informed NAS that based on a request from Commissioner Lewin, he has pulled together a file on Ellington’s extra-curricular activities. On June 22, Lewin stated that he plans to call Ellington in to discuss his future with the JCF. According to Lewin, Ellington needs to decide whether he wants to be a police officer or something
else.)
So the commissioner of Police has links to criminal organizations? What was that incidence some years ago with the Commissioner…I think it was a St. James matter, which appears to be a blemish on his record. If you can’t trust the Commissioner of Police, then who can the People of Jamaica put their trust in? Why did the JLP and the JLP-aligned Police Officer Corp forced out Lewin?
Jamaica Labour Party (Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Caretaker for South West St. Andrew, Garnett Reid, was yesterday questioned by investigators from the Constant Spring Police Station.
Reid surrendered to the police after an appeal was made for him to do so.
He was accompanied by his attorney Valerie Neita-Robertson.
The police say they want to question Reid in connection with a sexual offence, which is alleged to have been committed last Thursday.
However, Reid has denied being involved in the incident.
Meanwhile, the Jamaica Labour Party says it’s deeply disturbed by the allegations against Reid.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=26661
sexual offence? Not in my Cabinet or Party?
It was alleged that the Caretaker and another man, buggered another man… forcibly. Why was the charges dropped after the Caretaker was in Jail for over two weeks?
Pollster says he was libeled by WikiLeaks allegations
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/regional/pollster-says-he-was-libeled-wikileaks-allegations
You see Always Learning? I have never heard of WikiLeaks making any allegation about a cable.
I truly hope that after the past 4 days have passed that Jamaica’s PM says the times and subject of his meetings with the Kingston Embassy staff are a LIE.
Because they contradict statements made under oath in the Commission of Enquiry directly, which would prove Lying.
So as the days continue to pass let us hope the US Embassy can be proven wrong in the dates, times and subject matter.
What happened to the civil action Golding/Brady anyway?
Money laundering
Money laundering is disguising illegal sources of money so that it looks like it came from legal sources. The methods by which money may be laundered are varied and can range in sophistication.
Governments and international bodies have undertaken efforts to deter, prevent and apprehend money launderers. Financial institutions have likewise undertaken efforts to prevent and detect transactions involving dirty money, both as a result of government requirements and to avoid the reputational risk involved.
Money laundering often occurs in three steps: first, cash is introduced into the financial system by some means (“placement”), the second involves carrying out complex financial transactions in order to camouflage the illegal source (“layering”), and the final step entails acquiring wealth generated from the transactions of the illicit funds (“integration”). Some of these steps may be omitted, depending on the circumstances; for example, non-cash proceeds that are already in the financial system would have no need for placement.
Money laundering takes several different forms although most methods can be categorized into one of a few types. These include “bank methods, smurfing [also known as structuring], currency exchanges, and double-invoicing.”
JI relied on his not so Cool web of companies to willfully conceal his money laundering activities. JI’s MZ Holdings and USIMO Corporation apparently entered into a limited contractual arrangement with OLINT to provide certain vendor services to OLINT. MZ Holdings and USIMO bank accounts in the Cayman Islands were used in connection with its OLINT vendor money laundering obligations.
Opposition Calls For Local ‘Dudus’ Investigation
The People’s National Party (PNP) wants the Jamaican police to launch a criminal investigation against former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=31724
Hughes: IMF Agreement Could Be In Trouble
Published:Tuesday September 6, 2011 | 1:39 pm
“Unless measures are taken to find a replacement…unless we find a way to pull that back, then the medium term programme is going to be off track,” he said.
The PAAC is considering the first supplementary estimates, which contains provision for the payment.
However, Hughes said even if the Budget is passed by Parliament, it would not be a major contributor in having the IMF giving the stamp of approval for the disbursement of funds to the country.
Mottley’s leadership suitability questioned in WikiLeaks cable
According to Goddard, senior BLP officials believe that Mottley’s personal life makes her an unacceptable choice to lead the party and the nation.”
The cables went on to quote Goddard as saying that “while [her lifestyle] does not seem to have hindered her career, Goddard clarified that it was her episodes of physical violence that lost her support among the BLP kingmakers.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/regional/mottley’s-leadership-suitability-questioned-wikileaks-cable
The Barbados press “fingering” the Jamaican media houses in bad way. Looks like not only Usain drop out of the full “hundred”
Mottley and Barbados are facing the allegations of fishwife “Virega” up front.
At least it’s not detailed accusations of drug deals an weapons trafficking. Whew…luck you Barbados.
Farcical what’s up? Catatonic? Time wait on no man. Journalistic credentials on the line. RJR “easing out the blocks”
Farsical, will the post and Times report on Jamaica before you? ….AGAIN?
What? You getting “creative?
Statement at Press Conference on the Implications of the Christopher Coke Guilty Plea – Peter Bunting MP
Opposition Spokesman on National Security
Over the past few weeks, the court proceedings in the U.S. Southern District Court of New York have laid bare any surviving pretense regarding the true nature of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, the Shower Posse (a.k.a. Presidential Click), and its operations headquartered in Tivoli Gardens.
Some of this was proffered by Coke’s own guilty plea agreement, but the substantial amount of information was put into the public domain in the U.S. GOVERNMENT’S IN LIMINE MOTION. [A motion in limine (Latin: “at the threshold”) is a motion made before or during a trial requesting that the judge rule that certain evidence may, or may not, be introduced to the jury in a trial. – Wikipedia]
The U.S. Prosecutors who prepared this pre-trial document certainly have no political agenda, but instead set out to explicitly outline how Coke earned his fearsome reputation and his resulting control over his Kingston community and his power and influence in the United States. The document speaks to the prosecution’s intention to call witnesses who would testify from their own knowledge concerning acts of violence, including murders committed personally by Coke and also murders, shootings, and beatings committed at his direction.
In particular, the U.S. Government sought to admit cooperating witness testimony that Coke murdered at least two individuals in Tivoli Gardens for failing to repay narcotics related debts. In the case of one of these victims, Coke killed him with a chainsaw while he was tied down! Even in instances where he wasn’t personally present at the time of execution, our law contemplates the offence of conspiracy and recognizes the role of an aider and abettor.
The U.S. Government’s motion outlines that among Coke’s ‘soldiers’ responsibilities was “participating in election-related activities – including “motivating” members of surrounding communities to support particular candidates by intimidation.” It provides an independent and explicit link to the importance of Coke and the Shower Posse to the JLP’s election organization, and explains their unwillingness to have Coke extradited.
Christopher Dudus Coke did not build his criminal organization from scratch, but inherited the Shower Posse, built by his father Lester Lloyd Coke, that already had expanded into North America during the 1980s. In fact, Dudus himself served an apprenticeship with the Shower Posse in the U.S. before he was convicted and deported in the late 1980s. This was around the same time his father died under suspicious circumstances while incarcerated pending extradition to the United States.
Therefore, Christopher Coke’s conviction is a watershed event in the history of crime in Jamaica. It must be the point at which at well thinking and law abiding Jamaicans declare absolute intolerance of the gang culture and the politics-criminal gang connections.
The People’s National Party has for many years now consistently and categorically repudiated and disassociated itself from all and any alliance, dependency, or common cause with organized crime and the gang culture, which are together responsible for the vast majority of our murders. This has been the cause for which we are prepared to expend political capital.
The major effort that ultimately led to the conviction of Coke was started by the PNP Government as early as the 1990s and included infiltration of the Shower Posse and the systematic collection of vast amounts of data on its operations. This effort was successful due to exceptional cooperation with foreign governments such as the USA, UK, and Canada and included the signing of the two MOUs that have been pilloried by the JLP, and which contributed to Coke’s conviction. Many other major crime figures were successfully brought to justice by this effort regardless of any known political affiliation. These included Dido Nembhard, Hubert Ramcharan, Zeeks Phipps, Joel Andem, and Donovan Bulbie Bennett.
The Prime Minister stated in Parliament that he was prepared to pay a political price for his actions to frustrate the extradition of the mobster Christopher Coke. Now the society has an obligation to hold Mr. Golding to his word, and hold this administration accountable for taking the country to the brink of the most dangerous peril ever faced by Jamaicans here and abroad – that of our communities and state being taken over by a criminal/political force with influence, resources, and arms comparable to the state.
The Opposition would like the following questions addressed as part of a truth and reconciliation exercise to ensure that our beloved country never goes this way again:
1. In the fiftieth year of our independence, is it acceptable that we rely entirely on foreign law enforcement to convict well-connected Jamaican criminals like Christopher Coke and David Smith?
2. If Coke was to be released after serving less than ten years (like former Shower Posse leader Vivian Blake) would he be free to roam the streets of Kingston and rebuild his criminal organization, or should the time be used to build other solid cases against him here? A preponderance of evidence seems to exist as a basis on which credible local investigations can be structured.
3. Is the private sector, and in particular the PSOJ, satisfied with their mid 2010 actions to quickly forgive and cooperate in attempting to rehabilitate the Prime Minister’s image, after a mere contrived apology? Do they sincerely believe that it sets an appropriate standard of accountability for our parliamentary democracy? If so, who then should be held accountable for the 73 deaths and the enormous damage to the country’s economy and international reputation caused by the Government’s dithering and complicity in trying to protect the drug lord from extradition to face justice?
4. Have the JLP’s financiers, who paid US$65,000 to hire lobbyist Manatt Phelps & Phillips to press the US Government to withdraw its request for the extradition of Coke, examined their consciences and asked themselves if they are satisfied with what their contributions have bought? Are the JLP’s funders simply prepared to wallow in the sty of tax waivers while propping up an administration that has lost its moral compass, and therefore its moral authority?
5. Does the JLP remain satisfied and proud of its efforts to frustrate and prevent the extradition of a confessed criminal who has imported illegal guns into Jamaica, exported narcotics to the United States, and committed murders in the furtherance of those activities?
The society must never again allow itself to be lulled into a conspiracy of silence or mis-direction by allowing euphemisms such as “community leader” to be used to describe gangsters like Coke, or accepting statements such as “West Kingston is the safest community in Jamaica” to cloud understanding of the true nature of the criminal activities taking place there.
Coke could not have achieved the position of influence he held without the active support of co-conspirators in both the public and private sectors. The society must resolve to expose these co-conspirators and bring them to justice wherever possible. This is a minimum requirement if we are to maintain any shred of credibility within the community of nations.
Finally, the Opposition demands that Campaign Financing Legislation be tabled and passed before the next general election to help ensure that probity and transparency become hallmarks of our political activity. If telecoms legislation is sufficiently important to be prepared in six weeks as the Prime Minister announced last week in Parliament, then legislation that helps guarantee our democracy must certainly be an even greater priority.
Jamaica deserves better and we the Opposition demand better for the sake of our country and its well-thinking citizens.
Sept. 06, 2011
Jamaican Wikileaks cause traffic jam on the road to Damascus.
MINISTER of Justice, Delroy Chuck, has hit out at what he describes as the high level of corruption in the country’s court system.
“I know that persons in the court system are being paid to hide and or destroy files. One of the major complaints of one particular Department in this Ministry is the inability to find files once they are sent to the courts. There is a conspiracy going on where persons in the justice system are being paid to hide files, so when the case comes up, the judge can’t start the case and so it goes nowhere,” Chuck said.
“I have seen it in the court system, where persons pay off the police to say they can’t find the witness and pay for documents to be destroyed. That is the level of corruption in the justice system,” he added.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Government-moves-to-wipe-out-court-corruption#ixzz1XDIPLVL7
TCIB‟s auditors had made it known to the bank that they believed that an additional $7 million of liquidity was required immediately; this figure presumably reflected the fact that deposits of close to that amount relating to the Olint litigation were expected to be withdrawn from the bank in the near future.
– with the benefit of full hindsight, it is clear that the FSC should have
acted sooner and more forcefully
Click to access tcib.pdf
Is the name Luis Solar or Luis Sola? BTW, if you live in TCI, why is your boat in Cayman? I thought you and David Smith was best buddies? TCI FX>>>>>
“Those boats, and we use some of them right now, are unsafe. They are a fire hazard, and this makes them dangerous to the lives of the policemen and women,” Sergeant White told the Observer at the time.
His view was shared by the then Opposition spokesman on national security, Derrick Smith. “The go-fast boats are not boats that should be used for patrols. They are susceptible to explosions,” Smith said then as he criticised the Government for a shortage of patrol boats for the Marine Police.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/JDF-boat-stolen#ixzz1XM3zwmkh
MikeD? Olint Sola is an American living in Panama. TCI FX is or was a feeder John Wildish, Labour, Supreme V, St Ann’s, Chicken, Jireh, Privy, Dextra.
Solar??
supernumerary |ˌsoōpərˈn(y)oōməˌrerē|
adjective
present in excess of the normal or requisite number, in particular
• (of a person) not belonging to a regular staff but engaged for extra work.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/sept-8-2011-tcig-border-control-welcomes-two-officers-uk-border-agency
There is a major criminal investigation into B.S. in the United States and the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). In the US, unique Vacations employees have been questioned and the the TCI an effort is being made to determine why Beaches/Sandals paid a large bribe to Missick, of course it was to obtain B.S.’s Belonger Status.
This information cannot be suppressed any longer.
THOUGHTS ON ASKING FOR TRANSPARENCY AND A BIT OF COMMON SENSE – BY JOHN D. WILDISH
I hear you constantly asking that those who rule over us be transparent, I would like to point out that our leaders both elected and appointed talk about transparency and how it is so important for those who run the public’s business to be open and transparent, but as I am realizing this is only talk.
As Solomon would say, ‘he that walketh with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools he shall be destroyed’ and as we all know Solomon was a wise man who inherited in excess of 3,450 metric tons of gold from his dad King David, and as the good book shows added to these reserves in a big way. (1 Chronicles 23vs 14 and 29vs3)
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/sept-9-2011-–-letter-thoughts-asking-transparency-and-bit-common-sense-–-john-d-wildish
Delicate Moment In Our History
On the face of it, it is a little strange. Despite a bloody gun battle in which the security forces storm a barricaded Tivoli during which more than six dozen people are killed, and despite successfully hiding out in rural Jamaica, Dudus is held meekly in a car on his way into Kingston in the company of someone close to the prime minister’s office. Once in custody in Jamaica, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke does not resist extradition to the United States of America on charges of drug and firearm trafficking; he goes willingly.
US prosecutors confront Coke with the evidence against him: confidential informers are prepared to testify, implicating him in five murders, including one in which Coke “used a chainsaw to kill someone who had stolen drugs from him”.
He has previous convictions in the US, and so is not entitled to leniency.
He pleads guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to commit assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering. He faces a maximum sentence of 23 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after 10 years of good behaviour. A good deal, if you ask me! If someone told me that Dudus had a highly paid lobbyist working behind the scenes in the US, trying to get him a reduced sentence, I would have no reason to disbelieve him.
Dudus admits in open court in front of the judge of being guilty of much more than that. The British newspaper, The Telegraph, of September 2, 2011 reports: “Coke, 42, told a judge in New York: ‘I’m pleading guilty because I am’. He said: ‘I also ordered the purchase of firearms and the importation of those firearms into Jamaica’.”
But despite being extradited from Jamaica to the USA on gunrunning charges, and despite the fact that he openly admits being guilty of gunrunning, Coke will not be held accountable for bringing deadly weapons and ammunition into Jamaica.
It takes at least two to have a telephone conversation…
Is the Jamaican State going to move against these politically aligned criminals? Or are we waiting on the US, the UK and Canada to do it?
Take note: Dudus was not found guilty in a US court of law, which might have raised a doubt of whether he was framed. Dudus pleaded guilty! By his own admission he is a racketeer, and a drug lord and a gunrunner.
And if the private sector is really as innocent as it would like us to believe, it must cease funding these two corrupt political parties.
We are at a delicate moment in our history. We could make a great leap forward.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110909/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Are we really going to swap one Olint “leader” for another Olint “leader?”
Tufton for Golding?
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
“But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement…”
“What I did was inexcusable.”
Jamaica Plummets In Competitiveness Rankings
Jamaica scored its lowest ever global competitiveness ranking, slipping 12 spots to 107 at the same time it attained the dubious title as the world’s worst macroeconomy, according to the annual competitiveness index released Wednesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Jamaica, which ranked 67th in the world in 2006-07, has nose-dived to 107 among 142 countries.
The competitive ranking measures 12 criteria; Jamaica performed the worst in the category of macroeconomic environment.
Jamaica’s fall to the bottom as the world’s worst macroeconomy occurred during a period when the country is experiencing 30-year low interest rates, and has the lowest inflation rate in 20 years. It also happened in the midst of the largest drop in the murder rate in 20 years.
Crime and security continues to be the greatest concern amongst Jamaicans, said the report. Efforts to speak with the Jamaican contributors to the research at Mona School of Business were unsuccessful.
“The highest drops in the region have been experienced in some countries of Central America – for example, in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Jamaica – mainly due to a deterioration of the security conditions,” stated the report.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110909/business/business2.html
“The economy has not been in such dire straits since the economic stagnation referred to as the “lost decade” of the 1970s.”
http://www.wikileaks.org/cable/2009/08/09KINGSTON613.html
Shaw insisted he expects any effect from the global economic downturn to be short-lived, but that adjustments to the medium-term plan would still be required.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=31801
How much more must Jamaica take of this fool.
‘Poor judgment and failure to act’
The fact that the FSC was tasked with carrying out its own investigation into its handling of the bank was previously met with some suspicion among islanders.
The FSC acknowledges that, in hindsight, it should have acted “sooner and more forcefully” to compel the bank to adopt more prudent behaviour.
But it maintains that even if it had, the seriousness of the bank’s problems meant the outcome was unlikely to have been any different.
However local economics expert John Hartley declared the report a “whitewash”. He accused its authors of employing deliberately innocuous language to cloud the FSC’s own culpability.
“What’s between the lines is more interesting that what is written,” he said.
“It’s clear from the report that the FSC has no idea how to regulate a bank.”
http://tcweeklynews.com/poor-judgment-and-failure-to-act-p2476-1.htm
Commissioner Sir Robin Auld’s lengthy document detailed a disturbing litany of ostensible kickbacks and under-the-table payoffs to erstwhile government ministers by the pair and others.
Mr Wetherell added: “I believe that the people of the Turks and Caicos Islands deserve to see the entirety of the final report.”
Dr Kinay is accused of bribing former Premier Michael Misick with a $500,000 “secret gift”, while Mr Hoffman was said to have bestowed “lavish hospitality” on government ministers in return for favours including heavily discounted Crown land.
Visit http://turksandcaicosislands.fco.gov.uk/en/about-us/commission-of-inquiry/ to view the final report in its entirety.
In one correspondence, purportedly from Robertson and sent from a close relative’s email account, a request was made for Smith to provide “support” that would “make a meaningful difference to the Jamaica Labour Party’s success”. The email included a local bank account number.
“I can’t remember. I send hundreds of emails and I am not denying that I am aware or have knowledge or know David,” Robertson said.
“I am not denying that there was contact.I am denying nothing but in terms of that specific, I can’t answer that.”
FACEless SENDER
Robertson added that it was quite possible that a request was made, but he would have to check his records.
Robertson suggested that the person behind the recent spate of emails should come forward.
“I cannot speak to something that I don’t know the source of it. It is being sent around the world, but nobody is claiming it, nobody is stan-ding up and saying this is a fact,” Robertson added.
Another government minister named in the emails said he would not comment because it was a rumour.
JAMAICA: GOJ WILL REFUSE COKE EXTRADITION REQUEST; PM
Prime Minister (PM) Bruce Golding advised CDA that the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) would not comply with the USG’s extradition request for Christopher “Dudus” Coke on “technical grounds” and that a dipnote to that effect is being prepared (Reftel A). During a later telephone conversation with the CDA, Foreign Minister (FM) Kenneth Baugh clarified that the dipnote will not be a refusal to comply with the extradition treaty but a request for additional information.
News of the noncompliance of the extradition request will likely hit the media soon after the dip note is released, and post requests guidance as to how to proceed. Post proposes a statement that confirms receipt of the GOJ’s dip note, acknowledges that the request was denied and the USG’s disappointment, and states that the USG will study the dipnote in greater detail before making further comment. Post awaits receipt of dip note scheduled for Friday, September 18, or early next week.
Pattypage73@Aol.Com said
August 11, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Hi all again
Glad to see you guys are still here after all these years. Just checking in after the verdict that was handed down today. Glad to see justice has been somewhat served. Now any word on dwight tony williamson and UWIN AKA ULOSE. what’s up with him? haven’t heard a peep?
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Fitz said
September 7, 2011 at 5:18 pm
I think Dwight Tony Williamson needs to tells us where are our funds. He also offered offshore packages through Royal Scandia. I have invested and I can’t locate anyone to talk to about this. The UWIN website in now closed. How do I get redress.
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Llewelyn said
September 9, 2011 at 5:21 pm
I had money in Lewfam and Visions and Kingdom. I am being told by a lawyer that a direct claim to frozen monies of Olint is out of the question. She says, however that feeders who accepted money tend to pay up very quickly once legal proceedings are brought against them.
The lawyer went on to say that actually the people who invested via feeders have far greater success rate in having their money returned. Apparently a feeder who says they gave the money to David Smith have no legal argument and are themselves liable.
My Aunt also gave money to the daughter of a prominent politician. She was acting as an agent for Olint. Should my aunt sue the politicians daughter?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110909/business/business5.html
Here goes the Gleaner again telling lies. Everyone knows that no investment could make more than 10% and that Olint was the highest payor in town with his expert trading skills.
“VICTIMS” that have made claim to the Court
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
Hon B. Golding
GREEDY?
Tarn Peralto $10,660.00
Derrick Sith $66,427.97
Access Financial Sevices Ltd $30,985.00
Mario Anderson $73,587.52
Azan, Khaleel Michael Jameel $315,830.00
Bangertar, Constance $30,265.19
Brenan, Luke and Colleen $470,375.00
Chang, Raymond C $4,980.00
Chong, Lukkee $19,985.00
Christian Helen $29,989.00
Chutkan Noelle / Winston $45,018.00
Coke, Barrington & Diane $72,575.00
Dr Shirley Cole $8,988.00
Major Richard ES $39,848.00
Cornerstone Ministries $21,698.00
Covenant City Church $60,039.38
Marguerite Cremin $23,864.00
Crown Arrow Investments $14,995.00
Glaister Cunnigham $23,190.62
Juliet Cuthburt $27,609.45
Vernon DaCosta $32,980.00
Dennis Daley $52,075.00
Wayne DeCosta $187,940.00
Ainsley Deer $66,080.00
Lorcan Delisser $172,445.00
Sandra Donaldson $93,930.00
DVI Consultants $4,985.00
Winston A Dwyer $201,089.00
Turks and Caicos Islanders “On Trial” and Punished for Corruption? New Political Fall Out From UK Ru
The entire islands and citizens are under criminal suspicion, says the UK, which is why they are entrenched in Turks and Caicos. Included in the scrutiny are many resort developers in the islands. They have been zeroed in for corruption as well by the UK for varying different reasons. Butch Stewart the owner of Sandals/Beaches and the most popular family resort, has been accused of corruption by the UK government.
There has been no trial or any specific allegations made public against Butch Stewart other than he was granted Belonger status in Turks and Caicos which is not a crime. Mr. Stewart’s home was ransacked for evidence which turned up no evidence of any corruption, yet he is still being accused in the media (TCI Journal) and continues to be intimidated by the UK prosecution team as well as other resort developers that were established before the UK took over.
We have a new governor that is a MI6 agent. You know, it’s crazy right now. People have been keeping their head low, but that could change now that this new constitution shows us this isn’t blowing over and they are not respecting us.”
Another local business man, a lawyer, said, “I am leaving Turks and Caicos. The political situation is too crazy and uncertain. Strange new things are coming out every day, making me worry ‘what’s next?’. I know a lot of people are leaving, like I am. The people who stay and make excuses to live in this quality of life can ring me up when we decide to move forward with independence. But, I am not putting my life on the line here, it’s quickly becoming a wasteland”.
http://www.groundreport.com/World/Turks-and-Caicos-Islanders-On-Trial-and-Punished-f/2939689
Towards the end of last week some damaging WikiLeaks revelations in which JLP bigwigs have been named in a most unfavourable light will make it most difficult for the JLP administration to mount a credible challenge in its efforts to fend off these damaging accusations.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Should-the-JLP-apologise-over-Dudus-_9657578#ixzz1XfjUalNj
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
Victims filing claims Continued
Joel Downer $8,484.00
Simone Dunbar $14,995.00
Brian Dunn $2,960.00
Wayne / Nicola Ebanks $880,955.00
Daniel Tafari Edwards $4,487.00
Dr Hopeton Falconer / Kai Anne Falconer $34,620.00
Colleen Flynn $5,995.00
Jean Fraser $447,030.00
Edward Gabbidon $6,075.00
Daniella Gentles $4,990.00
Ramsford Hamilton $47,142.34
Dr Lloyd Goldson $1,329,308.00
Barbara Gottgens $12,170.50
Mark Van Ryck de Groot $300,095.00
Dr John Harriot $52,110.73
Robert Harris $23,968.00
Casley Heholt $76,065.00
Dr Phillip Henry $5,980.00
Sophia McDonald James $6,793.00
Sophia Jardine $15,553.83
Anthony Johnson $16,995.00
Christopher Kean $43,572.00
Charles and Cynthia Lalor $60,030.00
Stephen Lazarus $29,995.00
Neville Ledgister $19,990.00
John G Leiba $219,910.00
Why didn’t these people come forward? What did they do to help? What did they do to actively thwart law enforcement?
Why do they come through the back door. Sneaking? Asking for money after backing David Smith?
So many “officers of the court” never made a statement or lifted a finger in the pursuit of justice? Strange?
Are they seeking something for doing nothing?
How come some “party faithfuls” were taken care of and some “lifelong diehards” were left out?
Motty says these people were GREEDY. Motty have you seen the names here. Close to home?
Much more real interesting names to come…
3:42 am Eastern Standard Time.
Aside the multitude of Doctors, Lawyers, Accountants, Ministers (Religion & Government) etc.
How come two newly installed AMBASSADORS never helped the foreign law enforcement? Even when they were close to David Smith?
No help for the Jamaican victims abroad?
What do we really want to teach our Jamaicans in the Diaspora about us?
Did nothing?
How Come?
How Come?
How Come?
Moss takes a Loss: Mildred Moss $34,995.00
“Sterling does quite a bit of trading as internationally traded bonds make up most of our portfolio,” he said. “Our trading volume has picked up significantly in 2009 and we expect this trend to continue throughout this year.”
He is waiting for the industry to open up. In the meantime, the company is on a campaign to showcase the talent in the organisation, with the latest advertisement this week focussed on David Weir, head of investment and client services.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090717/business/business1.html
David Weir $69,960.00
Think and Check? FSC?
15 August 2011
Dear Members;
On August 11, 2011 our Trader Mr. David Smith was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in the Orlando Florida Federal Court. He is to serve this sentence concurrently with the sentence of six (6) years in the Turks and Caicos Islands. This is cold comfort for us all as this does not avail us the opportunity of our funds being returned to us. We along with the Association of Concerned Olint Members ACOM of which we are a part are staying in contact with the US Authorities. We have submitted a claim to the U. S. Attorney’s Office, Asset Recovery & Victims Rights Division in Orlando Florida, USA and wait to see what funds have been unearthed to be dispersed to investors. This indeed has been a trying time for all of us, we must continue to pray and stay focused on our quest for reimbursement. Please continue to visit the ACOM website; http://acomaction.net for further updates.
LewFam Mangement
He said the deal, in which he acquired the 48.9 per cent of the company that was held by Mildred Moss, Winston Hepburn and Wallace Nelson, was concluded in March, but declined to disclose how much he paid for the shares, or other terms of the acquisition.
Wallace Nelson $147, 095.98
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090717/business/business1.html
http://www.fscjamaica.org/content.php?action=content&id=105
Jordan supercasino secret deal was personally approved by prime minister
Exclusive: Documents reveal Ma’arouf al-Bakhit gave green light to contract for Dead Sea Casino, despite public denials
A recently released 2008 WikiLeaks cable includes a report from the then US ambassador to Jordan, David Hale, on the earlier stages of the Dead Sea Casino scandal and cites the figure of $1.4bn as the contract cancellation penalty, as well as attempts by the Jordanian government to offer Oasis – which is seeking damages – alternative development land as compensation.
http://www.wikileaks.org/origin/122_0.html
“VICTIMS” that have made claim for their losses to the Court, Continued
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
Hon O.B. Golding
Lissant Mitchell $114,928.94
Mildred Moss $34,995.00
David Weir $69,960.00
Wallace Nelson $147,095.98
Millennium Financial $198,635.00
Horace Messado $ 19,984.00
Kurt/Joanne Miller $ 189, 990.00
Andrew Mills $ 6,048.27
Bryan McNab $ 89,995.00
Godfrey McAllister $ 150,000.00
Dr. Winston McCalla $ 57,098.00
Other “fools” with money problems (continued)
Venezuela Tightens Oil Supplies To Jamaica
It appears that there is a major problem at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (Petrojam).
Well-placed Government sources said Venezuela is now tightening its exports to Jamaica under the Petro Caribe agreement.
As a result, Petrojam is reportedly being forced to buy oil at a on the spot market to fill the shortfall putting pressure on its cash flow.
Under the PetroCaribe arrangement, Jamaica pays only 60 per cent of the cost of the oil from Venezuela.
The remainder is set aside as a loan which is payable over 20 years at an interest rate of one per cent.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=31867
Interest rate of 1% for 20 years. That’s lower rates than JDX default!!!
EDITORIAL – Peter Bunting Has A Point
Peter Bunting could hardly resist the claim that he is intent on gaining mileage for the People’s National Party (PNP). But even if that was his sole motivation, it doesn’t diminish the fundamental logic of the argument that he proffered.
Indeed, the question is worth asking – whether a country into its 50th year of Independence, as Jamaica now is, should rely almost entirely on law-enforcement agencies of foreign countries to prosecute and convict its well-connected criminals.
In this case, Mr Bunting, the PNP general secretary, referred to the Ponzi scheme operator, David Smith, and more particularly, Christopher Coke, the Tivoli Gardens mobster, who, in a deal with prosecutors, recently pleaded guilty in a United States federal court in New York to conspiracies related to the importation of narcotics into the US and an assault on a drug dealer in New York.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110913/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Names of business persons who met with Henry Bellingham in TCI revealed in House of Lords
The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Lord Howell of Guildford) replied: “The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my honourable friend the Member for North West Norfolk (Mr Bellingham) met a number of leading business people during his visit including the following at a dinner on Providenciales on 16 July: Mr Cecil Arnold, Manager – Scotia Bank; Mr John Phillips, Mac Motors; Mr Andrew Mann, Tropical Images; Mr Albray Butterfield Jr, Butterfield Gold; Mr Kevin Froemming, President, Unique Vacations- Beaches; Mr Clayton Thomas, La Vele; Mr Drexwell Seymour, General Manager – Lime; Ms Tanya Parnell, Chamber of Commerce; Mr Washington Misick, Prestigious Properties and Mr Lou Patane, Property Developer.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1953
Phone hacking: James Murdoch recalled by MPs
News Corp boss to face fresh questions about whether he knew News of the World hacking went further than one reporter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/sep/13/phone-hacking-james-murdoch
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that I emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
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President of the JHTA, Evelyn Smith, yesterday said that 122 buyer delegates have already confirmed their attendance, with North America, the United States and Canada accounting for the majority.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Good-news-for-tourism_9702773#ixzz1XwergJcx
Jamaica, JAMPRO….you a fooling yourselves.
If G2K knows information that can lead to the arrest and charge of persons involved in criminal activities, and refuses to divulge it, that organisation is equally guilty. Why should we be convinced that G2K and the Jamaica Labour Party have the country’s interest at heart?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110914/letters/letters3.html
Banks under new pressure as ‘rogue trader’ loses $2bn
Kweku Adoboli, a UBS investment bank trader remains in police custody amid allegations that he cost the Swiss bank £1.2bn
Pressure to accelerate reform of the banking industry is mounting as a star trader at the UBS investment bank remained in police custody in London amid allegations that he was at the heart of a rogue trading incident that has cost the Swiss bank about $2bn (£1.2bn).
Police said he was being held on suspicion of “fraud by abuse of position”.
The Nottingham University graduate’s arrest coincided with the third anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and sparked a 10% fall in UBS’s shares as it warned it might make a third-quarter loss.
UBS, which had been fighting to restore its reputation after it became one of the biggest continental European casualties of the 2008 banking crisis, alerted City of London police at 1am on Thursday after it uncovering alleged “unauthorised trading” in the late afternoon and embarked on a wide-ranging internal investigation.
“The man was taken to a City of London police station for questioning and he remains in custody while officers are continuing to investigate this matter,” police said.
Staff were said to be stunned as Adoboli and his colleagues were regarded as “stars” by their colleagues and top management
The Serious Fraud Office may also become involved after it said it was “seeking discussions” with the bank, the City of London police and the FSA about how to proceed if fraud needed to be investigated. The SFO had already issued a warning about the “inherent dangers” of ETFs because of their complexity.
On 6 September, the Swiss National Bank warned that it would no longer allow one Swiss franc to be worth more than €0.83 – equivalent to SFr1.20 to the euro. “The Swiss currency moved by 8% straight away which is a huge move for foreign exchange markets.
Amid concerns about the health of Europe’s banking system, Oakeshott told a debate on the Vickers reforms in the Lords that “this reminds us how much toxic banking risk remains in the system, and how urgent radical reform is”.
He added: “The problem is that big investment banks are full of rogue traders: it is what they do.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/15/banks-rogue-trader-kweku-adoboli-2bn
Cancelled – British Airways Pulling Out Of Sangster Airport Again
The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association president, Evelyn Smith, has described the news as “unfortunate”, particularly during a distressing period when the country is facing the uncertainty of the world economy.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110916/lead/lead1.html
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that I emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
British Airways Flight Situation Concerns JHTA
Following news reports, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association has expressed concern about British Airways stopping flights to Jamaica by March next year.
The airline reportedly plans to cancel its two weekly flights from London into Montego Bay.
JHTA president Evelyn Smith has described the cancellation as a sad loss.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=31960
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that I emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
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Crosses…we are reaping crosses..
Responding to questions (which were submitted to the G-G’s office before the publication of the July 3 to 9 story) about the church’s billion dollar investment in Inter-Trade, the Governor-General said that entity was registered with the Financial Services Commission until its recent delisting.
“The West Indies Union with my knowledge and acquiescence, as chair made an investment after its managing director solicited us and we satisfied ourselves that they were legitimate and met FSC requirements.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1276:church-unable-to-collect-60m-invested-by-gg&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=671
Tears, then a smile, as ‘rogue trader’ is charged with three-year fraud
The man at the heart of the rogue trading scandal that has plunged Swiss investment banking giant UBS into turmoil wept yesterday as he faced fraud charges in the largest case of its kind to hit the Square Mile.
The unauthorised trade is likely to send the bank crashing to a third quarter loss, although it is expected to be profitable in the full year. Experts believe it will wipe out any bonuses for the investment bankers in 2011.
Talk emerged yesterday that the bank would also move to restructure its operations and heavily cut jobs in its investment banking division. This comes only weeks after it announced it was to cut 3,500 jobs, many of which are be based in London.
The mood was sombre in UBS’s London offices as investment bankers came to terms with the news that the £1.3bn losses could leave them without a bonus and possibly cost them their jobs.
The announcement of the fraud had been met with anger on Thursday, as traders said that two years of progress, after the bank had struggled during the credit crunch, had been thrown away.
Yesterday, however, reality set in amid rumours that UBS would restructure its investment arm, weeks after announcing thousands of job cuts in the division. A trader who regularly speaks to counterparts at the Swiss bank said: “Basically everyone knows they’re getting zero bonus now. It’s very sombre over there.”
Contracts for staff at the investment banking group include clawback provisions but UBS would not comment yesterday on whether this case would activate them.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tears-then-a-smile-as-lsquorogue-traderrsquo-is-charged-with-threeyear-fraud-2356169.html
Groups Demand Campaign Financing Reform
A coalition of civil and private sector groups is demanding that the parliament pass and operationalise campaign financing laws before the next general elections.
The letter from the coalition was signed by 15 groups including the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the Jamaica Council of Churches and Jamaicans for Justice.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=31969
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that I emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
Outspoken Tax Administration Enforcement team member sidelined
Well-placed Tax Administration Jamaica sources have revealed that outspoken member of the Special Enforcement Team of Tax Administration Jamaica, Gladstone Turner, has been confined to desk duties.
The Special Enforcement Team had gone to the Ricky Vaz owned Auto Traders 2000 Limited on Old Hope Road, to collect outstanding taxes.
Mr. Vaz is the brother of Information Minister Daryl Vaz, who has since publicly denied any involvement in the aborted exercise.
When contacted, Director of Communications at Tax Administration Jamaica, Meris Haughton said the issue concerning Mr. Turner was not something she could comment on.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/outspoken-tax-administration-enforcement-team-member-sidelined
From: Shalimar (shalimar@kasnet.com)
To : Peter Bovell
5/15/2007
Peter, further to our conversation, i am trying to make arrangements to be back in Jamaica Thursday May 24, 2007 by 11:00 am. In order to make a Teachers Day function which i am hosting at Beaches Boscobel St. Mary. Kindly let me know if you can asist me on the availability of the plane. Thanks. Daryl.
Carpet and chairs found in possession of the usual suspects!
The US$62,000 worth of items were leased from a supplier in Puerto Rico by the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) in January for use at Caribbean Marketplace — the first event to be held at the facility.
Arrangements were said to have been later made between the supplier, Exhibition Services Inc (ESI), and the UDC for the items to be purchased to outfit the state-of-the art facility but that deal fell through, the Observer has learnt.
A source told the Observer that the chairs were only discovered to be missing in July, after Customs requested more than $2 million on the suspended Customs’ duty which was granted to the JHTA with the understanding that the items would have been returned following the conclusion of the major tourism trade show.
The JHTA is said to have sought the prime minister’s intervention last month after several letters to the UDC went unanswered.
The JHTA made it clear that the supplier intends to visit Jamaica soon to retrieve his property.
“Unfortunately, he will need to be advised that his 3,000 folding chairs and 70,000 square feet of carpet left in the care of the UDC/Montego Bay Convention Centre cannot be located,” the JHTA pointed out.
In a statement to the media yesterday, the JHTA confirmed the disappearance of the items but declined to reveal much more.
“In the light of the fact that the matter is being handled by the police it would be inappropriate for the JHTA to comment further at this time,” said JHTA President Evelyn Smith.
She confirmed that the JHTA sought the intervention of the prime minister after efforts to assist the supplier to retrieve the items failed.
Meanwhile, Carrole Guntley, director general in tourism ministry, one of the organisers of Marketplace, also wrote to the UDC.
Reclaiming Dudus Truths From Spin Doctors
As with the Manatt commission of enquiry, where the most highly paid members of the legal profession sought to do everything in their power to thwart the pursuit of the truth, so in response to the Bunting declaration and pledge, the big guns of the legal profession have set about to vilify him.
Bunting’s candour
Their attack upon Peter Bunting is richly undeserved. Bunting is a banker of repute. His stewardship as a member of parliament, both at the constituency level and in the House, has been admirable and worthy of emulation. When I interviewed him on radio on his pledge to see to the rule of law and bring to justice co-conspirators in the campaign of murder that has painted Jamaica in blood, he gave his own personal testimony.
He spoke about the dreaded Friday night just before the 2007 election when four of his constituents, including three women in Central Manchester, were brutally murdered by gunmen from western Kingston. It is their blood that he believes should be atoned for, along with the blood of countless numbers of other Jamaicans.
From the spectacles through which learned and expensive attorneys view such a declaration, they see it as necessarily partisan. It is the PNP campaigning on Dudus. These learned attorneys advance this argument without citing either case law or evidence to support their argument; they are running on reputation alone.
Let us take one of the central arguments advanced by learned counsel in his tirade against Bunting. Learned counsel asserted as follows:
“During the 1990s, companies controlled by Dudus benefited directly or indirectly from the award of very lucrative government contracts. Dudus thrived and grew into the fiend we now know and most Jamaicans fear while the PNP was in government with the responsibility to protect us from monsters like him.”
A search of the contractor general’s website found not a single contract awarded to any company associated with Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke during the 1990s. It is incumbent on counsel to provide the evidence to the contrary. In fact, the first award of any contract came from the KSAC under the stewardship of that erstwhile citizen of Western Kingston, His Worship the Mayor, Councillor Desmond McKenzie.
There can be no doubt that the direct involvement of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, JLP financiers, and the entire apparatus of the Jamaican State being used to frustrate the extradition of Dudus puts the issue of the political connection of Dudus beyond doubt. He was, and remains, a key JLP operative, and the JLP feared that extraditing him stood to disembowel their political apparatus in Jamaica. There is no denying that fact, no matter how expensive the pens that assert otherwise.
At the heart of the shooting of the messenger by those who have made it a fine art in Jamaica is the belief that everyone is compromised. There is no one remaining in the political class or anywhere with the credit and credibility to lead that fight. This is palpably not the case. When the Manatt commission of enquiry was in session, it was clear that from a point of view of the weight of numbers, many of the leading legal lights in Jamaica, many QCs, were on the side of frustrating the pursuit for the truth. Yet there were two other QCs, K.D. Knight and Patrick Atkinson. Both remained relentless and undaunted by the opposition to the cause of the truth, and when it was over, they had prevailed in the minds of most well-thinking Jamaicans, the truth was no longer hidden from them.
There are many of our politicians who are compromised and lack credibility to speak up in the aftermath of Dudus’ guilty plea. But there are many who are not.
I say to Peter, do not be dissuaded by those that are against the cause of right. They that are with you are more than they that are against you. If you get the opportunity, pursue the co-conspirators who participated in and benefited from the criminal enterprise called the Shower Posse, that infamous murder machine. There are allegations of at least 12 murders perpetrated by Dudus in the pursuit of his crimes, which require Jamaican law to take its course. Take note of those who oppose you at the beginning. They will oppose you and support those who oppose you in the end. But do not lose courage and do not lose sight of your objectives
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110918/focus/focus8.html
Former ATL execs to return to court Oct 11
The prosecution is expected to disclose further documents to the defence.
Accused Patrick Lynch, Dr Jeffery Pyne and Catherine Barber are facing the court as a result of a high-level multi-million-dollar investigation into the ATL Group pension scheme.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Former-ATL-execs-to-return-to-court-Oct-11_9738315#ixzz1YJ6zC1nN
Tax enforcement team grounded
The government is silent on the issue, but the Gladstone Turner led Special Enforcement Team (SET), which seizes assets of delinquent taxpayers has been grounded.
Answering questions, which did not arise from the abortive attempt to seize Auto Traders’ assets, Haughton pointed out that cases are assigned to SET when all other compliance efforts to collect monies from delinquent taxpayers have been exhausted.
http://www.sunheraldja.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1356:tax-enforcement-team-grounded&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=671
“Comrades, friends, Jamaicans all – enough is enough is enough. The curtains must come down now on Bruce Golding and his inept crew of vagabonds, derelicts and indolents,” the PNP chairman said.
According to Bunting, the governing party has made missteps after missteps.
He warned that: “Those who cannot learn from history are bound to repeat it.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110919/lead/lead4.html
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express out thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
More Jamaicans facing US Indictment?
The stage for our current problems was set by ministers of the previous elected government, and its bureaucrats – some of whom are still in their old executive positions, which entered into a corrupt contract with Delroy Howell of Jamaica and his then newly created company, Southern Health Network, SHN. (As Sir Robin Auld showed, this company was created just days before it received the Government contract.) That enterprise defrauded the TCI almost $40 million dollars and is under investigation and we believe near indictment in both the United States and the TCI. SHN left the TCI with millions of dollars in unpaid bills and its citizens not welcome at most of the major hospitals in South Florida.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/sept-19-2011-–-new-governor-new-ceo-new-cfo-state-healthcare-tci
Jah jah
9/19/2011
Reading this article makes me very happy that the only decision i have to make is whether to retire to JA or not,I think not.I suspect most well thinking Jamaicans are now activating contingenies for the expected cataostorphic disaster in the form of the PNP.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/As-the-PNP-scents-victory—_9746903#ixzz1YPkHCYSC
It is not the 1970’s this time. The Feds and Scotland yard and mounties waiting on you to arrive this time. Waiting to put the bangle on your hands. Do not delay. Make your “contigenies” (your spelling Jah jah) quickly. For the list is looooooonggg….
Information Minister pours scorn on PNP’s employment initative
“It is very easy for the opposition to speak with no substance, when you get rid of the huff, the puff and the bluff there has to be some substance, what I saw yesterday and over the last four years is hollow and shallow, no depth, nothing to put on the table as an alternative, other to critcise what is being done” said Mr. Vaz.
From: Shalimar (shalimar@kasnet.com)
To: David Smith
David, thanks very much for your donation towards West Portland Christmas Treats. It will go a far way in helping to make these children feel the Christmas Spirit. I would like to use this medium to wish you and your family a healthy happy christmas and I am sure that 2007 will be better than 2006 for both you and I :-). Look forward to seeing you in Jamaica early in the New Year and remember that my house in portland is yours whenever you wish to visit http://www.villapointofview,com You can take a look and maybe it will entice you to come sooner. Blessings. Daryl.
2011 better for you Smitty?
What Of The Promised SLB Reform, Minister?
We are well into the first month of the new school year and there is still no word from Finance Minister Audley Shaw about a promised revision of interest rates on loans issued by the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB).
Shaw, during his Budget presentation in Parliament in April, had said he would report to the nation by August on the direction the Government plans to take regarding the SLB.
At that time, Shaw had announced lower lending rates and signalled that even lower rates were not far away.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110919/lead/lead94.html
To: David Smith
From: Audley Shaw (fitzalbert_2@ yahoo.com)
7/30/07
David, as promised, I’m sending you the JLP Manifesto for 2007. Thanks for everything including your companionship yesterday. Regards and compliments. Audley.
Floridian:
“You are not entitled to profits promised from the
investment. Your loss is calculated as follows: Money you actually invested, minus any money you got back from withdrawals, interest or any reason.”
To Whom it May Concern:
The Mandatory Victims Restitution Act of 1996 requires the federal probation office to
provide notice of the following information to all identified victims harmed as a result of the
commission of a federal offense. Our records indicate you may be a victim of the abovecited
case. Federal law entitles you to receive notice of the defendant’s conviction and
his/her sentencing date. Also, as a result of the defendant’s crime, you may be entitled to
be compensated with restitution, and you have the right to prepare the enclosed declaration.
On March 29, 2011 , Defendant David A. Smith
was convicted of Wire Fraud & Money Laundering . The Sentencing Hearing will be
held on August 11, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. , at the United States
District Courthouse, located at 401 West Central Blvd., Orlando, Florida
before the Honorable Mary S. Scriven . Your attendance at this proceeding
is not required, but you are welcome to attend if you choose.
In the event you are awarded restitution by the Court in this case, it is your responsibility to
notify the United States Attorney’s Office in this district and the Clerk of the Court of any
change in your mailing address while restitution is still owed. This information will be
maintained confidentially.
Finally, if you are awarded restitution by the Court, you may request that the Clerk of the
Court issue an Abstract of Judgment to you, certifying that a judgment has been entered in
your favor in the amount specified by the Court. When the abstract is registered, recorded,
docketed, or indexed in accordance with state law, it acts as a lien upon the property of the
defendant within the state, and is enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent
as a judgment of a court of general jurisdiction.
Floridian, you are in for a big surprise…..
floridian with a common f you speaking too? Just what big surprise is “floridian” in for?
?????
Surprise me? on OLINt matters? I have not seen Capital F “Floridian” here for years.
The clip you quote is ancient Tafari. You have me at a loss there. But you don’t want to be “surprising” me. Deeper than that….
The 46-year-old’s political appointment has not been without some controversy. He was named by media as having a hand in a “secret” deal which saw 1,250 acres of ecologically sensitive land in Middle Caicos sold to developers in 2008.
Mr Greene told press: “I will use this opportunity to put this to rest. I don’t intend to keep going back to this issue.
“I don’t spearhead deals, I acted for investors.
“I am not a part of any deal and have no financial interest in any deal involving land in Middle Caicos.
“And if I had and I thought that it was corrupt, would I be here exposing myself to that?”
Attorney Mr Greene, founding partner of Stanfield Greene law firm, said he had an offshoot company which provided management services and incorporated private firms.
He said such services were his only involvement in the deal.
http://tcweeklynews.com/greene-vows-to-move-tci-towards-selfgovernance-p2170-1.htm
According to Greene, who was a former Speaker of the House of Assembly of the Turks and Caicos Islands:
“This constitution does not recognize that. It makes the Government of the People subservient to the dictates of those in a far away land and rapes us of our worth as a people. I will never be satisfied and will therefore do everything that I can to hasten the day when we can negotiate the constitution of our choosing.”
http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/news/decolonisation-in-reverse-british-take-new-powers-in-turks-caicos-constitution
The revelations are part of leaked confidential cables released by Wikileaks from the US embassy in Barbados. In the February 3, 2006 cable, Wickham told then ambassador Mary Kramer that “although the opposition charged that China funded the ruling party (2005 elections), most of the money came from wealthy Caribbean expatriates.”
Wickham confirmed that PM Skerrit did not deny opposition claims that Cayman Island resident Susan Oldie gave $400 000 in exchange for a diplomatic passport.
With regards to Parris, Wickham confirmed that “the Government rewarded Parris with a particularly friendly business environment and his company will soon finance construction of a new housing development in Dominica. Parris was also named a “Goodwill Ambassador” who will help attract investment to the country.”
http://www.thedominican.net/2011/09/wickham-reveals-corruption-details.html
Christie fuming over DPP’s finding in LNG case
Friday, September 23, 2011
THE finding by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (ODPP) that there is no direct or circumstantial evidence that Ian Moore and Stephen Wedderburn were guilty of corruption or bid-rigging in the ongoing LNG saga has earned the ire of Contractor General Greg Christie.
Responding to a September 20 letter in which the ODPP detailed the reasons for its findings, Christie, who has had a stormy relationship with DPP Paula Llewellyn, said the State prosecutor’s office came to its conclusion without considering crucial incriminating facts which, he said, had been communicated to the police.
“The opinion of the ODPP is, at best, having regard to all of the circumstances of the case, premature,” Christie said in a news release yesterday. “The contractor general conveyed to the commissioner of police highly confidential information, regarding certain matters that were the subject of the OCG’s investigation, which had come into the possession of the OCG during the course of its investigation.”
Christie said that the “specifics of the information that was relayed to the commissioner was of such a sensitive and pivotal nature that it could not be made public at that time” and “still cannot be made public at this time”.
In May this year, Christie, in a 609-page report to Parliament, recommended that the Government immediately scrap the tender process for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project.
At the time, Christie alleged that there may have been conspiracy on the part of several individuals to benefit illicitly from the deal struck with “preferred bidder” Exmar Consortium, to supply LNG via a storage and regasification floating facility last year.
Christie named Moore, former chairman of the board of directors of the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ); and Wedderburn, former LNG project co-ordinator for the PCJ, both of Caribbean LNG (Jamaica), which is part of the Exmar Consortium, saying he was leaving it to the DPP and the commissioner of police to determine whether or not “Moore and/or Wedderburn used their offices in a conspiratory, fraudulent, corrupt, clandestine and or surreptitious manner to ensure a future illicit benefit for themselves”.
At the same time, he recommended that the DPP and the commissioner undertake further investigations into the actions of Moore and Wedderburn with respect to alleged “multiple irregularities and improprieties” identified by his office in the course of the investigations which formally began in September last year.
But the ODPP, in its report presented by Senior DPP Caroline Hay, said that while the evidence presented by Christie showed that Exmar had a clear advantage when it submitted its proposal to the Technical Evaluation Committee, there was “no evidential, whether direct or circumstantial, basis to draw the inference that their advantageous position was the result of bid-rigging or corruption on the part of Mr Ian Moore or Mr Stephen Wedderburn”.
Yesterday, Christie said that he was preparing a formal and comprehensive response to the ODPP’s letter.
At the same time, Moore, who owns 31.2 per cent of Caribbean LNG, maintained that there was nothing untoward or biased about the process and said that he “welcomed the [ODPP] ruling” which has “exonerated” him of “any allegations of bid-rigging and corruption in the procurement process”.
Moore however said that Christie’s statement was “a most unfortunate attempt to further malign” his reputation and “disrespect the constitutional role of the ODPP and its rulings.
“The contractor general, a trained lawyer, must know that the director of public prosecution has the constitutional authority to make rulings after considering all information, including information from the police,” Moore said.
“I wish to underscore the fact that at the time of the bid, Exmar commissioned 100 per cent of all FSRUs in the world. It is against this background that I have always found ludicrous the suggestion that Exmar would have found it necessary to rely on anything but their known competence and experience in the field worldwide to win such a bid,” Moore said.
Read the ODPP’s letter to the contractor general in your Sunday Observer
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Christie-fuming-over-DPP-s-finding-in-LNG-case_9770907#ixzz1YlAIjaYk
Thanks Paula!!!! You just won $1000 US bet for me! On the Friday too!! God bless you! Easiest bet I ever won. Easiest prediction in a $ea of easy predictions!
Chi Ching!!
And because you used no argument of any substance I get an additional bonus US$50.
Tell the “boys” hi for me 🙂
Nice play on the words Observer “fuming” over “LNG”
Some potential is there man.
Anyway thanks again Paula..I going to “collect” right now. Enjoy your “weakend.”
Commiseration’s to you Greg Christie…..commiseration’s…….again..
commiseration’s……….AS USUAL..
HHAWHAWHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHH….HAHAHAHA.
Will Dor make the “comeback” at OCG?
Everybody settled in well at BNS? Good…Good…
the most recent statistics coming “hout” of STATIN….Dr. Tufton?
Déjà vu: Return of the dirty e-mail saga
People have noticed the resurgence of the dirty e-mails that could only have originated in a mental cesspool. These are worse than the previous ones over which the court imposed costs and apologies, and call into question the state of mind of the author. The trouble with technology these days is that it is always possible to track down the author and, in this case, the culprit has been found out. The other problem with e-mails is that they cross borders and a case of wire fraud is also on the cards in the US. When will these folks learn from the mistakes of others? Perhaps only a jail sentence will help. Keep tuned to this spot for the coming Privy Council blockbuster!
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepper-Pot_9770942#ixzz1YmyfohzX
Hmmm…
1. Only fire 10% of your ammo ever. Always hold 90%
2. A picture says a thousand words. More powerful than email.
3. Having the “little ones” sucking on the pipe is good.
Is this one worth watching?
Ink before you sink
Many are waiting to see the effect of the letter and wonder whether David Smith should have written one too, stating his genuine pay-back intentions.
Dudus’s lawyers might say he has not been singing, but then again, they would not be telling, would they?
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepper-Pot_9770942#ixzz1Yn1gEK87
COMMENTS (6)
Orville Smith
9/23/2011
I remember the days when some cases,especially those involving members of the security forces, were, it seemed automatically dismissed when brought before the ODPP or charges were so delayed that it would amount to Aiding&Abetting the accused in fleeing the jurisdiction.
Orville Smith
9/23/2011
I would trust Mr. Christie’s judgement anytime over the judgement of anyone in the office of the DPP, including the Director herself. I would also welcome some amendment to the constitution that governs how that office opperates, with a view of making it more transparent and somehow answerable to the people of Jamaica.
Ainsworth Cole
9/23/2011
JAMAICA’S LNG PROJECT BEEN SET BACK YEARS. Do we really want to do anything that will change our fortunes or are we a bunch of jokers. The Emar bid won and they were it seems the preffered bidder, in all bidding procedure worldwide there as to be a preffered bidder, that usually wins, how else will we choose and accept as a front runner or a favoured bidder that go on to win. There must be loosers, and the people given the task to choose must do so be they govt ministers, civil servant or expert
Winston Sharpe
9/23/2011
There seems to be a very serious issue here! Christies” credibility is beyond reproach and i would be terribly surprised if he makes public statements without the requisite info to back them up. On the flip side,the dpp has been found wanting on numerous occasions. There are outstanding cases that just might follow her into retirement. How the hell do we fix this!!
RED ANTS
9/23/2011
Gregg,you might as well remain calm until your contract end you call it a day.Only the US can deal with these people that we call official.Jamaica’s law only affect the man in the street and the small fish in the police force.
0o k
9/23/2011
Christie fuming …It’s been a while since he has fumed, I guess he is due one now!
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Christie-fuming-over-DPP-s-finding-in-LNG-case_9770907#ixzz1YnTx7G60
UBS jobs in peril as CEO quits over alleged rogue trader scandal
Fears for staff at Swiss bank as Oswald Grübel resigns over allegations Kweku Adoboli lost £1.5bn in unauthorised trades
Fears for hundreds of City jobs were raised on Saturday after the dramatic resignation of the boss of UBS, who fell on his sword following the $2.3bn (£1.5bn) alleged rogue trading scandal that has engulfed the Swiss bank and raised calls for a sweeping overhaul of the “casino” investment banking industry.
Oswald Grübel resigned to “bear full responsibility for what occurs”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/24/ubs-jobs-ceo-quits-scandal
He revealed that the board had tried to convince Grübel, a veteran and highly regarded banker, not to quit until the annual meeting next year but Villiger said Grübel would not stay.
“It is testimony to his uncompromising principles and integrity,” he said of the former chief executive who has now returned to Zurich after the meeting in Singapore where he was mobbed by reporters asking him if he intended to quit when he left the nine-hour marathon session on Friday night.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/24/ubs-jobs-ceo-quits-scandal
the name Sean belcher does NOT appear on the list of personesthat the court ordered to receive restitution.
You received more than you put in guy. I told you all along that you have nothing more to get. In fact, you should be prosecuted to pay back the excess.
So how much are you getting back Tafari? How about you good friend Nocotec, him getting anything back?
No Clawback, Tafari has a good point there. The amounts on that list out of Hallmark do not correspond to the correct amounts for those “victims” Listed there. Those amounts clearly do not reconcile.
And the court document clearly states that there is no US$55 million.
How could large feeders listed there have such low amounts? Clearly their members realise by now that NO money is coming to them whatsoever.
Connolly had said in Jamaica that if you are with a feeder you need to deal with that on your own.
I feel it for those people they falsely assume some guardian angel is in the background looking out for their interests. A few who launch the first set of cases against their respective feeder clubs will get through but those who wait and hesitate have no chance at their money ever.
Also very Strange not seeing Belcher’s name. Why? Are we missing something there?
The Judge set the tone for the proceeding by reading out his letter and no others. How could he be positive then or why read it if prosecution was on the cards? (SMH)
The transcript is there for US$450. I have a copy. But unno love freeness to much.
Unno need to be weened (LOL).
Clawback i like the name. It’s fitting for the season.
Have you seen the motion put in by Connelly (TCIfx Wildish/Levy) friday for the $1.66 million out of the $5 that is there in total?
(I thought that camp said Ali McNab had the money?)
Time for someone to take up the mantle. Clawback? Tafari? Will any of you in your wisdom show your ability?
Help the blind to see nuh?
Bruce Golding Stepping Down
JLP Leader Bruce Golding will not seek re-election at the party’s annual general conference in November, and will step down as prime minister as soon as a new leader has been elected.
According to a statement from Daryl Vaz, minister with responsibility for information, Golding conveyed this decision to the party’s central executive at its quarterly meeting, held at the Belmont Road headquarters today.
Golding had said he had planned to lead the party into a second term of government and demit office within two years thereafter.
“The challenges of the last four years have taken their toll and it was appropriate now to make way for new leadership to continue the programmes of economic recovery and transformation while mobilizing the party for victory in the next general elections,” the prime minister said.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
Commiseration’s Smitty. He was one you said was a protector for you…but there are more….
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
There’s a boat out in Old Harbour being refurbished. Good for retirement.
A “fool” can be parted of many things Mr. Golding…not ONLY money.
Heartfelt sympathies to so many..too many to list right now. Ms Kidd Deans, Nationwide news team, Wilmot “Motty” Perkins..so many..all of you…Hush…
Take a Zantac Hughcliffe…..Demerol Motty..them kind of headache is MIGRAINE
Oh yes deepest sympathies to Kevin O’Brien Chang, Shalman etc.
Dennis Meadows
“Coming out of the Manatt issue AND OTHERS…”
Shaw, Holness, Tufton….OLINT OLINT OLINT
Misick gone Golding Gone (before “due” time). It was predicted on this very blog right here. The prediction was never replicated anywhere else as a far as I know. That was 2008.
Not Jay, not John Doe not Nonco (they predicted Olint’s fall).
The Misick AND Golding prediction (together) is right here….check the archives…
Debates will begin (or continue) in earnest about age and PM’s in the 40’s year old range.
Just a quick word on that for a fool who cares to listen.
Cameron, Milliband and Glegg all fit the age range foolishness blah blah blah
The fact is the performance has made dismal the new exceptional.
You see like how they put Todd in TCI as an Ascroft man? Watch and see….
Plus vote in TCI don’t count in Britain and just as a spritely 62 year old “has fallen and can’t get up” so too any age….age don’t have nothing to do with that
Let the debates begin. It would be nice to see a spoiler with hands completely clean of the money stolen from the public in OLINT but that would be hard to find….
Donors? I told you the returns although good they been for you are low low low over the medium to long term….you must all be in a tisick
Phensic Phensic…
SEPT. 26, 2011 – TCI BANK REPORT – BY JOHN HARTLEY
[Editors’ Note: This article by John Hartley is necessary reading by all TCI citizens and residents. We planned to post it last week but were unable to do so due to a software glitch.
It is the Journal’s view that TCI Attorney General Huw Shepheard, as the people’s attorney, MUST act on behalf of the small depositors of the now defunct TCI Bank, who do not have any resources left (their life savings have been wiped out), to demand restitution from the liable parties in this fiasco.
If he chooses not to act, he must at the very least give a reason why.
If he refuses to make a public statement on his own initiative on this matter then the Consultative Forum must demand one from him.]
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/sept-26-2011-–-tci-bank-report-–-john-hartley
“Not in my Cabinet?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/bruce-golding-jamaica-pm-resigns
Sometimes I seriously wonder if Jamaica is literally crumbling before our eyes.
On Nationwide this morning the ladies interviewed a lawyer for Christopher Coke. Rasen or something like that.
Nice interview. What was unbelievably omitted was to ask this dude to comment on his earlier statements that Coke would never plead and was going to go to trial.
It was stated so adamantly at the time and it proved incorrect. And this person is interviewed and not asked to clarify that?
Are we crumbling Jamaica?
Jay leggo that MikeD comment and file it properly nuh man?
Anyway
You see in a time like this: Even no political Jamaicans will be tuning into JLP fm to find out where the level of the mercury is.
So when you interview this Rasen lawyer who sent Jamaica wide by so adamantly declaring Dudus would never plea and that trial was “bankable” you MUST try and re establish some kind of credibility in the interviewee before asking more questions??/
Emily, Naomi….YOU KNOW BETTER.
Why not ask if there is any way at all that Dudus can get more than 23 years?? For it has been said in Ja’s media that that might be possible.
Let us help Jamaica nuh? educate? and remember some of the foreigners don’t really know “jack” about Jamaica and often their Jamaican “contacts” as lettered as they might be also don’t know Ja’s realities..
JLP fm and Hughcliffe have a favoured position into Belmont, Bracknell and Millsborough..eben brady’s Cherry Garden.
This is a real test Hughcliffe for the favoured media. Even non political people need to know as much as possible so as to keep the politicians in line and protect asset and investments.
How Shaw to be Prime Minister with David/Tracy smith and the Australian model!”
Hughcliffe, Emily, Naomi..”sir farce obedient,” Mason etc….
HOW SHAW FI BE PRIME MINISTER?
I knew nothing about meeting at Bradys’ house — Shaw
FINANCE Minister Audley Shaw — who is considered to be one of the frontrunners for the post of leader of the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the face of the resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding — is flatly denying reports that he attended a meeting at the home of attorney Harold Brady minutes after Golding made his intention public.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-knew-nothing-about-meeting-at-Bradys–house—Shaw#ixzz1ZBeaaExb
When asked about going to David and Tracey Smith Shaw said….
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
Golding firm – JLP fails to convince PM to stay
JLP supporters in disbelief at Golding’s decision
Holness says Government has not collapsed
Andrew Holness is insisting that the Golding administration has not relinquished political authority.
In fact, Labour Minister, Pearnel Charles, says Mr. Golding should be in no hurry to provide details to the nation.
“I don’t have to speak to you if I don’t want to , he is not shying or hiding away from the press, he has no obligation to speak to you… if the nation wants to hear from him it’s Mr Golding’s right to speak to the nation , you can’t determine when he needs to decide that” Mr Charles told reporters.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/holness-says-government-has-not-collapsed
Not a very smart retort Mr. Charles. If your dribble represents the attitude of the JLP then the party is in trouble.
Greece should pattern Jamaica Debt Exchange – says Finance Minister
Finance Minister, Audley Shaw, says Greece should follow the example of Jamaica and restructure its national debt as a first step toward solving its economic crisis.
Mr. Shaw said in an interview on Tuesday, at Bloomberg headquarters in New York, that Greece should start with a debt exchange.
From: Audley Shaw fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com
To: David Smith
Saturday January 1 2007 4:43PM
David, happy new year to you, your dear wife and family. I am still hoping to get the info on the fx trading by Australia in dealing with their debt problems. Also, I had given Daryl the necessary information to have the thing activated, and he advised me that he had sent you an email in that regard. I’m told you might be here next week. I would like to see you as I have two persons who would like to meet with you. Please let me know. Regards. Audley.
dsmith@kasnet.com wrote:
Hi Mr Shaw,
Unfortunately I am just seeing your email, I will find out how you can get Information on the Australian Govts fx trading and let
you Know.
Also My schedule is a little crazy right now when I have a bit more time I will let you Know.
Also Congrats on the mother of all conferences.
God Bless
David
Jamaica Tells Greece Debt Restructuring Leads to Gains –Businessweek
PM Resignation
Jamaica’s efforts to reduce its debt burden received a setback this week after Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he plans to step down after four years in office. He will leave once a new ruling party leader is elected in November.
Asked whether he was interested in taking over the leadership of the ruling Labor Party, Shaw said he was “qualified,” though he wouldn’t make a decision until “the appropriate time.” Tufton, who served as minister of agriculture and fisheries for four years until June, said he had the same answer.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-28/jamaica-tells-greece-debt-restructuring-leads-to-gains.html
OLINT FEEDER CLUB OPERATORS BEWARE!
Well another quarter for the IMF and Jamaica has come to and end.
Silence?
“…wimps and con men…”
Golding has repeatedly denied any ties to Coke, and even resigned from the Labor Party in the mid-1990s to form a new party that would be free of gang links.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/25/jamaica-prime-minister-resign_n_980409.html
“…wimps and con men…”
For nine months, Mr Golding resisted the extradition of Christopher Coke, wanted in the US on suspicion of leading an international drugs and guns network thought to span the US and Canada.
He also admitted his party had sanctioned the hiring of a US law firm suspected of lobbying Washington on behalf of Mr Coke in an attempt to get the US authorities to drop the extradition request.
Coke pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in a New York court last month.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-15056188
“…wimps and con men…”
Calls for honesty and forthrightness from PM in address to nation
JCSC Chairperson, Carol Narcisse says this will also allow for transparency.
“Where we can understand better exactly what are the forces that impact upon on governance, that impact unpon leadership, we hope that the Prime Minister will set out clearly what informed his decision at this time, to set out clearly his expectations for the leadership transition and how it should be managed and how he sees his role going forward”
And Social Entrepreneur, Dr. Henley Morgan says the prime minister needs to come clean.
“The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Mr Golding many times in addressing the nation has been flawed, certainly relating to the extradition of Mr Coke and the events drawn from that .We can only hope that he will now come good and tell the country the reason why and to speak on the plans for succession”
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/calls-honesty-and-forthrightness-pm-address-nation
“…wimps and con men…”
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express our thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
“If information comes to me that I consider to be information that requires the public to be made aware of, in protection of my democracy, you coulda’ preach till you drop down I going to be calling press conference after press conference…”
O.B.G
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The several member organizations of the JCSC call on the Prime Minister to be frank and forthright in his statement as this will contribute to setting our nation on a path to full disclosure, healing and the establishment of lasting justice.
http://www.jamaicansforjustice.org/nmcms.php?snippets=news&p=news_details&id=2939
Horseman I reviewed your football team recently. I did so in light of the pending relegation of the JLP.
I found it interesting. Your “Captain” Bruce Golding has sent himself to the bench.
Audley Shaw is transferred to a third division side in Australia.
You mention Sally Porteus Horseman? I believe she retired early in the season?
You also mentioned Horace Chang. I believe he is injured at the moment?
Robertson is mentioned as well horseman. Transfer to NY Cosmos? Work visa needed?
Karl Samuda has changed position on the team. Brady wants a transfer?
Derrick Smith you mentioned Horseeman? A team called Wikileaks was interested but they don’t play football they smuggle guns.
Horseman, every player you mentioned is baptised in sewage water it seems.
When you try talk “football” Horseman remember come here for your daily bread….
(Nutmeg)..Salad…Horeman…
@Horseman
We just a roll di ledda easy all now…box it round calm….Horseman who really actually at the bottom of the table? your side or Sporting Central?
You have a piece of Silverware that does not belong to u. I myown…
Tufton says, “squarely beside the head”
Flashback to 2008….hahahaa You have to see this.
“Everyone has to take their own personal security into their hands..”
Andrew Holness.
Michael Williams a Jamaican Gem,
hahahaaha
“Its a pity though that not even 1% of the country will be listening to Mr. Golding’s speech it was mostly here in the arena are the die hard supporters of the Jamaica labour party I know that CVM carried the speech live but very few people would have listened to that speech….and…. and I think that the Golding administration need to improve their communications….”
Classic Mike Williams…hahhahahaa..
Who could forget…
PM’s boat sinks off the south coast
Prime Minister Bruce Golding and some members of his family had to be rescued at sea late Saturday afternoon, October 1 near Pelican Island off the country’s south coast.
RJR News has learnt that the Prime Minister and several family members went for a day outing on Pelican Island ahead of his son’s wedding on Sunday, October 2.
Around 5:15 p.m., after the Prime Minister’s party had departed the cay, their boat hit a reef and started to sink.
Sources told RJR News that a Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) helicopter was called to rescue the Prime Minister.
While awaiting the JDF aircraft, Mr. Golding and others were taken back to Pelican Island by a canoe.
The Prime Minister was eventually taken back to the mainland by the helicopter.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/pm%E2%80%99s-boat-sinks-south-coast
” parted with the boat too?”
To: David Smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express our thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
Bruce Golding Rescued At Sea
Prime Minister Golding was involved in a boat mishap at sea late this afternoon.
The boat reportedly hit a reef late this afternoon and started sinking.
The Gleaner/Power106 News understands that the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) Coast Guard had to rescue members of the prime minister’s party.
We will have more on this item soon.
editorial@gleanerjm.com
Well-known Jamaica Labour Party stalwart, Saleem Lazrus, treasurer for the Western Kingston constituency that Golding represents, was also on the ill-fated boat.
Political commentator, Kevin O’Brien Chang says the reasons for Bruce Golding’s decision to step down as leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and subsequently prime minister, are not important at this time.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32312
Jackass…
If the wagon appears to be slowing, then the Opposition will laugh, as they will now find the way to finance their campaign. That, until last week, seemed to be in jeopardy as Trafigura and David Smith and a few other paper bag contributors are under arrest or close watch.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The–sitcom–continues_9813117#ixzz1ZeRESG3f
Last Sunday, immediately after making his dramatic announcement to the JLP’s Central Executive of his imminent departure from politics, the prime minister should have properly addressed the nation on this burning matter. We shouldn’t have been left in limbo. After all, Bruce Golding is not just the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party. First and foremost, he’s Jamaica’s prime minister.
Golding’s apparent refusal to treat the nation with respect on the urgent business of his latest resignation takes us right back to his bumbling confusion of roles in the Dudus extradition fiasco. Even now, Golding does not seem to understand that he needs to clearly separate the function of party leader from that of prime minister.
Caught in a compromising position with Dudus, the prime minister tried to blame the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party for his predicament. Or was it the other way around? Who knows? In any case, the two had clearly become one and the same in Golding’s mind; and neither seemed to be acting on principle. It was all about political expediency.
Almost a year and a half ago when Bruce Golding first announced that he intended to resign as JLP leader and, consequently, as prime minister, the party’s Central Executive should have gladly accepted his decision. It was obvious then that he had become a liability.
His reputation was so tarnished that no amount of ‘cake soap’ could bleach it out.
All the same, Bruce did try to rehabilitate himself. He came on TV asking the Jamaican people to forgive him for his sins. Since we are a fundamentalist, Christian society, if only in name, diehard believers did forgive, though some of us simply could not forget.
And we put up with the ‘poppyshow’ Dudus-Manatt commission of enquiry when we all knew that nothing would come of it. I got a very good joke on the commission at one of the farmers’ markets in Kingston. I’m very suspicious of vegetables that are too big and pretty. I fear that deadly fertiliser accounts for the pumped-up look of the produce.
So when I saw some tomatoes that seemed to be a reasonable size, I asked the vendor if she was the farmer and if she had used fertiliser on them. She reassured me that the tomatoes were ‘organic’. Wanting to believe her, I optimistically asked, “Yu naa tell mi no lie?” Her friend who was helping on the stall wittily replied, “This is not the commission of enquiry.”
For the time being, Bruce Golding is still our prime minister. I hope that in his message to the nation this evening, he will come clean and tell us the plain truth about why he’s resigning at this psychological moment. Perhaps, that’s too much to expect. ‘Jack Mandora, mi no choose none.’
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111002/cleisure/cleisure3.html
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST
Bruce Golding and his Narco Democracy.
Despite the anxious efforts being made to alter the truth about his administration by corrupt members of the Jamaican Press, Bruce Golding’s tenure as Prime Minister has been a desolate and dangerous political failure. His close relationship with Christopher “Dudus” Coke led him to behave with arrogance and stupidity after the United States sought Christopher Coke’s extradition pursuant to the Extradition Treaty between Jamaica and the United States.
Christopher Coke is the head of the Shower Posse, a drug gang which controls most of the business of any type transacted between individuals and commercial enterprises inside Tivoli Gardens, a West Kingston political enclave. The United States Justice Department has characterized the Shower Posse as a racketeering enterprise that engages in the distribution of cocaine into the United States, the introduction of illegal firearms into Jamaica and cocaine connected alien trafficking.
Christopher Coke’s influence had become so powerful in 2009 that when the U.S. Justice Department attempted to extradite him he was able to exert influence within the Jamaica Labor Party to prevent his extradition. The close connection between Mr. Golding’s Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the Shower Posse became evident when Christopher Coke’s extradition was delayed for nine months while Prime Minister Golding and his Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne used every possible method of illegally thwarting his extradition that was feasible.
During this period, Dr. Peter Phillips of Jamaica’s Opposition Peoples National Party (PNP), the former Minister of National Security, described Christopher Coke as the most “powerful” person in Jamaica. When Coke’s Tivoli Gardens barricaded itself and attacked the Jamaican Police as the extradition crisis between Jamaica and the United States heightened and at least 75 individuals including police officers and soldiers died in frenetic gun battles in Western Kingston, it certainly seemed that Coke was as powerful as the Prime Minister.
In order to maintain power and credibility, the Golding administration had to manipulate the local press in Jamaica. When public records of Golding contracting an American law firm; Manatt Phelps to lobby the White House to somehow thwart the Coke extradition request, Golding’s frequent falsehoods and parliamentary endorsement of Christopher Coke inevitably strained relations with Washington. The State Department was forced to question Jamaica’s reliability in the international war against drugs.
Last Month, Christopher Coke pled guilty to racketeering and assault charges and he admitted his leadership of the brutal Shower Posse gang. The U.S. Government indicated that they would prove had the case gone to trial that Coke used an Electric Saw to chop up a man while he was still alive, in punishment for not paying drug debts.
Were it not for the Internet Blogs in Jamaica where the Government dominates about sixty percent of the radio medium and is closely connected to a major newspaper, the public would have been actively misled on many issues concerning Golding and his relationship with the Shower Posse.
The Shower Posse operatives may have paid major Jamaica newspaper columnists and radio commentators to take a pro Coke stance during the period 2009 to 2011. For instance, the fact that Christopher Coke was deported from the United States in the 1980s was deliberately ignored by elements of the Jamaican media to give the impression that Christopher Coke was a Jamaican native who had never left Jamaica. Motions and legal arguments made by Christopher Coke in his Federal case and comments by Christopher Coke’s Lawyers were promoted by the pro Government, pro Posse elements of the media. They were reported as if they were heroic utterances.
Only the venerable Daily Gleaner and a smattering of courageous radio commentators dared to criticize Christopher Coke and urge that Jamaica comply with its Treaty obligations. Coke’s indictment by the United States was condemned by a prominent JLP Government Senator and close colleague of Mr. Golding as “hype”.
The current United States Ambassador to Jamaica Pamela Bridgewater is probably the U.S. State Department’s most adept and most experienced crisis manager. In her speeches she has reminded Jamaica over and over again that the wanton corruption associated with the Shower Posse will scare away investors, tourists and restrict Jamaica’s future economic development. The murder rate in Jamaica has declined by more than 60% since Coke’s Extradition; however, Jamaica still has one of the highest murder rates in the World.
Perhaps Golding’s resignation will release Jamaica from the “Belly of the Beast” of the Shower Posse. Hopefully, his resignation will lead to (1) The selection of a JLP leader who has no links to drug traffickers and (2) a prompt General Election for Jamaicans to decide their political future.
Arawak 13 hours ago
Jamaica cannot take any more embarassment and nastiness on it’s name.
To all JLP candidates, please contact the American Embassy and check to see whether yu visa is in good standing.
You know whether or not there is a chance it is not. You know whether you had questionable relationships that are probably now revealed courtesy of dudus.
While it is a SHAME that we have to depend on America to reveal our political crooks, we will take that benefit gladly.
The first step is to get rid of nastiness.
The next step is to punish it as a warning for all to see.
Reason For PM Decision To Quit Not Important, Says O’Brien Chang
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32312
Rubbish.
You stained Jamaica. And the party has the gall to want to continue.
Jean Lowrie Chin: unapologetic and out of touch with reality.
Bruce Golding’s graceful exit (Nothing has been graceful with Bruce Golding)
We harked back to TV commercials for the JLP election campaign of 2002 when Bruce Golding’s wife Lorna and daughter Sherene told us about his support and affirmation of family. “See this kitchen cabinet?” gestured Sherene. “Pops installed it for me.”
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Bruce-Golding-s-graceful-exit_9821408#ixzz1ZiGO6blc
As an understudy of Harold Brady your lack of attention to detail and lack of comprehension are understandable.
The TV commercials you speak of (paid for by stolen OLINT money) were in 2007 not 2002. Golding’s daughter said it was pops who taught her how to put them 9kitchen cupboards) up not “pops installed it for me.”
And these people call themselves media? We have a serious comprehension, language, diction and pronunciation problem in Jamaica Mr. Holness. UWI grads are notorious. Newsrooms print, radio, television and ad agencies oblivious to the destruction move on with the rubbish all the while patting themselves on the back.
Crisis Holness. Don’t believe? Someone else was told of crisis…but no…me a Don in a the juggling….Goo riddance Don. You fool fool same as you always were.
Anyhow..changes coming in a certain newsroom…and at the corporate level too….oh dear. Golding has plenty company on the way.
Holness uses OLINT victim John Barnes to describe Bruce Golding
(how absolutely insensitive of you toward the victim Andrew Holness).
“There used to be an English player (Jamaican-born) Johnny Barnes, who was very good at running up the wing and making a deep cross into the six-yard box. That was our Honourable Prime Minister Bruce Golding. He made that cross into the six-yard box. And we have several players, we have two forwards or three, it may be four — everybody is rushing in for that ball.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Samuda–Chang–Meadows-back-Holness_9834580#ixzz1ZiXv0ln8
Unbelievably out of touch.
There used to be an English player…”
Unbelievable…yes Holness you speak as if he (Barnes) was not up to recently at Breamar and the girl he used to deal with was writing to Wayne doope Smith and there was a fight over who would get commissions from Barnes and later the world headlines of Barnes tax case in Britain.
Reduced today to, “There used to be an English player…”
Unbelievable…Holness when do you intend to address your letter to David Smith? the one you sent on Government of Jamaica letterhead?
Young and old are both out of touch in the party.
Dan smith
10/3/2011
I remember Vaz says it is not up to mr Golding if he stay or go… Sir it is good what you say about younger people in both party to take the country forward but I that’s your reason for stepping down you were told to step down by the boss of the world they have goods on you…. This is not the days of chicken back and flour people an’t stupid…
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Golding-tells-why#ixzz1ZjWhSZIe
Caleb Barrett
10/3/2011
It is going to be very enjoyable to see all these pro-Government bloggers try to explain to the Jamaican people how it is that nobody in the JLP can yet say who paid for Mannatt? If Holness or Tufton want to be considered honest and different, let’s hear! Otherwise, you are on the ship that’s going down for lying to the Jamaican people and causing deadly mayhem.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Zooming-in-on-Golding-s-speech#ixzz1Zl61CMwv
Bruce Golding’s graceful exit
Jean Lowrie Chin
Caleb Barrett
10/3/2011
This exit may be many things, but “graceful” isn’t one of them. It is embarrassing, probably painful. It is unprecedented. It is satisfying to his foes. It is a breath of fresh air for Jamaica. It is the triumph of right over wrong. It is a small token of justice for the 70-odd dead. It is many things…. but it is not “graceful”… not unless we’re talking some new language nowadays. It is hurried. It is hectic. It is tragi-comic. It is not graceful.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Bruce-Golding-s-graceful-exit_9821408#ixzz1Zl6aY9d5
The Prime Minister’s comment has seemingly irked deputy Prime Minister and JLP leadership aspirant Dr Ken Baugh.
But the JLP general secretary Aundre Franklin says he will not be drawn into the contention over Golding’s comments.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32333
Graceful??
So what would have qualified as a bitter demotion and expulsion?
Sally Porteous resigns
Sally Porteous, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor for the Mandeville Division in Manchester, has resigned.
RJR News understands that Ms. Porteous sent her resignation letter to JLP officials on Monday, October 3.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/politics/sally-porteous-resigns
Horesman your football team loose a player….who you going to bring on from the bench? Bruce?
This afternoon, 76-year-old Mike Henry said the timing of Golding’s utterance was inappropriate.
Henry said although the timing of Golding’s utterance is ill-advised, he is confident in the wisdom of the Jamaican voters.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32337
But trade unionist and commentator, Helene Davis-Whyte, says the Prime Minister’s speech contained nothing new.
Mrs. Davis-Whyte said she expected Mr. Golding would have provided a more detailed explanation for his impending departure.
“Frankly speaking I have heard absolutely nothing. As it stands he has basically only spoke about the timeline and trying to explain why it is he had to indicate his intention at that point in time but I don’t know that it says anything at all to us and especially because we have been hearing of details that were indicated at the Central Executive and he mentioned absolutely nothing of the kind, I think we are as much as in the dark as before,” Mrs. Davis-Whyte said.
And Reverend Karl Johnson, General Secretary of the Jamaica Baptist Union, said he expected more substance from the Prime Minister’s address.
He pointed to the manner in which Mr. Golding treated the Manatt/Coke Affair in his speech.
“How I heard the Prime Minister is almost to say I have been the sacrificial lamb for standing up for principles which suggest to me that even the apology he made is now again brought into question. I think he hasn’t gotten it, he hasn’t gotten it that it would have had to taken somebody who would have been a political neophyte to have not known that to impose yourself in matter of that nature would have justly left a scar,” Reverend Johnson said.
Meanwhile, the People’s National Party (PNP) has also been critical of Mr. Golding’s speech.
According to Peter Bunting, General Secretary of the PNP, the Prime Minister did not show much remorse for the Manatt/Coke Affair.
“The truth is that the Prime Minister had to resign because of a complete loss of credibility and in those circumstances you would have expected him to be more penitent and remorseful. He seemed instead to be attempting to use the occasion of resignation to give a fresh start to the over four year old JLP administration,” Mr. Bunting said.
Why was Nixon so sensitive about that term “Obstruction of Justice?”
The Federal Statutes criminalizing Obstruction of Justice are found in Title 18 United States Code Chapter 73.
18 U.S.C. 1502 states:
“ Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists or opposes an extradition agent of the United States in the execution of his duties shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year.”
18 U.S.C. 1503 is the common Obstruction of Justice charging section. This section of the Obstruction of Justice statute has two prongs. The first prong relates to interfering with Judicial Officers, the second prong concerns obstruction of the “Due Administration of Justice”. The second prong of the Obstruction of Justice statute is extremely wide and can lead to an unlimited number of scenarios being subject to prosecution. These scenarios include foreign-based conspiracies.
Some Madoff clients to receive initial refunds
http://search.cnbc.com/main.do?target=all&keywords=madoff&categories=exclude
SEC Concludes That Certain Stanford Ponzi Scheme Investors Are Entitled to Protections of SIPA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2011-129
Washington, D.C., June 15, 2011
http://www.sec.gov/news/press/2011/2011-129.htm
UBS executives understood to be facing suspension over alleged rogue trader affair
Chief executive Oswald Grübel has already resigned over the affair
A handful of senior executives at UBS are understood to be facing suspension from their roles at UBS while the investigation into the alleged ‘rogue trader’ activities of Kweku Adoboli is completed.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/blog/2011/oct/05/ubs-europeanbanks
BTW Congratulations to Olint victim Lissant Mitchell who as promoted to head Bank of Nova Scotia Investments.
We wish him all the best with the clam he put in.
Also congratulations to Andrew Holness who has talked education issues with David Smith in the past.
AML, it seems Madoff victims are getting back quite a lot. Stanfor victims are being helped by the USA Sec.
Sadly Jamaica and their FSC is something “different.” Bruce Golding said the Smith’s would not be charged in Jamaica.
It will be interesting to hear Andrew Holness’ take on that.
“I noted that what they were building there was not what I had designed, but when I looked on the drawing I saw my name on the plans,” he said.
“I pointed that out to her (Mrs Holness), that it was serious, as I had nothing to do with the design.”
He stressed that it was entirely different from project he had submitted.
“Mrs Holness said it was a mistake and that her draughtsman did it without her knowledge and promised to inform the KSAC,” Yap said. “It was for that reason that I took the precaution to write a letter to the KSAC to inform them that I had nothing to do with the design.
“What is being built is not what we designed and submitted,” Yap declared.
“As it turned out, I am glad that I did not do the work as I did not know that they would have operated this way.”
http://www.hjrealtycheck.com/2010/10/town-house-turmoil-ministers-wife-under-fire-questions-raised-over-juliette-holness-project/
Golding Gov’t untenable – Ashley
“In my view, Prime Minister Golding is now a lame duck leader and the Cabinet is also a lame duck Cabinet. What needs to be done is that Holness now needs to get on with the work of Government. The Prime Minister needs to hand in his letter of resignation and the parliamentary groups simultaneously need to inform the Governor General of (their) selection.
“This, in my opinion, should be done today and the swearing in (done) by Monday morning followed by the swearing in of a new Cabinet and (they) start working next week. This business about October 20 cannot work, Jamaica cannot afford this luxury,” Dr. Ashley stated.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/politics/golding-gov’t-untenable-–-ashley
keith 11 hours ago
In addition to Olint, Christopher Dudus Coke operated from a based right here in Jamaica and was not even wanted by the Jamaican authorities but yet was named by the Americans as one of the world’s most wanted.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111006/cleisure/cleisure2.html
BREAKING NEWS
Stand-by Agreement with IMF in trouble
A high-ranking official of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, based in Jamaica has confirmed that the country’s Stand-By Agreement with the multinational Washington-based lending institution is in deep trouble.
The IMF’s Senior Representative in Jamaica Dr. Gene Leon, has all but confirmed, in an exclusive interview, that the government is desperately scrambling to get the multi-billion dollar deal back on track.
The Golding administration had gone knocking on the door of the IMF to get a deal sealed for Balance of Payment support, or to put extra monies aside to pay for essential imported goods like oil.
By now the country should have had six IMF tests and getting ready to do the seventh of eight under the current IMF deal. The process hit a road block at the fourth quarter ending in December 2010.
From : Audley Shaw[mailto:fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com]
Sent : 11/11/2006 11:01:13 AM
To : dsmith@kasnet.com
Cc :
Subject : RE: fx trading
It was a pleasure meeting you and your dear wife. I’m glad that you shared your knowledge and concerns with me. A friend of
mine is keen on investing and would like to talk with you or better yet, he wants to meet with you if possible. He has asked me
to fly over with him to see you when it is convenient to you. Please let me know.
Regarding the Australian model of fx trading to help with public debt, is there any published information on it? Please let me
know. I’d really like to learn more about it.
Thanks again for our meeting as I now have a better grasp of the issues.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kindest regards and compliments.
Audley Shaw
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/stand-agreement-imf-trouble
Has anybody heard anything about one of the feeder clubs name Keene Exchange, that was managed by Garreth Harris. This guy’s name and feeder club has managed to stay way below the radar for so long, and yet his name was prominently featured in the ITrade FX case. Where is Garreth Harris and the millions in collected from investors?????
He left the scene with you consent Peterg. By doing nothing your feeder got away.
No govt. “caught” David Smith or Olint. Don’t believe that hype. Governments got caught “along with” David Smith.
You will never see your money again until you understand that concept. No matter how much you don’t want to believe it.
From: Mark Knighton moves on TC Weekly News.
“Without a doubt the highlight of my time here was taking on the job that everyone else was scared of,” Spud says.
Prior to Bernie Madoff the Olint scam was the biggest ponzi scheme the world had ever seen – and the largest fraud ever known to have taken place in the Caribbean.
“…the case is now notorious the planet over.”
Mark Knighton
“Another prominent Jamaican politician has been indicted by grand jury”
????/Wha???
newstalk93fm.com
Sandals Attorneys in the Turks and Caicos Islands, Ariel Missick.
and Caicos Islands, Michael Missick. All of the payments relating to the said political contributions were made on the instructions and with the full knowledge of Mr. Stewart and were wired, as far as I am aware, from the account of Unique Vacations in Miami and an account in the Bahamas to the respective accounts of the recipients located in the Turks and Caicos Islands. As I controlled no accounts for the Plaintiff was not a signatory on any of its accounts, I only transmitted the instructions from Mr. Stewart to Phyllis Thompson in the Bahamas. I did not make any transfers as are alleged from The Bahamas or through The Bahamas.
I can categorically state that I have no employment contract or any other contract for that matter with the Plaintiff and have no further knowledge of that company within the Sandals Group. In fact, but for the commencement of these proceedings, I was not aware of the existence of the Plaintiff Company.
I categorically deny that in my capacity as Managing Director of Gorstew Ltd that I gave any instructions to any agent or servant of the Plaintiff Company to carry out any transactions in respect of its overall management and more particularly in respect to carrying out the payment of political contributions as aforesaid save and except to transmit by telephone from Jamaica the instructions of Mr. Stewart.
That in effecting the transmission of the instructions given to Unique Vacations, I never transmitted that any payments be made through or out of The Bahamas and based on the instructions from Mr. Stewart I was told to have the funds transferred from Unique Vacations in Miami to the recipients’ bank in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Based on my advice from Counsel I am satisfied that the Plaintiff has no sustainable cause of action against me and that any such action, if one exists, ought rightly to be filed in the Turks and Caicos Islands where the funds were received by Michael Missick or on his behalf or in Miami where most of the transactions to the Turks and Caicos emanated or in Jamaica where the transmission of the instructions were initiated.
That to advance any Defence, I will require comprehensive disclosure orders from the alleged recipients of the funds and more importantly from the relevant bank(s) in Turks and Caicos Islands and from Gorstew Ltd in Jamaica as well as from Unique Vacations in Miami.
That it is also important to indicate that this action arises from an investigation being carried out by the US authorities in respect of whether Sandals or Mr. Stewart made political contributions to Michael Missick and based on the same, Mr. Stewart has sought to wrongfully allege that I, in my capacity as Managing Director of Gorstew Ltd, forwarded the funds to
Michael Missick without Mr. Stewart’s approval or instructions. This is a fabrication which I have strenuously denied and have taken steps to explain my involvement.
That based on the ongoing post commission inquiry investigations in the Turks and Caicos Islands surrounding the allegations of mismanagement in the Missick Administration, it is my view that Mr. Stewart and/or or the Plaintiff has engaged in forum shopping so as to avoid the commencement of an action in either the Turks and Caicos or Jamaica.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=859#859
“Their” efforts saw the Olint case voted among the top three in the world by Egmont Group chiefs on account of its complexity and huge public interest.
“…the case [Olint] is now notorious the planet over.”
SANDALS RESORTS INTERNATIONAL 2000 LIMITED
Plaintiff
AND
DR. JEFFREY PYNE
Defendant
The Defendant was a director of the Plaintiff from 31s’ May, 2002 to 31″ May, 2010. During this period the Defendant was also the Sandals Group treasurer and governmental liaison officer.
First Caribbean International Bank (Bahamas) Limited (“First Caribbean”) is a commercial bank incorporated and carrying on business in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas which also has branches in the Turks & Calces.
Unique Vacations Inc. (“Unique”) is a Florida company that was at the material times the Sandals Group worldwide marketing and reservations agent. After travel reservations are made Unique collects the funds and remits them to the Plaintiff after deducting its fees.
Prestigious Properties is a Turks & Caicos real estate company.
Chalmers & Co is a Turks & Caicos law firm.
Misick & Stanbrook is a Turks & Caicos law firm.
In or about November, 2009 the Sandals Group began a review of the group’s financial records. This review uncovered that the Defendant in breach of his fiduciary duty and/or breach of trust and/or breach of contract caused the Plaintiff and Unique to wire the below mentioned funds (“the Proprietary Funds”) to Prestigious Properties, Misick & Stanbrook and Chalmers & Co:
On 26th October, 2006 the Defendant instructed the Plaintiff to transfer US$150,000.00 to Misick & Stanbrook account at First Caribbean in the Turks & Caicos on the pretext that these funds were being used to pay ”legal fees.”
More extraditions?
2 politicians, entertainer among 5 J’cans said wanted by US Gov’t
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
EXTRADITION requests from the American Government for five Jamaicans, among them three prominent faces, are expected to be delivered to local authorities today, a highly placed US Government official has told the Observer.
According to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, two of the wanted men are politicians, one is a veteran entertainer, while the others both conduct regular business at Kingston’s Port Bustamante.
“Squadron leader to Nonco…come in Nonco…where are you….Nonco…what are your coordinates Nonco…..come in Nonco…”
“WHEN YOU LOSE CONTROL AND YOU’VE GOT NO SOUL..?”
Tragedy?
OCG Prepared To Take Gov’t To Court
But Christie said within three months after his office received a letter from the ministry regarding the opinion, the OCG was asked by former minister without portfolio, Don Wehby, to enquire into the divestment of Air Jamaica’s Heathrow slots.
He said on April 23, 2008, Finance Minister Audley Shaw made a similar request in Gordon House.
Christie said his office did not hesitate to carry out the probe.
But he said when the OCG moved to investigate the divestment of Government’s share in the Jamalco joint venture enterprise, the office came up against strong resistance.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32547
From: Ariel Misick [mailto:ariel@mlsickstanbrook.tcJ
Sent: Monday May 02, 2011 5:54 PM
To: ‘Trevor Patterson’
Subject:
I believe this must be the transaction ledger. It’s the only one our accounts dept has located. I will ascertain tomorrow who the instructions to pay came from. It was certainly not for legal fees as you will see from the document. Regards.
Ariel
Rejected at the State Dept. Brady fails again!
Bruce Golding and Andrew Holness rejected. No meeting with Hilary Clinton.
Low level staff with no decision making authority is as far as Brady can go. What a “fool” to think the damaged goods Brady can put clout!
Damn “fool” Bruce.
Last ditch efforts to have the extradition requests for JR and AG delayed will not work. REJECTED.
Police ordered to gear up for General Elections
With speculation rife that General Elections, which are constitutionally due next year, could be held in short order the Jamaica Constabulary Force is now on high alert.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/police-ordered-gear-general-elections
Holness check your boat….look in the hull…
Jammys, Jungo, Stero Mars….
Skeng-heh, skeng-heh, skeng-heh, skeng-heh…
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-13/ex-tory-deputy-chairman-ashcroft-sues-bbc-over-tax-documentary.html
If laws have been broken then the Attorney General Huw Shepheard needs to act. If only the wealthy can call upon the law when they have been wronged then we are surely on the fast track to subjugation. Living in fear of the wealthy is a poor way for citizens of a British Territory to live.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/oct-15-2011-–-lord-ashcroft-playing-fire
Can a Young Prime Minister Reform Jamaica’s Old Criminality?
When Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding announced his resignation last month, the only surprise was that it took him so long. Since last year, Golding, leader of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP), has been embroiled in one of the worst scandals to hit Jamaica since it won independence five decades ago.
Now, fearing the Coke scandal could wreck its chances in new parliamentary elections that have to be held by December of 2012, the JLP is betting that more youthful leadership can distract Jamaican voters and clean up the venal house that Golding, 63, leaves behind.
http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/10/06/can-a-young-prime-minister-reform-jamaicas-old-criminality/
Let us recall what Golding told the 67th annual conference of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) last November. “If we are going to call for public disclosure of contributions (to political parties), we must be prepared to publish our own integrity declaration of income and assets and liability.
“I am prepared to publish mine tomorrow. As a matter of fact, I don’t need any law to do it because there is nothing that I own that I have anything to be concerned about,” Golding said.
Nearly a year has passed and Golding has not acted on this promise.
Beyond his Cabinet, we wonder how Holness will construct his parliamentary team. He may want to consider replacing Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who has proven each day that she is not ready for the job of Speaker.
Holness will also have to decide whether his long-time sidekick, house whip Andrew Gallimore, is ready to step up as leader of Government Business. Somehow, we feel that job is best saved for Golding, who knows the Standing Orders like the back of his hand.
But as to whether Holness chooses to have a politically damaged Golding at his side in Parliament is another matter.
Whatever decision Holness makes we hope he bears in mind that he is coming into the big chair because of the trust deficit between Golding and the Jamaican people. Holness now has the task of restoring trust to the governance process.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111017/news/news5.html
Bartlett’s Petticoat And Transparency In Gov’t
Poor Bartlett’s petticoat was showing. In his desperation, he was trying to forestall inquiry into the sell-off of government assets in undisclosed circumstances and on undisclosed terms by successive administrations.
Cover-up no surprise
On reflection, one should not be surprised at the cover-up efforts – not a mere two days after the embarrassment of having to hear the full hundred about our economic lives from the local International Monetary Fund representative on the television, that which we were entitled to hear in Gordon House from the ministers who are supposed to protect our interests.
Why is my motion calling for an examination of the manpower and financial needs of the DPP and the Chief Parliamentary Counsel languishing for months with the said House Leader Andrew Holness failing to find time for debate – even though the inadequacies of these departments are hurting the country.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The government side in the Parliament has agreed to submit articles for this feature but, to date, none have been received.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111017/news/news6.html
OLINT Feeder Club operator Joseph Issa is being sued! This case is rather interesting. Cool Corporation, Cool Petroleum, MZ Holdings are all named defendants.
Click to access Dowe_v_Issa_2_USA.pdf
Cool Pertoleum now for sale. Potential buyer is a family-owned American Company. The buyer is close to completion of its due deligence on Cool Petroleum.
The question is: Has Mr. Joseph Issa informed the potential buyers about this pending case in Broward County Florida? You do not have to be a C.P.A. to determine that USD $20M is quite a liability!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111007/business/business2.html
OCG Senior Staff Threatened
The head of the contract oversight body also complained of what he said were misguided and very worrying challenges emanating from the Jamaica Labour Party administration which sought to impose unwarranted boundaries upon the OCG’s exercise of its duty.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32631
I have included a notice on our website (www.olinttciliquidation.com) to alert feeder club members that they do not have a claim against Olint TCI and that any claim must come from the feeder club; however, most of the feeder clubs are yet to submit any claims.
J.C
WOULD YOU VOTE FOR A MAN WHO THREATENED TO BOX A WOMAN?
Click to access Holness_tried_to_box_presiding_officer.pdf
Jamaicanboy72 1 hour ago
There is also the impending sale of UDC owned real estate on
West Parade to Azan’s Bashco without following proper procedure. The tenant on the property did not get an opportunity to make an offer. UDC did not advertise the property. The impending sale price is a give-away to a big political donor.
Andrew Holness must fire UDC’s board and management
particularly, general manager Joy Douglas.
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This story is disturbing. This is how things run in Jamaica. When will it end???
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32685
Meeting to determine fate of UDC General Manager underway
A meeting is currently underway to determine the fate of embattled General Manager of the Urban Development Corporation, UDC, Joy Douglas.
A reliable source told RJR News that the meeting was called after recent events involving what are being described as the controversial sale of government assets.
It was revealed that the outcome is likely to involve a separation.
Mrs. Douglas has been General Manager of the UDC since November 2008.
But Mr. Christie could not resist pointing fingers at other public bodies.
He noted that the UDC’s willingness to heed the considered recommendations of the OCG comes in stark contrast to the conduct of the agencies involved in the recent Jamalco Divestment, Sandals Whitehouse Hotel Divestment and LNG Tender Process matters.
Mr. Azan says he has an enviable record of investment, development and job creation in downtown Kingston, through purchase and operation of a major consortium of enterprises located in that area.
-From: David Lazarus dhplaz@gmail.com
To: dsmith@kasnet.com
2/6/2007
Barry,
Below is the names you asked for:
1. Neil Andradie
2. James Robertson
3. Charlene Robertson
4. Patricia Nicholson
5. Justin Ogilvie- plus any in his wifes’ name.
6. Gassan Azan
7. Andrea Hughsam
8. Patrick Tempral
9. Ansel Tempral. new & old.
10.Charles Condell. (Eric)
Hope this will do.
David
Jamaica dipped seven spots to rank 88 in the Doing Business Report 2012 representing its seventh straight year of decline due to difficulty obtaining electricity supply and a burdensome tax structure.
Essentially, it is harder to do business in Jamaica than before, according to the report published Wednesday by the World Bank and its affiliate, International Finance Corporation (IFC).
The report also found that Jamaica is doing an increasingly poor job of protecting investors.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111021/business/business1.html
The chairman of the Urban Development Commission (UDC), Wayne Chen, has confirmed that the agency’s general manager, Joy Douglas, has been suspended.
Chen said during the suspension a detailed investigation will be conducted into several controversial decisions by the Government agency under Douglas’ leadership.
Meanwhile, the Opposition has called for the dismissals of the board and management of the UDC.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32702
Money laundering, at its simplest, is the act of making money that comes from Source A look like it comes from Source B. Money laundering is a crime if it is used to disguise the origins of illegally-obtained money, because the proceeds of a crime are made to appear legitimate. The methods by which money may be laundered are varied and can range in sophistication.
Joseph Issa relied on his complex web of companies to willfully conceal his money laundering activities.
It gets pretty interesting at about page 9 Section 2.5 of the below report: Collection and Payout Institutions.
Click to access Liquidators_Second_Interim_Report_Highlighted.pdf
Money – the bad smell that lingers on in politics
How our parties are funded has added to the bad smell which has turned off many voters.
They suspect that donors expect – and get – something in return for their money.
Cameron’s fury at plan to curb rich backers
By Andrew Grice, P
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/camerons-fury-at-plan-to-curb-rich-backers-2374247.html
GOLDING SPEAKS TONIGHT
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express our thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
Feeder Club Operators Beware!!! You may be sued!!!
The case below against Joseph Issa is rather interesting! Joseph Issa controlled companies had contractual agreements with David Smith. What!!!
Based on aforementioned Official Liquidator’ s Report, MZ Holdings and USIMO facilitated investors depositing/wire transferring their funds to Olint; facilitated redemptions by investors; and made other payments on behalf of Olint. Oh no!!!
Deposits to USIMO’s accounts were then consolidated and either sent to Olint or Usimo’s bank account based on Olint’s instructions. Perhaps some of the deposits received in Cayman ” Butterfield Bank” were sent to Hallmark but this has not been confirmed by numerous teams of investigators. Deposits to Usimo’s accounts were then used to facilitate “money laundeing” requests for encashments based on Olint’s instructions. Really!!!
Click to access Liquidators_Second_Interim_Report_Highlighted.pdf
Click to access Dowe_v_Issa_2_USA.pdf
Mr. Issa what’s going on here???
Mr. Connolley has openly accused you of being a money launder. This particular report was filed as one of the documents filed in the David Smith case in the Middle District of Florida.
Therse revelations are of a rather disturbing nature!!!!
I hope that the guys below are paying close attention!
City Kingston
Stocks and Securities Limited
24-26 Grenada Crescent
Ground & Floor One
Kingston 05
Jamaica, WI
webmail.sslinvest.com [72.252.251.42]
Name Fiscal Services (EDP) Limited
Handle FSEL
Street 235B OLD HOPE ROAD
KINGSTON 6, JAMAICA
Organization Bank of Jamaica (BANKO-108)
Name CHISHOLM , JONAH A.
Handle JAC1-ARIN
Company Caribbean Systematics Limited
Street 53 Knutsford Boulevard
Name Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Handle KLNNKF
mail.wardkim.com [70.88.37.101]
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Golding In The Rear-View Mirror
The trouble is, he went in the opposite direction immediately upon grabbing the wheel of actual power and leaked political capital faster than the Urban Development Commission leaks carpet, chairs and Pegasus shares.
Further towards transparency in Govern-ment, although polite society seems to have formed a consensus that it is impolitic to ask, the public still awaits news about who paid Manatt’s bill to maintain Dudus in his kingdom. As Golding bolts towards the door, the public has been given the political equivalent of a break-up by text message or Facebook posting, not a credible explanation as to why, and why now. On transparency, Golding fails.
He wasted little time in dismissing the whole Public Service Commission for refusing to obey him. As mentioned, Golding’s minions have advertised a desire to purge the public sector of whomever they consider non-aligned to their cause. Then, of course, there is the whole Dudus mess, where every hallowed principle of law and justice was systematically rubbished, to the cheers and endorsement of his Cabinet who, like Pilate, presume to wash their hands now.
In a short performance, Golding had committed himself, his Government, his yes-men in the party and in media, and ultimately the whole country, to a path of lawless, reckless folly sure to end in disaster.
Now, unable to complete even one term, Golding will look across the political barricades at Patterson with a new-found respect. As Clif-twang Brown said, “Is only who can monidge de wata!” Who can take any pleasure in seeing it come to this? The Golden One with a legacy forever welded to Dudus and the Shower Posse’s infamy, corpses strewn around west Kingston, and a massive political talent ended “gawn to St Thomas pond”.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111023/cleisure/cleisure5.html
On Andrew Holness as Leader of Jamaica
He invested his money in Olint. He is on the list. Golding said of Olint investors “a fool and his money are soon parted.”
So Holness has long ago been branded a fool by Golding. Not that it counts for much for Golding is no bright spark by any stretch.
The more important questions for the new Prime Minister include, “did David Smith pay you when he was not paying others or not?”
If Smith did not pay you your money then what actions did you take in the name of justice…what actions to recover your loss?
After all we are in need of a PM who leads by example, seeks justice and does not support criminality.
Potential investors in the Jamaican economy need to be assured that should any folly befall their investments in Jamaica the leader of the country is quick to act against criminality and theft.
A person who has a track record of being hesitant in such things is not going to entice foreign investment into the country. Certainly not decent law abiding investors anyway.
Have we simple moved from one beneficiary of Olint (Bruce Golding) to a full fledged member of Olint (Andrew Holness)?
Travesty?
Of course one does not expect any of our venerable media houses to lead with the headline:
“Olint Investor is Jamaica’s 9th Prime Minister”
Chairmen, …Silence?
Olint member who believed in 10% a month to be Prime Minister of Jamaica in a few hours.
His name is Andrew Holness. The country has been told.
It’s official! Olint investor Andrew Michael Holness is Prime Minister of Jamaica.
Will this bring hope to the thousands of Olint victims in Jamaica? We await his comments on the matter.
New PM Promises Better Accountability, Efficiency, Politics
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32735
Minor glitch at Audley Shaw’s swearing in ceremony
Moments after Audley Shaw recited his oath, it was revealed that he read the wrong instrument of appointment.
Kings House staffers huddled with Sir Patrick as soon as it was realised that Mr. Shaw had been given the wrong document to read.
The Governor General, who flashed a smile, then stepped up to the lectern, and explained what had happened.
“The secretaries took out the old oath that we stopped swearing some years ago, so that was an error. We should have put away those documents long time ago, which was a mistake, so I apologise to you Mr. Shaw,” Sir Patrick said.
However Audley Shaw was confronted with another minor setback…his pen ran out of ink when he attempted to sign the corrected instrument.
——- Original Message ——-
From : Audley Shaw[mailto:fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com]
Sent : 11/11/2006 11:01:13 AM
To : dsmith@kasnet.com
Cc :
Subject : RE: fx trading
It was a pleasure meeting you and your dear wife. I’m glad that you shared your knowledge and concerns with me. A friend of
mine is keen on investing and would like to talk with you or better yet, he wants to meet with you if possible. He has asked me
to fly over with him to see you when it is convenient to you. Please let me know.
Regarding the Australian model of fx trading to help with public debt, is there any published information on it? Please let me
know. I’d really like to learn more about it.
Thanks again for our meeting as I now have a better grasp of the issues.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kindest regards and compliments.
Audley Shaw
Although News Corp has been performing well, the drip-drip of the phone-hacking scandal has taken its toll on the boss’s son
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/25/james-murdoch-shareholders-news-corp
Exclusive: Met finds secret phone at centre of NI hacking
Device nicknamed ‘The Hub’ hidden in offices of ‘News of the World’
Despite detailed company logs recording every call made on the hub phone, it was left unexamined by two internal News International inquiries, which dismissed the notion that phone hacking was rife at the title.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/exclusive-met-finds-secret-phone-at-centre-of-ni-hacking-6252332.html
The Turks and Caicos Islands is about to have new laws under which persons can be convicted based on hearsay evidence. The Interim Government has circulated a draft copy of a Criminal Justice (Hearsay and Documentary Evidence) Ordinance, which has angered and outraged several lawyers and many residents.
The consensus among lawyers and other critics is that this new law has been drafted, designed and timed to specifically target and secure convictions against a number of persons who are under investigation by the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT).
http://www.suntci.com/
JA Civil Society Coalition against Shahine Robinson’s appointment
The Coalition wrote to Prime Minister Holness on Wednesday stating that his decision to appoint Mrs. Robinson flies in the face of transparency and accountability in the political system.
Carol Narcisse, the Chairperson of the JCSC, told RJR News that Mrs. Robinson’s Cabinet promotion is not in keeping with the ideals set out by the Prime Minister in his inauguration speech on Sunday [October 23].
“An act of misrepresentation such as (what) has happened is counter to the level of integrity that we are expecting of our national leaders now and which Prime Minister Holness’ inaugural address suggested that he was going to make a hallmark of his leadership. We call for the Prime Minister to reflect always in his decision making on the expressions of commitment to good governance, which he made,” she said.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/ja-civil-society-coalition-against-shahine-robinson’s-appointment
The saga continues…
Currently in U.S Federal Court Case No.(6:10-cr-232-Orl-35-DAB) the Provisional Liquidator of TCI FX Traders Limited (Mr. Connolly) is asking for $1,662,715,50 held at FXCM in the U.S.
Mr. Connolly has submitted TCI Court documents(Case No. 12/10) indicating that Olint TCI is stilled owed $4,612,248.50 from TCI FX Traders Limited but the ruling from the TCI Courts said they will not fix what is still due to bad accounting from Star Management and I Trade FX and the agreement on the check.
Also in the TCI court document goes into detail on the TCI-FSC (Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission) facilitation of an Olint-TCI and TCI FX Traders Limited transaction.
In the Don Dowe Case…
A State of Florida, Broward County Case 09057623 filed October 22, 2009 has USIMO, Issa, David Smith, MZ Holdings Limited, Cool Card, Hallmark Bank and Trust Limited, Turks and Caicos Islands FSC Butterfield Bank, et. al. as Defendants.
Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission(TC-FSC) filed a response with an affidavit contray to TCI case no. 12/10
This case was moved into U.S Court (Case No. 0:10-cv-61518-CMA) approx. 200 pages by Butterfield Bank. Butterfield Bank has not responded to the complaint but did file that they are owned by The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited, a publicly listed company in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Issa responded and state the following: MZ Holdings, Ltd is a limited-liability company under Jamaica, MZ Holdings, Ltd parent corporation is Cool Corp. Ltd. which owns 10% or more of MZ Holdings, Ltd. stock, and Cool Card is a DBA for MZ Holdings, Ltd.
Two federal judges recused themselves from the case. The case was voluntary dismissed with prejudice against MZ Holdings, Ltd, and Cool Card on October 7, 2010.
A State of Florida, Broward County Case 09057623 was amended on August 9, 2011.
Also in the TCI court document goes into detail on the TCI-FSC (Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission) facilitation of an Olint-TCI and TCI FX Traders Limited transactions.
Mr. Connolly has submitted TCI Court documents(Case No. 12/10) indicating that Olint TCI is stilled owed $4,612,248.50 from TCI FX Traders Limited but the ruling from the TCI Courts said they will not fix what is still due due to bad accounting from Star Management and I Trade FX and the agreement on the check.
The desert has certainly heated up for a particular individual and it is about to get even hotter. What JI has really done is not Cool at all.
Click to access Dowe_v_Issa_2_USA.pdf
Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission(TC-FSC) filed a response with an affidavit contrary to TCI case no. 12/10
Elections prep finally underway
DEFINITIVE preparations are finally underway to get the TCI ready for elections slated for next fall.
http://tcweeklynews.com/elections-prep-finally-underway-p2503-1.htm
Hmm.
England I will say just this. Your own “sustenance” itself depends on polls. Neat little point to remember.
“Big Bwoys” told some people “everything was under control” in Jamaica (some still do) …they bought that cheap bait.
Shark DUNG DEH!
“With it [BELONGERSHIP] I’ll be a British Citizen.”
15000 + Jamaicans robbed…….
Shark Dung Deh..
THE POLICE High Command has put the men and women of the Jamaica Constabulary Force into the starting blocks for a possible general election even before Prime Minister Andrew Holness names the date.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111029/lead/lead32.html
GLEANER EDITORIAL – Rebuild Trust In DPP’s Office
Saturday, 29th October 2011.
An effective criminal prosecution system that is independent, efficient and fair is one of the hallmarks of a healthy democracy. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is charged with the responsibility of conducting prosecution of indictable offences under Jamaican law and is seen as the defender of the public good.
Public officials find themselves in a special place from the ordinary man in the street. When public officials commit crimes, they violate the oath of office as well as the public trust placed in them.
Baccra is the new Master? After all the struggle?
2011? 2011? WAR AGAINST OUR DIASPORA INITIATED OUT OF KINGSTON!!!
KINGSTON??
Miss Lou? “Not a joyful news miss Mattie…”
Issue: Robinson Appointment Shows Poor Judgement
THE EDITOR, Sir:
The inauguration speech of Prime Minister Andrew Holness suggested that he was on a new path of integrity and a departure from the past.
In fact, his popularity has been based on the optimistic expectation of quite a few Jamaicans that we witness a new beginning in our politics. His promotion and retention in the Cabinet of Shahine Robinson signals his lack of understanding of the wishes of the people.
Ms Robinson relied on falsehood when she contested the case brought against her in the Supreme Court. She had to, as it were, surrender when the searchlight of her opponents exposed the fact that she misled the court and indeed the entire country and has been duly punished with having to pay millions of dollars in damages.
All the above was well known to Prime Minister Holness, yet she has been promoted in the Cabinet! We demand a valid explanation, Mr Prime Minister, for this decision so early in your stewardship begs the question: Are you really prepared to be new and different or an echo from the past?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/cartoon/
The explanation given to this newspaper by the DPP, Ms Paula Llewellyn, that the police have yet to furnish her office with “certain things” is totally unacceptable and requires fuller explanation from the country’s chief law-enforcement officer. Let us not forget that the British bridge-building company, Mabey & Johnson, pleaded guilty in 2009 to bribing public officials in Jamaica between 1993 and 2001 in order to secure government contracts.
Mabey cooperated with the Serious Fraud Office in England, and no doubt there are piles of evidence collected in this case. So why has there been no action for several months?
The Hibbert case apart, the Office of the DPP has come in for immense public attention – from public squabbles with the INDECOM head to a resident magistrate, and the twists and turns in the never-ending case involving Member of Parliament Kern Spencer. The contractor general has repeatedly blamed the backlog-plagued DPP’s office of handicapping the war against corruption.
While the independence of the Office of the DPP is a safeguard against corruption and interference in the administration of duties, the approach to the job and the application of these awesome powers must be subject to checks and balances. The Opposition’s call for the DPP to subject itself to the scrutiny of a parliamentary oversight committee is an idea that deserves serious consideration in light of all that has happened in that office in recent times. The idea has been shrugged off with self-righteous indignation, but that position should not be allowed to stand.
At Left: Master of the Hope Lodge, Joseph Smith (second left) and his wife Evelyn (left) enjoy a moment of light-hearted laughter with former sprint queen, Deon Hemmings McCatty (second right) and her husband Michael at the Hope Lodge installation on Saturday night. At Right: Ladies of Hope from left – Resident Magistrate for the Savanna-la-Mar court, Alayne Wallace; Susan Hammond, Dacia Dhanpaul, Charlotte Wallace and Evelyn Smith, acting general manager of Point Village Negril, admire the special token given to them by senior warden of the Hope Lodge, Joseph Smith. – PHOTOS BY JANET SILVERA
WESTERN BUREAU:
TWO MONTHS ago acting general manager of Point Village Resort in Negril, Evelyn Smith commenced lessons in learning the words ‘My Worshipful’. Last Saturday night she accomplished the phrase with the word: ‘Master’.
Her husband Joseph, after being installed as Master of the 105-year-old Hope Lodge of Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, with a huge smile on his face, stood diligently as his wife repeated the phrase.
Throughout an evening oversubscribed by Freemasons who chanted high and low notes with equal gusto, the interesting cast of characters made going to the dinner theatre seem unimportant.
MEN IN BLACK
Dressed to the nines in black suits, they were dead ringers for the cast of the movie ‘Men in Black’, the only accessory missing were the dark shades.
Savanna-la-Mar was playing host to some of the island’s most handsome married men who had journeyed from as far as Kingston to the western parish to support the young master. In fact, with the oversubscription, many members of Hope Lodge had to give up their seats.
It was an evening filled with an exciting and long list of toasts including: to the Queen, the Craft, the Most Worshipful Grand Master, Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland and Jamaica, District Grand Officers and the Ladies of Hope. However, the highlight was Evelyn Smith’s toast to her husband.
“Freemasonry is, and I should hope that I am reliably informed, strive to make good men better. It is a tradition that has survived for centuries and yet is often given a bad rap and is misunderstood in society,” said Mrs. Smith.
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
Report to Financial Services Commission – Hallmark/Olint TCI
September 25th 2008
“A further US$2.5 M was paid to a Joseph Smith, who does not appear to be a club member, but could be a related party. There are other significant amounts which may have been paid to Smith (Joseph) but it would require more detailed information to confirm this.”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=841
“Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Christopher Bovell, denied that Olint…”
“Christopher Bovell denied claims that the JLP received USD 5 million …”
“…the direct recipients will be ANFREW HOLNESS, Andrew Gallimore, Chris Tufton, Joe Hibert and one to be named. …”
Evelyn Smith Elected As JHTA Head
Degenius68 5 months ago
congrats Ms smith…..know you are good from Lido days!!!!!!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110530/lead/lead7.html
Vaz Talks Tough
Published: Sunday | October 30, 2011
Vaz, assigned responsibility for telecommunications and public-sector efficiency in the Office of the Prime Minister, claims that Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given him carte blanche to combat the perennial problems in government ministries.
The former information minister stressed that, as such, he would not be required to seek the permission any minister to do his work. “What this has done for me, by virtue of the prime minister’s publicly indicating that I can cross all ministries, is that there can’t be any discomfort on any issue with my colleagues in terms of interventions,” he stressed.
From: Daryl Vaz (shalimar@kasnet.com)
To: David Smith CC Wayne Doope
7/6/2007
Further to our meeting last night, I need the following:-
1) On announcement , need the balance for party central.
2) Complete breakdown of candidate support list and amounts proposed.
3) Helicopter (estimated to be US15,000 to 20,000
4) Requesting US$50,000 for Portland East and West and reminding you to speak to man in Negril (JOSEPH SMITH) in relation to information regarding candidate support and possible meeting.
Once again, thanks again for everything and look forward to hearing from you on the above mentioned matters.
Daryl.
“A further US$2.5 M was paid to a Joseph Smith, who does not appear to be a club member, but could be a related party.”
Chalmers & Co.
Barristers & Attorneys
Turks & Caicos Islands
17th September 2010-09-17
Patterson Mair Hamilton
7th Floor Citigroup Building
63-67 Knutsford Boulevard
Kingston 5
Jamaica
Attn: Trevor Patterson
Via telefax No. 1876-920-0244 and By Fedex (to the above address)
Re: PAYMENT OF US$500,000.00 BY SANDALS GROUP
We refer to your letter dated August 18th, 2010. Needless to say we disagree with your characterisation of events leading up to your correspondence in its entirety.
Your correspondence portrays confusion at best as nowhere in our letter dated June 18th 2010 by implication or otherwise did we state that the above mentioned donation was NOT a political contribution and we challenge you or anyone else to prove the contrary. Whether, your client admits it or not everyone in the Sandals/Beaches Group hierarchy knew or ought to have known of such a significant donations.
Let us be very clear with you as we have been with Dr. Payne when he visited our office on the 20th May 2010. The US$500,000.00 which we received on behalf of our client was a political contribution given by your clients to assist with funding the re-election campaign of the PNP government. When Dr. Payne came to our office, he was advised of this and we referred him to our client by name and told him that with our client consent specifics of how the funds were disperse from our office could and would be released to him. Surely as an attorney yourself you should be aware that we operate on instructions, we were told by our client that no such request for the release of such information was ever made of him by Dr. Payne or anyone else from the Sandals/Beaches Group of Companies; that being the case the assertion that your make in paragraph 2 of your letter is shameful speculation and completely discredited. Surely. Dr. Payne would not and cannot in good conscientious say that our office was unhelpful as we provided him with the dates and amounts of the payments received into our client account, that same information was utilised by Misick & Stanbrook in their letter dated June 16th 2010 addressed to ourselves.
It is denied that neither the Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart, chairman of the group nor any other senior officers did not have knowledge of or authorized the transfer of the funds to us on behalf of our client. Your clients are well aware of the political contributions when it was made and how it was made. Certainly, it can not now be your argument the US$500,000 was transferred in three instalments from your client’s bank into our client account without the knowledge
of Hon Gordon “Butch” Stewart, Chairman or anyone else in senior management at Sandals/Beaches Group you surely cannot be arguing that out of the blue US$500,000.00 was wrongly deposited to our client account.
We cannot fathom the reason your client is now trying to suggest that it did not knowingly give the political contribution to our client but we can assure your client that any assertion or suggestion of wrong doing by our client’s part will be vigorously defended to the fullest extent of the Law.
Yours Sincerely,
Chalmers & Co.
T. Chal Misick
cc. Misick & Stanbrook
Michael Misick – Former Leader of the PNP
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=553
Winner takes it all? the loser will stand Small?
Building me a home… thinking I belonged there…but I was a fool…playing by the rules?
The judges will decide….You’ve come to shake my hand…seeing me so tense….no self confidence…
apologise…cold as ice…rules must be obeyed…
money money money
“We cannot fathom the reason your client is now trying to suggest that it did not knowingly give the political contribution to our client but we can assure your client that any assertion or suggestion of wrong doing by our client’s part will be vigorously defended to the fullest extent of the Law.”
Llewellyn Fires Back
“There is no evidential basis to support that criticism because when one looks at the fact, it is quite clear that the normal high standard of professionalism that we use in all the MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) matters that we processed and for which we have been internationally commended was also used,”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111031/lead/lead6.html
Step Aside Now
The selection of acting CEO of Caymanas Track Limited (CTL), Camile Buchanan, to represent the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in the next general election is in violation of the Public Services Regulations, the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) has charged.
Joining the debate over reports that Commissioner of Customs Danville Walker and executive director of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA), Joan Gordon-Webley, were also planning to represent the JLP, the JCSA, through its president, Oneil Grant, said the regulations and the Staff Orders for public servants are “very, very clear”.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111031/lead/lead1.html
EDITORIAL – It’s Gone Badly Wrong At DPP’s Office
Something is badly amiss in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Several months ago, the DPP told the Jamaican public that her office had dispatched to the relevant agencies in Great Britain a request for evidence to advance a claim of corruption against a governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) parliamentarian and former junior minister, Mr Joseph Hibbert.
Recall: Mabey & Johnson pleaded guilty to corruption, conceded that it bribed Mr Hibbert, and undertook to reimburse payments to Jamaica. To be fair, Mr Hibbert denies the allegations against him.
So now, Ms Llewellyn has revealed that the request to the British authorities for the information on Mr Hibbert is yet to leave her office. The excuse of the DPP: “certain information” required by her office, to “lay the basis in law” for the request under MLAT, has not been provided by the police.
Apparently, neither the DPP nor any of her deputies or other senior officials in that agency was aware of this lapse and that the request was still lodged, perhaps in a weathered file jacket, on foolscap paper with a one-third margin, somewhere in their offices. Meanwhile, Ms Llewellyn points an accusatory finger at the police who, despite recent improvements, would make no great claim to efficiency. Yet, the handling of the Hibbert affair is no poster for competence on the part of the Office of the DPP.
Corruption crisis
Indeed, Ms Llewellyn would hardly complain, we expect, if the Hibbert matter was represented as a metaphor for the operation of her office. It appears to lacks the energy to robustly prosecute corruption, which, according to Mr Greg Christie, the contractor general, has reached “disproportionate, if not crisis, levels in Jamaica”.
In a recent speech in New York, Mr Christie noted that his office, based on its investigations, had in three years made 40 referrals to the DPP, but that “not one has been brought before the courts to test its judicial efficiency”.
The Prime Minister disclosed that he met with a major investor on Sunday who indicated that he would proceed with setting up business in Jamaica only after the elections are held.
The investor reportedly urged the Prime Minister not to delay the polls and to call it as quickly as possible.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/politics/pm-hints-early-general-elections
“The investor reportedly urged the Prime Minister not to delay the polls and to call it as quickly as possible.”
1. “Investor” local or foreign?
2. “Investor” What is their view on the clear IMF uncertainty and other macro indicators?
3. “Investor” Reason for investing? Motive?
4. “Investor” Who wants to sway a PM on an election decision? Public Policy experience? – We have had enough of David Smith types.
5. “Investor” Why is an election needed to invest? What bearing does that have?
6. “Investor” Why not enthuse the public? Why not a press release?
“Two (unnamed) diplomats told me”
“Investor” Jamaica needs a new day. Private urging of Jamaica’s PM…the people have had enough.
We do not need a PM easily fooled or swayed on hype.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
In lowering its outlook on the Caribbean island to negative from stable, S&P also noted that domestic politics are shifting. It said Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s recent resignation opens the possibility for early elections and a change in administration.
The firm also noted Jamaica’s standby agreement with the International Monetary Fund has halted.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111031-715899.html
The contractor general has written Prime Minister Andrew Holness in an attempt to initiate talks regarding the concerns of the Office of the Contractor General, and the pervasive perception of corruption in public contracting in Jamaica.
Contractor General Greg Christie has asserted that several of his office’s recommendations to address the problem have been ignored.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=32881
OLINT Number 11000595 Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon Andrew Holness 10-Apr-07 $93,578.51
Reflected in your taxes PM? But I not seeing it? Yes I have that too…
Lies, damned lies and News International
Emails show that company knew three years ago of widespread culture of hacking among senior journalists
Secret internal documents kept by News International reveal that executives knew three years ago that there was “overwhelming” evidence of senior journalists’ involvement in phone hacking. A cache of new documents – company legal letters, briefing papers, and notes from telephone conversations – shows the private thoughts of the controlling core of executives.
They provide devastating evidence of their fear of the fallout from hacking, and the efforts they made to keep any evidence away from public examination. Even as the company publicly denied that voicemail interception had spread beyond a single “rogue reporter”, the company’s senior legal advisers were warning in 2008 of the weight of evidence showing that their long-standing defence against hacking was “fatally” damaged and their situation was commercially “perilous”.
The documents heap pressure on the already embattled News Corp European chairman, James Murdoch, who had been the presumed heir to his father’s global media empire. With his credibility now on the line, Mr Murdoch will be questioned by MPs next Thursday about how his account of the phone-hacking scandal differs to those given by his key lieutenants and lawyers – specifically about when, and how much, he knew about the internal hacking culture at the News of the World.
Internal investigations into three NOTW journalists are also listed. NI has previously said independent examination of the company’s journalistic practices revealed nothing illegal. There is also mention of “James” [Murdoch] potentially advising that the “cancer” should be “cut out”.
“NGN must be vicariously liable for the conducts of its employees unless they were acting on a frolic of their own”. He further states that, if the Taylor case is “paraded at a public trial”, this will be “extremely damaging to NGN’s reputation”.
A settlement of £725,000 was eventually reached.
He is appearing in front of the Select Committee on 10 November and will be happy to answer any further questions then”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lies-damned-lies-and-news-international-6255895.html
Media…Media
What a low settlement ehh Smitty?
EDITORIAL – S&P And Jamaica’s Economic Crisis
Jamaica is in the junk bond category. More worryingly, S&P told investors that its outlook on Jamaica is now negative, rather than stable.
The more immediate consequence of this is that, perchance Jamaica were to go to the market to raise debt, lenders would demand higher rates.
Moreover, what the selective default of 2010 offered was breathing space, not dissipation of an obligation. The crisis will worsen if nothing is done.
It is time, as Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared, to stop running away and face reality.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
He told the enthusiastic Labourites that earlier on Sunday, he and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett met with a major investor who indicated that he was willing to set up business in the country after the elections are held.
The investor, he added, wanted to know that he was at the helm of the country before making his investment.
“During the meeting the investor said ‘Prime minister I want to invest in your country; I have some investment pending, but I want to know that after the elections you still will be the prime minister’,” Holness said.
Added Holness: “He said prime minister ‘I am very anxious and I believe that you should call the elections as soon as possible because of the vision that you have for the country; investors are waiting to come into your country and I want to do business in your country. I am sure that in doing business I will create employment, so call the election and get it over with’.”
Holness told the gathering that he believes that the electorate is expressing similar sentiments to that of the investor, “so let’s get it over with; let’s get on with the business.”
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Holness-ready-to-get-it-over-with_10054223#ixzz1cXaMiBJp
“He told the enthusiastic Labourites that earlier on Sunday, he and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett met with a major investor…”
4NX Ponzi
Bartlett, Edmund or Carmen Miramar Florida Account number 10005072 $986,945.27
Olint
OLINT Number 11000595 Prime Minister of Jamaica, Hon Andrew Holness 10-Apr-07 $93,578.51
Sounds like another David Smith et al CON MAN scheme.
Why can’t the “so called invest only if JLP is in power investor” be named if they are so adamant in their stance?
Jamaica does not need anymore behind the scenes David Smith/Olint political manipulation.
Especially from known ponzi operatives.
Bartlett and Holness do…same old? No change? Do Jamaica a favor and step down.
Did you get paid your investments back while the non connected citizen remains out of their money? And Minister…Bartlett your accounting looks like more was drawn than was put in…
FSC “Don’t you think you should warn Jamaica about talk of phantom investor who will talk to politicians but not with the people of Jamaica?”
So the jamaican people are so fool-fool to believe Minister Edmund Bartlett about phantom investor coming to Jamaica (contingent of a JLP win at the polls)
Yet Bartlett who “invests” in Miramar does not say if he has told phantom investor that.?????
Not even going to speak to “Australian Model” today because IMF says NO MORE BORROWING – no even for capital equipment for “waterfront expansion.”
From : Audley Shaw[mailto:fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com]
Sent : 11/11/2006 11:01:13 AM
To : dsmith@kasnet.com
Cc :
Subject : RE: fx trading
“A friend of mine is keen on investing and would like to talk with you or better yet, he wants to meet with you if possible. He has asked me
to fly over with him to see you when it is convenient to you.”
“He [Holness] told the enthusiastic Labourites that earlier on Sunday, he and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett met with a major investor…”
Same old Rubbish PM Holness?….
Getting rid of all discredited political candidates
The annual financial disclosure requirements for MPs must be filed and updated.
Anyone, including an MP, who is currently facing criminal charges cannot be a candidate until they are exonerated. The same applies to persons under active investigation by a foreign government or international organisation.
Any person aspiring to be a candidate must be able to explain publicly why any foreign government has withdrawn their visa.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Getting-rid-of-all-discredited-political-candidates_10072489
Bruce Golding (where to start? First he claims it is no crime to be associated with gunmen while President of the NDM in 1999; defends Tivoli in just about every public forum including to an international audience on HardTalk while at the same time claiming that the people of Tivoli are all innocent and that he wants to clean up garrisons (at the same time as promoting Tivoli as a model by the way); inserts himself into a extradition request for which he has no business as he was neither Coke’s lawyer, a judge nor the Attorney-General and “sanctions” an initiative to deceive US officials by hiring a law firm to lobby for the extradition request to be dropped (and in the process definitely violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act of the US (under the act it is illegal to lobby on the behalf of a person wanted for crimes if I’m not mistaken) as well as some other laws probably (wilfully deceiving US authorities, attempting to obstruct justice, misrepresentation towards Manatt as being the government but apparently really going to them in the capacity of the JLP..); knowingly allowing at least 3 members of his own party to violate the constitution in order to win and so that the government wouldn’t fall (even though in 2007 had he placed others who could have been properly qualified or just put his foot down and made sure they were all qualified he would probably still have won as the idea of it being time for a change in government resonated with enough people that the JLP always stood a better chance than the PNP of winning then) while at the same time claiming to defend constitutional rights and so forth, sanctioning illegality in order to reveal Trafigura (for those who don’t know it was only revealed as a result of a bank employee violating banking laws and the JLP encouraging it); tacitly supporting criminality from his own constituents when they barricaded roads for the Dudus in clear violation of the laws governing freedom of movement and public thoroughfares).
Melasante Daley
11/2/2011
I have a problem with Holness statement that the investor will only invest in Jamaica, only if him Holness is PM. If Holness has any loyalty to Jamaica, why wouldn’t he tell the investor that Jamaica is bigger than him, and therefore, his decision should not be made on his account? I get it that Holness wants to look good and justify calling an early election. But shouldn’t his decision to call early electio be based on what’s best for the country over a single foreign investors demand?
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Holness-ready-to-get-it-over-with_10054223#ixzz1catlsDX0
OCG Widens West Parade Probe
The Office of Contractor General (OCG) has widened its probe into the sale of 35 West Parade in downtown Kingston, Jamaica by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC).
The OCG made the decision after learning that the UDC had not disclosed all the offers it got for the building.
The OCG began its probe after lawyers, representing businessman Michael Mahfood, wrote to the OCG explaining that their client has occupied the building for approximately 30 years, but was not allowed to purchase it despite several offers.
Mahfood said he was surprised to learn recently that the building had been sold to Bashco Limited, as his offers had been refused on the basis that the land was required for road widening.
However, the OCG said it has now received correspondence from another law firm representing Fifth Avenue Traders Limited, which is also a tenant on the property.
The law firm claimed its client also made several offers to buy the property.
The last offer was reportedly made in August when it proposed to pay $32 million for the property, which is higher than the $31.4 million dollars the UDC reportedly received from Bashco.
The OCG said the UDC failed to disclose the fact that there was at least one other tenant in the premises who had made recent offers or proposals to purchase the property.
The OCG noted that this failure is in spite of several correspondences received from the UDC in response to questions about the sale.
The UDC board has conceded that the sale breached procurement rules and said it would take steps to end the sale agreement and have the property advertised.
However, head of Bascho, Gassan Azan, has vowed to fight attempts to end the agreement.
The controversy surrounding the sale of the West Parade property has led to the indefinite suspension of Joy Douglas as general manager.
Meanwhile, UDC chairman, Wayne Chen, said it was only two weeks ago that the board of the corporation became aware of the offer from Fifth Avenue Traders.
He also said he welcomes the contractor general’s probe into the UDC.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=861#861
SANDALS: ‘NOTHING TO HIDE’ OVER US PROBE
SANDALS “has nothing to hide” in relation to a US investigation into its Turks & Caicos operations, confirmation of the probe coming in a lawsuit alleging some $1.65 million of the resort chain’s funds were improperly transferred through the Bahamas for the seeming benefit of disgraced former premier, Michael Missick.
Dr Pyne claimed the Bahamian action initiated against him resulted “from an investigation being carried out by the US authorities in respect of whether Sandals or Mr Stewart made political contributions to Michael Missick.
“Based on the same, Mr Stewart has wrongfully sought to allege that I, in my capacity as managing director of Gorstew, forwarded the funds to Michael Missick without Mr Sewart’s approval or instructions.
“It is correct to state that there is an investigation ongoing by the United States authorities into Sandals’ affairs in the Turks & Caicos,” Mr Singh conceded.
He admitted that Sandals had in the past made a political contribution to Mr Missick’s party, the Progressive National Party, but said these transfers were unauthorised.
A November 2009 meeting at Prestigious Properties, involving the investigating team, two Missick brothers and Dr Pyne was held. Mr Singh alleged the Sandals executives were told “that the funds in question had not in fact been used to purchase property for Sandals, but had been used to pay off Michael’s (Missick) personal expenses.”
Hand-written notes attached to the Prestigious Properties accounts indicated the $1 million was used to pay items such as Michael Missick’s credit card bill, plus “parental support and gifts” to Jacqueline Lightbourne, believed to be the mother of some of the former premier’s children.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=859#859
Michael Misick rape case- the “victim” may have been involved in a Menage
Vanessa states that after a little girl talk, Cynthia suggested they get naked. She notes here that fellow partiers Mike Pernod and Andrew Ashcroft walked by the pool at one point and saw them but left after saying hello.
Vanessa states that Cynthia then surprised her with a kiss on the lips. And that they then proceeded to engage in lesbian sex acts that went on for a long time.
At this point, she claims that their menage-a-trois involved her having sexual contact even while Cynthia was having sexual intercourse with the Premier.
Ashcroft drove her to her hotel at Nikki Beach
(Incidentally, I have omitted the more pornographic parts of her statement in the interest of public decency.)
http://cdn.mediatakeout.com/26388/salacious-details-emerge-in-the-michael-misick-turks-caicos-investigation-the-victim-may-have-been-involved-in-a-menage.html
MISICK & STANBROOK
Barristers and Attorneys
June 16th, 2010
T. Chal Misick Esq.
Chalmers & Co.
Attorney’s at Law
Suite A1, Windsor Place
Leeward Highway
Providenciales
Via Delivery
Dear Chal,
RE: POLITICAL DONATIONS
We act for Sandals Resorts.
Can you please confirm with us that you acted for the Progressive National Party, (“the PNP”) one of the two (2) political parties in the Turks and Caicos Islands around March 2006.
It is our understanding that our client made US$500,000.00 in donations to the PNP. These monies were sent via wire transfer to your firm as follows:
1. US$200,000.00 on March 2nd, 2006;
2. US$150,000.00 on March 9th, 2006;
3. US$150,000.00 0n March 27th, 2006.
We will be grateful if you can confirm receipt of the funds and how the funds were disburse providing dates and the identity of the payee. Please also confirm the person or persons on whose instruction you made the payment.
This is a matter of urgency and your immediate attention to this matter is appreciated.
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Yours Sincereley,
MISICK & STANBROOK
Jahmal Misick
US government investigating diversion of funds to TCI
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/headline-US-government-investigating-diversion-of-funds-to-TCI-4991.html
A Sun journalist has been arrested as part of Scotland Yard’s investigation into alleged payments to police officers by newspapers.
Operation Evelyn is one of three Met investigations relating to alleged illegal activities by newspapers. The others are Operation Weeting and Operation Tuleta, set up to examine phone hacking and computer hacking, respectively.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/04/phone-hacking-arrested-sun-journalist
i. Defendant was Acting within the Scope of his Employment
Here, Defendant was acting within the scope of his employment while he was operating his scheme to defraud. Defendant’s role with TCI FX Traders was to set up, maintain, and run the trading activities of its investors. As part of his duties and as part of his scheme to defraud, Defendant solicited and caused others to solicit prospective clients to open trading accounts at TCI FX Traders based upon, among other things, his promise to use investors’ funds to engage in Forex trading and representations that by investing in Forex trading through him TCI FX Traders investors could expect a high return on their investment each month, with only twenty percent of their investment at risk. However, in actuality and as part of the scheme, Defendant made, and caused others to make, false representations concerning his investment strategies to clients and prospective clients, created fraudulent trading statements and advised potential andcurrent investors, and others, that he had never suffered a loss during a single trading period and had always experienced gains.
ii. Defendant Intended to Benefit not only Himself but TCI FX Traders
Defendant admittedly made false representations in order to induce new and continued investments by clients and prospective clients. By making these false representations, Defendant benefitted not only himself, but TCI FX Traders. To be sure, Defendant used corporate funds to purchase a $2 million residence and other property in Providenciales, TCI and elsewhere; make a down payment for the purchase of a Lear jet; pay for frequent travel on the jet; host guests while paying all their expenses at hotels and restaurants; sponsor a Jazz Festival in Jamaica; purchase expensive vehicles for himself and others; purchase jewelry for himself and others; purchase expensive vacations in the Caribbean and the United States; make political contributions; and gamble at casinos.
iii. The Innocent Owner Defense does Not Apply when a Corporation has been Established to Serve an Employee’s Illicit Activities
More specifically, an employee’s knowledge of illicit conduct can be imputed to a corporation upon a showing that the “corporation was merely a ‘sham’ corporation, designed solely to protect an individual’s illicit activities.”
Defendant used TCI FX Traders solely to protect his illicit activities. While from the outside TCI FX Traders appeared to be a legitimate investment company, as discussed more fully above, it was nothing more than a sham company, designed to facilitate Defendant’s scheme to defraud. TCI FX Traders was not separate and apart from the illegal activity, but an integral part of the illegal activity, that conducted no legitimate business because it was a fraud. But for TCI FX Traders, Defendant would not have had a platform to take money from investors and use it for his own personal benefit. Moreover, both the corporation and Defendant benefitted from Defendant’s scheme to defraud. Consequently, TCI FX Traders was a sham corporation and Defendant’s knowledge of the fraud is properly imputed to it.
Commiserations again…will they sue you now John Wildish? Life is like a lottery sometimes…
tu auras plus de chance la prochaine fois!
Go back to Turks from Jamaica. Campaigning? But Trowbridge advised Sling and Doope about the campaigning frolic buck in 2007.
Proverbs Ch1, 10-33
10: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
11: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
12: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
13: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
14: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18: And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
19: So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20: Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
22: How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24: Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27: When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31: Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
32: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
SIPT make arrest
A FORTY-seven-year-old man was arrested on corruption charges in Providenciales on Wednesday.
The unnamed accused – believed to be a high profile member of the former ousted government – was taken in by police as the sluggish pace of the Helen Garlick-led investigations finally appeared to be gathering pace.
http://tcweeklynews.com/sipt-make-arrest-p2510-1.htm
Danville Says Audley Got Him Into Politics
The outgoing commissioner of customs Danville Walker has revealed that he was invited to enter representation politics by the finance minister Audley Shaw.
A former director of election, Mr Walker was forced to demit that office in May 2008, because he was a dual citizen.
Under Jamaica’s Representation of the People Act, Mr Walker should not have been the director of elections being he held dual nationality.
To: David Smith
From: Audley Shaw (fitzalbert_2@ yahoo.com)
7/30/07
David, as promised, I’m sending you the JLP Manifesto for 2007. Thanks for everything including your companionship yesterday. Regards and compliments. Audley.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853
The CIA is watching you!
US agency follows five million people daily on Twitter, Facebook
At the agency’s Open Source Centre, a team known affectionately as the “vengeful librarians” also pores over Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms — anything overseas that anyone can access and contribute to openly.
While most are based in Virginia, the analysts also are scattered throughout US embassies worldwide to get a step closer to the pulse of their subjects.
The most successful analysts, Naquin said, are something like the heroine of the crime novel “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”, a quirky, irreverent computer hacker who “knows how to find stuff other people don’t know exists”.
Those with a master’s degree in library science and multiple languages, especially those who grew up speaking another language, “make a powerful open source officer”, Naquin said.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/The-CIA-is-watching-you-_10098645#ixzz1cp6WEKCz
Global recession grows closer as G20 summit fails
Admitting that he had been given a crash course in European politics, Obama urged Greek and Italian parliaments to take decisive action to control their deficits and combat what he described as some of the psychological origins of the crisis.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/04/global-recession-g20-summit
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express our thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
Office of the Prime Minister
Jamaica House Kingston
21st November 2008
Dear Sir,
I refer to your letter of November 21, 2008
I suggest that you focus your energies on tendering appropriate legal advice to your client.
Yours sincerely,
Bruce Golding
[Worry about your ” ” wire transfer son son…]
Close confidants of David and large Olint investors have called me and told me to leave David alone, I am hurting him, even some of my friends who know David Smith have warned me to be careful, thy have asked me why am I pushing the matter, why am I seeking he truth, why am i talking to the authorities about David Smith. On Friday 19th September 2008 about 7:30 p.m, I received a phone call from David Smith in the presence of my wife Carol Wildish, he said to me, “John Wildish may you burn in hell forever”, he then disconnected.
I have also received numerous phone calls from his associates and investors of Olint saying that my search for the truth is causing David so much troubles that he cannot pay Olint investors back. Some of these people are JUDY JONES from Providenciales and SALEEM LAZARUS from Jamaica.
My response to this and to them and everybody else has been that, one cannot be afraid of the truth, and that the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force and the US Department of Justice are simply agents of the truth and need help and co-operation from all involved. SALEEM LAZARUS, a Jamaican national who invested a lot of money in Olint told me that he cannot believe that I would tell people to go to the authorities and tell them the truth.
From the affidavit of John Wildish
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=861
News International hired a former police officer trained in surveillance by MI5 to follow two lawyers bringing phone hacking cases against the News of the World, it emerged last night.
Derek Webb, a covert operations expert who ran a private investigations company called Silent Shadow, said he was paid by the NOTW to carry out surveillance on Mark Lewis and Charlotte Harris to gather information as part of an attempt to discredit them.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/news-international-admits-it-had-hacking-lawyers-followed-6258780.html
Last week the Turks and Caicos Islands were abuzz about the arrest and subsequent release on bail of a former minister of government in the previous Michael Misick administration. Though an arrest was confirmed, the individual was not named.
This week there were reports of two other high profile individuals being arrested.
It does appear that after 18 months of investigations special prosecutor Helen Garlick and her team members are approaching a point in time that will finally see many of the individuals who orchestrated the greatest crime spree in TCI history finally being brought to justice.
There is little value in naming names just at this time and potentially some risk in interfering with the investigation. As we look back a year from now, the names will be well known and the scope of the malfeasance will be more than clear.
However, for regular citizens and residents of the TCI as well as for policy makers here and in London struggling to right the ship of state, it is still vitally important to keep in mind a sense of the scope of the malfeasance that has taken place in the TCI during the decade 1999-2009.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/nov-10-2011-–-arrests-and-rumours-arrests-–-scope-malfeasance
SIPT comprises a group of British officials, led by renowned British Barrister, Helen Garlick, which was established to unravel a number of apparently fraudulent business transactions involving several property giants and five members of parliament in the former government, and bring criminal charges against them if warranted.
The persons associated with the SIPT probe are former Premier Michael Misick, his Deputy, Floyd Hall, former Environment Minister, McAllister Hanchell, former Health Minister, Lillian Boyce, and former Housing Minister, Jeffrey Hall.
Bribery and ‘lavish hospitality’ in return for favours are some of the allegations made against the parties involved.
His charge of bribery stem from an allegation that a gift of $150,000 was made by the Seven Stars developer to former Deputy Premier Floyd Hall the day before the 2007 general election. The prosecution claim the money was: “purportedly as a campaign donation but which the Hon. Floyd Hall paid into the business account of his company, Paradigm”.
Civre’s court appearance follows the November 03 arrest of a 47-year-old male former cabinet minister of the last government. Also, a 42-year-old female and former cabinet member was reportedly arrested on Monday, November 07.
Additionally, Weekly News has received unconfirmed reports that another senior female within the previous government was set to be arrested on Thursday, November 10.
It has been unofficially stated that a number of arrests of former officials and leading businesspersons – possibly as many as 20 – may be made within the next few days, with them all being dragged before the court next month.
http://tcweeklynews.com/sipt-takes-varet-jak-civre-to-court-p2511-1.htm
MF Global fires all 1,066 staff as trustees hunt for lost $600m
MF Global, US brokerage run by former Goldman Sachs boss Jon Corzine, fires 1,066 staff, while regulators search for funds that went missing before collapse
The move comes as the US justice department and financial regulators are conducting a search for the missing money. Regulators believe the funds went missing shortly before the broker’s collapse. This week MF Global’s regulator, the US commodities futures trading commission, announced that it had formally opened an investigation into the broker and had issued subpoenas to MF Global and its auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/11/mf-global-missing-600m-sacks-staff
As for coming to Mr. Civre’s defense; attorneys for associates of Michael Misick should impress emphatically upon Michael’s script writers that whenever Michael Misick comes to the defense of anyone, most independent observers take that as a sign of certain guilt.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/nov-12-2011-%E2%80%93-michael-misick%E2%80%99s-support-jak-civre-friends-these-who-needs-enemies
Mike Misick’s statement on Jak Civre’s charges
By Mike Misick
“In recent history, every single substantial investor both local and foreign has given political contributions to both parties and individual politicians to further their political aims. In the absence of campaign finance laws there is nothing illegal about campaign contributions.”
“Since Mr. Civre is charged everyone who has given political contributions should also be charged. It is wrong for the British governor and his persecutors to hand pick developers to charge for giving political contributions when all have given political contributions.”
Wait Misick a real JLP for sure “end justify the means.” A labourite was on t.v. speaking about a Christie investigation saying in defense,” for us it represents a small project on our books”
What does the relative size of the “investment” have to do with right or wrong Jak Civre?
Golding bows out of representational politics
Former Prime Minister, and outgoing Jamaica Labour Party leader, Bruce Golding, on Sunday officially announced that he will not be contesting the upcoming general election.
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express out thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. i hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
Forget the Murdoch family drama – media power needs checking
Beyond the soap opera of the News Corp succession, we must remember we got here because one group got too powerful
In the end President Nixon resigned. Which, of course, provided a useful bookend for the film All the President’s Men. One hesitates to state the obvious in a column purporting to offer insight, but without an ending there can be no movie.
The question, endlessly, is who will succeed Rupert Murdoch, and the issue won’t go away because the 80-year-old shows no signs of moving on.
At the moment we are not even clear what occurred on 10 June 2008 when three men met to talk about Gordon Taylor.
We got here, in part, because one media group became too powerful. That cannot be allowed to happen again, which is why a minimum outcome of the Leveson inquiry would be reform of Britain’s lax cross-media ownership laws. As the US constitution recognises, everyone needs to be kept in check.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/nov/13/murdoch-family-drama-media-power
With this in mind I would like to point out that much of the time Beaches hires and promotes from within. Herein lies the problem, many times those who Beaches promotes may be experts in finance, cooking, housekeeping, landscaping, book keeping and the likes. Yet these men and women of great ability and talent may have risen to great heights on merit and do not have a proper command of legal words and how the great British legal system functions.
So when legal matters arise these men who are experts in their respective fields appear to become confused and mixed up, this is I think what has happened with the latest matter your fine paper reported on. Dr. Pyne in his bean counting duties has probably made a ledger error and he and Beaches are now having beans trying to explain it to those in authority, as Dr. Pine probably does not have proper command of legal words and know how to deal with an ledger entry like this.
It is my belief that Dr. Pyne coming from Jamaica was not schooled in proper English and legal words like the Conductor was, and this is causing problems for our most dynamic and productive company.
In defense of Dr. Pine I would like to say, “Dr. Pyne probably does not know what the word “Honorariums” means, this is what the Conductor used when he had to pay off all and sundry to get our very expensive Hospital deal done, and as far as the record shows our Conductor used it to pay political lights, the AG’s office and many others with great effect and it is 100% legal, as the Governor signed this off himself.”
Dr. Pyne who as your fine publication has pointed out was in charge of counting beans down at Beaches obviously failed to put certain entry’s in the “Honorariums” column, probably because he did not know about “Honorarium entries” like our Conductor. I would encourage those who sit in judgment over us to examine the Beaches/Sandals books and if they fail to have a “Honorariums” column I would encourage them to show some mercy to Beaches bean counter Dr. Pyne, and this our most dynamic and productive company.
Sincerely,
William Black
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/nov-19-2011-–-letter-defense-beaches-and-dr-pyne
SIPT may have problems getting former Premier from the DR
By Vivian Tyson – SUN Senior Editor
If and when ex-premier Michael Misick is charged, the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) will have problems getting him here from the Dominican Republic to face the charges if he refuses to return, since the United Kingdom does not have an extradition treaty with that Caribbean nation.
This was revealed by a SIPT spokesperson who said its investigators are aware that Misick, who resigned as premier in 2009, after coming under pressure from members of his own cabinet and party, is currently living in the Dominican Republic.
The SUN was informed that before Christmas this year several other persons are expected to be charged, and it is speculated that the ex-premier could be one of them.
However, when pressed, the spokesperson would not confirm or deny that allegation, but said that some of the persons that the SIPT hopes to charge are outside of the jurisdiction at this time.
Asked to comment on how the SIPT was planning on bringing Misick back to the territory in the event that he refuses to return to answer to charges if and when they are laid against him, the spokesperson said that could be a challenge as a result of the current treaty position between the Dominican Republic and the United Kingdom.
The spokesperson did not say whether or not the UK was working to fix that problem. According to the SIPT source, while the Helen Garlick-led team of investigators had undertaken dozens of high profile cases, this is the most unique, since the investigation outcome will impact the entire country.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2129
Bradley Manning hearing date set as court martial process finally begins
Manning, accused of leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, to go to pre-trial – known as Article 32 hearing – in Maryland next month
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/21/bradley-manning-hearing-date-set
🙂 whazzup?
Cool Pertoleum now for sale. Potential buyer is a family-owned American Company. The buyer is close to completion of its due deligence on Cool Petroleum.
Has Mr. Joseph Issa informed the potential buyers about this pending case in Broward County Florida? You do not have to be a C.P.A. to determine that USD $20M is quite a liability!
Has Mr. Joseph Issa informed the potential buyer about the related Jamaica Supreme Court case?
Has the potential buyer completed its due deligence on Cool Petroleum and Joseph Issa?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111007/business/business2.html
Click to access Dowe_v_Issa_2_USA.pdf
If and when ex-premier Michael Misick is charged, the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) will have problems getting him here from the Dominican Republic to face the charges if he refuses to return, since the United Kingdom does not have an extradition treaty with that Caribbean nation.
However, the United Kingdom does have an extradiction treaty with Jamaica.
Keep your eyes on the Turks and Caicos Islands!
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2129
Stony Hill Red P? A you dat?
Read between this one:
On 22 December 1999, a letter appeared on the front page of Germany’s leading conservative daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It contained a searing attack on the country’s most highly regarded statesman, Helmut Kohl, recently retired chancellor and much-feted architect of reunification. Kohl, then mired in an ugly party funding scandal, had to be cut loose, the letter urged, as teenagers must jettison their parents to grow into adults.
“not made a single speech that stayed in the memory”. A moderator, not a leader; a tactician, not a strategist.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/22/is-angela-merkel-europes-problem
As for Kerr-Jarrett, she supports campaign financing, but believes that there ought to be a cap on spending.
“I am in favour of the cap on campaign declaration. My father (JLP treasurer Chris Bovell) is one of the biggest proponents of that and he is the one who is pushing it through from the private sector point.
“It’s a blessing in disguise for representatives. Some people will look at it as a hindrance, but it in fact protects you against any shady possibilities or the temptation to accept financing where you know that it’s not from a good source.
From: Christopher Bovell Christopher.
To David Smith
11/15/2006
Dear David,
Please do the cheque to Stock & Securities Ltd. and I will contact Wayne on Thursday to arrange collection or delivery.
Thanks again v. much for your help.
Best wishes, Chris B.
Yours sincerely
Christopher Bovell
DunnCox
48 Duke Street
Kingston
Jamaica, W.I.
Tel.: (876)922-1500
Fax.: (876)922-9002
Reform party funding or politics will sink in sleaze, says watchdog
Sir Christopher said: “The issue of party funding cannot be shelved until the next scandal brings it to the fore. For as long as the system remains as open to corruption as the present arrangements, the possibility of another scandal will remain.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-party-funding-or-politics-will-sink-in-sleaze-says-watchdog-6266359.html
‘Tell Us Who Pays’
With concerns lingering that money from criminal elements could get into the hands of politicians to finance their election campaigns, and fears about the influence that some financial backers of political parties could have on the governance of the country, most Jamaicans want to know who is paying the piper.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111124/lead/lead1.html
“The poll result shows the mature thinking of Jamaicans and the recognition that the people need to know who pays the piper so they can look out for who is calling the tune,” said Professor Trevor Munroe, executive director of the National Integrity Action Forum.
“It is known that over the years money from criminal sources and powerful special interests has entered the political stream and these persons give themselves an advantage over the national interest,” added Munroe.
From: Shalimar (shalimar@kasnet.com)
To: David Smith
6/27/2007
David, Heard you were not feeling well. hope you feeling has passed, just spoke to the leader and our situation is as follows. We will be having a Mass meeting on Sunday in Mandeville presenting 60 candidates. We are mobilizing just as we did for the conference in 2006. We intend to make a statement in terms of the numbers. The cost for mobilizing the entire Island is expensive and as such we are requesting an advance on election commitment. this is due to the fact that most of the traditional corporate entity will not release funding until election has been announced. Please call me so we can disciss in details as time is of the essence. Thanks. Daryl.
Olint member and David Smith confidant Andrew Holness speaks on home schooling?
Delinquent parents could face charges
Jamaica’s Education Minister Andrew Holness says parents who fail to send their children to school on a regular basis could face strict penalties under the Education Act and the Child Care and Protection Act.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Friday September 3, 2010 – Jamaica’s Education Minister Andrew Holness says parents who fail to send their children to school on a regular basis could face strict penalties under the Education Act and the Child Care and Protection Act.
He says the current 80 per cent school attendance rate was unacceptable and he is considering having certain areas declared compulsory attendance zones, under the Education Act. And Holness made it clear that poverty would not be considered a valid excuse for absenteeism.
NOV. 23, 2011 – EVENTS THAT UNFOLDED ON TUESDAY IN THE TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS
Two significant events unfolded yesterday, Tuesday November 22, 2011.
The Special Investigation and Prosecution Team, SIPT, issued a press release announcing four additional arrests in the last 48 hours. (The short press release is posted today on the Journal). Though not named in the press release, reports are that the four included three former ministers of the previous Michael Misick government.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/nov-23-2011-–-events-unfolded-tuesday-turks-caicos-islands
[Received 9:03 hrs – Nov. 25th]
Issued on behalf of the SIPT:
“The Special Investigation Prosecution Team (SIPT) can confirm that it arrested and bailed a 43 year old man yesterday, Thursday, 24 November, in connection with its ongoing inquiry.”
[Received 16:09 hrs – Nov. 25th]
Issued on behalf of the SIPT:
“A 48 year old man was interviewed by the SIPT and has been charged today with conspiring to defraud the TCIG. He has been bailed to appear at Providenciales Magistrates’ Court on 6th December.”
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/nov-26-2011-tcig-two-more-press-statements-sipt
Click to access United_States_vs_Christopher_Coke.pdf
“They charged me with conspiracy, but they know deep in their hearts that they had no reason or evidence to charge me. I want to say publicly that I am completely innocent. There’s a God above and he alone will be my ultimate judge,” Boyce said.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2139
Smitty you going to run for the Chalk Sound seat like you said? Is the way clear for you now Smitty?
“Et tu Brute”
SHAME AND SCANDAL
By Royal S. Robinson, MBE
My people do not be fooled by the smiling guile of Governor Todd. He is cut from the same cloth as the other deceivers, even if it is the sleeve and not the hem. I do not want you to say, sometime later when he drives the dagger into you, “Et tu Brute”?
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2134
Hmm….yes yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look….you little maggots….
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer accuses the ANC of apartheid-style censorship
Secrecy law to muzzle press will affect all writers, says poet and fighter against black oppression
Nobel prize-winning author Nadine Gordimer has spoken out against her government’s controversial new secrecy legislation, suggesting it is a move back towards the harsh censorship that existed under apartheid.
In an article written for the ObserverGordimer said freedom of expression had been “struck out as a danger to the state”, under the harsh Protection of State Information Bill, which may become law in South Africa by the end of the year.
Gordimer argues that the attack on media freedom is an attack on everyone’s “right to know and think”, which would affect the work of all writers.
“The intention of this bill is to stop the media from disclosing corruption, malpractice and misgovernance, and inefficiencies,” he said. “It is a betrayal of the commitment to a free press and the constitutional commitment to a free press because it is so wide-ranging.
She became active in the then banned South African National Congress after the Sharpeville massacre, and was one of the first people Nelson Mandela asked to see when he was released in 1990.
Click to access United_States_vs_Christopher_Coke.pdf
“If information comes to me that I consider to be information that requires the public to be made aware of, in protection of my democracy, you coulda’ preach till you drop down I going to be calling press conference after press conference…”
Bruce Golding
Whatever Happened To Bruce Golding?
Published: Tuesday | November 29, 2011
Golding’s recent comments from the JLP conference platform would suggest that his primary concern in demitting office was to engineer a political manoeuvre to keep his party in power. The Gleaner noted that Golding had painted himself as a “master strategist” when he said, “What a difference that play has made on the political landscape … .”
Well, if the departure was pure expediency based on negative polling, we must acknowledge that he performed his trick flawlessly. Had Mr Golding been an adviser to David Smith, OLINT would probably be alive and kicking.
However much he was being asked to “pack his bags and go”, Mr Golding’s remarks didn’t acknowledge that there was a legitimate basis for asking him to leave. That seemed entirely beside the point.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111129/cleisure/cleisure3.html
PR man Colin Neita’s “Role” expands? After writing for Judge Scriven asking for leniency for David Smith Neita resurfaces in the local press…
In fact, Mr Colin Neita, the public relations and marketing manager for the JFLL, alluded to that fact when he was quoted in this week’s Sunday Observer as saying that the staff members on the programme “will be facilitated, encouraged and motivated in an environment that builds self-confidence, affirms the competencies these employees already have, and enriches the critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and innovative skills”.
So, as Mr Neita correctly concluded in relation to the JFLL/MegaMart arrangement: “This is truly a win-win partnership” because one of the JFLL’s goals is to increase workplace productivity.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/MegaMart-is-setting-the-perfect-example_10278438#ixzz1f5XlnqY2
Mike Henry Resigns
Published: Tuesday November 29, 2011 | 10:37 pm0 Comments
The OCG says there appeared to be serious irregularities in the procurement of $62 million dollars worth of office furniture with money from the Palisadoes Shoreline Protection and Rehabilitation Works Project.
According to the contractor general, the transport and works ministry and the National Works Agency (NWA) did not follow the Government’s Procurement Procedures in buying the furniture.
At the same time, there appeared to be confusion over who bought the five containers of furniture, now at the NWA’s St Andrew offices.
The OCG says at one stage, it was told by the NWA that the furniture was procured by China Habour Engineering Company, the entity with the contract for the multi-million dollar Palisadoes Shoreline Project.
But the OCG says the NWA also advised that the items were bought through an agreement between the NWA and its suppliers Stationery and Office Supplies Ltd.
Despite this, the OCG says the NWA provided other documents which revealed that the official quotation from Stationery and Office Supplies for the sale of the furniture to the NWA was billed to a customer named “J. Robertson”.
The contractor general said he found it curious that the quotation was neither addressed to the NWA nor to China Harbour.
From: David Lazarus
To: David Smith
2/6/2007
Barry,
Below is the names you asked for:
1. Neil Andradie
2. James Robertson
3. Charlene Robertson
4. Patricia Nicholson
5. Justin Ogilvie- plus any in his wifes’ name.
6. Gassan Azan
7. Andrea Hughsam
8. Patrick Tempral
9. Ansel Tempral. new & old.
10.Charles Condell. (Eric)
Hope this will do.
David
Several politicians are named in the emails. Some are said to have received funding, while others allegedly asked for financial assistance.
James Robertson, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, is one of them.
Detailed email
However, Robertson yesterday categorically denied receiving funding from Smith or Olint.
“The St Thomas Education Development Foundation and my campaign in West St Thomas did not receive any funding directly from David Smith,” Robertson told The Gleaner last night.
In one correspondence, purportedly from Robertson and sent from a close relative’s email account, a request was made for Smith to provide “support” that would “make a meaningful difference to the Jamaica Labour Party’s success”. The email included a local bank account number.
“I can’t remember. I send hundreds of emails and I am not denying that I am aware or have knowledge or know David,” Robertson said.
“I am not denying that there was contact.I am denying nothing but in terms of that specific, I can’t answer that.”
Mike Henry, What to say, “A fool is parted of many things”
EDITORIAL
IMF reps should ‘see and blind, hear and deaf’
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/IMF-reps-should–see-and-blind–hear-and-deaf-_10285236#ixzz1fCFs3TXD
Journalists reminded of relationship between media and Government
Senior Editor at the Washington Post and President of the Inter-American Press Association, Milton Coleman has reminded local journalists that there should be an adversarial relationship between the media and the government.
And he says if the media more often than not appears anti-government, the audience is expected to become suspicious.
This one is a real “read between the liner” and instructive for the Olint matters and what is coming along the line:
David Blunkett ‘secretly accepted pay-off’
Since the 2010 election, Labour MPs have been more willing to go public with their concerns about possible breaches of privacy, but Mr Blunkett, a former News of the World columnist and friend of the former NI chief executive Rebekah Brooks, has kept a notably low profile.
His fellow Labour MP Tom Watson said yesterday: “It is extremely disappointing that David Blunkett, as both an MP and a former home secretary, would choose to do a secret deal rather than give comfort to victims who don’t have his power to come forward at the time Parliament was chipping away at this scandal.
“His testimony would have been helpful in shedding light on the company’s attempts to keep the lid on it all. Rather than fulfilling a public duty to speak out, it makes you wonder why he would do it like this. I would definitely like to know when Mr Blunkett was aware that he might have been a victim of hacking as his evidence would have been very useful.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/david-blunkett-secretly-accepted-payoff-6275514.html
Email trail leads to James Murdoch
James Murdoch’s repeated assertion that he was never shown evidence that phone hacking at his company went beyond a “rogue reporter” was dramatically undermined last night. An internal email that he was sent, suggesting hacking was “rife” at the News Of The World and talking of a “nightmare scenario” of multiple victims, was released by a Commons committee.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/email-trail-leads-to-james-murdoch-6276624.html
This brings me to the parental role the British are playing by implementing structural reforms to help us avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. But let me hasten to clarify that I use the term parental advisedly.
For, on the one hand, far too many of our people seem oblivious to the fact that, even though our country is known these days as a British Overseas Territory, we are still for all intents and purposes a British Dependent Territory. And nothing demonstrates this quite like our having to rely on the British government not just to prosecute our crooked politicians, but also to bail us out of the financial black hole we got ourselves into.
On the other hand, far too many of our British overseers seem oblivious to the fact that they are partially responsible for creating and, by current accounts, now deepening that black hole. And nothing demonstrates this quite like British officials not just ignoring for years the alarms some of us were sounding about the corruption they are now trying to clean up, but also reporting recently that our national debt has almost tripled from $71 million to $200 million all under their fiscal management.
This latter point is especially noteworthy because it also reinforces what I have been trying to impress upon the British for some time now: namely, that some of us may be able to offer far better advice on solving our economic problems than the British experts who have been retained to do so.
Apropos of this, I urge them to hire one of our certified public accountants to replace the expatriate Chief Auditor who I gather was summarily fired yesterday under what can only be described as dubious circumstances.
There is still confusion, suspicion and frustration hanging like dark clouds over the TCI Bank, Provo Stevedoring, the Shore Club, and Interhealth Canada. I am convinced however that these are just a few of the controversial matters we could have been instrumental in resolving some time ago.
But no matter our disaffection over the way the British are treating us, nor our disappointment over the way they are managing our affairs, there is simply no excuse for the epidemic of apathy and cynicism that is spreading amongst our people. It will not do, for example, for us to protest in the streets about constitutional reforms when virtually none of us can even be bothered to submit suggestions on what constitutes the best path to TCI citizenship.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/dec-14-2011-%E2%80%93-statement-forum-chair-lillian-misick-uk-tci-relationship
The Independent Source of News
DEC. 14, 2011
TCIG – ATTORNEY GENERAL’S CLARIFICATION RE: CIVIL RECOVERY ORDER
[Received at 10:11 A.M. on Dec. 13th from TCIG]
The Hon Huw Shepheard, Attoney General, Turks and Caicos Islands said: “I have been asked to clarify the press statement I made on Friday 9 December 2011 regarding the Civil Recovery Order obtained in relation to Mr John Gill. I am happy to do so as far as I lawfully can. It must be remembered that there are ongoing criminal proceedings against other individuals that could be prejudiced if I were to disclose the full details of how and why I reached the conclusion that it was appropriate not to prosecute Mr Gill. Not only would such a disclosrure be likely to prejudice other proceedings, it would also be a criminal contempt of court. It follows that I will make no further comment in relation to Mr Gill beyond what I say in this statement.”
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/dec-14-2011-tcig-attorney-generals-clarification-re-civil-recovery-order
Another Labour MP, Chris Bryant, who is claiming damages from NI, said: “These revelations show James Murdoch is slipshod as a manager and NI have been slippery with their evidence to Parliament. They knew, at the highest level, why they had to pay Gordon Taylor such a substantial sum because otherwise their whole cover-up would have been blown apart.
Not so, Lenford Danver
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Dear Editor,
I must respond to a letter written by Mr Lenford Danver on December 4, 2011, “Get the facts on South East Saint Mary…”.
I was a bit disappointed with Mr Danvers because I don’t know him as one who would defend a losing cause and write something that is so pedestrian.
So let’s deal with my concerns. First, let us look at the double standard of the writer stating that Dr Winston Green is not from St Mary. A lot of other parliamentarians are in this position, but what should be noted is that Dr Green has his businesses in St Mary (Highgate and Annotto Bay), where he employs over 11 staffers. He also lives at Cromwell and (Highgate) where he spends most of his time.
Tarn Peralto has never lived in St Mary; his address was a hotel in Devon Pen.
It is also unfortunate that the writer said that Dr Green is a “two-time loser”, but one should not accept things when it suits them and make an issue when it does not – that is disingenuous, as Tarn had lost once to Harry Douglas but was successful the second time.
Maybe Dr Green will be successful on his third try, with all indicators showing that he will, hence Tarn’s removal. Mr Don Creary ran and lost.
While the writer is trying to elevate Mr Richard Creary, he seems to be missing the point that a councillor deals only with a division and the traction that he had in Richmond does not hold true for Castleton, Belfield and Annotto Bay. The long and short of it is that Mr Creary is not loved much in the constituency.
A word to the wise: if Mr Creary and his team don’t think that the way Mr Tarn Peralto was treated has no consequences, then they are living in a fool’s world.
Wayne Campbell
PNP Councillor/Caretaker
Castleton Division, St Mary
Camo_721@yahoo.com
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Not-so–Lenford-Danver_10389669#ixzz1geMyzfdc
The Independent Source of News
DEC. 15, 2011 – TCIG – RE: SIPT COSTS
[Editors’ Note: Comments via a TCIG spokesperson received at 3:17 p.m., Dec. 14th]
His Excellency Governor Ric Todd said:
“The costs of the SIPT and Civil Recovery Programme will be recouped several times over from the proceeds of their work.
“Each year the SIPT costs approximately $7m and Civil Recovery $4m. Both are expected to run for three years each. To date (until 30 Sep 11) the cumulative cost of both operations is $17.4m, already abated by a $10m payment by the UK Government.
“The remaining costs for this, the second year, and next year will be initially met by TCIG, with the costs ultimately abated by the proceeds from the Civil Recovery programme. This has already made significant progress recovering $2.25m in cash and some 800 acres of land valued at $150m. The pace, success and sums recovered throughout 2012 is expected to accelerate greatly, recovering millions of dollars in misappropriated funds and assets for benefit of the people of the TCI.
“The original Ministerial statement about both the SIPT and Civil Recovery programme was clear that the UK would make a contribution to the costs in year one. I am sorry if TCIG did not make this clear enough at that time.
“We will investigate all means of reducing this burden to TCIG, including asking the UK for additional support, but, clearly, this is not guaranteed. However, and it is worth repeating: we expect that the costs of these investigations will be recovered many times over and will significantly boost the coffers of the TCI Government.”
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/dec-15-2011-%E2%80%93-tcig-%E2%80%93-re-sipt-costs
After listing some of his government’s achievements, Shaw, in his opening remarks, said it is clear the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is the most qualified to run the country.
From: Audley Fitzalbert Shaw
To: David Smith
Saturday January 1 2007 4:43PM
David, happy new year to you, your dear wife and family. I am still hoping to get the info on the fx trading by Australia in dealing with their debt problems. Also, I had given Daryl the necessary information to have the thing activated, and he advised me that he had sent you an email in that regard. I’m told you might be here next week. I would like to see you as I have two persons who would like to meet with you. Please let me know. Regards. Audley.
Fitzalbert your financier, friend and adviser, David “OLINT” Smith has had his room and board and meals “defferred” for 30 years.
Compliments.
You are right to ask the country to question your credibility Minister Shaw….they have the answer above.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/quiz/2011/dec/25/phone-hacking-quiz-of-the-year-2011
Is Mr. Joseph Issa about to through his Cool Corp employees and USIMO directors Frederick Marsh and Andrew Grant under the bus??????
Click to access USIMO_Docs.pdf
What Mr. Issa is planning for next week is reprehensible! Weather.com has forecasted that it Kingston will be unseasonablly hot next week.
Click to access USIMO_Docs.pdf
Based on the OLINT Official Liquidator’s Report, Joseph Issa controlled company MZ Holdings facilitated investors depositing/wire transfering their funds to OLINT, facilitated redemptions, and made payments on the behalf of OLINT.
Click to access MZ_Holdings_Docs.pdf
JHTA president Evelyn Smith, in her congratulatory message, also lauded all the candidates who offered themselves for public office, arguing that it was done at great personal and professional sacrifice.
“We also extend special congratulations to all those who won their seats. Among them we must single out The Most Hon Portia Simpson Miller, president of the PNP and prime minister-elect, for having led her team to victory,” Smith said.
“The JHTA is particularly pleased by the political maturity, peace and carnival-like atmosphere which were the hallmarks of these elections. This is very heartening as we prepare to celebrate 50 years of Independence. We, therefore, commend all parties and our great and hospitable Jamaican people. Our conduct in these elections showed the world who we truly are.”
The JHTA, said Smith, has worked closely with all governments over the years and is eagerly looking forward to working with the new government to create a more enabling environment for the betterment of the tourist industry and the country.
Lest we forget Evelyn Smith’s husband?….
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith [Olint]
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Contributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will be greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
Joe
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
“What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to preserve against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?”
Winston Churchill.
He flatly REFUSED to co operate with TCI authorities when contacted about David Smith.
BTW David Smith confessed to their crimes.
First recommendation to the new govt.
Review ALL lay magistrate, J.P, Custos etc. and the “honours” for Jamaica has become the butt of jokes within International Law Enforcement and Government departments abroad.
Lodge and other distortions of reality are not what Jamaica needs so desperately. We need integrity.
Happy New Year to all.
Especially to the person with black frame glasses by the Redbox.
http://www.olintja.com/tcifiu-2011-12-13.htm
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011 | Posted by john Glasgow
Former head of the TCI Financial Crime Unit back in the TCI, why?
Folks I saw my buddy ”Spud” back in the TCI and I kept wondering why? For those who do not know ”Spud” is Mark Knighton, the UK ”cop” who spend sometime on the wrong side of the pubs in the UK before he was appointed to head the TCI Financial Crime Unit. He headed the FCU for the past seven years until he retired in October, 2011.
”Spud” left the TCI reluctantly I might add, claiming that he had a few international offers and that he was going to take sometime to weigh his options. So when I saw ”Spud” back in the TCI larger than life. I was surprised, I wondered if the guy ever left the TCI at all?
After a little digging I discovered that my buddy ”Spud” is the latest addition to the SIPT Investigation Team. Seems like SIPT was ”Spud’s” top international option and he didn’t have to go anywhere to exercise that option. With SIPT $11 million dollars annual price tag at the expense of the TCI taxpayers. ”Spud” just had to cash in, the temptation was too much!!!!
While my buddy ”Spud” is sure of a merry Christmas and a happy new year at the expense of the tax payers of the TCI. The people of the Turks and Caicos are facing a bleak Christmas and an equally bleak and uncertain new year. JG
http://tcipost.com/wordpress/?p=16615
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVID A. SMITH
CASE NO: 6:10-cr-232-Orl-35DAB
Case 6:10-cr-00232-MSS-DAB Document 1 Filed 08/18/10 Page 12 of 15 PageID 12
Count 6 on the wire transfer has the wrong corporate name on this federal document.
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/meaning-of/spud
spud
noun, means acting like a vegetable, dense, not too alert.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=spud
Spud
(British) The archetype of eccentricity.
Who “Spud” was is no longer known – but certainly, the name comes to mind whenever a somewhat extraordinary individual is encountered. This mysterious figure has, in some parts of England, come to embody all that is strange, but harmless.
Spud
A particularly inneffective person, thing or action. Usually in the sporting arena but can be used for a variety of professions.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DAVID A. SMITH
CASE NO: 6:10-cr-232-Orl-35DAB
PLEA AGREEMENT
Case 6:10-cr-00232-MSS-DAB Document 25 Filed 03/28/11 Page 32 of 37 PageID 91
Count 6 and Count 8 on the wire transfers have the wrong corporate name on this federal document.
The name below is all over Hallmark/Olint TCI bank statements. Company seems to be out of business.
Nobel Securities
http://www.noblesecurities.com/
Noble Securities is an independent full service investment firm in the Turks and Caicos Islands that will serve its clientele in a total offshore environment.
http://www.noblesecurities.com/
Noble Securities Holding Ltd. – An investment firm, with experienced and professional management and world-class service. market. Noble Securities is an independent full service investment firm located in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The firm serves its clientele in a total offshore environment.
Lesson for Jamaican papers?
“I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that if it hadn’t been for the Mail’s headline in 1997 — “Murderers: The Mail accuses these men of killing…” — and our years of campaigning, none of this would have happened.”
I agree – and so did a couple of rival editors. The Guardian paid tribute to the Mail’s “bold journalism” arguing that “it did not simply keep the case in the public eye. It also became a national reprimand to the criminal justice and political system in a wider sense.”
The Daily Telegraph’s editorial said: “It should be remembered… that had it not been for the campaign by the Daily Mail there might never have been any prosecutions at all.”
The Financial Times also thought the Mail deserved credit “for its courageous campaign to keep the case in public view.”
The rest sadly omitted to give that credit where it was due, but there was no doubt that every editor recognised the huge importance of the verdict itself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/jan/04/lawrence-dailymail
Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor arrested in the Caribbean
Michael Brown detained by police in the Dominican Republic after disappearing while on bail for a £40m fraud
The Liberal Democrats’ biggest donor, who has been on the run for three years after being convicted of a multimillion pound theft, has been arrested by police in the Dominican Republic, the Guardian can disclose.
Michael Brown, who bankrolled the party with £2.4m of stolen money, was detained near the resort of Punta Cana on the easternmost tip of the Caribbean island this week. Interpol has been informed.
It will mean further embarrassment for Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister. The Lib Dems have refused to compensate Brown’s victims, whose money went into the party’s coffers to finance the 2005 election campaign.
The development could lead to renewed legal efforts by his victims to seek compensation from the Lib Dems and Brown through the British courts.
Brown, originally from Glasgow, appeared from nowhere when he approached the Lib Dems in November 2004 with an offer of money for Charles Kennedy’s impending election campaign. The brash, ponytailed Brown lived in Majorca and claimed to be an offshore trader. He said his clients were vetted by US embassy officials. Despite not being a party member, not being registered to vote, and living abroad, he was welcomed with open arms by the party’s grandees.
Within months, Brown was flying Kennedy across Britain in a private jet and was being invited to dinners in Mayfair. Former Lib Dem insiders say he dazzled them with stories of Gordonstoun public school, St Andrew’s University and his connections with royalty.
The party received the donation through his company, 5th Avenue Partners. It remains the biggest ever received by the party from an individual. In the general election, the party increased its share of the vote by nearly 4% after his cash was spent on posters and advertising.
Brown was arrested in late 2005 after four former clients said he had duped them out of more than £40m in a high-yield fraud. His victims included Martin Edwards, the former Manchester United chairman, who had invested £8m with 5th Avenue Partners.
The court would later be told that 5th Avenue Partners was wholly fraudulent and that Brown had given money to the Lib Dems to give himself an air of respectability whilst duping his victims.
The fugitive enjoyed a millionaire’s lifestyle while on the run. He lived in gated communities yards from some of the most pristine beaches in the Caribbean, drove a series of 4×4 vehicles and was a regular at exclusive golf courses.
If Brown is returned to Britain it will launch renewed high court claims for the Lib Dems to return his stolen money.
Tony Brown, managing partner at law firm Bivonas which represents US attorney Robert Mann who lost more than $5m (£3m), said that Brown would be asked to give evidence as part of his client’s claim against the Lib Dems.
A Lib Dem spokesman declined to comment on any future high court action, but added that the donation was accepted in good faith and was cleared by an Electoral Commission inquiry.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=473
$100,000 USD payment to Joseph Smith to possibly to pay JLP
Check,07/10/2007,93498,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,redemption chequee to Joseph Smith,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(100,000.00)
Association of Concerned OLINT Members (ACOM)
What happened to ACOM Action Group?
No one made a claim that their amount was incorrect.
A chance for a claim ended December 19 or 20, 2011 in the Orlando/Federal court.
04/12/2006 to 9/18/2007
OlintTCI redemptions to USIMO and MZ Holdings
Transfers: MZ holdings $39 million USD
Transfers: USIMO $33 million USD
Transfers: GP? (USIMO or MZ) $4 million USD
Check,09/06/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings, Jamaica,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00)
Check,09/18/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings, Jamaica,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(1,000,100.00)
Check,10/04/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings re redemption,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,10/17/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings re redemption,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00)
Check,10/19/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,redemption tfr to MZ Holdings,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00)
Check,10/27/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,redemption tfr to MZ Holdings,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00)
Check,11/06/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00),16,521.74
Check,11/20/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ holdings re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,11/29/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ holdings re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,12/05/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ holdings re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,12/14/2006,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,01/16/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo Int’l re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,01/22/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,01/24/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(2,000,100.00)
Check,02/02/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(3,000,100.00)
Check,02/07/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,02/20/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,02/28/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdings re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,03/08/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to MZ Holdinhgs re redemtions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,04/04/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tf rto MZ Holdings via Usimo International,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,04/12/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,redemption tfr to Usimo,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,04/20/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,05/09/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate:GP HTL in Trust #2-Olint Principal,tfr to Usimo from GP re redemptions,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,Noble US$ Client 101349 (Olint),(4,000,000.00)
Check,05/29/2007,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to Usimo,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,100.00)
Check,05/30/2007,93398,Olint TCI Corp Ltd.:Olint TCI Corporate,tfr to GP to replenish reserve funds,CLIENT FUNDS 1 – US$,FCIB US$ Client 1291316,(4,000,000.00)
Source: OlintTCI bank statement 9/18/2007
And former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, recalled him as a man of absolute integrity and honesty, who had as much a passion for news as for the elevation of his country and its people.
Mr Seaga noted that his integrity, tenacity and courage was an inspiration not only to journalists, but to all Jamaicans.
He declared that Mr Perkins had experience and a good understanding of our politics, and will be greatly missed by the entire society.
Lonely, but John the baptista favourite seat at the dinner table is still there.
That is one that gets BLOCKED from warrens blog. Fight for your freedom Jamaicans. Fight for it.
Leak exposes how Heartland Institute works to undermine climate scienceLibertarian thinktank keeps prominent sceptics on its payroll and relies on millions in funding from carbon industry, papers suggest
The inner workings of a libertarian thinktank working to discredit the established science on climate change have been exposed by a leak of confidential documents detailing its strategy and fundraising networks.
The scheme includes spending $100,000 on commissioning an alternative curriculum for schoolchildren that will cast doubt on global warming.
The documents confirm what environmental groups such as Greenpeace have long suspected: that Heartland itself is a major source of funding to a network of experts and bloggers who have been prominent in the campaign to discredit established science.
Heartland is anxious to retain its hold over mainstream media outlets,…
But the cache raises an equal number of questions – such as the identify of an anonymous donor that has been a mainstay of Heartland. The unnamed donor, who contributed $4.6m in 2008, has since scaled back contributions. [Who paid Manatt…who runs your lives…]
…and gain access to the network of philanthropists they work with,” the document said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-heartland-institute-climate
US politicians refuse to hand back Stanford campaign cash
Obama on list of those who received money from Texan financier on trial for fraud
American politicians including Barack Obama are refusing to hand over $1.8m in campaign donations to the alleged victims of Allen Stanford, the cricket-loving Texan financier who is on trial for fraud.
Stanford Financial Group and its founder showered money on lawmakers and political parties, it has emerged, and in particular on Congressmen from his home state of Texas and those on powerful banking committees.
The receiver says a small number of beneficiaries of Mr Stanford’s largesse have paid back the money – House Speaker John Boehner and Senator John McCain among them – but the $154,000 returned is dwarfed by the $1.8m (£1.2m) still outstanding.
The $4,600 was donated to charity days after Mr Stanford was charged with fraud in 2009, but the receiver says the money should be handed over to compensate victims. Kevin Sadler, lead counsel for the receivership, told Reuters: “The money was never theirs to begin with.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/?CMP=ILC-refresh
“The money was never theirs to begin with.”
Olint donates dialysis machines to St Joseph’s
published: Friday | June 22, 2007
Chief executive officer of Olint, Wayne Smith, brother of the founder, said that St. Joseph’s Hospital was providing a tremendous service to the people of Jamaica and was happy that Olint was in a position to support their efforts.
He lauded the team on their charitable efforts and said the initiative was the brainchild of his brother, who was unavoidably absent.
Mr. Smith handed over the machines, valued at several million dollars, to Nurse Julian Riley, head of the dialysis unit, and St. Joseph’s Executive Director, Fabian Brown.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070622/news/news13.html
Darfour? Comment? Pope?…Robbging hood?
CHANGEMAKERS
published: Friday | June 22, 2007
Many a ‘lost soul’ can look to Monsignor Albert as the reason they were able to fight off the tentacles of crime and violence in depressed areas and do those things which brand themgood Jamaican citizens.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070622/news/news7.html
Eucharistic Minister for the Catholic Church since 1983.
http://www.coolcorp.com/index.php?src=directory&view=team&submenu=Team&category=Main&query=category.eq.Main&refno=62&srctype=team_detail
Citing an article in the popular American newspaper, Clyne read: “Nothing defines ‘Hedonism’ so much as its reputation for open, casual sex. Officially, the resort prohibits public sexual activity, but the rules against it are like speed limits than flat restrictions.”
The newspaper quoted then general manager, Joseph Smith as saying: “We’re not going to let them have sex in the dining room, but at 2:00 am, in some isolated corner, living out their tropical fantasy, we’re more lenient.”
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/ISSA–Feb-21–PRINTED-#ixzz1mQOVn88d
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
Dave,
I had detailed discussions with the four persons mentioned in my previous email and representatives of their management teams. They are all well organized but they have not budgetted adequetley in my opinion based on my experience. Being out in rural Jamaica they are so woefully uderfunded. Our two St. elizabeth persons have smaller populations than out Westmoreland and Manchester people. The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone. Each of the others are at just over $8 mil. they do not get money support from their head office. Each team has recieved some amount of contributions but they are no where close to where they should be. Knowing what we know, we would be particularly interested in the Mandeville person’s cause. The westmoreland person is in a similar position (see spread sheet that i emailed some time ago).
From what I know, the persons from the other side, are working with bigger budgets. Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail. But I know that you want to contribute to other similar cases as well. Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
We will always protect you Dave.
Joe
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Hope Lodge welcomes new Master
At Left: Master of the Hope Lodge, Joseph Smith (second left) and his wife Evelyn (left) enjoy a moment of light-hearted laughter with former sprint queen, Deon Hemmings McCatty (second right) and her husband Michael at the Hope Lodge installation on Saturday night. At Right: Ladies of Hope from left – Resident Magistrate for the Savanna-la-Mar court, Alayne Wallace; Susan Hammond, Dacia Dhanpaul, Charlotte Wallace and Evelyn Smith, acting general manager of Point Village Negril, admire the special token given to them by senior warden of the Hope Lodge, Joseph Smith. –
MEN IN BLACK
Dressed to the nines in black suits, they were dead ringers for the cast of the movie ‘Men in Black’, the only accessory missing were the dark shades.
It was an evening filled with an exciting and long list of toasts including: to the Queen, the Craft, the Most Worshipful Grand Master, Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland and Jamaica, District Grand Officers and the Ladies of Hope. However, the highlight was Evelyn Smith’s toast to her husband.
“Freemasonry is, and I should hope that I am reliably informed, strive to make good men better. It is a tradition that has survived for centuries and yet is often given a bad rap and is misunderstood in society,” said Mrs. Smith.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20051118/social/social3.html
27 Britsh MP’s call for the ‘closure’ of Cayman
A group of 27 British Members of Parliament have launched a motion to “close“ the Cayman Islands, calling it a tax haven and a disgrace that is fuelling the world economic crisis and reducing living standards.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/regional/27-britsh-mps-call-closure-cayman
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
ORLANDO DIVISION
CASE NO: 6:10-CR-232-ORL-35DAB
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
vs.
DAVID A. SMITH,
Defendant.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011
SENTENCING HEARING
BEFORE THE HONORABLE MARY S. SCRIVEN
THE DEFENDANT: Your Honor, I just want to say in
2004, I felt that a number of the brokerage houses and
commercial banks in Jamaica could have been and I felt should
have been paying their investors a much better return than the
return that they were paying, and I decided to start an
investment club with the aim of accomplishing that. And
because of the reputation that I had earned at my previous
job, a number of people quickly joined my investment club.
Things were going well at first, but then after
awhile, I made losses. And it was at that point that I made
what had been the worse decision and definitely the biggest
mistake of my life. I felt that I could easily make back the
money that I had lost, so I hid the fact that I made a loss,
and I instead reported a gain of ten percent. My reason for
choosing ten percent was twofold, Your Honor.
One, it was a rate I had accomplished in the past,
and one I felt I could consistently accomplish once I turned
things back around. And two, I knew that with a rate of ten
percent, no one would be rushing to withdraw their money, and
it would have given me the time that I felt I needed to
correct things. But even after that, I continued to make
losses, Your Honor. And my concern no longer was my
reputation. I was very concerned over the fact that my
clients were actually losing money. I was terrified about the
legal implications of what I had done, and I had also become
fearful for the safety of and the lives of my children, my
wife, and myself. I knew at all costs, Your Honor, I had to
fix this problem, and I did what I did in an effort to buy
more time as I sought external help.
And I am not making an excuse for what I did,
because what I did is unexcusable. It was absolutely wrong.
It was dishonest. I led people astray. I made them feel that
they were earning when I knew that I was actually making
losses. And worst of all, Your Honor, it reached a point
where I was taking money from one investor to pay another
investor. My investment club had now become a Ponzi scheme.
It was the worse time of my life, Your Honor. I was
living a lie –
THE COURT: What time period are you talking about
now?
THE DEFENDANT: Pardon me?
THE COURT: What time period are you talking about
now?
THE DEFENDANT: During the time I operated Olint
when it had become a Ponzi scheme. That was really the worse
period of my life, because I was living a double life where
people thought I was doing well, and I knew that, you know,
everything was deceit and lies, and I had this all bottled up
inside.
As a matter of fact, Your Honor, when the
authorities from the United States and the Turks and Caicos
Islands intervened, I was actually relieved. I was extremely
relieved. For the first time, I was able to talk about what
had happened. I was more than willing to cooperate with them,
and I have fully cooperated with them, and I will continue to
do so.
For the first time, I was able to get everything off
my chest. When I met Mr. Ambrose and his team of
investigators, I immediately answered all their questions,
told them, you know, exactly what my role was, exactly what
happened with Olint, exactly what was going on. I have not
held back. I have not withheld. I have totally cooperated
with them.
As a matter of fact, Your Honor, not only have I
assisted them with everything that happened in Olint, I also
assisted them with other investigations, ongoing
investigations, here in the U.S., some in the Turks and Caicos
Islands, and some back home in Jamaica.
I think from as early as, I think, was 2008 to — up
to last week, investigators visited me at the county jail and
I have done what I can to answer their questions honestly. I
was actually surprised when my attorney told me about two days
ago that I was not getting — I was not going to be credited
with a 5K letter for substantial assistance that I was
promised in the plea bargain. I was surprised, because in all
of the dealings with Mr. Ambrose and his team, they never once
indicated to me that they felt I was holding back or I was not
cooperating or I was not truthful. In fact, they always gave
me the impression that they appreciated my honesty and the
fact that I was working with them.
THE COURT: I’m sorry, you understand that the plea
agreement does not promise a 5K1. It promises that the
government would consider a 5K1.
THE DEFENDANT: Yes, Your Honor.
THE COURT: You understand that?
THE DEFENDANT: Yes, yes, yes.
THE COURT: You’re not suggesting by that last
statement that the government has breached its plea agreement
with you?
THE DEFENDANT: No, I’m not saying that, Your Honor.
What I’m saying is based on the rapport and the way that we
had worked, I felt that I would have been awarded a 5K.
THE COURT: All right.
THE DEFENDANT: Your Honor, I just want to say that
my dealings with Olint crossed over three boundaries, Jamaica,
where I’d say about 95 percent of my clients are residing, the
Turks and Caicos Islands where the investment clubs were
registered, and the United States. I want to say that I have
never directly advertised or solicited business, especially
here in the United States.
In fact, my companies were not allowed or were not
supposed to accept business from United States citizens, but
some did come in. The majority of them were Jamaican and used
their Jamaican documentation to be processed into the club,
and there were those that piggy-backed on accounts of existing
club members.
I know that what I have done is wrong, and I know
that I’ve hurt a number of people. And where I may never be
able to fully make amends financially for what I’ve done, I
know that for the rest of my life I definitely just want to
make a positive impact or have a positive impact on any
individual that my path may cross. I have hurt my family
tremendously. I have turned the wife of my children upside
down. But at least with them, I can make amends. And if and
when given a chance, I will do all within my power to be an
exceptional father and a husband.
I’ve made many mistakes, Your Honor, but I can
honestly say that I have learned from each of them. I know
that I will never, ever again be any form of threat to
society. In terms of my spiritual life, in terms of my
relationship with God, it wasn’t what it should have been in
2004. I was living in a backslidden state. In 2008, when I
got in trouble, I re-committed my life to God and have grown
constant strength since that. As a matter of fact, I can say
that that is the only good thing that has actually come out of
Olint for me.
It was never my intention, Your Honor, to hurt
anyone, but I know that I have. And in all honesty, not a day
goes by that I do not wish I could turn back the hands of time
and just undo everything that I have done. Every single day,
I pray and I ask God in his ultimate mercy just to restore the
fortunes of those that I have hurt.
I want to take this opportunity, Your Honor, to
apologize, to apologize to you, to the Court. I want to
apologize to everyone here in the courtroom. I want to
apologize to everyone that has been affected by my actions, to
other communities here in the United States, Jamaica, the
Turks and Caicos that have been affected by Olint and by my
dishonesty. I am truly, truly sorry, and I pray that the Lord
will forgive me.
And, Your Honor, in closing, I just want to ask you,
Your Honor, in considering your sentence for me, Your Honor, I
do want to ask for some amount of leniency. I know that what
I have done deserves to be punished. I want you to consider,
Your Honor, that I am right now serving a prison sentence in
the Turks and Caicos Islands for this very crime.
I would ask if you could also consider that despite
what I’ve done, Your Honor, I am not a terrible person. I am
not a bad person. And, for the rest of my life, I just want
to live in a manner that is uplifting and positive to society,
Your Honor. I want — I know that I need to be punished, Your
Honor. I guess what I am asking, Your Honor, is a punishment
that will be sufficient, but yet lenient enough to give me a
second chance at life. That’s all I have to say, Your Honor,
thank you.
THE COURT: Thank you. Mr. Smith, what do you make
of this decision to place this jewelry in your mother’s
possession for delivery to your friend for safekeeping in
order to have available funds at your disposable?
THE DEFENDANT: Your Honor, what really happened
with that, it was some jewelry that I had given to my wife on
one of our anniversaries, and it was very sentimental to her.
And she sent it up with my mother to a friend to keep for her,
because she was afraid that it would have been confiscated
during all of the proceedings.
THE COURT: But it wasn’t hers, because you stole
the money to buy it with.
THE DEFENDANT: Well, yes, Your Honor. But in all
honesty, my wife did not know that. My wife thought — I
deceived even my wife, Your Honor.
Part of the Court transcript has been published on olintja.
http://www.olintja.com
Labourite “investors” under pressure
I wrote your earlier concerning the liquidation of TCI FX Traders, this company was a fully licensed insured, and independently administered fund, it was run according to it licensed prospectus. The fund at all times had 100% of the money under its control to pay it creditors back…… However I was told by the police that they froze the assets of the fund so as to protect the innocent investors in the fund from David Smith.
Now I had to go to court today again, as we were asking the new judge to re-release the funds that we had already asked the old judge to release and as I read the ruling on the 8th of April he said yes. Furthermore in the light of this ruling the old judge explained that “the valid release” released TCI FX Traders from any other obligation to Olint entities. With this in mind I felt confident that coming up four years the new judge would agree that finally the innocent investors in this fund could have their assets re-released and could be made whole. But no such thing was to happen, for in the court room opposing us was the AG, Mr. Shepheard himself.
Mr. Shepheard explained to the court that the Crown’s position was that the money in this licensed, insured, independently administered fund, did not belong to the investors but rather it belonged to Mr. David Smith himself, how he came to this wild conclusion no one knows but this is what he told the court, I heard it with my own two ears. And he said since this money that ‘our investors had put into our fund according to our licensed prospectus’ somehow now belonged to Mr. David Smith himself, the new judge should not re- release these funds so the innocent investors could be made whole; but rather the matter should be put off till April the 9th 2012 when there would be confiscation proceedings so the Crown could get all this money that the police had frozen to protect the innocent investors from David Smith.
Now if this is how the leaders of this nation treat innocent investors who invested in a licensed, insured fund, that had 100% of the money to pay everyone back, and their money was frozen so as to protect them from David Smith. But coming up four years the AG himself comes to court and tells these people that suddenly the money is not theirs but it belongs to David and the Crown is to get it all, but he brings no evidence to back up what he says; instead we must all wait on Mr. Mitchell who will tell us these facts in Grand Turk.
After hearing this true story would you invest your hard earned money under this type of leadership, is the question I ask the investing public?????
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/feb-23-2012-letter-liquidation-tci-fx-traders-investor-rights
I write this letter since there was no court reporter in the court room to let public know what goes on in our court.
I am
John D. Wildish
“But the sentence that the Court will propose is not the sentence the defense would request, because essentially the defendant is requesting that for this offense that he receive a mere two additional years incarceration over and above that he’s already serving in the Turks, and that is not sufficient, not nearly sufficient to provide fair punishment and retribution for the conduct in which this defendant engaged systemically and over an extensive period of time and across three countries affecting thousands of lives and hundreds of millions of dollars.”
“Even after the conduct continued, you continued to operate as if you were not under the spotlight of the justice system, hiding assets to preclude their being seized by the government.”
http://www.olintja.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm
To: John D. Wildish
Please read your Prospectus again, if you cannot find a copy, there is one in OlintJA.
Please read the TCI Court Order(Petition 121/08 and CL 12/09) regarding TCI FX Traders, ask you attorney Peter Karam for a copy.
The Court Order indicates that Joseph Philip Connolly is your “Provisional Liquidator”. He is you liquidator and operator for your Company and Olint TCI.
In The Supreme Court in the Turks and Caicos Island Case No. CL 12/10, it involves the accounting mistake between TCI FX Traders and Olint TCI involving I Trade FX and Star Management.
Mr. Connolly basically says the Olint TCI is still owed money after the audit of both companies, but the TCI Court will not fix it due to a previous bad agreement involving you, Star Management, Trowbridge, Olint TCI, and the FSC.
Then we have Mr.Connolly or the TCI Courts providing (Petition 121/08 and CL 12/09) incomplete Order involving The Proceeds Of Crime Ordinance 2007 to the U.S. Federal Court.
Then Mr.Connolly failed to provide to the U.S. Federal Court the TCI FX Traders Prospectus indicating that David Smith owns or controls TCI FX Traders but quoting a part of the Prospectus.
Then we have TCI-FSC providing a false affidavit to the U.S. Federal Court about their involvement in a Olint TCI / TCI FX Traders transaction. (Yes, they were sued in U.S. Federal Court)
You can pay for a court reporter and have a transcript like the one on OlintJA on David Smith sentencing. The first copy cost would have been $324. You normally pay by time and page.
It normally keeps the Judges and attorneys inline.
David Smith/Olint TCI paid for TCI FX Traders license.
Remember David Smith was convicted of money laundering in the U.S., guilty of securities violations in Jamaica, and fraud in TCI.
Feb. 22, 2012
FSC “Retreat” and text of Philip Rushbrook’s speech in place of Governor
[Press Release receieved 12:25pm – Feb. 21, 2012]
PRESS RELEASE
FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION AND INDUSTRY LOOK TO THE FUTURE
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/feb-22-2012-fsc-retreat-and-text-philip-rushbrook’s-speech-place-governor
ROYAL TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS POLICE FORCE WITNESS STATEMENT
John David Wildish
October 7, 2008
Click to access 20120226-181410-915-72-1.pdf
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMMISSION
TCFSC “being haled into court”(quote from TCFSC attorney) into U.S. Federal Court
Case 0:10-cv-61518-CMA Document 1-3 Entered on FLSD Docket 08/19/2010 Page 16 of 60
August 19, 2010
Click to access 20120226-201543-422-3-https___ecf.flsd.uscourts.gov_cgi-bin_show_temp.pl_file=7912039-3–5292.pdf
TCI FX TRADERS Ltd. Prospectus.pdf
Date Created: 10/25/2006 10:52:55 am
Date Modified: 8/27/2007 1:56:47 pm
Click to access Prospectus.pdf
Olintja.com in the raw as http://50.30.49.21
it’s really not COOL that Mr. Smith is the only one being punished for the whole Olint debacle…. not COOL at all!
Can anyone tell me what the latest is regrading the platinum fund and if we will ever get any money back?…. What is happening in April 2012
From high life to household chores: Billionaire fraudster Bernie Madoff’s wife Ruth hauls out the trash
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2115063/Pictured-Bernie-Madoffs-wife-Ruth-taking-trash.html#ixzz1pBLnFuLN
THE POOR VICTIMS OF JAMAICAN PONZI/FEEDER CLUBS. THE PERPETRATORS STILL LIVING HIGH ON THE HOG WITH THE PEOPLE’S MONEY. SORRY SODS. I FEEL IT FOR THEM. THEY ARE CONFUSED WHILE THE CRIMINALS SPEND THEIR MONEY IN FRONT OF THEIR OWN FACES.
Hector Sants’ departure from FSA leaves regulators in disarray
The Government’s overhaul of financial regulation has been thrown into disarray by the surprise departure of Hector Sants, chief executive of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and a future deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
His term in charge of the FSA was marked by the biggest banking crisis in a century. Having joined the FSA’s wholesale markets arm in 2004 from Credit Suisse, he became chief executive in July 2007 – just two months before the run on Northern Rock.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9148125/Hector-Sants-departure-from-FSA-leaves-regulators-in-disarray.html
AUDIO: Dudus lawyer says US gov’t colluded with PNP
Stephen Rosen, the lead attorney for West Kingston crime lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke has levelled a major allegation against the United States Government over the extradition saga involving his client.
Rosen has accused the United States Government of working with the People’s National Party (PNP) by using the Coke extradition issue to drive the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from office in December 2011.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=35944
“They supoort the PNP…the Secretary of State of our country supports the PNP…it is known”
Stephen Rosen.
Jay blocking me over on “Warren’s Blog” Shame Jay. hhaha
Anyway back to Rosen. Interesting attack on Hilary?…draw fi a tune while I ponder what a gwan a NY
Jay you sit down over Antigua and run Warren’s blog but you selectively block. You can’t have credibility and selectively block.
You take pay off too?
“They supoort the PNP…the Secretary of State of our country supports the PNP…it is known”
Stephen Rosen.
I can hear Motty saying, “Show me the evidence….what EVIDENCE do you have of that?”
…or perhaps he might not say that…for there is no accusation of the JLP in the statement.
WorldSpreads finance scandal hits City
A scandal erupted at the City spread betting house WorldSpreads yesterday, when the firm admitted it is “currently unable” to assess its own finances.
Shares in the AIM-listed outfit were suspended at 37p after “a review of the firm’s financial position” that uncovered “possible financial irregularities”.
The move comes just days after the chief executive and major shareholder Conor Foley abruptly quit for reasons not explained on Wednesday. The chief financial officer Niall O’Kelly also left after an earlier profit warning admitting to “an unusual pattern of client trading”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/worldspreads-finance-scandal-hits-city-7575820.html
Ashcroft’s BCB breached rules of Stock Exchange
Bank did not reveal to AIM all directorships held by Conservative Party donor’s son
A document from the TCI’s Financial Services Commission shows that Mr Ashcroft was appointed director of Reef Development Company Ltd on 7 September, 2010.
The rules are designed to give investors complete information about board members’ outside interests and the ability to police potential conflicts of interest.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/ashcrofts-bcb-breached-rules-of-stock-exchange-7576948.html
Bunting going after crooked lawyers, real estate brokers…
“And (we’ll) really go after not just the kingpins but the facilitators and the accommodators; people like lawyers, real estate brokers, accountants. Those persons who help criminals to launder the proceeds of crimes, and hide assets that they have gotten illegally,” he said.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bunting-going-after-crooked-lawyers–real-estate-brokers–accountants—_11057071#ixzz1pbLS5cm2
International arrest warrant for Mike Misick
An international arrest warrant has been issued for former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael Misick in connection with allegations of corruption and money laundering.
“For the past several months the SIPT has sought to secure the attendance of Mr Misick at its offices in Providenciales in respect of allegations of corruption and money laundering during his time in office. Every opportunity has been given to Mr Misick to voluntarily surrender to the SIPT’s jurisdiction for interview. Despite previous indications from Mr Misick’s solicitors that he would attend for interview, he has failed to do so.”
“…Regional leaders, Caribbean people and the rest of the world need to know that what they are accusing us for in the Turks and Caicos Islands is nothing more or different that what happens in each and every Caribbean country where politicians look out for their people and their constituents and implement policies and programmes that are designed to empower their people.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2404
To: David smith
From: Bruce Golding (brucegolding@yahoo.com)
11/28/2006
David, I must express our thanks for your support in our efforts, especially toward the staging of our recent conference. It was a tremendous success and has significantly boosted our campaign. your assistance went a far way in making it possible. I had a brief word with Peter (Bovell) sometime ago and express the hope that we would be able to meet. I hope that we will be able to arrange to do that. Kindest regards, Bruce Golding.
carlton burton
3/20/2012
Is this the same man that gave ‘political asylum’to the OLINT ginagog ? They should BOTH hold hands in jail crying on each others shoulders. When JA become self governing what was the murder rate? How many Civil Servants were sent to jail if “dem even tink bout tief government money or property?. BRING BACK THE BRITISH> ONE LOVE
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Misick-seeks-political-asylum-to-avoid-Interpol_11073649#ixzz1piIpvPEt
Sandrea Falconer posted in REAL CHANGE FOR JAMAICA- DISCUSSION FORUM (RCFJ).
Sandrea Falconer 5:08pm Oct 18
OFFICE OF THE CONTRACTOR-GENERAL
MEDIA RELEASE
Contractor General Writes to Prime Minister to Express Increasing Concerns About Divestment of State Assets without Transparency and Competition
Kingston; October 18, 2011 – Contractor General, Greg Christie, has written to Prime Minister Bruce Golding to express the increasing concerns of the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) regarding what it sees as the bold attempts by the Government to divest State-owned assets in a manner which does not ensure competition, transparency and the attainment of a fair market value.
In his letter, which was dated October 14, 2011, the Contractor General expressed his consternation that the Cabinet was apparently far advanced in revising the Government’s Privatization Policy and Procedures, without any consultation whatsoever with the OCG, to make provision for the validation of State asset privatizations via the facility of what is called an ‘Unsolicited Proposal’.
An Unsolicited Proposal occurs in a situation where a single contractor purportedly approaches the State with what is classified as a unique contracting proposal. The State then negotiates solely with that contractor, to the exclusion of all others, without public advertisement and competition, and without the involvement of the OCG, and then awards the contract to the contractor.
The OCG, in its letter of October 14, to the Prime Minister, has strongly recommended that the facility of the Unsolicited Proposal should be excised from the revised Privatization Policy and Procedures, in the event that it has already been included therein.
The OCG has, on previous occasions, stridently and unequivocally ventilated its concerns regarding Unsolicited Proposals, as it fervently believes that the acceptance of such proposals are contrary to the principles of competition and transparency, and is a corruption enabling facility.
Indeed, the OCG’s October 2009 Special Report of Investigation, which implicated Member of Parliament Joseph Hibbert in bribery and corruption allegations, in the Jamaica bridge building contracts that were awarded to the British firm of Mabey and Johnson, had raised the issue and requested that the Government should immediately cease the practice. The OCG, at the time, had made the following formal Recommendation:
“The OCG is of the view that the concept of the Unsolicited Proposal, which has found its way into the country’s procurement conventions, should be excised from the Government’s Procurement Guidelines.
The OCG is concerned that the unsolicited proposal mechanism is a corruption enabling device which can be utilized by unscrupulous Public Officials to direct lucrative multi-million dollar State contracts to connected, undeserving or desired contractors.
This can be easily accomplished by influential but corrupt Public Officials who are willing to clandestinely conspire with a contractor to have the contractor approach the State with what appears to be a unique contracting proposal.
It is the OCG’s considered contention that all such proposals must be tested for propriety, legitimacy, cost-effectiveness, quality, value for money and competitiveness in the open market place.”
Between April and October of this year, the OCG has had cause to write to the Government to further raise its concerns and strong objections regarding the attempted use of the conduit of the Unsolicited Proposal to privatize, without open competition and public advertisement, (a) the Jamaica Railway Corporation, (b) Nutrition Products Limited, (c) the Montego Bay Free Zone, and (d) certain assets that are held by the Urban Development Corporation (UDC).
In the case of the Montego Bay Free Zone, by way of a letter that was dated October 5, 2011, the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ), in response to a letter from the OCG which requested, inter alia, a status update on the matter, had the audacity to respond in the following terms:
“In light of the Government’s recently approved policy on privatization of Government assets, to include unsolicited proposals such as this one from Caribbean Telecoms, we think it prudent to await the release of this new Policy before advancing this transaction further.”
The OCG, which found the assertion and stance of the PAJ to be preposterous, deliberate and highly manipulative, will be taking the requisite steps to formally address the matter directly with the PAJ.
Also, in the case of the UDC, the corporation has proceeded to enter into a sale agreement, dated August 11, 2011, for a certain property which is situated at 35 West Parade, Kingston, for the sum of JA$31.4 million, in response to what it says was “an unsolicited proposal from Bashco Trading Company Limited vide its principal Mr. Gazzan Azan”.
The UDC, in a blatant contravention of the pre-existing Government Privatization Policy and Procedures, has proceeded with the sale of the subject property without advertising same to the public, and despite the alleged prior stated interest and repeated offers of the current tenant, Mr. Michael Mahfood and M. Mahfood & Sons Limited, to purchase the property.
The attorneys for the tenant, Hart Muirhead Fatta (HMF), have contended that their clients, who have occupied the premises for “some thirty years, (have), on several occasions, offered to purchase or take a long term lease of the property (but) the UDC has consistently rejected those offers on the basis that the property is required for road-widening”. (OCG emphasis).
HMF, by way of letter to the OCG, dated September 28, 2011, has also contended that its “Client has gathered that the property is being sold to Bashco Trading Company for $30 million, whereas our client is prepared to pay substantially more to acquire the property, having regard to perceived market value and our client’s being prepared to pay a premium to continue business there”.
In light of the extremely troubling circumstances which surround this specific UDC asset divestment, the OCG, by way of another letter that was dated October 14, 2011, has advised the Prime Minister and the Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office that the OCG has commenced a formal Investigation into the sale of the said West Parade property to Bashco.
The OCG, by way of letter to the UDC, which was dated October 13, 2011, has also recommended that the UDC “immediately terminates the arrangement with Bashco Trading Company Limited”.
The OCG wishes to make it public that it is extremely concerned about the continuing failure of the Administration to act decisively upon its many considered remedial Recommendations to secure greater transparency, competition and accountability in public contracting in Jamaica, and to close the several loop holes which presently exist in the system which continue to vividly facilitate the perpetuation of corruption in the award of Government of Jamaica contracts.
The verbatim texts of the Contractor General’s two (2) letters to the Prime Minister, dated October 14, 2011, regarding (a) the OCG’s concerns about the Government’s purported or intended validation of the concept of the Unsolicited Proposal in privatization issues, and (b) the OCG’s Investigation into the UDC’s sale of its 35 West Parade property, are now being made public and are appended herewith.
Only in January of this year did the OCG have cause to strongly and publicly protest the manner in which the Government proceeded with the sale of its interest in the Sandals Whitehouse Hotel property to the Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart owned Sandals Group. The sale was, among other things, facilitated by secret negotiations which, from all indications, were deliberately concealed from the OCG until they were far advanced and brought to public light by a local newspaper.
E-mail: communications@ocg.gov.jm. Tel: 876-929-8560; Direct: 876-926-0034; Mobile: 876-564-1806
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/MegaMart–Sandals-thinking-big-when-times-are-hard_11092734
TCI Bank depositors to get more than 20 percent
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2388
http://tcweeklynews.com/mike-misick-seeks-political-asylum-application-for-warrant-was-filed-at-t-p2592-1.htm
[Courtesy AML} Continuation of the UFO Time-Line has been continued at:
http://www.olintja.com/ufo-time-line/
Delancey also told SIPT she received a $10,000 campaign donation from convicted fraudster David Smith, and a loan of $4,500 from his wife Tracey Smith.
She also give the SIPT information about her colleagues Floyd Hall, McAllister Hanchell, Jeffrey Hall, Lillian Boyce, Greg Lightbourne, Royal Robinson, Amanda Misick, Samuel Been, Wayne Garland, Norman Saunders Snr., as well as mentioning the names of Althea Ewing, Lisa Hall, Carlos Simons, Rex Messam, Alan Forest, Aulden Smith, Lord Ashcroft, Cynthia Astwood, Oswald Skippings, Ruth Blackman, Bishop Coleta Williams, Clive Stanbrook, and Mary Forbes.
Malcolm, who described himself as civic leader, told the SIPT about bribery for political purposes within the PDM and that a member received a $40,000 payment for an appointment in the House of Assembly. He also said the PDM received a $100,000 payment from a developer.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2408
A CHEQUE FOR $10,000 as a CAMPAIGN DONATION
Members of Parliament are required by legislation to declare and register interests or donations relevant to their position. I can say that during my time in Government I have received only 2 campaign donations from external sources both of which were appropriately recorded. The first donation was a cheque in the sum of $1,000 from a person named Clive Stanbrook. It was used to pay for musical equipment at a political rally. I signed the back of the cheque and handed it over to the musicians who supplied the equipment. I recall this was late March or early April 2003, just before the election on 24th April.
The second donation was a cheque in the sum of $10,000 received in early 2007 from a person named DAVID SMITH. This cheque was handed to me by a person named JEN MESSAM, who is my second cousin. JEN MESSAM was at that time employed as the Protocol Officer for Michael Misick.
I did not solicit the payment of $10,000 from DAVID SMITH. The circumstances of my receiving it are that on a day shortly before the General Election of 2007 I was working in my office at the hilly Ewing Building when JEN MESSAM handed me a white envelope and said, “I have something for you from DAVID and TRACEY.”
I immediately knew that by saying the envelope was from ‘DAVID and TRACEY’, MESSAM was referring to DAVID AND TRACEY SMITH who were neighbours of mine at Chalk Sound. My understanding of DAVID SMITH at that time was that he was a rich foreign businessman. However, much later I was to learn from the national newspapers that he was operating what is known as a Ponzi scheme, for which he has since been convicted. Regarding TRACEY SMITH we were already acquainted by having attended the same social events.
On receiving the envelope I simply said, “Thank you” and carried on working. However a short while later I opened it up and was shocked to see a cheque in the sum of $10,000. This seemed to me to be a huge amount of money, given that my only previous political donation was for the relatively modest sum of just $1,000. I went to MESSAM’S office and asked why I was being given so much money. MESSAM told me the money was intended to assist with my election campaign. She told me that the SMITH’S were giving everyone the same amount but she did not mention the names of the other recipients. I paid the cheque into my account with FIRST CARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL BANK and the money was used solely for my political campaign. It was spent mainly on placards, banners, tee shirts and caps. It also paid for food at a political meeting held at a place called The Middle Caicos Cafe, which is opposite the Veranda Hotel on Providenciales.
Incidentally, I later received another sum of money from TRACEY SMITH but this had nothing to do with politics. This was by way of a cheque in the sum of $4,500. The circumstances of this are that sometime in 2008
[2008! when OLINT was not paying people money!!?…the wicked shall perish…]
TRACEY learned that I was about to embark on a business venture and needed some financial backing. She offered me assistance by giving me the cheque for $4,500, which I accepted as a loan. However this business came to nothing. I then offered to pay TRACEY back but she flatly refused and said, “I GAVE it to you.”
Click to access 20120226-181410-915-72-1.pdf
Mogul facing pension fund issues.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9181562/US-pension-fund-Christian-Brothers-Investment-Services-petitions-to-strip-Rupert-Murdoch-of-News-Corp-chair.html
April 3 2012
As this scandal came to light a week ago, the Conservative Party first refused to release the names of political donors who had had dinner with Cameron but within twenty-four hours had to reverse that decision and provide details of all the meetings with the various donors, because of the pressure coming from an outraged citizenry and media.
What does this mean for the TCI
In the TCI, both political parties are currently answering questions from the SIPT regarding hundreds of thousands of dollars of political contributions that were allegedly misappropriated. Some cases are being described by the politicians as “personal loans”, in other cases politicians are attempting to describe alleged acts of bribery as “simply” money laundering!
In the TCI, if a person asks our politicians how often did they meet with David Smith, Mario Hoffmann, Lord Ashcroft, Jak Cevrie, Richard Padgett, or Cem Kinay and how much money did these individuals donate to you, the person and their family are met with insults and grave threats.
There is no illusion of supporting a given philosophy or person, it is pure protection money, plain and simple.
True civic leaders should not have to sell access or sell their soul, as the Conservative treasurer was doing, in order to raise funds to contest an election.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-3-2012-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Ccash-cameron%E2%80%9D-scandal-%E2%80%93-what-it-means-tci-funding-political-activity
James Murdoch profile: college drop-out to media prince
Once the black sheep of the family, James Murdoch was perhaps the surprise candidate to become heir apparent to the Murdoch empire.
He is also due to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics with his father, Rupert, at the end of the month.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9183410/James-Murdoch-profile-college-drop-out-to-media-prince.html
DAVID and TRACEY SMITH’S OLINT FEEDER “CLUBS” start to face the music & pay.
CFTC Orders South Florida Resident Alan A. Grant and his Company, Francis Grant Investments Inc., to Pay $500,000 in Forex Fraud Charges
Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges that Alan A. Grant and his company, Francis Grant Investments Inc. (FGI), of Davie, Fla., committed fraud by failing to disclose to customers that the off-shore foreign currency (forex) pool in which they participated had ceased trading and assets were frozen due to a foreign regulatory action. Grant and FGI issued false account statements showing profitable trading by the off-shore pool and continued to solicit funds even though the pool was no longer trading.
The CFTC order specifically finds that from April 2007 through August 2008, Grant solicited millions of dollars from hundreds of customers to participate in a commodity pool managed by an off-shore third party based out of the Turks and Caicos Islands. The off-shore pool was to trade exclusively leveraged off-exchange forex.
According to the Order, in early 2008, Grant and FGI became aware of a foreign regulatory action being taken against the off-shore pool and that trading had ceased. Grant and FGI did not disclose this to their customers. Instead, they issued customer account statements falsely reflecting that investments were increasing in value. They also continued to solicit and accept new customer funds claiming that the off-shore pool was trading profitably. From June through August 2008, Grant and FGI fraudulently solicited approximately $155,000 from some 18 customers.
Click to access enffgiorder110911.pdf
Floridian:
I was highly critical of you earlier. Now I must admit that I admire your persistence.
Your latest post is of particular interest to me. I know you have a very keen mind so you already know why.
Wish I could talk to you about this offline.
Hit me up if you like: tafari11@yahoo.com
‘mi laugh like a comedy…tell the girl dem…send pon BBM..’
AML check it. Sense PuppetM might be around…old nemesis perhaps??? Is the only one I ever rate. (Jay blocking …I will have a drink in English Harbour one day with him…perhaps…) but I have machines down since “recently.”
Reeks of Puppetmaster.
Barking up the wrong BC tree.
Hate mail author unmasked, big lawsuit coming
The Observer source said the author of the e-mail was traced through the legal use of the most sophisticated technology.
[“sophisticated technology???”
1. Right click on the file.
2. Select “Properties”.
3. Click on tab called “Summary”.
4. This contains infomation about the Document.
5. You can change between “<>” view.
Sophisticated technology heheh….someone looks like they got ripped off..and paid for the five simple steps above].
“Patterson and Golding are known to jealously guard their image as squeaky-clean prime ministers” ?????? ???????
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hate-mail-author-unmasked–big-lawsuit-coming#ixzz1r5uxNbyz
This one is worth the popcorn. Very interesting. Depositions? Watching this one…
That should read:
5.”change between simple and advanced view”
sorry the scripting on this site humbugged that last instruction (number 5).
Plus Jay always gives me a hard time to educate the masses. 🙂
Block Block
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Which-is-worse-Red-eye-or-bad-mind_10604216
WIV’s acknowledged willingness to acquiesce to political pressure during the Michael Misick years, and at times even their outright cheerleading for him, was one of the main reasons that the TCI Journal was launched in December 2007.
In recent weeks an icy shudder went up our backs as we came to know of an interview conducted by Gemma Handy, who now works for WIV, which was blocked from airing because of what appeared to be an attempt by owners/management of WIV not to displease powerful political and banking interests.
Once again without getting into the merits of any one editorial or managerial situation, but simply as a statement of a National Principle, a return to a monopoly situation with respect to television is obviously a real danger to civil society in the TCI.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-5-2012-%E2%80%93-danger-tci-civil-society-tci-needs-ptv
BSkyB’s shares fell off a cliff shortly after Sky News admitted that one of its senior executives authorised a journalist to conduct email hacking on two separate occasions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/marketforceslive/2012/apr/05/bskyb-shares-plunge-email-hacking
Today’s revelations come at a particularly sensitive time for Sky News, which is a subsidiary of BSkyB.
Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator is currently determining whether or not News Corp and James Murdoch are ‘fit and proper’ owners of a broadcasting licence.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/sky-news-admits-hacking-emails-but-says-it-was-in-the-public-interest-7621831.html
Happy Holidays….Mr. Music…
The mix them not very heavy..weak but music same way
Passing comment: Our Jamaican papers are boring. Will we ever have real investigative journalism? Will we ever have editors who don’t struggle with grammar (and other handicaps)? Papers boring and stories hoarded until Sunday when the paper sells for more.
News Group phone hacking scandal costs approach £240m
No provision has been made against potential costs relating to criminal investigations taking place on both sides of the Atlantic.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/media/9188522/News-Group-phone-hacking-scandal-costs-approach-240m.html
I confess: I am intrigued with this “letter” and subsequent “letters” what should it be called ? Imbroglio…well anyway potential names aside… Very interesting on a variety of levels. Intrigue not seen on our shores EVER perhaps. Of course in the normal course of things had it not mentioned David Smith I would have just yawned. Not much pulling factor on the others.
Unfortunately (what a hell of a word) the lay of the land and the current timing (among other things for the moment) essentially translates to: I will watch and observe one who (I believe is) “a fisher of men” and the other who is a “fisherman” at this juncture.
But yeah…Intrigued and that’s not easy to stir up in yours truly. Whichever (P)uppet (M)aster running the show has done well to get this blogger’s attention. Aside, way too early for me to ..hmm “comment??” Intrigued.
Seems both DA and LD have shared their hmmm “thoughts/concerns?” but a lot raw simplicity gushing out of them and so off the mark for at least one (maybe both) that I feel sorry for him (them?).
Goes to show “longevity” in Jamaica does not equate to ability and certainly not sense. No more on that (although it merits more but not now).
Readers, you decide for yourselves.
I had prepared a piece on electronic comms i.e Author, saver, cut , paste and “authors inspirer” and other technical delights but even that must wait for now.
Readers, you decide for yourselves.
Dear Mr Azan:
In my long career in journalism, 39 years this October, I have seen
some extraordinarily reckless letters and e-mails of the sort just
shown to me by a close colleague and purported to be written by one
“Paul Azan”. This one, however, has surpassed all levels of indecency,
coarseness, rationality, badmindedness and just plain evil.
Invariably, when the culprits of such hateful work is unmasked, it has
turned out to be the fevered imagination of an insane mind at work,
and so it is possible to dismiss it as such.
In this case, however, there is unmistakeable cunning in the madness.
It employs some of the well known flaws in the Jamaican culture to
attack the integrity of a wide swathe of persons whose individual and
collective work has done more for the development of the Jamaican and
Caribbean people than can ever be repaid. These include former Prime
Minister of Jamaica P.J. Patterson, Hon Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Dr
Christopher Tufton, Mr Brian Jardin and Mr Danville Walker, among
others.
For example, the author of the e-mail accuses Mr. Patterson and his
administration of regularly accepting bribes from Mr. Stewart. In Mr.
Stewart’s case, the repugnant suggestion is made that he was involved
in narco-trade. The clear intent is to malign by pandering to the view
that politicians and big businessmen are corrupt or owe their success
to drug dealing, without having to provide the slightest shred of
evidence.
And yet these are two Caribbean stalwarts of the utmost integrity and
propriety who have devoted their lives to advancing the welfare of
their compatriots, including the author whose identity is fooling no
one but himself.
“Paul Azan” also uses photographs to infer guilt by association with
convicted persons, such as Olint’s David Smith. This cheap trick
betrays desperation as it is well known that high profile persons and
celebrities are always in demand for photographs with admirers and
spotlight seekers alike. It is also curious that after sullying the
reputation of so many undeserving individuals, the author temporarily
lifts his mind out of his mental ghetto, to provide defence for two
former longstanding employees of Mr Stewart, both of whom are facing
the court on charges of fraud. This apparently, is where the cunning
ends and reveals motive, unadulterated spite and vengeance.
His dastardly attack on Mr Stewart can be easily seen for what it is.
It must be hard for those who are so desperately jealous of Mr
Stewart’s success and the great love he enjoys from people of all
walks of life, from one end of the Caribbean to the next, to see that
he can bring four prime ministers together at the launch of the
historic Sandals Corporate University. I note that the hateful e-mail
emerged in the wake of that rare achievement.
I have been very fortunate to work closely with Mr Stewart and to
witness his greatness at work. At the Observer where he allows us
more freedom than any other media house currently operating in
Jamaica, our journalists continue to sing his praises for his
commitment to nation-building and press freedom as part of that
endeavour. The one instruction he gives all the time is that we use
our journalistic skills to help root out corruption and injustice in
our beloved country. And he has always given us the backing we need.
I have personally heard the testimonies of the many grateful Jamaicans
whose lives he has touched with his generosity and genuine love for
people.
It is all this that “Paul Azan” seeks to destroy under the cowardly
cover of email anonymity.
Desmond Allen
Desmond Allen
Executive Editor – Operations
Jamaica Observer
40-42 1/2 Beechwood Avenue
Kingston 5, Jamaica
Tel: 876-9369420
Cell: 876-8781003
Dear Desmond,
It is rather painful to read your response to Paul Azan because the
impression it creates is that you are slavishly defending your
employer rather than responding as an investigative journalist should,
seeking more information, especially for one who has been in the
business as long as you have.
First of all it is a fact that corruption is a way of life in Jamaica
as everyone well knows but yet you seem shocked that someone could
make such allegations against high and mighty people including your
employer.
Second as a senior journalist (39 years in the business you say) I’m
sure you must know very well that the laws of libel in Jamaica prevent
most allegations of corruption from ever being publicly discussed. The
high and mighty will use this repressive libel law to shut you up in a
minute but yet you seem to be blissfully confident that your employer
would not resort to such tactics. Too bad Mutty Perkins is not here
to put in his two cents.
What I think you should be doing, instead of using all of this
emotional language and specious arguments to defend your employer, is
ask him to respond publicly so that we can all judge whether Paul
Azan (whoever he might be) is just a spiteful lunatic or whether he is
doing a public service in bringing to light acts of corruption that
he might be aware of. Rather than try to frighten intelligent people
into believing that Azan has committed treason or blasphemy let your
employer not hind behind his charitable and philanthropic work but
publicly deal with any skeletons he might have hanging in the closet.
If there is nothing to hide then why the panic from people like
yourself.
Might I remind you that according to the IMF 1.2 million Jamaicans are
living below the poverty line and every act of corruption, every act
of stealing public money by politicians, bureaucrats and private
sector people contributes to more debt and more poverty and
hopelessness for the people. In fact I would go so far as to suggest
that the IMF figure of 1.2 million is a conservative estimate. Read
your own newspaper account of this poor and unfortunate family in St.
Ann.
As a citizen that is concerned about the plight of the poor and
recognizing that Jamaica is one of the most unequal countries in the
world in terms of wealth distribution, and bearing in mind that this
economy has been stagnant for fifty years, except for the emergence
of a handful of powerful millionaires and billionaires, I am under no
illusion that their wealth is purely due to their hard work and
self-sacrifice.
Regards,
Lloyd D’Aguilar
After those letter exchanges came this. LD used the word “panic” and seemingly DA adopted/plagiarised it and gave a “reacharound?” by placing it in the headline.
This is one to watch.
David Smith is not mentioned in today’s “pepperpot” but DS and his Olint is mentioned in DA letter.
Jay, common/warren blog where I am blocked in favour of the likes of Chucks and Ready Fready has some docs up with some XX block that are as meaningless as his blocking of my comments over there.
muppet.
Could David smith see a witness stand? He ALWAYS plead guilty to avoid the stand.
Who would put out such a juicy bait ….this is one to watch. No 9 days expected…
Eager to comment even starting with “employs some of the well known flaws in the Jamaican culture” from DA editor. Yet ..not time yet for that.
Here is the Article? link:
Hate mail lawsuit causing chaos, panic!
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hate-mail-lawsuit-causing-chaos–panic–_11208255#ixzz1rD6u5KEy
From an Olint perspective I am sure it would be good to have BG and DS in an American court under oath (not silly inquiry). Both of them are mentioned in this “PA letter.” Could reports of a “mother of all cases” (for so it has been suggested) bring BG and DS under oath in a reputable forum?
Very interesting.
For BG made some written correspondence as to why DS scheme could not have been legit. But AFTER that it was revealed that notwithstanding his own acumen of recognising that DS was a criminal that the “organisation” was taking money from Smith.
Many people found out DS was a criminal after having monetary dealings with him. They can claim ignorance I suppose (Tafari :-0 ).
But if you claim you knew DS was dodgy why would you then have monetary dealings with him?
I’m probably missing something. Maybe the recent “hype” this Easter might enlighten me (us) an Olint victim?
[Prime Minister Golding added that, “Security of investments depends largely on transparency and availability of information so that investors can make informed decisions.” He said, as so many persons had learned painfully, investors must at all times be able to know where their money is, what it is doing and how it is doing.
According to the Prime Minister, “Investors in these schemes chose not to concern themselves with these matters, mesmerised, no doubt, by the incredible returns they thought they were receiving, which were precisely that — incredible, unreal and unsustainable. It is said that a fool and his money are soon parted,” the Prime Minister indicated.]
http://whaddatsurvivors.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=print&thread=763
Yet later it was revealed that we sometimes do not adhere to our own advice and acumen with a thank you for the money email from BG to DS. See the dates of the correspondence for yourselves:
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=466
What happened to the defamation case promised against Walker?
This one:
[“I am advised that you were one of the discussants on a radio programme aired on NewsTalk 93 last week, in the course of which you made defamatory remarks in reference to me. In response to a formal request to the radio station for a recording of the programme that was aired, we were advised that the recording equipment ‘failed’ and therefore no recording can be produced.
“We have, however, secured a recording of the programme from an independent source and it has been referred to my attorneys for them to advise me on the appropriate action to be taken,” Golding said in his letter.]
I wonder what the attorneys legal advice was? I would hope it did not go the way of ABC. What I am happy to see is that BG makes clear that he has a copy of that radio interview. That’s a relief there to know who has it.
Will this PA “pepperpot” case materialise and not go the way of other highly hyped and anticipated cases? I hope not.
And the BG DS relationship is just one interesting facet. I can’t recall either men speaking publicly of their association ever. Perhaps dreams might come true after all.
Smith has some limited experience in US Courts albeit slumping further down into his chair void of the trademark bravado. Shame Smitty you let the fans down…
So much intrigue.
Without going to much into the letters of Desmond Allen and Lloyd D’Aguilar I wil say I find DA concern about the allegations levelled against Mr. Stewart to be serious and worthy of efforts to have any record set straight.
I think he (Stewart) should proceed in this regard with haste and not let the other named persons such as David Smith delay a defence gof Mr. Stewart’s good name. Besides, the other people mentioned may not even know David Smith.
I do see merit in D’Aguilar’s suggestion that any named person immediately deny the accusation of the PA letter before anything else. But reading what is in the press (limited as usual) this does not seem to be the case. Seems legal action will be undertaken before and clear public denials.
I am also pleased that DA (local journalist) speaks as if he is the pinnacle of journalism and anti corruption for Jamaica.
Unfortunately 9that word again) I have never seen any evidence of that.
But we can still have HOPE.
Maybe Hughcliffe?? Ha!
On a different (yet not fully unrelated) note:
Recently an affidavit from one Karen Delancy (a politician) of the Turks and Caicos Islands appeared on the internet. Media houses in the Caribbean reported on it. In it she (Delancy) states that she received political donations from David and Tracey Smith via one Rex Messam. In addition Delancy also mentions that Tracey Smith gave her $4,500 of the people’s stolen money and claimed that (Tracey Smith) was adamant that the money was a gift and was not to be reimbursed (either to her or any Olint victim).
David and Tracey Smith are Jamaican. Not TCI islanders. Their belongership was obtained with stolen money and bribery. They ARE JAMAICAN. And in Delancy’s claim these Jamaican’s were donating to every single candidate in Delancy’s political party.
And…
They were doing it with stolen money.
Yet there is NO mention of this news in Jamaican “media?”
How is that not Jamaican news?
I would like to call “them” Journalists…but I can’t.
Maybe some hybrid of sorts coming out of the “ceremonial” land we live in.
A Fisher of Men speaks on fishing:
“I have never eaten a bonefish and whenever I have caught them I let them go, in Jamaica and down here. As a Jamaican I was always told they were not good to eat. I know that there is a great abundance of them in these islands as one day by Wheeland / Blue Hills I observed a man with a seine net catch about 4 pickup truck loads full of bonefish in about three hours. ”
I am still looking forward to seeing our new Governor taking a trip out on the “bank” to inspect this our most valuable resource.
All the best
John D. Wildish
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-6-2012-letter-flats-fishery-one-our-most-valuable-resources
Hahahahaa..what is this metaphor? or code?
John Wildish are you warning a simpleton(s) to leave a fat bone fish bait alone?
Bonefish a good bait to ketch Marlin…out in open sea…
Rex Messam, David “sling” Smith and John D. drinking waters at cricket? Good old days?
Following a party rally on Friday night, leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP), Clayton Greene, told TV reporters that he has decided not to contend for leadership of his party at the upcoming convention.
Greene has been drawn into the numerous court cases affecting former PNP ministers and their relatives. He has been arrested and charged with money laundering for his cousin Quinton Hall, the brother of former finance minister Floyd Hall.
“The pressure on the PNP party by the charges of corruption in government has seemed to challenge their existence,” said the PTV 8 commentator.
“We need not be concerned over those bald headed white faced British people,” chided former deputy premier and health minister Lillian Boyce.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-PNP-leader-says-it%27s-time-to-quit-5199.html
http://goanimate.com/videos/07axv4vChUeU
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx wrote:
Here is the document. Someone attached your name to it. Let me make it clear that I make no allegation that you are the author.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:58:55 -0400
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XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX It was sent to me and to a number of other individuals.I shared it with XXXXXXXX. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX. However let me point out once again that I am not the author of this piece!
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Intriguing…
“In the meantime, while the evidence is conclusive, the identity of the author was deliberately being withheld pending the process.”
“Be on guard, avoid fraud!
Word is that certain people have been leaning unfairly on others for support after they get themselves involved in fraudulent activities. Some of those terrible e-mails are the result. The best thing to do is avoid fraud in the first place.”
hmmm…”leaning on others for support” no anagrams detected in the clues…hmmm I’ll get it just that I’m being lazy right now.
“known to have done this before.”
“leaning unfairly on others” hmm.. hmm
“sophisticated software” “expert at code” “have everybody’s ticket” hmm “Times crossword puzzles” hmm
Click to access Butchdemandsapology.pdf
“has done before” hmm
February 19, 2009
Mr. Gordon Stewart
CEO ATL Group of Companies
35 Half way tree road
Kingston 5, Jamaica
Dr. Christopher Walker
6464 Lake Burden View Drive
Windermere, Fl 34786
Dear Mr. Stewart,
Many thanks for your letter dated February 17, 2009. Please allow me to apologize once again for erroneously associating you with David Smith.
The error was caused by misinformation from a Turks media source which was not double checked by my British attorneys before I sent the letter.
Subsequently, when I checked with Professor David Rowe and Dr Velma Brown Hamilton my Jamaican lawyers they both urged me to retract the statement immediately. In fact Professor Rowe explained to me your nation -building role and Dr Velma Brown -Hamilton advised that she has always had a strong professional relationship with you and your companies. You are without doubt someone who all Jamaicans are proud of.
Reed Smith my British lawyers have concurred. I am sorry for any trouble my comment may have caused. It is my hope in your capacity as a National leader you will be able to assist in relieving problems caused by the Olint crisis.
Sincerely yours,
Christopher Walker, MD, FACOG, FICS, FAACS
“be able to assist” -Lean Unfairly??
Click to access Butchstewart.pdf
Same machine: Application: Hewlett Packard MFP
PDF Version: 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x)
Expensive machine that. Oh if for some funding my way.
I’ll solve it. No rush.
Date unknown?
Dear XXXXX,
I have informed XXXXX that although I am happy to meet with him next week (at no charge to him), in the light of his decision to end his joint arrangement with Christopher, Reed Smith now faces a conflict of interest as between himself and Christopher and for that reason, we can no longer continue to act for him in relation to the Olint matter. I have sent him an email to that effect this morning.
Kind regards
Simon
Simon Hart
Yawn…sleepy now..
There is a shadow in the background somewhere. Uh hmm. And the shadow is not some punk. Not common to the land. Well educated, cold, calculating and most of all patient …..very patient. More adjectives for the shadow to come….Sunday…
A review of all the “cables” might be in order…
This Windermere place sounds like a living hell! I would never go there. I would not go to Barbados either as I have read Jamaican people get finger searched.
Dead, decapitated animals on the front lawn? Cars destroyed? People having heart attacks like this privately educated young man? These are the points one takes from the article. The young lady’s athletic exploits would be better served by a professional PR firm.
What could have caused this? The dead decapitated animals part sounds like the gore of the film “The Godfather.”
It must be a burden living in this Windermere, Orlando place. I would just tell tell them to go jump in a lake. This cat (Andre Brown) had a heart attack and was acting like Rambo armed and sleeping on his roof? In Windermere Orlando?? I hope he had a bucket of insect repellent with him. Next thing you know this guy will be acting like a paranoid JDF Special ops and waylaying gunman while buried under chicken coup for days with half a excelsior water cracker per day ration until the target turn up.
I thought Windermere Orlando was all Disney child friendly magic?
Who would want to live there after reading a front page story like this?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Racism-gives-Jamaican-man-a-heart-attack_11225686
This cat (Andre Brown) on rooftop at nightime with a “Kunta Kinte” in him waist? Sandfly must have sucked him dry!
And he calls his daughter a nigger as therapy? He need some advice. Dead animal pon front lawn? The ONLY remedy is to introduce such persons to the concept of “rancid nigger” Audre.
Suppose them show up with a sixthpence Andre? Kunta Kinte might feel like water pistol and wet pants.
Apartate the “Ultimate Leper”
Rats, rats, everywhere!
CHRIS BURNS
Monday, April 09, 2012
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Rats–rats–everywhere_11215551#ixzz1rYuQTVks
Mr.Burns, I have a burning issue on rats, ” Burnt coconut is the best rat bait, foreign rat love swiss cheese.”
Breakfast of champions?
Floridian….How are the lawsuits coming? Any ruling yet?
US media spotlight on TCI
Charles reports, “Many complain the ongoing $11 million a year criminal investigation has gone on far too long and the costly remedies the British government is imposing, are more than they bargained for.”
This, however, seemingly ignores the fact that the investigation itself is less that two years old and has resulted in the indictment of 13 former ministers, their relatives, attorneys and developers, who donated huge sums to the politicians in the form of alleged bribes and campaign contributions
The article continues to lay some of the economic blame on the global financial crisis, which has, in fact, slowed real estate sales. However, the local market has also apparently been depressed by uncertainty caused by delays in prosecuting those individuals alleged to be guilty of the suspected corruption.
“The elected government on TCI was …deliberately, systematically stealing the assets of the people of TCI for personal gain,” Todd said. “The consequence of this was very serious damage to the economy; a serious loss of assets belonging to the people of TCI, particularly land. And large bribes…”
The article speaks to the activities of the special investigation and prosecution team, saying, “While a slew of British investigators — with help from the US Department of Justice — comb through a reported 100,000 pages of evidence, uncovering suspicious land deals, unpaid government bills and possible fraud, bribery and money laundering by former leaders, the islands’ former premier, Michael Misick, has fled and is being sought by Interpol.”
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-US-media-spotlight-on-TCI-5205.html
The Weekly News article reported that the PNP was concerned that the party might not survive the pressure being applied by the interim regime and the special investigation and prosecution team (SIPT).
A dozen former PNP ministers, their attorneys, the current PNP leader and former Speaker of the House, plus their close relatives, are all due in court this month to answer a wide range of criminal charges. Also being charged are developers who are alleged to have provided bribes and very large campaign contributions to the PNP.
The SIPT has indicated their investigation has uncovered evidence that could result in at least another 50 individuals being charged. Those charged to date have included only those connected with the PNP.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-CEO-snipes-at-political-parties-5204.html
No ‘white man can tell me when to resign’, says PNP leader
“There have been calls for my resignation, and I have been categorical that no white man can tell me when to resign as leader of the Progressive National Party.”
One evil British man has brought this country from the heights of success to the pits of despair.
“I came to the leadership of this party with one goal and that was to ensure that we as PNPs never lose sight of our rich heritage, and to ensure that we, as Turks and Caicos Islanders, are not relegated to the back of the bus. We seek justice for Turks and Caicos Islanders who are outnumbered, and who, more than eve, are being crushed under the large and unforgiving foot of white greed,” Greene charged.
Greene, who became the chief of the party two years ago, was charged by the Helen Garlick-led Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) with two money laundering counts.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2452
British not serving the best interests of the Turks and Caicos Islands, says Lillian Boyce
“Every one of our young people who have the ambition to enter politics, you should go forth and do it. Go and serve your country. Make that important contribution, so that they (British) cannot keep on bringing in these old, lazy, good for nothing, baldheaded, grey haired British People, who are sleeping on the job.
“I sometimes wonder what would really happen if the international media would just take for a moment and find out what is happening in the Turks and Caicos.
“Of course we have some Turks and Caicos Islanders, who love to lick, lick, lick (sell-out their own at any cost), but I am happy that people like Dr. Ewing and Sonia Williams told them to ‘go to hell’
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2453
Witness statements that were given to the Special Investigations and Prosecution Team (SIPT) by former Progressive National Party (PNP) Minister Karen Delancey and former People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) chairman Shaun Malcolm, are being widely circulated over the internet in the Turks and Caicos Islands and beyond.
Delancey also told SIPT she received a $10,000 campaign donation from convicted fraudster David Smith, and a loan of $4,500 from his wife Tracey Smith.
She also give the SIPT information about her colleagues Floyd Hall, McAllister Hanchell, Jeffrey Hall, Lillian Boyce, Greg Lightbourne, Royal Robinson, Amanda Misick, Samuel Been, Wayne Garland, Norman Saunders Snr., as well as mentioning the names of Althea Ewing, Lisa Hall, Carlos Simons, Rex Messam, Alan Forest, Aulden Smith, Lord Ashcroft, Cynthia Astwood, Oswald Skippings, Ruth Blackman, Bishop Coleta Williams, Clive Stanbrook, and Mary Forbes.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2445
Jeffrey Sachs in conversation at the Guardian Open Weekend. Here, he discusses how globalisation has exacerbated income inequalities and the control over politics exerted by the rich, citing the Occupy movement which he describes as a ‘public relations hazard not a health hazard’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/video/2012/apr/12/jeffrey-sachs-us-economy-video
“No white man can make me resign” What an incredibly poor choice of words for a potential Premier of our country. Unfortunately, the acceptance of such racism has become the norm lately in the TCI.
Does Mr. Greene and his PNP party not see that potential investors and retirees read this smarm on the net, before just plunking down their money here? Do you, Mr. Greene, think anyone out there wants to invest in a racist country?
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-12-2012-letter-re-clayton-greenes-public-speech
The church has failed the country
Speaking at the PDM rally at its headquarters in Providenciales on Wednesday night, April 11, Taylor stressed that had the church played its God-given role of being the conscience of the people, it would have ensured that the former administration was in line.
“I have to ask you (church) this question, why did you not speak out against such wrong. God is counting on you to put right where right belongs and to put wrong where wrong belongs. God is holding you responsible and is depending on you when there is wrong,” Taylor Charged.
Taylor used his time at the platform to lash a particular pastor who he said blamed the PDM for inviting the British here, stating that the particular pastor saw no evil, spoke no evil and heard no evil while PNP was in power since he was a paid advisor.
“You know who I am talking about. This is wrong. Individuals such as these are very dangerous and will destroy a nation for their selfish gain and aggrandizement,” Taylor noted.
He continued: “The PNP has tried to use the British occupation as a disguise to hide their dishonesty, misappropriation and corruption. The PNP was selling out our birthright everyday to the highest bidder. I don’t want you to ever forget that. You remember the hundreds and hundreds of PRCs and thousands of Belongerships that were sold to the highest bidder.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2467
Political candidates will need legal clearance
With elections still anticipated yet this year, it appears that all candidates for elected political office will not only have to submit declarations of their financial status but will also have to obtain clearance from the attorney general before they qualify to run for public office.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Political-candidates-will-need-legal-clearance-5214.html
Sufficiency Hearing Begins Tomorrow for 14 in Turks & Caicos Islands
http://blip.tv/wiv-news/what-is-a-sufficiency-hearing-6091208
Top British Advisor sewing his royal oats on the job
How can these Brits who rode in here on a wave of righteousness have one of their own fraternizing and romancing on the job.
I was shocked that one of our women would fall for one of the oppressors but I guess you take love where you can find it.
A CEO, well what more to say about him that haven’t [This fools
English Language skills is reminiscent of Jamaican “journalists”…truly sad] already been said, except he uses a clearly marked exit area for entry point….[Battyman]
http://tcipost.com/?p=19723
“The brits are trying to breed their way into us now”
http://tcipost.com/?p=19723
You see how people getting shaky? These once topanaris…EARLY DAYS STILL …TRUST ME….
Cow bawling as some simple case start tomorrow….”brits trying to breed …lalala” Shut up and take F inna you bloodcluat! bout LOL LOL. some years ago… Early days still Zeen don’t fool yourself keep the dollars to the lawyers and the private detective flowing rapid…..
Yardie nuh come back on the scene yet…and “will be back”…TRUST mi Mr. and Madame lol. TRUST MI…tan deh listen YOUR mentors and tapanaris if you want. A whole “new world education” has been put down on the syllabus for you and them….
Open or closed society is key dividing line of 21st century, says Hillary Clinton
US secretary of state tells Brasilia conference that countries can only become more secure and peaceful if they are open
Countries that are closed to “change, ideas, cultures and beliefs that are different from theirs will quickly find that in an internet world they will be left behind”, Clinton said.
”We believe those governments that hide from public view and dismiss ideas of openness and the aspirations of their people for greater freedom will find it increasingly difficult to create a secure society.”
“If ideas just remain theoretical, they are not much use to anyone,” she said. “But we now have tools that previous advocates of open information could not even dream of.
The US under-secretary of state Maria Otero said the conference demonstrated the global appetite for more transparent government, aand the internet had played a huge part in supporting transparency. “The position of the US has always been that the internet should be a completely free method of expression,” she said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/apr/17/open-closed-society-hillary-clinton
Jamaican Lottery Scams Spread Despite Crackdown
04/17/12 12:07 PM ET
“It’s been heartbreaking,” said Ruth Wilson, a Seattle woman trying to clean up the financial fiasco that she said has cost her frail parents about $250,000, nearly all of their retirement savings.
The schemes are so entrenched in Jamaica that some American police departments have begun warning elderly residents to be wary of calls from Jamaica’s 876 telephone code, which resembles the three-digit area codes used in the United States.
“These scammers are very persistent and in some cases verbally abusive, threatening to harm victims if they do not send money,”
Complaints from American citizens about Jamaican lottery fraud soared from 1,867 in 2007 to about 30,000 last year, and most incidents go unreported out of fear or embarrassment, according to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
Lottery fraud is an old crime but experts say threats and harassment are what separates Jamaican scammers from other transnational telemarketing schemes based in countries like Canada, Costa Rica and Spain.
Jamaican gangsters, using fake identities and disposable cellphones that can’t be traced, have put a scary twist on the con. Some have threatened to burn down elderly victims’ homes if they don’t keep the money coming. Investigators say some senior citizens have been told their grandchildren would be raped unless they wired payments.
A common trick is to describe the victim’s home via imagery available through Google Earth. Anguished senior citizens who have no inkling of that computer technology are convinced they are being watched.
Setzer said U.S. task force members and many Jamaican police are doing their best, but a scarcity of crime-fighting technology in Jamaica, lengthy court delays and strict rules of evidence are hindering their efforts.
“Everybody’s hands are tied with the system down there,” Setzer said from Washington.
“Jamaica is getting a very bad reputation abroad as a nation of scammers,”
Some people have lost their life savings. Among them was Ann Mowle, a 72-year-old retired bookkeeper in Monroe, New Jersey, who killed herself in 2007 after reportedly losing $248,000 to a Jamaican lottery fraud.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/jamaican-lottery-scam_n_1431701.html?ref=email_share
US tax grab – J’cans among millions targeted by IRS
“What is a sovereign state? These are things that we need to debate here,” said Earl Jarrett, the general manager of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS), at yesterday’s Observer Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s headquarters on Beechwood Avenue, Kingston.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/US-tax-grab-J-cans-among-millions-targeted-by-IRS_11270371
“The JLP operates like all other political parties … it seeks donations to carry out its activities from legal sources, mainly from corporate Jamaica. All party functions and activities are funded from legitimate funding the same as all other political parties,” Mr.Vaz replied.
He stressed that the funds were paid from well known legitimate donors and 100% clean.
From: Shalimar (shalimar@kasnet.com)
To: David Smith CC Wayne Doope
7/6/2007
Further to our meeting last night, I need the following:-
1) On announcement , need the balance for party central.
2) Complete breakdown of candidate support list and amounts proposed.
3) Helicopter (estimated to be US15,000 to 20,000
4) Requesting US$50,000 for Portland East and West and reminding you to speak to man in Negril in relation to information regarding candidate support and possible meeting.
Once again, thanks again for everything and look forward to hearing from you on the above mentioned matters.
Daryl.
http://www.olintja.com/blog/searcharchive.aspx
..more to come on lawsuit by Plaintiff Daryl (Shalimar) Vaz and Defendant David P. Rowe.
Signed,
“Remain Intrigued”…
April 2012
DARYL VAZ
Plaintiff,
v.
DAVID P. ROWE,
Defendant
Defendant is also a strong supporter of the current Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Rt. Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller and the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Rt. Hon. Edward Seaga. The Rt. Hon Portia Simpson-Miller and the Rt. Hon. Edward Seaga are icons of the Peoples’ National Party (the “PNP”) and the JLP, respectively.
…. author of the document in question (see Exhibit C).
…… communication received from the U.S. Homeland Department.
With reference to Plaintiff, the document in question states: It is said that working through his godson, Daryl Vaz, Stewart led the charge
financially and otherwise to push Edward Seaga aside…
http://www.olintja.com/Vaz_vs_Rowe/Daryl_Vaz_suing_David_Rowe_over_Butch_Stewart_Paul_Azan_letter.aspx
Misick joins Jan Messam and others of recent note on the race card. The “final frontier” race card?
Her Excellency, Navenenthem Pillay, high Commissioner fro human rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais Wilson
52 rue des Paquis
Ch-12011 Geneva Switzerland
Dear Madame Commissioner
“They have discriminated against the citizens of the Turks and Caicos because of the colour of their skin”
http://tcipost.com/?p=19766
Olympics boycott for prejudice and racism? Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) Fagan Avenue offices human rights issue?
Marco
April 18th 2012 – 2:00 p.m.
What about all our human rights Mike when you were living it LARGE on jets and champagne, when the school falling down and the kids ain’t got no books.. when you making millions and the place fallin apart, you just throw a few crumbs to your dumb followers.. You had years of fun and excess too and you need to take your medicine like a big boy as well.. No sympathy here.. At least Piper, Floyd and all got the guts to face the oppressors while you still hiding.. show some dignity man.. you love telling everyone you the former premier.. well start acting like one! You aint gonna wiggle out of this, too much shit went down and you know it.
LOL!
The pictures were good (could have been better) Soutar, Chen in particular. But the audio was excellent. Thx.
As to your question as to whether they will succeed I won’t say anything on that now. They don’t have the info I have and if they would ask for help or even be able afford it is uncertain.
And their target well…you know. 2Vindictive” lets leave it there.
They are rich but not the sharpest tools upstairs.
Again thx. BTW adjust the software and the clarity of the pics might be HD quality.
Sorry I have to answer here some issues lurking.
Ooch…the pics from Japan (much better quality) sexy little thing? Daily Mail stuff.
59″))T2- Don’t the bigger heads keep the juniors up to date on the temperature and tell them to be more careful? Are the fledglings kept out of the loop?
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Check this one 59″))T2 “Feudal”
But at the World Travel & Tourism Council conference in Tokyo yesterday, Mr Walsh said: “I’m not surprised
Mr Walsh rejected claims that there is personal animosity between the pair, having only met him on “two or three occasions.” However, he also dismissed Mr Branson’s achievements with Virgin Atlantic: “I’m not one of his admirers. I don’t see him as someone who deserves my admiration…
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/a-flying-feud-ba-boss-and-branson-go-to-war-7657854.html
Memory Lane?
Contribution to the Budget Debate by the Opposition Spokesman on Industry and Commerce,
Peter Bunting MP, at the Houses of Parliament, Gordon House, on April 16, 2006
Alternative Investment Schemes
“The Government was recently calling for a Commission of Enquiry into the operation of FINSAC, an event which occurred ten years ago. I believe that it would also be appropriate to enquire into the operations of the alternative investment schemes. Let us learn how much of the public’s money these schemes gave to political parties, let us hear how many persons speaking or writing in their defence were actually m benefitting financially from so doing. Let the chips fall where they may.”
Vaz Files Defamation Suit Against Rowe
According to attorneys representing Vaz, their client was defamed through email transmissions sent by Rowe hiding behind pseudonyms.
The emails, which contain damning allegations against senior members of the local political and business communities, have led to scores of people trying to distance themselves and issuing responses, urging the sender not to send them any more.
Documents allegedly fabricated
This has prompted Vaz’s attorneys to claim that Rowe “fabricated and published a document, which purported to be an official US law enforcement memo … which made direct accusations of bribery, money laundering, corruption and close affiliations with a notorious convicted drug lord.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120419/lead/lead3.html
More intrigue…watching this one. Later I’ll be back. For the astute (the few) you won’t want to miss it.
And why only the water boy? What about the big nan? interesting..worthy of a detailed research.
Research expensive. Very expensive.
Differing note:
WHO COULD BE AGAINST TRANSPARENCY?
‘Between a dog and a hydrant’ [get an umbrella]
More than a third (37 per cent) of the customers Johnson Survey Research questioned last month for an unnamed Jamaican institution said they would “probably” move their money rather than give in to the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca).
Almost three quarters (73 per cent) of those opposed to compliance said the information was private, that it’s none of America’s business or that it’s out of Washington’s jurisdiction.
Another ten per cent said they felt this way because “we are an independent nation” and two per cent said “the US is a bully”.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/business/-Between-a-dog-and-a-hydrant-_11272223#ixzz1sTpFMtli
Where are these anti american sentiments coming from and why are they being promoted?
KD Knight New UDC Chairman
The Office of the Prime Minister has confirmed that Government Senator, K.D Knight, is the new chairman of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) board.
The UDC board also includes another Government Senator Lambert Brown, economist Ralston Hyman, People’s National Party Councillor Marsha Francis, businessman Reynold Scott and clergyman Father Michael Lewis.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=36675
David Smith mansion damaged by fire
The mansion of convicted fraudster David Smith and his wife Tracey, was extensively damaged by a fire of unknown origin on the morning of Thursday April 19th.
Two fire tenders responded to the well-appointed water-front residence in the upscale development of Chalk Sound, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands.
It is understood that the Smith’s children were at home at the time of the fire, along with a home helper. Up to the time of writing this report, it could not be ascertained if anyone sustained injuries, but neigbours who went to the house said most of the furniture and fittings were damaged by the fire andy subsequently by water from the fire tenders.
David Smith, a native of Jamaican and who is also a citizen of the Turks and Caicos Islands, is currently serving time in TCI for bilking investors out of more than $200 million. He was also sentenced to 30 years in prison in Orlando federal court, which will continue after his sentence here.
http://www.suntci.com/
Message from Ja to keep mouth shut?
The time for critical thinking to guide is very short.
Don’t read this one Chucks and Ready Freddy et al..close your eyes..don’t read it. lol
Hacking scandal: the net tightens on the Murdochs
Legal campaign against News Corp in US gathers momentum as Rupert and James Murdoch prepare to appear before Leveson next week
Rupert Murdoch’s grip on his media empire was dramatically challenged yesterday after his company was labelled a “toxic shadow state” which launched a dirty tricks campaign against MPs and now faces a salvo of phone-hacking claims in the United States.
On a tumultuous day for the media mogul, the lawyer who brought the first damages claims against the News of the World in Britain said he had uncovered new allegations of the use of “dark arts” by News Corp in America and was ready to file at least three phone-hacking lawsuits in the company’s backyard.
The sense of a legal net tightening around Mr Murdoch and News Corp was heightened by the announcement that he and his son James will testify separately next week before the Leveson Inquiry into press standards during three days of what is likely to be uncomfortable scrutiny of alleged widespread criminality in their British tabloid newspapers.
In a separate development, the royal editor of The Sun became the latest journalist on the paper to be arrested on suspicion of making corrupt payments to public officials.
The arrest coincided with the publication of an incendiary book on the scandal which levelled new accusations that the NOTW set out on an extraordinary campaign of intimidation of MPs to try to blunt their investigations into its alleged law breaking.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-scandal-the-net-tightens-on-the-murdochs-7661722.html
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of NI, was bugged in her own office shortly before she resigned last summer over the phone hacking of Milly Dowler, the murdered schoolgirl.
NI intermediaries approached Mr Watson with a “deal” to “give him” former NOTW editor and Downing Street press chief Andy Coulson but that Ms Brooks was “sacred”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/hacking-scandal-the-net-tightens-on-the-murdochs-7661722.html
http://www.olintja.com/docs/Regime_change.htm
Wow. Wish I could see more
Baugh Wants Action To Remedy Health-Records Exposé
OPPOSITION SPOKESMAN on health and quality of life Dr Kenneth Baugh has urged the minister of health to break his silence on the breakdown of Jamaica’s medical records system.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120420/news/news2.html
Caledonia? lol. ouch!
Vaz alleges David Rowe is the e-mail man; files libel suit
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Vaz-alleges-David-Rowe-is-the-e-mail-man–files-libel-suit_11295079#ixzz1sZpcOdy4
Weak reporting by Observer and Gleaner but we are only 50 so we don’t expect the Guardian. You have to give creds to Vaz. He comes out early to deny the accusations leaving all the others mentioned like deer in headlights apparently unable to make a clear and unequivocal denial of the allegations.
Vaz did this with the Olint emails by immediately going on t.v. to say they are legitimate and accurate. Again, the others who tried to speak after Vaz ended up stammering and chatting shit and the rest RAN and phones were left unanswered.
Group meeting this time but no denials yet and the clock ticks. As far as I know Paul Azan is some French military figure. Not the regular habeebs of the rock.
Prediction? Early. I want it to get going so too early. If it gets going you might expect release of “things” during the case.
David Smith was mentioned. Seems the house rightfully belonging to his victims almost bun dung yesterday helper and all. Just because they can’t clear the lint from the dryer?? Best and brightest again ..to the worl’ brand Ja.
Such a case could be good for the nation but with the sub standard journalism even with Vaz direct links to Observer together might make it boring.
Not right here though..pictures and audio in the file already Soutar, Burke, Chen etc.
Watching this one. Watching Garlick watching chucks lol lol
The real mystery is that Andrew Holness name was not in the word file (for it seems it was a word file sent in an email. Yet David Smith is mentioned (as Desmond Allen was clear in pointing out).
Strange to me especially as Andrew Holness has the signed “thank you David Smith” correspondence on GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA LETTERHEAD.
Is 2012 Jamaica’s Waterloo?
PEPPER POT: Tourism hate-mailer unmasked
BY EVA-JEAN
Friday, April 20, 2012
O what a tangled web we weave when we do set out to deceive. The tourism official who should be promoting the industry is busy teaming up with the hate-mail people who would rather destroy the industry and brand Jamaica, just to squeeze out some measure of vengeance. Word is that he has been unmasked and the axe is poised to fall
Curious and ‘curiouser’…
curious letter of the day berating the successful businessmen is said to have the unmistakeable imprimatur of the one who fell out of grace and got the boot.
Not worth pining after…
Question of the Week: No one is pining after corrupt people who get their comeuppance, but how does one prevent fraud in the first place?
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PEPPER-POT–Tourism-hate-mailer-unmasked_11294922#ixzz1saGiKCfY
hmmm…Now you really have my attention. An extravagant retirement? Financed by BOTH sides. No problem mon!
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly
Smitty…thx
Anti-money laundering framework to be implemented
THE Government has signalled its intention to implement a modern Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Countering Financing of Terrorism (CFT) framework in Jamaica.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Anti-money-laundering-framework-to-be-implemented#ixzz1saM183tg
On the heels of Campaign Finance legislation. What caused these changes???? and also Fatca (Word is that the resentment is already building up???? Resentment?)
What caused all these positive changes?? We find good behaviour after cruising status quo for so long. What happened? Ran up into something serious for the first real test ever?
First it was LOL and more LOL ..then fool draw brakes…size cut to fit…in short pants?
What happened to the blogger AML? Coincidence? Blocked?
Chuck Emanuel
4/20/2012
What “resentment is building up “?, Do you mean from tax dodgers and evaders ? . Or are you talking about people who are willing to pay their fair share of taxes ?. This mentality of “Jamaica no problem mon” cannot hold sway. We must find solutions to problems, and fix them. The U.S. is not going to ask Jamaica permission to fix their problem of tax evasion, or avoidance.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PEPPER-POT–Tourism-hate-mailer-unmasked_11294922#ixzz1sddLHwlT
PEPPER POT: Tourism hate-mailer unmasked
BY EVA-JEAN
Friday, April 20, 2012
“O what a tangled web we weave when we do set out to deceive. The tourism official who should be promoting the industry is busy teaming up with the hate-mail people who would rather destroy the industry and brand Jamaica, just to squeeze out some measure of vengeance. Word is that he has been unmasked and the axe is poised to fall.”
To: Joey Issa (jissa@coolcorp.com), David Smith
From: Don Creary (doncreary@gmail.com)
Hi joey/David
Please see attached the article. I have made two changes (1) Reduce the number of quotes from FSC and (2) change rayes to 14% (low risk) and 18% (high risk) respectively.
Don.
Attachment: Wignall’s World February 4,2007
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20070203T160000-0500_118708_OBS_SUPPORT_FOR_OLINT_GROWING_.asp
From: Drum Manley-Drummond
To: Peter Bovell
Wed 12/20/2006
Peter,
There is a concern that phones may be tapped. Be careful what you say over the phone – you should tell David and Wayne and Joe as well.
Drum
Attorney-at-Law
48 Constant Spring Road,
Kingston 10
Tel. (876)920-1002, Fax (876)920-1008
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=473#473
Olint Case Still Hot
DPP has not ruled out prosecuting Ponzi scheme boss David Smith
She also disclosed that US investigators came to Jamaica and conducted interviews with a number of named persons.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120415/lead/lead6.html
“North East Manchester person…had a falling out with man at MZ (holdings) some years ago…”
Audley Shaw’s day of shame, Sunday, February 22, 2004
IN 1996 and 1997 when rumours were making the rounds that Seaga had a FINSAC problem, it was Audley Shaw who promised me that he would ‘soon clarify the matter’. The matter was eventually clarified years later, but it did not come through Shaw.
For quite some time now, people have been telling me of a strain in the relationship between the business community of North East Manchester and Shaw.
Not only did Unipet supply the Shaws with products, but it was Unipet that had initially supplied the funds (by way of a loan) to establish the station and to purchase and install equipment for the operation of the station. The station is at an ideal location along a main road in Christiana. After the business became run-down and there were serious arrears of payments, Unipet called in the loans. With the Shaws’ back against the wall, who could they now turn to? Enter Joseph Issa, operator of Cool Oasis. My information tells me that through middlemen, Joseph Issa, (a man not unknown to have JLP sympathies) and the Shaws met. Joey Issa is a decent human being and a gentle soul, and not just the hard-nosed businessman implied by the name. The main objectives were for the Issa-concern to pay off the indebtedness to Unipet, install new equipment and fixtures and operate the station under the Cool Oasis brand. Under this agreement, the Shaws would manage the station and pay over 40 per cent of sales to Cool Oasis. Quite apart from the strict business relationship, the parties involved did not want to see Audley Shaw go under. It was as if a second godfather had arrived to save the Shaws. In one section of the affidavit from Blair Gonsalves, general manager of Cool Oasis Christiana Limited, it is stated that, ‘The defendant says it is a failure of the Shaws to manage the station in a businesslike, effective and prudent manner that has led to the defendants terminating their position as managers.’ ’It was the Shaws duty to manage the station in a prudent and businesslike manner and to pay over 40 per cent of the proceeds of sale which they have failed to do’. During 2003, the station became further run-down. In that year too, cheques drawn from the Shaws to Cool Oasis and MZ Holdings (Issa’s concerns) were bouncing all over the place. On February 3, cheques totaling approximately $727,000 were returned by the bank because of lack of funds. On March 3, cheques totaling about $1,304,800 were returned. On April 2, cheques totaling about $689,000 were returned. In May, the Shaws really went to town with cheques. Five cheques totaling approximately $3,559,000 were returned. On August 1, a cheque for about $349,641 was returned, while in November, another for about $256,000 was also returned. A total of some 15 cheques amounting to approximately $6,885,441 bounced. What made the cheque episode so terrible, was that quite a few of them were replacement cheques for bad ones. The replacements also bounced. In other words, it would not be unreasonable if persons were to conclude that the Shaws knew that there was no money in the respective accounts to cover the cheques, but went ahead and issued worthless bits of paper anyway. All of this coming from a man who wants to get rid of a ‘wicked and corrupt’ PNP government. We must bear in mind that the cheques were eventually made good, but up to January of this year, the indebtedness of the Shaws was over $7 million and Cool Oasis wanted to terminate the management agreement with them. What is even more sad, is that the whole matter could have been settled out of court amicably. All Audley Shaw had to do was leave the business and chalk up himself as just another failed businessman. Instead, he took the matter to court after he had repeatedly failed to show up at meetings with Cool Oasis personnel. With so much to lose, he took the matter into the public domain and now he is left with egg on his face. His reputation has been shot to pieces and his roles as deputy leader and PAC chairman, untenable.
Who was it who took Cool Oasis to court? Who was it who made it available to the public domain? This is another sad day for the JLP when its main spokesperson on Finance and head of the Public Accounts Committee can be involved in a business which has a dirty habit of issuing bounced cheques. Already embarrassed by the refusal of their leader to accept his redundancy and step aside, JLP MPs, caretakers and delegates must now face another round of shame. They certainly can’t take too much more. Did someone say something about a government-in-waiting? Waiting on what, to do what? Shaw must do the decent thing and resign his deputy leader and PAC posts. Let him keep the MP slot. The people will judge him next time out. As he walks into Parliament, he will face the stares and silent guffaws of his colleagues on the PNP side. Those on his own side will be bowing their heads in shame, avoiding his eyes. Shaw will walk in gingerly, his eyes to the floor. A silent prayer will leave his heart. It will be saying, ‘Lord, take me away from here.’
April 2012
DARYL VAZ
Plaintiff,
v.
DAVID P. ROWE,
Defendant
Defendant is also a strong supporter of the current Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Rt. Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller and the former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Rt. Hon. Edward Seaga. The Rt. Hon Portia Simpson-Miller and the Rt. Hon. Edward Seaga are icons of the Peoples’ National Party (the “PNP”) and the JLP, respectively.
Who works for whom?
Sunday….stay tuned.
I want to put some serious questions to Jamaicans around the world.
And we can get into some of the “suss” BS that sadly most of you overindulge on like these:
From: hazrobinson@cwjamaica.com
To: christopherwalke@hotmail.com
Subject: OLINT
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:42:26 -0500
You are the most vicious and malicious person I have ever come across. I am absolutely apalled that someone with your apparent intelligence could write such drivel, and it appears the the Honorable Prime Minister of Jamaica was quite right with his redicule.
Your behaviour is at best efeminate and “higglerish”,. I pray to God that one or more of the persons mentioned in you story, sue the ass off of you. You are an abolute disgrace.
Anthony R.F. Robinson
Major (Ret’d)
p.s. I am also a citizen of the United States, and can be assured that you could never speak for me.
And hopefully your attention can be drawn to save your country from the corruption that it is and if the suss can get your attention you might be able to digest certain truths that most touted heroes of Jamaica are in reality just criminals.
And of course the message that it is time to settle “accounts” NOW.
Sunday….
All in an Olympics year…..
Major Robinson’s spelling is just indicative of what it takes to get ahead in Jamaica from what it does not….
In the meantime…
Cameron family fortune made in tax havens
Revealed: David Cameron’s father built up legal offshore funds in Panama and Geneva
The Jersey, Panama and Geneva connection
Ian Cameron’s will
Though entirely legal, the funds were set up in tax havens such as Panama City and Geneva, and explicitly boasted of their ability to remain outside UK tax jurisdiction.
David Cameron has recently remarked on companies who have taken advantage of offshoring to legally avoid tax. Speaking at the start of the year to small business leaders in Maidenhead, he said: “With the large companies, that have the fancy corporate lawyers and the rest of it, I think we need a tougher approach.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens
Rupert’s revenge: who will Murdoch maul at the Leveson inquiry?
MPs are asking which recent or current prime minister will suffer the most damage when Murdoch testifies about phone-hacking
Rupert Murdoch is understood to regard David Cameron as an intellectual lightweight and flibbertigibbet. [lol]
They are expecting Murdoch to say that politicians of all hues beat a path to his door – or summoned him to their (back) doors when they reached power, as David Cameron did after the 2010 election.
The parlour game at Westminster now is which recent and current prime minister will suffer the most damage from Murdoch’s appearance.
Cameron’s relationship with Murdoch is the perfect illustration of what is expected to be the media mogul’s thesis. The prime minister initially kept his distance from Murdoch after his election as Tory leader in 2005 on the grounds that he could rise above traditional media thanks to the then emerging new social media.
The Cameron strategy came to a crashing halt in 2007 when he ran into trouble over grammar schools and Gordon Brown’s brief honeymoon period as prime minister. Cameron beat a path to Murdoch’s door, or rather flew on a private jet to his yacht in the Mediterranean. The jet was provided by Matthew Freud, Murdoch’s son-in-law, who had been desperate to smooth relations between the pair.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/20/leveson-rupert-murdoch-criticism-politicians
That one read like it would be a story straight out of Jamaica!
Blair’s decision to fly all the way to Hayman Island in 1995 to address News Corp leaders – at the invitation of Murdoch – is a classic illustration of the lengths politicians will go to please him.
EDITORIAL – Lottery Scam: Conspiracy Of Silence
As the adverse publicity gathers momentum and the 876 area code becomes blacklisted, the Government has named a new task force to try to erase the image being presented of Jamaica as a nation of fraudsters.
There are potentially serious implications for legitimate businesses, including tourism interests which could see a fall-off in business from persons who decide to shun this destination.
Ill-gotten monetary gain by a selfish few is threatening to put an entire country at risk. It should not be allowed to happen.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120421/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Letter: Beaches Resort is planning to import more workers
Published on April 20, 2012
Beaches Resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands has announced that they are bringing in some 500 workers to the TCI. This could not come at a worse time for the TCI economy, when thousands of residents are planning to leave the islands, the government just finished a redundancy program and the pressure of taxes is collapsing the TCI economy at Olympic speeds.
Yet Beaches are implementing the privilege granted them under a Development Agreement, which shows how the former PNP regime gave them the right to hire 600 people in 2006.
Maybe the interim government should consider cancelling the development agreement with Beaches or negotiating a deal where they limit the number of workers being brought in, so that people who live in the TCI can get jobs.
The irony is that in the 2003 election Mike Misick and the PNP campaigned against Beaches and said that Butch Stewart would “get nothin’ from his government”. Now some nine years later this false campaign is coming back to haunt TCI workers because they supported this government, the workers were sold out by this agreement and, at a time when there needs to be fewer work permits, this is coming back to haunt the workers.
Give us a break.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Letter%3A-Beaches-Resort-is-planning-to-import-more-workers-5223.html
Media ruckus over court hearings
Reporting restrictions on the proceedings at a preliminary or “sufficiency” hearing on Monday in the prosecutions of former Progressive National Party (PNP) ministers, their attorneys and relatives resulted in the arrest of one prominent media personality and public complaints from another.
Former CEO of now defunct Blaze Radio, Devon Williams, was caught operating a recording device in the packed courtroom and when he reportedly defied instructions to discontinue its use, he was removed from the room and handcuffed.
He was subsequently arrested and charged, although he later apologised to the court.
This incident is not Williams’ first brush with the law in defiance of authority. He was arrested at last year’s airport road protest demonstration, which was staged by PNP activists, including former premier Michael Misick.
Also reported to have attended Monday’s hearing was another former PNP premier, Galmo Williams, and the last chairman of the board of directors of the failed TCI Bank, Norman Hamilton.
Appearing to face various charges of bribery, corruption and money laundering were Michael Misick’s brother Chal Misick, an attorney; former finance minister and deputy premier, Floyd Hall, his wife Lisa and brother Quinton; former environment minister McAlister Hanchell; former minister of works Jeffrey Hall and his former attorney Melbourne Wilson; former education and health minister Lillian Boyce and her brother Earlson; and Boyce’s former husband Samuel Been. Also due to answer charges were Seven Stars resort developer Jak Civre, and Third Turtle developer Richard Padgett, along with former Speaker of the House and now PNP leader, Clayton Greene.
Former premier Michael Misick himself remains a fugitive from justice following the issue of an arrest warrant in the TCI and a corresponding “Red Notice” issued by Interpol.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Media-ruckus-over-court-hearings-5219.html
http://www.olintja.com/docs/catatonic-in-over-his-head.htm
Section 57.105’s new look: the Florida Legislature encourages courts to sanction unsupported claims and dilatory actions
The Florida Legislature’s recent overhaul of F.S. [section] 57.105 provides courts all over the state with a brand new tool to discourage lazy or unscrupulous litigants (and their legal counsel) from asserting unsupported claims or defenses, or acting in any way to delay civil proceedings.
And, unlike “Rule 11” (its federal counterpart), the new [section] 57.105 currently (1) provides no “safe harbor” with which challenged litigants and counsel might avoid being sanctioned by simply withdrawing the offending paper or action within a certain period of time.
The new subsection (1) requires the movant to establish that the offending party either “knew” or “should have known” that the claim or defense being challenged was not founded on fact or the applicable law. As such, [section] 57.105(1) can actually be applied in at least two different situations: 1) where a party (or counsel) has asserted “facts” which cannot be substantiated by the evidence or testimony; or 2) where an otherwise accurate set of facts does not support the particular theory of law to which it is ascribed. Reflecting the Bar’s “ethical” rules, which have almost always required attorneys to conduct a thorough presuit investigation of the facts and law, (11) this new statute is certain to encourage civil litigants (12)–and their counsel–to conduct more intensive investigations and research than have been conducted in the past. These investigations must delve into both the facts and the applicable law for each and every claim (or defense) a party seeks to assert.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6367/is_4_76/ai_n28911433/
http://www.olintja.com/docs/Memorandum-Special-Agent-Walker-Robertson-Vaz.htm
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied (multicolored) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with his magic pipe. When the citizenry refuses to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats.
Visa Theory?
Emigration theory
Added speculation on the migration is based on the idea that by the 13th century the area had too many people resulting in the oldest son owning all the land and power (majorat), leaving the rest as serfs.[5] The Black Death later destroyed that imbalance.[5] In any case, the motivation to leave was high and very much like the motivation for immigration to America in the 18th century i.e. freedom, opportunity, and land.
The herb valerian was used by rat-catchers to attract the rats and entice them away as it has a smell that attracts rats.
An alternate meaning of the poem [says who?] , relating to theories cited above and unrelated to the legend and stories written by the Brothers Grimm and other creators of fairy tales, is that the piper himself was executed on this day, perhaps because he had misled or abused the children, or for another reason. However, the double meaning referring to the children as victims having ‘lost their heads’ as well as being ‘lost in the hills’ does provide a typical ambiguous poetic explanation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pied_Piper_of_Hamelin
TCI Government surprised at plans for Beaches Resort
The Ministry is now seeking urgent communication from the management of Beaches Resort to confirm that the agreed procedures continue to be followed.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/tci-government-surprised-plans-beaches-resort
‘Butch’ Stewart increasing J’can staff to 500 in Turks and Caicos
BY DESMOND ALLEN Executive editor – operations allend@jamaicaobserver.com
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-21-2012-jamaica-observer-butch-stewart-increasing-jcan-staff-500-turks-and-caicos
Government Press Office
Turks and Caicos Islands PRESS STATEMENT
Ministry of Border Control and Labour
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-21-2012-ministry-border-control-re-beaches-sandals-group-tci
How many years in journalism you said you were around Desmond Allen?
It’s not years do this thing son.
That kind of attitude (boastful self promotion and spin) is the disease that permeates every sector of Jamaica. And the results are clear.
Sunday aaproaches. I think the Desmond Allen/Lloyd D’aguilar letters should be looked into a little more.
Allen shows traits of Walker
Sunday.
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Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato’s Socrates, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall do not make up reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
“Suppose further,” Socrates says, “that the man was compelled to look at the fire: wouldn’t he be struck blind and try to turn his gaze back toward the shadows, as toward what he can see clearly and hold to be real? What if someone forcibly dragged such a man upward, out of the cave: wouldn’t the man be angry at the one doing this to him? And if dragged all the way out into the sunlight, wouldn’t he be distressed and unable to see “even one of the things now said to be true,” viz. the shadows on the wall (516a)?
After some time on the surface, however, the freed prisoner would acclimate. He would see more and more things around him, until he could look upon the Sun. He would understand that the Sun is the “source of the seasons and the years, and is the steward of all things in the visible place, and is in a certain way the cause of all those things he and his companions had been seeing”
Return to the cave
Socrates next asks Glaucon to consider the condition of this man. “Wouldn’t he remember his first home, what passed for wisdom there, and his fellow prisoners, and consider himself happy and them pitiable? And wouldn’t he disdain whatever honors, praises, and prizes were awarded there to the ones who guessed best which shadows followed which? Moreover, were he to return there, wouldn’t he be rather bad at their game, no longer being accustomed to the darkness? Wouldn’t it be said of him that he went up and came back with his eyes corrupted, and that it’s not even worth trying to go up? And if they were somehow able to get their hands on and kill the man who attempts to release and lead them up, wouldn’t they kill him?” (517a) The prisoners, ignorant of the world behind them, would see the freed man with his corrupted eyes and be afraid of anything but what they already know. Philosophers analyzing the allegory argue that the prisoners would ironically find the freed man stupid due to the current state of his eyes and temporarily not being able to see the shadows which are the world to the prisoners.
Remarks on the allegory
After “returning from divine contemplations to human evils”, a man
“is graceless and looks quite ridiculous when—with his sight still dim and before he has gotten sufficiently accustomed to the surrounding darkness—he is compelled in courtrooms or elsewhere to contend about the shadows of justice or the representations of which they are the shadows, and to dispute about the way these things are understood by men who have never seen justice itself?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Lib Dem donor Michael Brown extradited to UK
Multimillionaire is to be sent from Dominican Republic to Britain, where he faces seven-year sentence for fraud
Authorities in the Dominican Republic on Saturday revealed they were to extradite the fugitive back to Britain after he was detained in the tourist town of Punta Cana in January.
Police said Brown, who donated about £2.4m to the Lib Dems before the 2005 general election – the party’s largest donation to date – had been flown to Spain where he was due to be turned over to the British authorities.
An Electoral Commission inquiry in 2009 found the Lib Dems had accepted Brown’s donation in good faith and cleared the party of all wrongdoing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/22/lib-dem-donor-michael-brown-extradited
Murdoch arrives, tilting at windmills and David Cameron
Rupert Murdoch mocked the Government yesterday before what is expected to be a tough grilling for the News Corp chief at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday
He will give evidence to Leveson over two days as the inquiry focuses on relationships between the press and politicians. He faced fresh controversy this weekend after a former journalist insisted that senior executives at News International (NI) ordered reporters to engage in “corporate espionage” against MPs investigating the Murdoch papers.
Neville Thurlbeck, former chief reporter of the News of the World, repeated claims that senior NI managers told staff at the defunct Sunday tabloid to dig into the private lives of politicians investigating the phone hacking scandal. He spoke out after claims in a new book by Martin Hickman and Tom Watson MP, quoting Mr Thurlbeck as saying the orders came from senior editorial staff.
But Mr Thurlbeck suggested that the orders came from a higher level: “It was News International, not the News of the World, which ordered us to dig into the private lives of the MPs on the committee which was investigating us. Many News International executives were in the loop, in ‘Deepcarpetland’ as the News International zone where these things emanated from was euphemistically called.”
He added: “Also for the record, every one of my colleagues had grave reservations about carrying out the surveillance. What if we were caught? And caught en masse? It wasn’t journalism. It was corporate espionage.”
“There had been many edicts down the years from News International management to target various people from all walks of life, and these were acted upon.”
http://www.shmoop.com/tale-of-two-cities/symbolism-imagery.html
Looks like it’s “Full speed ahead”
One hundred years ago, on the night of April 14, 1912, the White Star Liner’s Titanic kissed an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Of the 2,240 passengers and crew on-board, only 705 survived. This was the ship’s maiden voyage, and it had famously been said that the Titanic’s watertight compartments made it “practically unsinkable”.
The accident occurred about 11:40 p.m. An hour before, another ship had attempted to warn the Titanic about the ice, but the Titanic’s stressed-out wireless operator who was working on private messages flying back and forth about the magnificent journey, replied, “Shut up, shut up, I’m busy … .” The ship then took two hours and 40 minutes to founder and slip below the calm, but freezing ocean. Most of the deaths were caused by cold.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120422/cleisure/cleisure5.html
Bloking start again. They do it when them stomach turn.
“…I understand he has been warned that if he takes this route he will be arrested or murdered…”
AML the big man file is like a riot! You may not see this they haste to block (when they should haste to PAY)
Can’t send more publicly here cause they been blocking and removing
…met Audley Shaw in Beaches Turks and Caicos and he promised…
AML: US 25 million and climbing fast..really fast
A trial involving some of Jamaica’s most prominent politicians and businessmen shaping up in a Florida court is likely to be sensational and could impact the way people use [VIEW] e-mails
But Rowe could also potentially face a slew of lawsuits from P J Patterson, Audley Shaw, Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, Bruce Golding, Dr Christopher Tufton, Brian Jardim and others who were alleged to have been libelled in the e-mail that was widely circulated across the globe, Vaz said. {David Smith, Wayne Chen et al?]
But in pressing his defence he was forced to admit that he had assisted one of its special agents, by the name of Brian McCormack, [That must be from and email itself lawyer to lawyer…yes AML he answer to the question is yes ..thx in advance]
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Grand Jury [secrecy ?]
Homeland Security [Homeland department? what are those?]
beautiful island of Jamaica [metaphor? I leave it alone…]
He [Vaz] said he had spoken to the other people [Smitty Chen Robertson Soutar Burke? ohters? Why are they not there in the beginning? Good first experience for some of them] named in the e-mail and either received “overwhelming support” for his action or an indication that some or all might join the lawsuit against Rowe.
“I have what I consider to be conclusive evidence (through technology)
to pursue this relentlessly to a conclusion by the court,” Vaz insisted.
[turn yu hand yes..ahh but this person confessed he never new about the various US Depts at Manatt enquiry but tun yu hand yes.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Sensational–hate-mail–trial-shaping-up_11304890#ixzz1snKJv0wY
That’s my take 4 now AML this technology production today will be the focus for quite a while.
Lib Dem donor case: police hunt for Michael Brown’s missing millions
Michael Brown held in Spain after deportation from the Dominican Republic as British police try to trace £18m he is alleged to have stolen
Detectives are still trying to trace around £18m of Brown’s stolen money, which had been moved between his accounts in the US, Britain and Switzerland, the Guardian understands. Brown was estimated to have stolen more than £60m in a number of frauds. Most of his assets have been accounted for in property deals, a Bentley, a yacht and the private jet once used to fly senior Lib Dems across the UK.
However, more than £18m has not yet been accounted for. “The file at Interpol on Brown and his associates remains open,” a source told the Guardian.
Brown’s return will be another embarrassing development in the long-running saga over the Lib Dems’ biggest single donation. The party has refused to compensate any of Brown’s victims, claiming it received the money in good faith and spent it on the 2005 election campaign.
But Brown’s return will increase focus on the Electoral Commission inquiry into Brown’s donations. The inquiry failed to call the Lib Dems’ former treasurer, Reg Clark, who resigned over Brown in 2005 and warned advisers to the former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy that Brown should be treated with extreme caution.
One of Brown’s victims said the Lib Dems should return the money. Tony Brown, managing partner at law firm Bivonas which represents US attorney Robert Mann who lost more than $5m (£3m), said Brown may be asked to give evidence as part of his client’s claim against the Lib Dems.
“The Lib Dems have refused to repay this money to our client even though they know that this is the proceeds of crime. The Electoral Commission has failed to investigate this properly in our view.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/22/lib-dem-donor-michael-brown-missing-millions
Love the MONEY ehh? MONEY MONEY MONEY
But you don’t love when your precious tings go ‘to the worl’ hahahaha
Time very very very short….
Blood pressure check? …Right then good good..
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE!
Act one……
Get Behind Bars
Act 2
A word to the “move on” crew: Brothers and sisters? Don’t fool yourselves. Leave the Jagan (Yawrdie) bragadoshiousness that you brilliant and smart and ranking in your own mind. Keep it there. Don’t bring it on the road. Because you might get exposed as simple (as many have already done) and hug up.
Tafari, you cal for a link and then you back off? Wha a gwan? Fraid? Don’t fraid man…cause just like Bigga Ford seh pon you tube a the same fi mi, “mi nuh fraid a no one.”
“Whey yu dress up inna Police suit far…when mi neva si nuh Police man go war..”
Vybz Kartel
Lady Justice Ramsay-Hale said she accepted the apology, but added that she will order a further probe to determine whether Williams was recording any of the court proceedings.
Under the Criminal Procedure Amendment Ordinance, there are strict limitations on what the media is allowed to print or publish as it relates to sufficiency hearings. Recording, publication or broadcast of any report contravening the ordinance shall be a contempt of court and could lead to fines or imprisonment.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2479
Parro dem Parro Jumbo dem Jumbo?
Fighting down Yawrdie?
OUTRAGE OVER BEACHES HIRING 150 J`CANS
But the reports triggered angerd not only among concerned Belongers but also many of their Jamaican counterparts living here, who felt that Stewart’s intention bordered on insensitivity, owing to current job situation, plus the immigration and labour impact it could have on Jamaicans already living here.
At press time, Immigration officials were reportedly locked in a meeting mainly to figure out what could have actually led Stewart to speak with such assurance, and what can be done to allow locals to fill the majority of the slots that was now known to be available at the resort.
When contacted, Permanent Secretary for Border Control and Labour, Clara Gardiner, said that her ministry was unaware of Stewart’s pronouncement before The SUN contacted her, but she would be using all resources available to her to get to the bottom of the situation.
Head of the Providenciales Ministers Fraternal and member of the Coalition for Justice and Prosperity, Rev. Dr. Conrad Howell, said that he had already circulated the article to all its clergy members and would be investigating the matter further so as to come up with a solution to ensure that Turks and Caicos Islanders were employed in their rightful positions.
Howell continued: “And then there is a paragraph in the Observer that really gets to me.
While Howell said he could not reach the Labour Department to explain why Stewart was so confident about bringing in these workers, he pointed out that a talk show host had recently announced that Beaches was given approval to bring in 150 expatriate workers.
“And so, is this that approval that he was talking about? And if it is, again, where is Government looking?
Responding to some members of the public who said that the current situation which allows for Beaches to be thinking of bringing in so many outsiders to fill vacancies at a time when there is an extreme scarcity of jobs, was paved by his past administration, Taylor pointed out: “During our time, the initial agreement had to deal with training and what have you. But I understood that there was an expansion during the former (PNP) administration. There was an amendment to the agreement. That is what I understood; I have not seen anything (documents to that effect).
“But you would note that after 2003, and if you compare the number of Turks and Caicos Islanders that were employed at Beaches in managerial positions to what happened over the last few years under the former administration – including the court case and what have you – you would notice that something have gone wrong somewhere along the line and hence the situation that we are in.
Efforts to reach Leader for the Progressive National Party Clayton Greene for a comment on the issue proved futile, as calls to his phone went unanswered, and he did not return a text message.
There would be no way that a person can come to the Turks and Caicos Islands, live at Beaches and say they had a Turks and Caicos experience,” Robinson said.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2496
Some negativity from the Turks Islanders? Mr Stewart hints at leaving the British Territory?
This must concern Cameron and Osborne. And Big Mogul Murdoch tweeting like his “interview” this Wednesday to the Levenson Inquiry going to make Cameron and others seek that pink American product…Pepto Bismol
Julene
April 23, 2012 – 7:14 pm
A lot of the contents of this letter appears to threats. Does anyone think that Butch Stuart will close Beaches? This is a bunch a bull shit and should be viewed as such.
TCI is for TCIslanders first.
Loida
April 23, 2012 – 7:19 pm
I just hope Belle Smith doesnt feel the need to post a disclaimer informing readers that she is NOT this “Belle”.
Believe me we know this is not Belle Smith because at least this Belle still has a voice.
Humble One
April 23, 2012 – 11:02 pm
Mr. Stewart thanks for the letter you didn’t write; but let me make something very clear to you; whoever is running or in charge of your Human Resource Department DOES NOT BELIEVE IN “BELONGERS FIRST”. If anything they believe in Belongers last or never!
When it comes TCI Belongers applications, resume and CV’s when submitted. I honestly think they throw them in the garbage.
How is that I hold a Bachelors degree , dropped off my resume personally several times and NEVER received a call from Beaches for an Interview. Beaches “Belonger Only” job fair is poorly advertised, if advertised at all besides word of mouth.
Be real; stop lying, you don’t want to hire Belongers because you will have to pay us what we deserve, not what you choose. You cannot have us as a puppet on a string and manipulate our moves and schedule with a work permit. WE BELONGER HERE, WE LIVE HERE, WE AIN’T GOING NO WHERE!!!!!!!!!
Beaches TCI Letter and Response to the potential recruitment of expatriate workers to Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort Villages & Spa
http://tcipost.com/?p=19888
Creating jobs overseas for Jamaicans in countries such as the TCI is the way forward for Jamaica
The Jamaican Observer even bragged about the large number of views the article generated attributing the hits on the article to Jamaicans excitement at the prospect of employment. It appears unaware that many of the hits were from the TCI as blogs in the TCI linked the article and visitors were directed to the Observer to source the article for themselves.
John Glasgow
http://tcipost.com/?p=19894
Feeder Clubs?
The US authorities are also looking into filing indict operators of what it terms as feeder clubs to Olint, especially those that operated in the United States, and solicited funds from US citizens.
Smith is among 15 Jamaicans that have been under investigation by the United States government for alleged money-laundering, following the collapse of the multi-billion dollar foreign exchange trading scheme. It was reported that a Jamaican judge gave the green light for investigators to prove the Jamaican accounts of Smith and other persons named on a list submitted by the US government. US assistant secretary of state Arturo Valenzuela confirmed the increased extradition requests during the visit to that island recently, saying that the US government would increase extradition requests for up to 20 Jamaicans.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=1077
Selver accused some group members of making deliberately attempts to weed Turks and Caicos Islanders from their establishments.
“I have some emails that were being floated around after the recent Chamber of Commerce meeting, and some of their big time members are part of it. One of the emails said: ‘fellow Chamber of Commerce members, as usual what the government is asking the Chamber of Commerce to implement goes against natural law. They are saying, come to TCI and invest your money, pay big work permit fees, pay big business license fees, and then by law, they are telling you that you must train people from the Turks and Caicos to take over your company’. By the way this is a not the law in the Turks and Caicos, that is a lie that this gentleman is sharing,” Selver said.
“This is what the Chamber of Commerce is circulating amongst themselves and that is why you cannot get a job here. The sad reality is, these people are saying that they would pack up their businesses and leave before they give you a job. Something is wrong with this picture,” Selver asserted.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2484
Against “natural law?” Sounds like a Phillip Phinn is on the loose in TCI
Enough there.
As mentioned before I will take a critical look at that Desmond Allen letter to “Paul Azan” (French military Captain?) and take it step by step rationally.
When time permits. I have not forgotten. Jamaican media (like its politicians) have always over hyped themselves (but a man haffi eat..right?) and they need some reckoning.
Tories’ third largest donor is company that paid no tax for three years
But John Mann, the Labour MP who has campaigned for greater scrutiny of party funding, said: “If the company can afford to give to the Tories, they can afford to pay British taxes. Maybe the Tories should consider giving money to the Inland Revenue.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/23/tories-third-largest-donor-tax
And, according to investigations by the SUN, Garlick and her team have obtained new and significant leads, although their investigations are being hampered by a lack of adequate funding by Gordon Brown’s British Government and/or the Turks and Caicos Islands Government which is now headed by Governor Gordon Wetherell.
In a letter to the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee from Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Miliband broke some news which for the first time indicated, at least for now, where the investigations are heading.
Miliband said Ms Garlick has reported that the team has made initial enquiries with a number of people in TCI who might be able to offer credible and substantial evidence to the investigation.
Sun TCI
David Cameron’s fightback hit by poll slump
Conservatives eight points adrift in new Guardian/ICM poll as prime minister admits, ‘I want us to raise our game’
Cameron’s mood was darkened further by a stinging personal attack on the clique at the top of government delivered by the rightwing Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries. She said: “Unfortunately, I think that not only are Cameron and Osborne two posh boys who don’t know the price of milk, but they are two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others – and that is their real crime.”
But Miliband is still unable to convince the electorate of his leadership potential. By wide margins, voters reject the idea that any of the three party leaders “understand people like me”, and also the suggestion that any of them are “good in a crisis”. On both scores, Miliband’s standing is somewhat worse than his already negative scores in December.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/23/david-cameron-fightback-poll-slump
The British taxpayer has paid for a new home and funded the business interests of a convicted terrorist after he agreed to turn supergrass against al-Qaeda in a secret deal with the authorities, a court heard on Monday.
He even had his mobile phone and internet bills paid for by Scotland Yard.
Details of the deal, which have been kept secret by the British government and police, only came to light as he gave evidence of a Bosnian-born US citizen accused of a New York subway suicide bomb plot.
He agreed that all the funding had been given to him by the Metropolitan Police, saying that the US authorities, whom he is currently testifying on behalf of, have contributed nothing.
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, said last night: “It is in the public interest that the Home Office should disclose information of this kind will be relevant in our fight against terrorism. I am very disappointed that we had to wait for an American court to discover what is happening to someone in Britain.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9222249/Secret-life-of-shoe-bomber-Saajid-Muhammad-Badat-funded-by-the-taxpayer.html
Dr Phillips seeks money in US and UK
Dr. Phillips is being accompanied by Financial Secretary Dr Wesley Hughes, Governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Brian Wynter and Senior Director for Budget Management Pamela McLaren. The team will return to Jamaica next Tuesday.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/dr-phillips-seeks-money-us-and-uk
All Olint victim on BBC? ahhy bwoy. 500 million US robbery in Jamaica. Smitty Sling. And the brits let them keep mansion and helper and car.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17803664
Enough is enough, time come!
Vaz wants to make example of Professor Rowe
He vowed to pursue the Rowe case “relentlessly to a conclusion through the courts”, adding that for him it was not about financial compensation. Vaz believed that if Rowe was found guilty in this case, it would send a signal to others who had maligned him similarly in the past.
I reiterate that this is more about principle than financial compensation and no amount of money or mediation can resolve this matter. This day has been long in coming.”
Vaz said it was ironic that while Rowe had offered mediation as a way out, he had at the same filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Enough-is-enough–time-come-_11318415#ixzz1sz4PSSYV
So it is priceless then Daryl? Reading here it seems you want it badly (as is said in yard). But I don’t seem convinced you want it badly. Something don’t fit. For if you wanted it so badly you would know what to do.
Even 4 or 5 bird with one stone…
News Corp dossier appears to show contacts with minister over BSkyB bid
Jeremy Hunt urges Leveson inquiry to give him a chance to clear his name as Labour leader calls for him to resign
Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, has begged the Leveson inquiry to give him a chance to salvage his reputation after emails released by News Corp appeared to show that Hunt and his office passed confidential and market-sensitive information to the Murdoch empire to support its takeover of BSkyB.
As the day-long questioning of James Murdoch ended, Hunt rushed to a meeting with David Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, to explain the emails and texts that appeared to show he ignored his commitment to MPs to act in a quasi-judicial and impartial capacity over the £8bn bid, one that only failed in the wake of the Milly Dowler phone-hacking furore.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/24/news-corp-leveson-inquiry-jeremy-hunt
Jeremy Hunt: judgment day
A public servant is required to behave like a judge – setting aside all personal prejudices and behaving with transparency
The meaning of “quasi-judicial” is simple enough. A public servant is required to behave like a judge – setting aside all personal prejudices and behaving with such transparency, candour and integrity that people can have total faith in his or her rulings. Judges don’t book private meetings with one side in the cases they or their colleagues on the bench are hearing. They don’t offer inside information, or appeal for private help in formulating their decisions or covertly demolishing the other side’s arguments. They don’t suggest PR strategies or brief one side what the other’s been saying in confidence. They don’t offer winked assurances that they share one party’s aims or outcomes. They don’t have private chats on their mobile phones to get round official scrutiny or slip confidential information through back channels. Any judge who behaved like that would not command public confidence and would be forced to resign.
The emails – written by News Corp’s European director of public affairs, Fred Michel – describe a pattern of behaviour that, if true, is indefensible.
Mr Cameron himself now comes into the frame. The emails begin in June 2010 with the launch of the bid, but Leveson now needs to see the emails from the moment the bid was conceived, sometime during the summer of 2009. That was a crucial period, both for News Corp and for Mr Cameron, who were hoping that the Murdochs – who owned 40% of the national press – would endorse his party.
We are ever closer to understanding why Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne took such a massve risk – in the face of many warnings – to employ the disgraced News of the World editor and to take him into the heart of government with them. Was Mr Coulson a useful conduit for both Murdoch and Cameron? Was he, perhaps, the holder of secrets from his days employing crooks to dig up the dirt on people in public life, including politicians.
There has been frequently voiced scepticism about the value of the Leveson inquiry. But here it is, once more doing what only a public inquiry can do – peeling back, on our behalf, the truth about the shadowy intersections between frequently unaccountable forms of power
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/24/jeremy-hunt-judgment-day-ediorial
File under title “jamaica news”
Bruce sues David Rowe
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Bruce-sues-David-Rowe
Murdoch coming up…wake up Jamaica. come on “journalists” (IFC was a nice relevant newspiece farsical :-)) leave the pregnancy alone. 50 years old now.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
OSCAR WILDE,
Time for the Media Mogul to sink them.
I don’t know if the Fraud (Powell) FSC fiasco is called IFC but good work to Nationwidenews.
Our esteemed Commissioners of Inquiry Oxbridge notwithstanding ought (even in retirement) to watch some Inquiry (Levenson) today. For we are a young nation often quick to boast our own foolishness.
Even some witnesses might watch Murdoch under oath. The Mogul is articulate.
At the same time, the disclosure of a hitherto unknown “development agreement” signed in 2006 between the TCI government and the Sandals Group has added fuel to the flames because it purports to exempt Sandals/Beaches from certain provisions of the Immigration Ordinance regarding the grant of work permits for foreign workers.
Specifically, clause 4(2) of the 16-page agreement signed by former Governor Richard Tauwhare “acting in the name of and on behalf of the government of the Turks and Caicos Islands” creates a special “Work Permit and Employment Procedure” in relation to the grant, renewal and processing of work permits for non-belonger employees to be employed by the developers.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Controversy-erupts-over-secret-development-agreement-5224.html
Levenson gone back to 1979. What an education for any self serving veranda brainiac.
Beaches Agreement, Good or Bad – Even the Governor’s Hands Are Involved!
James jomes
April 24, 2012 – 9:48 pm
People you see why we got to bring Richard tauwhare back here and tci to answer questions. I think the agreement between beaches and Gov should be cancel. Because the agreement was in 2006. It was coruption time. All ministers them get charge so no more agreement. Plus if butch close beaches. Gov todd pocket. And jamaincan going to get affected. Not the people and the tci. Because we not enoug work at beaches anyway
http://tcipost.com/?p=19932
The administration of former Premier Michael Misick was a disgrace. It was a criminal enterprise that has resulted in a lost decade for the citizens of the TCI. Grand theft, abuse of power, money laundering, influence peddling; even reports of rape and murder.
These were not “boys and girls” who went a little wild and slightly astray. What unfolded were world class crimes.
Sadly the efforts to deny responsibility are continuing even to this day by members of Michael Misick’s political party, the PNP.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-25-2012-%E2%80%93-talk-independence-pnp-leadership-candidates-rufus-ewing-carlos-simons-sign
Misick claims gov’t breaches human rights
Currently refusing SIPT requests to return to the TCI and provide information on his links to government corruption, Mr Misick wrote his letter from a undisclosed location.
http://tcweeklynews.com/misick-claims-govt-breaches-human-rights-p2612-1.htm
Fire damages David Smith’s home – Began in the children’s bedroom while they were home
The fire reportedly began in one of the children’s bedrooms on the third floor and quickly spread into a big fire causing a lot of interior damage, the Weekly News learnt.
A source revealed that at the time of the fire, the maid was home alone with the children. Tracey was not there.
Tracey’s husband is currently in Grand Turk prison serving a six and a half years prison term…
Upon the completion of the TCI prison term, Smith, the former Olint boss, will be returned to the US where he will serve his three-decade sentence.
http://tcweeklynews.com/fire-damages-david-smiths-home-began-in-the-childrens-bedroom-while-the-p2613-1.htm
Former Ministers before the Court
News Corp Chairman tells Inquiry he was misinformed and shielded’ about extent of hacking by ‘senior executives.’
I’ve got to say that I have not gone through that whole file of emails they were given but I have tasted them and I cannot understand a law firm reading that and not ringing a chief executive of a company and saying, hey, you’ve got some big problems.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2012/apr/26/rupert-murdoch-live-blog
Sometimes the law firms do not tell you how serious things are (don’t want to bring the reality to the boss). But you pay them anyway. Silly.
He asks Murdoch “whether you really did try to understand what was going on, or you felt you didn’t really feel the need to understand what was going on, it’s over, move on?”
Size of Gordon Taylor payout was ‘surprising’
Jay clarifies – weren’t you told if you didn’t settle there was a risk of many more cases? “I was never told that.” Are you sure? “Yes.”
Murdoch asks whether the inquiry will put all his evidence on the public website. “I don’t give answers to questions, Mr Murdoch, I only ask them,” Jay replies, to a bemused grin from Murdoch.
Q Did you measure the risk of something like this (commercial catastrophe) as a matter of business practice?
A. What for?
hahaha that was anice echange
Think and check…
I’m under strict instructions by my lawyers not to say this, but I’m going to … but I was really shocked by the statement by Mr Dacre the other day … I was shocked when he said the editorial policy of the Mail was driven by commercial interests.
He describes it as “about the most unethical thing I’ve read for a long time, and from the most surprising source as I have great respect for his abilities”.
Levenson:
“In all your experience of journalism, is it appropriate to say to a member of the public, we have got this photo of you we can do this two ways. We can embarrass you by unpixellating your photograph or alternatively you give us some money and you tell us the inside story?”
He continues: “I find that approach somewhat disturbing. I don’t think Mr Justice Eady is using too strong a word if he describes it as some form of blackmail. If this is the culture of the press that this is acceptable, I would like to know that.”
Murdoch admits NoW phone-hacking cover-up
Media mogul says he was ‘misinformed and shielded’ about extent of hacking.
Rupert Murdoch has admitted to the Leveson inquiry there was a “cover-up” at News International over the phone-hacking scandal.
Rupert Murdoch told a ‘shameful lie’ to Leveson, claims ex-NoW legal manager
Tom Crone denies he was responsible for phone-hacking cover-up and did not stop journalists telling bosses
Will Rupert Murdoch’s reputation survive Leveson’s verdict?
Man who made millions out of paying people to ask difficult questions finally faced questioners he could not cope with
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/26/rupert-murdoch-reputation-leveson-verdict
The media Mogul blames staff (the usual after being caught).
“faced questioners he could not cope with” In the dock all the hype and the PR is stripped to the bone. The minions are not there. They must just watch and shed tears.
So it’s a blow for those who choose to dent what the truth is. For now the truth is out. Those who defended the lies on the veranda can not deny they are revealed as idiots.
Not even “worshipful Master” who wifey believes is the greatest can perpetrate so called “best and Brightest/World class hogwash” alone in the dock.
We’ve seen this before somewhere. Perhaps we still have much more to see.
BTW that “case” worth watching (the Jamaica one boring) has a redaction. Can’t hide the redaction forever.
STEP INTO THE LIGHT.
(This News of the World news around the world is not even mentioned in Jamaica’s press? A story of media and its role in society itself. Poor Ciphers and suffera can’t even be enlightened by our media. Back to the fields. No education for unno…
Horrid reality of the rock.
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Just what hasn’t Rupert Murdoch read?
Media magnate tells inquiry he has not read books or documents critical of his company. We review his non-reading list`
Evans, editor of the Sunday Times in its most celebrated campaigning era in the 1960s and 70s, wrote a scathing portrait of Murdoch in his memoirs. Robert Jay, counsel for the inquiry, quoted a passage from the book in which Evans claimed Murdoch interfered in editorial matters. When Evans complained, his proprietor allegedly said: “I give instructions to my editors all round the world, why shouldn’t I in London?” Murdoch was unmoved to be reminded of the episode. “I’ve never read the book, I’m sorry,” Murdoch said.
Earlier this week, an enormous batch of emails was submitted to the inquiry on behalf of Murdoch. These 163 pages revealed extensive email correspondence between Frédéric Michel, News Corp’s chief lobbyist, and advisors to the government ministers Jeremy Hunt and Vince Cable. Jay asked Murdoch if we were not “surprised by the degree of apparent closeness between Mr Michel and Mr Hunt’s office?” Was there nothing in the 163 pages that caused his “eyebrows to be raised”? asked Jay.”I didn’t read the 163 pages, I’m sorry,” he said, “but I certainly tasted them, if you will”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/apr/26/what-rupert-murdoch-hasnt-read
Chucks and Ready Freddy. Reading is important. Especially between the lines.
Jay, stay with the cricket.
Poor turnout at Integrity Commission meetings
Director of the Integrity Commission Eugene Qtuonye told the Weekly News that the turnout at the Commission’s public meetings in Grand Turk and Provo was not as expected.
Qtuonye noted the meeting served a two-fold purpose, since in addition to being educational sessions, persons in public life who attended received a package containing their Certificate of Compliance.
He said the package also contained blank declaration forms and other relevant materials to facilitate compliance.
http://tcweeklynews.com/poor-turnout-at-integrity-commission-meetings-p2610-1.htm
Charles Taylor: showman in white robes with blood on his hands
Student activist, accountant, fugitive from US justice, Libyan-trained guerrilla, warlord, president, cannibal, dealer in blood diamonds, war crimes scapegoat – the multiple masks worn by, or imposed on, Charles Taylor would tax any actor portraying the dapper Liberian showman.
At Bentley College, Massachusetts, Taylor acquired a Chevrolet Cougar sports car, a Trinidadian girlfriend and a second child, Chucky. He switched to economics and forged links with the expatriate Liberian community.
Taylor denied he had taken the missing cash and implied corruption lay elsewhere in the junta
As his arrest neared, he fled his villa and was eventually captured at 5am in a car heading for the border with Chad. He was carrying $50,000 in cash.
Opening his defence before the war crimes court, his lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths QC, presented Taylor as a victim of western powers who wanted regime change in Liberia, a peacemaker in regional conflict who had become a scapegoat of the international community.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/26/charles-taylor-profile-liberia
Hiss teeth..you see wild writing by one or both has led to redaction.
Can know exactly what until you see what part is redacted.
Antics..as usual?
Cayman Islands premier facing three police investigations
A spokesman for the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service (RCIPS) confirmed on Saturday that Cayman Islands premier McKeeva Bush is now the subject of three separate police investigations.
According to police, one of the investigations involves allegations of financial irregularities in relation to a land deal. In addition, a further allegation of financial irregularities has been made, which is entirely separate from the first investigation.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Cayman-Islands-premier-facing-three-police-investigations-5228.html
All him feature in Olint emails.
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But a readaction in the US courts…something heavy..my take
Mr. Simons threats to shut down the SIPT should he obtain any authority within the TCI, as well as now a leadership campaign promise to cancel the arrest warrant for former Premier Michael Misick, when Mr. Simons surely has no clue as to the evidence collected to date by the FBI, DEA, and the British and TCI Authorities against Michael Misick, is reckless beyond belief and shames most Turks and Caicos Islanders who seek to present a picture to the world of a maturing society.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/april-27-2012-%E2%80%93-sipt-funding-contrast-between-style-and-substance-past-and-present-chairshn
Seems no redaction in the pepperpot case..antics?
Different note: thought for today:
“Show me a police in Jamaica who did not get their Olint account money and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Have fear, will not travel
There was a television western serial called Have gun will travel. In this case, it’s “have fear, will not travel”. It’s the case of the fraudulent one who is afraid to travel for fear he might be held somewhere and can’t return to The Rock.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepperpot–Best-let-sleeping-dogs-lie-_11350878#ixzz1tGcQstzM
Well….A major fraudster was spotted in MIA today (or yesterday). Although it was not this eagle eye who claims to have seen. So a grain of salt is to be taken. Personally I know them by the shape of their head through double limo tinting. But fraudsters a plenty on the rock. But the particular MAJOR one is reported to have been seen.
Word on the streets is that the Vaz and Golding lawsuits against Professor David Rowe are said to be only the tip of the iceberg. Several other lawsuits could be following soon.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepperpot–Best-let-sleeping-dogs-lie-_11350878#ixzz1tGdvbHSC
Shaw, “not changing course first mate, full speed ahead”
Each one individually? In USA or Ja? Falla di leada?
Only one can really tear down Rowe. Many can give him trouble and distraction but only one can …well…. I have yet to see that person arrive….
Watching “these ones”…
What happened to all cream head Carlos Hill? Look like the Worldwise person haul it better than Davis Smith et al…my approximation is at 35 mill US dollars and free as bird
DoSomething…what are you doing? Perhaps you must Do Something.
British gives SIPT $7million more
Foreign Secretary also approved an additional £745,000 contribution to the cost of setting up a suitable courtroom for the trials which will be held as a result of the investigation.
His Excellency Governor Ric Todd said: “I stated in December 2011 that we would approach our colleagues in the UK to determine if further financial support for this investigation would be available to us here in the Turks and Caicos Islands. I am extremely pleased, therefore, that we were able to make a successful case.”
On Monday, Queen’s Counsel Carlos Simons says if he becomes leader of the Progressive National Party (PNP) and Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, he will fire Special Prosecutor Helen Garlick and her Special Investigations and Prosecutions Team (SIPT).
Simons said the SIPT was nothing more than a “gravy train” and that they should really be called the “Garlick Time and Money Team”.
The Queen’s Counsel said: “The day I take office is the day Helen Garlick gets laid off.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2500
The events they are investigating took place under the watchful eye of their Governor, the investigation was recommended by their Commissioner, it is being conducted by their lawyers, applying laws that they themselves have recently made. But it’s all being paid for with our money. That is not justice and I will see justice done or I will die in the process. So the day I take office, I will be saying to the British Government is relation to Helen Garlic, not in my name and not on my dime. You hired her, you pay her. Otherwise she can pack her bags and go home. ”
Wait, Carlos Simons….QC….you are no starbwoy. And aside from pathologically mendacious you are a mendicant.
More smoke and mirrors
Royal S. Robinson
27. 4. 12
SIPT is a British appointment and as such should from the beginning be paid by them. They have been trying to renege on their responsibility, even though Sir Robin and Helen, from the very beginning said that the responsibility to pay was theirs. They tried to get away with it in last year’s budget by approving it in the dead of night without the people seeing the details. But like everything done in secret, the light of day will shine on it!
They just had to pony up their part, because all indications are, and members of the House of Lords have said it, the British were equally culpable in what took place in TCI, and since they were the “Overseers”, the buck had to stop with them and so they should pay.
Recently, Mr. Bellingham was in Cayman Islands, and part of his speech dealt with the issue of offshore financial centres. He stated that “The City of London” benefitted greatly from the activities of the centres of BVI, Cayman Islands and Bermuda. I would say this, TCI was at some stage in the development of its offshore centre, far ahead of BVI and Cayman as far as the products on offer was concerned.
We had the outlines of an agreement with First Caribbean Bank to provide a loan facility that would have taken us through the rough period.
We had the outlines of an agreement with First Caribbean Bank to provide a loan facility that would have taken us through the rough period.
Max Mosley: ‘News International has blackmailed MPs and others. Leveson must hear the truth’
He fought Murdoch – and won – over the false ‘Nazi sex party’ story. Now he tells Martin Hickman he’s bankrolling another battle
Max Mosley, the motor racing multi-millionaire, is bankrolling a plan to expose potential blackmail and intimidation against politicians by Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper group. Mr Mosley said in an interview with The Independent that he was funding legal assistance for MPs to reveal their experiences of the country’s largest newspaper group – in an attempt to demonstrate its secret power in British politics.
After the release of the 161 pages of emails, Mr Hunt’s special adviser, Adam Smith resigned, but Mr Hunt is still clinging to his post.
He believes this is what happened to several politicians. “That’s exactly what I think has gone on and I believe they have done this to a number of people, some of them on the record. Tom [Watson] is on the record and there is a suggestion that they’ve done it to senior members of the police force. If it’s true, it needs to brought out into the open with as many examples as possible so that one can see this has gone on,” he said.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/max-mosley-news-international-has-blackmailed-mps-and-others-leveson-must-hear-the-truth-7685315.html
DSK: New York sex scandal orchestrated by political opponents
Exclusive: Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuses enemies linked to Nicolas Sarkozy of destroying bid for French presidency
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: ‘Perhaps I was politically naive, but I simply did not believe that they would go that far.’
While he does not believe the incident with Nafissatou Diallo was a setup, he said the subsequent escalation of the events on 14 May into a criminal investigation that destroyed his chances of winning the presidency had been “shaped by those with a political agenda” and that “more was involved here than mere coincidence”.
Strauss-Kahn’s accusations come at a highly sensitive moment in French politics, days before the final round of the presidential election, which until his downfall last year he had been tipped to win.
At the time of his arrest on 14 May last year, Strauss-Kahn was polling ahead of Hollande for the Socialist nomination, for which he planned to declare the following month, and was in the lead against Sarkozy for the presidency itself. He had no doubts, he told Epstein, that he would take occupancy of the Elysée Palace.
Strauss-Kahn’s allegations are based on his own studies over the past 11 months – aided by a private detective service, Guidepost Solutions – of the Sofitel’s CCTV footage, electronic key card and mobile phone records. The intensity of his research shows the extent of his belief that he was the victim of dirty tricks – though his critics would dismiss it as paranoia.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/27/dsk-sex-scandal-political-opponents
What a crybaby. You won’t have apolitical comeback. So it go sometimes.
tcipost is down
http://tcipost.com
“When I am dead my dearest sing no sad songs for me”
Initially, we observe that nothing in the petition
identifies specific assertions of fact as false. That is, there
is nothing in the petition contradicting the e-mail’s claim …
“It is . . . imperative that courts learn to view
libel allegations within the unique context of the
Internet. In determining whether a plaintiff’s
complaint includes a published ‘false and defamatory
statement concerning another,’ commentators have argued
that the defamatory import of the communication must be
viewed in light of the fact that bulletin boards and
chat rooms ‘are often the repository of a wide range of
casual, emotive, and imprecise speech,’ and that the
online ‘recipients of [offensive] statements do not
necessarily attribute the same level of credence to the
statements [that] they would accord to statements made
in other contexts.’ Because the context of a statement
impacts its potentially defamatory import, it is
necessary to view allegedly defamatory statements
published on the Internet within the broader framework
on which they appear, taking into account both the
tenor of the chat room or message board in which they
are posted, and the language of the statements. The
low barrier to speaking online allows anyone with an
Internet connection to publish his thoughts, free from
the editorial constraints that serve as gatekeepers for
most traditional media of disseminating information.
Often, this results in speech characterized by
grammatical and spelling errors, the use of slang, and,
in many instances, an overall lack of coherence”
(O’Brien, Note, Putting a Face to a (Screen) Name: The
First Amendment Implications of Compelling ISPs to
Reveal the Identities of Anonymous Internet Speakers in Online Defamation Cases, 70 Fordham L Rev 2745, 2774-
2775 [2002] [citations omitted]).
The observation that readers give less credence to allegedly
defamatory remarks published on the Internet than to similar
remarks made in other contexts, specifically addresses posted
remarks on message boards and in chat rooms. However, it is
equally valid for anonymous Web logs, known as blogs, and it
applies as well to the type of widely distributed e-mail
commentary under consideration here.
This observation is in no way intended to immunize e-mails
the focus and purpose of which are to disseminate injurious
falsehoods about their subjects. However, we should protect
against “[t]he use of subpoenas by corporations and plaintiffs
with business interests to enlist the help of ISPs via court
orders to silence their online critics[, which] threatens to
stifle the free exchange of ideas” (Calvert, et al., David Doe v.
Goliath, Inc.: Judicial Ferment in 2009 for Business Plaintiffs
Seeking the Identities of Anonymous Online Speakers, 43 J
Marshall L Rev 1, 15 [Fall 2009]).
Organization
Name Netrouting Inc.
Handle NETRO-3
Street 36 Northeast 2nd Street
City Miami
State/Province FL
Postal Code 33132
Country US
Registration Date 2010-06-18
Last Updated 2012-01-25
Missick not on Interpol Red notice?
Captured? Not Wanted any more?
Panic?
http://www.interpol.int/Wanted-Persons
“…bears some similarity to the
type of handbills and pamphlets whose anonymity is protected when
their publication is prompted by the desire to question,
challenge and criticize the practices of those in power without
incurring adverse consequences such as economic or official
retaliation (see generally Martin, Comment and Casenote, Freezing
the Net: Rejecting a One-Size-Fits-All Standard for Unmasking
Anonymous Internet Speakers in Defamation Lawsuits, 75 U Cin L
Rev 1217, 1219 [Spring 2007]; Levine, Note, Establishing Legal
Accountability for Anonymous Communication in Cyberspace, 96
Colum L Rev 1526, 1531 [1996]). Indeed, the anonymity of the email makes it more likely that a reasonable reader would view its assertions with some skepticism and tend to treat its contents as
opinion rather than as fact.”
Clayton Green to stand trial in Turks and Caicos Surpeme Court
Mr. Greene has been charged with three offences of acquiring the proceeds of crime, two offences of fraud and two offences of concealing the transfer of the proceeds of criminal activity.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/regional/clayton-green-stand-trial-turks-and-caicos-surpeme-court
In comments likely to raise fresh concerns that Hunt has lost the trust of the wider media industry, Lyons said he did not doubt that there were texts and email messages that connected the culture secretary to his special adviser’s alleged collusion with News Corp, at a time when Hunt was supposed to be acting as an impartial judge on the deal.
“The notion that seems to have somehow developed that poor Adam Smith might possibly have done this without licence is extraordinary, quite extraordinary. I spoke to Jeremy and Adam Smith in the period immediately after the election and in particular over the runup to the extraordinary accelerated licence-fee negotiations and there is no doubt in my mind that Adam Smith did nothing without Jeremy knowing about it and condoning it.
However, concerns about Hunt’s conduct are growing. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls accused the culture secretary of misleading parliament for claiming to have been transparent on the BSkyB deal while failing to disclose Smith’s communications.
“”He [Hunt] now finds himself branded as having behaved, not impartially, but more like a dodgy ref, who not only demonstrates bias on the pitch, but ducks into the dressing room at half-time to offer advice.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/apr/28/bbc-jeremy-hunt-murdochs-news-corporation
We are rid of Murdoch and that is worth celebrating
But the villain of the piece did not do it all by himself. Leading figures from many walks of life have enabled his dark side
A king-maker no more. Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Observer
Assuming the role of the loyal manservant after Rupert Murdoch’s first day of evidence at the Leveson inquiry, the Times suggested in its leader that we were at last seeing its master humanised. Instead of the familiar caricature, “Murdoch emerged as someone with a broad experience, a ready wit, a commitment to newspapers and readers and a becoming humility”. Only in that word “becoming” was there anything resembling a Jeeves-like demurral on the matter of Murdoch’s personality.
By the end of the second day’s testimony, the paper looked silly. Murdoch had revealed himself as one of those toxic elderly relatives who leverage as much from the weakness of others as from their own ability, spreading self-doubt and calamity along the way. We watched for the facts about his access to Number 10, business practices and response to the phone-hacking scandal, but the really compelling part was the character revealed in those 10 hours. To that degree, he was humanised – or at least made flesh – and, in the process, his grip on British political life was relaxed that much more.
Murdoch’s defenders always said that his power was never as great as his enemies maintain and now insist the issue is only of historic interest, because newspapers are in decline. They add, as if obituarising, that he risked much to increase plurality in the British media and was one of the boldest and most visionary entrepreneurs to emerge since the Second World War. To concede these things does not invalidate the truth of the News International scandal, which is that the body count of those who had direct or indirect contact with Murdoch, whether by chance or choice, is extremely high. Prime ministers, MPs, newspaper editors, business executives, members of the public, special advisers, ordinary journalists, celebrities, senior policemen, lawyers and even family members are littered in his trail.
Of course he has been irreparably damaged by the scandal, as he pointed out several times (like all true villains, Murdoch aspires to victimhood). It’s just that he seems to be suffering a good deal less than anyone else who became entangled with his enterprises.
Even after his tactical penitence in court, he couldn’t help himself from settling scores with, among others, Gordon Brown, Harold Evans, Colin Myler, Tom Crone, David Yelland and Paul Dacre. The most revealing barb was aimed at Andrew Neil, because it showed Murdoch’s self-pity as well as his vindictiveness – “Mr Neil seems to have found it very profitable to get up and spread lies about me, but that’s his business.”
Like many autocrats, he’s a bit of a crasher, astonishingly incurious and profoundly lowering. But the part where my ears pricked up during his evidence was when he started talking about democracy, because while democracy and free speech nearly always form his alibi, it is in these areas that he has done most damage.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/28/henry-porter-murdoch-leveson-inquiry
The plagiarist marketer going run into the headlights like a deer?
Confiscations.
Joseph smith to David Smith:
The two in St. elizabeth have budgets of J$6,000,000.00 each with 4 mil for the special big day alone.
Congtributions of: Westmoreland and Manchester US75,000.00 each and the two from St. elizabeth US$50,000.00 each would take them a far way. But Dave I would leave it up to your good judgement to decide what is affordable. If you can do more it would be great towards achieving the goal. the greater overall goal cannot be achieved if these four fail.
Bottom line is whatever you can do will e greatly appreciated by them and of course by us.
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Tufton: “So effectively what it is and lets be frank, it is Borrowing [stolen] money to spend on activities that creates little value, ultimately leaving you with DEBTS which HAVE TO BE REPAID which impacts every citizen of this country either directly or indirectly and at the same time not creating and real tangible return for the expansion and development for the economy.”
Tufton: “So effectively what it is and lets be frank, it is Borrowing [stolen] money to spend on activities that creates little value, ultimately leaving you with DEBTS which HAVE TO BE REPAID which impacts every citizen of this country either directly or indirectly and at the same time not creating and real tangible return for the expansion and development for the economy.”
Tufton: “So effectively what it is and lets be frank, it is Borrowing [stolen] money to spend on activities that creates little value, ultimately leaving you with DEBTS which HAVE TO BE REPAID which impacts every citizen of this country either directly or indirectly and at the same time not creating and real tangible return for the expansion and development for the economy.”
“Eyes wide open” yes Audley EYES WIDE OPEN.
“Confiscation of the proceeds of crime can only occur post conviction. The special investigation and prosecution team carefully considers the need to restrain assets where there is evidence of a risk of dissipation. To date this has only been deemed necessary in the case of the former Premier, Michael Misick.
“It is also possible in appropriate circumstances to settle an investigation into suspected criminal conduct by agreeing a civil recovery order. This has been done with one suspect, who has paid the sum of US$1.25 million,” Bellingham responded.
In addition, Bellingham said, the separate civil recovery team has made in excess of 40 separate recoveries of money and/or land.
Many other cases are underway and, by the end of the programme, the team expects to have recovered land worth hundreds of millions of dollars for the people of the TCI as well as significant further amounts of cash or other assets.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Much-still-to-be-done-before-elections%2C-says-British-minister-5238.html
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Islanders-react-to-statements-by-PNP-candidates-5230.html
Rupert Murdoch ‘not fit to lead major international company’
David Cameron and his Conservative MPs now face the unappetising political prospect of appearing to defend Rupert Murdoch after four Conservative MPs on the parliamentary committee looking into phone hacking refused to declare he was not a fit person to run an international company.
Cameron is a genuine admirer of Murdoch’s business skills and, like his Conservative colleagues on the culture select committee, is likely to argue there is no evidence that he misled the committee. He is also likely to agree with the Conservatives on the committee that it was going beyond its remit by commenting on Murdoch’s status as a man capable of running an international company.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/phone-hacking-david-cameron-uncomfortable
Click to access media253.pdf
Subsequently, and through a media report which was published in the UK Guardian on June 23, 2011,
entitled “Bangladesh: Ex-PM’s son sentenced over bribes”, the OCG was again made aware of the
sentencing, in a Bangladesh Court, of the son of the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Arafat Rahman,
for laundering money taken as bribes from two global companies – with one of the two companies
allegedly being China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC). The referenced bribes were allegedly paid
out to secure the award of Government contracts.
It must also be noted that as recently as Wednesday, April 25, 2012, a news article entitled “Government
must find another $19M – Sewerage divestment ‘unrealistic’ by June” was published in the CayCompass
in the Cayman Islands, regarding the cruise berthing project for downtown George Town, Grand Cayman.
The referenced article revealed that strong indications had been given by the Overseas Territories Minister,
Mr. Henry Bellingham, that the “UK government was not pleased with how the agreement with China
Harbour Engineering had been carried out thus far.” The referenced article also revealed, inter alia,
that a request had been made of the Cayman Islands Premier, Mr. McKeeva Bush, to grant
assurances as to how the process, which currently involves CHEC, will be brought back in line with international best practices. (OCG’s emphasis)
Against the background of the foregoing, the OCG is also acutely aware that the award of the US$400
Million Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) contract to CHEC has been the subject of
grave controversy and is currently the subject of two major Investigations in Jamaica – namely the ongoing
OCG Investigation, as well as a GOJ commissioned Forensic Audit.
The referenced GOJ Forensic Audit, it should be noted, was initiated by the previous Administration but
was finalised by the current Administration, under the guidance of Dr. the Honourable Omar Davies,
himself, and has recently resulted in the engagement of a Foreign Based Consultant with clearly defined
Terms of Reference.
It is critically important for the public to be aware that the primary objective of the listed Consultancy
Objectives, of the Forensic Auditor, is to “Determine whether there was any fraudulent transaction or
acts of fraud” which would have ostensibly occurred between the representatives of the Government of
Jamaica, former and/or present, and CHEC.
Without imputing any improper conduct to CHEC, it is the OCG’s considered opinion that having regard to
the foregoing objectives of the Forensic Audit, which is yet to be concluded, the current actions of the
Administration in seeking to grant another sole source US$600 multimillion investment opportunity to
CHEC, in the prevailing circumstances, would constitute a clear conflict of interest and is at best premature.
Front line hafficas? Smitty. Smitty/Sling. Take ANY boy go school. You know that.
EDITORIAL
Just so we don’t wash our dirty linen in public
Thursday, May 03, 2012
WE have taken note of the Opposition’s call on the Government to justify its reasons for recalling several foreign mission heads in the four months since it took office in January this year.
By doing so, Senator Christopher Tufton, the spokesperson on foreign affairs, foreign trade and investment, has suggested that some of the diplomats were recalled ahead of their contracts expiring.
Additionally, he has asked that the nation be told “the policy reasons for recalling a head of mission before the expiration of the contract”, and what is the time frame within which the individuals who have been recalled will be replaced.
These are not unreasonable questions.
Our preference is to see diplomats serving their full tenure at the overseas mission to which they have been assigned and, moving on in to new missions or returning home, in a seamless manner, without national rancour or personal ill will. That is, obviously, if nothing has happened to cause a breach in the terms of their placement.
Perhaps it is naive to expect this, given the fact that over the past four decades, politicians — retiring or active — have been dispatched as ambassadors abroad. That has given rise to speculation that the appointment was reward for long and faithful political service.
The truth is that both political parties have indulged in this practice. So, in that regard, we hope Dr Tufton will not pretend that his party is as white as the driven snow.
But most important to us, is that we do not take this issue beyond a parliamentary resolution, because the people we send overseas must command the respect of the capitals to which they are dispatched.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Just-so-we-don-t-wash-our-dirty-linen-in-public_11395631#ixzz1tpptSkcj
“Ambassador” AUDREY MARKS.
From: Audrey Marks [apmarks@paymaster-online.com]
To: DAVID SMITH dsmith@kasnet.com
Subject: better future
Dear David, just a quick note to say: so far….so good with the results. just waiting on the next two recounts to exhale. Regards. Audrey.
See: email on Olintja.com
CONFISCATION ORDER
A bank account number 5003829001 held in the names of Joseph and Evelyn Smith at the TCI Bank Ltd, holding US$XX, XXX, XXXX
Evelyn Smith? Evelyn Smith head of Jamaican Hotel and Tourism Association (JHTA)??
And Mr. “Defend reputation fiercely” on confiscation order tooooo?…..
“Representing” Jamaica?
Mi laugh like a comedy…but it is not a laughing matter but there is more..more..more.
Hughcliffe? Media? Don’t touch it if you don’t want…be my guest…
http://www.olintja.com/PROCEEDS_OF_CRIME/(S(5tml4i2xa4las1h53ucdqwfd))/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fPROCEEDS_OF_CRIME%2fExactly_how_much_United_States_dollars_does_it_take_to_buy_a_Jamaican_politician.aspx
The Independent Source of News
MAY 3, 2012
GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO DR RUFUS EWING’S OPEN LETTER RE: NHIP [PLUS JOURNAL NOTE]
[Editors’ Note: As he runs for the leadership of the PNP political party, Dr. Rufus Ewing has being seen on television and in other media attempting to distance himself from the Hospitals Construction Contract and the National Health Insurance Program NHIP; both items which he helped create and implement in their current form, and for which he was one of six recipients of a $20,000 “honourarium” from fugitive former Premier Michael Misick (actually from our treasury).
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/may-3-2012-government-response-dr-rufus-ewings-open-letter-re-nhip-plus-journal-note
Police accused by US law officers of lack of cooperation
The police in one US state where persons have been targeted by the lottery scam are claiming that they not receiving cooperation from the Jamaican authorities.
Law enforcement officials in York County complain that they have not been getting the level of cooperation they expected from Jamaica.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/police-accused-us-law-officers-lack-cooperation
Neville Cadogan – Executive Director FSC
The Defendant has made gifts which are tainted…
(vii) a gift of US$20,000 to Neville Cadogan;
Oh Smitty you bought them slaves to $$$ left right and centre….
“Merlin; here is a list of defendants in an Olint-related lawsuit filed in Broward County Florida.
USIMO, Wachovia Bank, Joseph Issa, MZ Holding Limited, Jared Martinez, Isaac Martinez, David Smith, Neville Cadogan, Brian Trowbridge, Michael Misick, Turks and Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission, Overseas Locket International Corporation, Market Traders Institute Inc., I-Trade FX, LLC, TCI Bank Limited, Mastercard Worldwide and Cool Corporation”
http://acomaction.com/index.php/forum/2-welcome-mat/91-so-what-really-happens-now.html?limit=6&start=18
Cybercrime Transcends All Borders – McAfee Consultant
“As a company, I have to worry about that because I’m a good corporate citizen, but as an individual I’m worried about that, even on a small island like Jamaica because I use my credit card here, I shop here; I do business and online banking here,” he said. “And if someone is able to compromise that data and take it and use it in another country, I’m at risk. My credit is at risk, my finance is at risk, it’s not something I want to have to deal with – it’s a major issue.”
Reardon was speaking during a McAfee security workshop held at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew on Wednesday.
Jamaica Gleaner, April 20 2012.
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McAfee founder raided in Belize by gang-busting police
John McAfee, retired founder of McAfee Antivirus, has had his Belize laboratory raided and his dog shot during a dawn raid by thirty officers of the local police Gang Suppression Unit.
McAfee claims that he was approached by a local politician who asked for a donation to his campaign. He refused. McAfee has spent millions on local health and police programs, but has not wanted to get involved in politics, he said.
“I am an old man, I am sixty-six. I have a fair amount of money and not much to do. So I spend it where I think it will do good. And I don’t ever invest in politics,” he said. “I don’t donate to any political party; I don’t have any political affiliations. I think politics is foolish for a private citizen like myself to engage in — the winning party, you never get your money and the losing party, you’re on the outs.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/04/mcafee_busted_belize/
All Police buyout just like Jamaica.
“….a gift of US$190,000 to Dwaine Williams”
http://tceye.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/member-of-the-turks-and-caicos-police-force-on-gun-charges/
Cause fear Smitty? Fear in WHO?
This document ranks as one of the most revealing of the complex Olint crime.
http://www.olintja.com/PROCEEDS_OF_CRIME/Just_how_much_is_a_Jamaican_politicians_SALE_PRICE.aspx
Obviously they not playing and after many tries I realised that one must put in a legitimate email and password combination to view it. I have nothing to hide. What a read!
Indictments? the famed indictments? What a document it is Sling…
“Smith bribed who he thought were the most dangerous characters to him”
Anonymous.
Cayman Islands premier hits out at Britain
Citing the three investigations, opposition leader Alden McLaughlin said: “McKeeva Bush continuing in the office as premier of the Cayman Islands is untenable.”
Visiting his recent visit to the Cayman Islands, Bellingham voiced concern over negotiations for a $300 million cruise ship terminal with government-owned China Harbour Engineering Company.
“I have made it very clear to (the premier) that, for me to be able to support the project, it must be in line with international best practice,” Bellingham said…
The negotiations with China Harbour have been highly controversial after Bush canceled a pending deal with another company, bypassing the government procurement office tendering process and the contract negotiations by the Port Authority board members.
Mentioned in Olint emails as well Mr.MaKeeva Bush. Interesting……. to say the least……..
Secret agreement unlawful, says prominent local attorney
Well known local attorney and declared candidate for the leadership of the Progressive National Party (PNP), Carlos Simons QC, has described as “unlawful” the work permits and employment procedure contained in the hitherto secret development agreement between the Turks and Caicos Islands government and the Sandals/Beaches Group.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Secret-agreement-unlawful%2C-says-prominent-local-attorney-5248.html
Cameron fears that his highly personal text messages to and from Rebekah Brooks will be made public this week
David Cameron’s aides will pore over his text messages to Rebekah Brooks this week amid fears he will be embarrassed by fresh revelations about his links to the Murdoch empire.
The Prime Minister, with his lawyers and special advisers, have set up a unit to study the texts to the former News of the World editor to search for ‘landmines’.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140290/BSkyB-scandal-David-Cameron-fears-Rebekah-Brooks-texts-public-Leveson-Inquiry.html
‘Mini Madoff’ couple arrested after 12 years on the run as anonymous tipster calls police hours after they were featured on America’s Most Wanted
The pair, who plead guilty to bank and mail fraud in Illinois in 2000, went on the run shortly before their sentencing and have been travelling across the country ever since.
Living it up: Janet (left) and Nelson Hallahan (right) targeted elderly and recently-widowed for their Ponzi scheme, hoping to use their life insurance payouts
Among their victims were even Janet’s parents, whose life insurance the couple cashed out well before their death.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140612/Mini-Madoff-couple-arrested-12-years-run-final-tip-coming-just-HOURS-featured-Americas-Most-Wanted.html#ixzz1uA0CIcy5
Letter: The PNP development agreement with Beaches
Published on May 7, 2012 Email To Friend Print Version
Dear Sir:
The 2006 Beaches Development Agreement has more to do with the sadistic, deliberate and mean way the PNP Government, which the British government assisted, sold the labourers and workers of the TCI out. At the time the agreement was signed the Minister for Immigration was Jeffrey Hall.
There was no way it could have been signed or reached Executive Council without the advice and assistance of the ministers of the PNP government. In fact, it is the case that Minister Hall negotiated the agreement along with Mike Misick, who stood to gain and benefit. It was during the PNP era that the owner of Beaches actually got a belongership on the heels of the 2003 general election, where they made Beaches an election issue.
It is time for the members of the PNP government, Mike Misick, Floyd Hall, Lillian Boyce, Karen Delancy, Jeffrey Hall, McAllister Piper Hanchell and Galmo Williams, to come forward and tell the public what they know about this development agreement. They need to say how they took it to Cabinet, sponsored it, argued for it and got the agreement signed.
But the ministers of the PNP regime do not need to hide behind the Governor’s signature because it was their decision, they were in office, the Constitution was not suspended and, in those days, the British government was protecting them. They were aiding and abetting the crimes of the PNP regime to sell the people out.
This reveals also that the PNP campaign of 2003 and 2007 was a game of lies and deception against the TCI people, labourers and workers. It is possible that Beaches should have the right to bring in workers but only after they have gone to residents, TCIslanders, Dominicans, Bahamians, Haitians and Jamaicans who live here in the TCI. But because of this development agreement and the absent development order many residents could not be hired or trained with Beaches while the PNP regime was in power. It is acts like this that hurt the country, set the people back and gave the Brits the initiative to have to come in and remove them from office.
It would also be helpful if they would pull out the Development Order, which one may agree with Carlos Simons, may never have been signed or published. It is likely that the secret Development Agreement between the PNP government of 2006 was secret but really secret because they did not want the people of the TCI to know how they sold them out.
You are not hearing anything on the development agreement by PNP operatives like Royal Robinson, who has a comment to say about any and everything right now, except what they did to sell the Turks and Caicos Islanders out. This PNP government is a well-oiled deceptive and lying group and represents the worst political regime ever to be elected in the whole Caribbean region. They are evil beyond recognition or common sense.
They also need to know that, at the time that agreement was signed, the Governor’s signature was a formality, the Minister of Immigration and the PNP government, negotiated, put it together, took it to Cabinet and advised the Governor to sign it. Now they want to hide behind the Governor’s signature and admit the 100% of the agreement was theirs except for the fact that the Governor or acting governor’s signature appears on the agreement.
That is not the point, all development agreements are dealt by ministers, negotiated and agreed by ministers and the Cabinet. Maybe this explains how the owner of Beaches got citizenship, which he said that he “never used”. Did the Governor give him the belongership too or was this granted and approved by Mike Misick himself?
The secrecy of the agreement represents how ministers of the PNP era ran the TCI into the ground and the way they did business. In those days, the attorney general, Kurt de Freitas became a part of the PNP regime with his silence and refusal to enforce the law. He sat there and allowed ministers to break the law, run around the law and kept his mouth shut.
So there was no enforcement but the reality is that the AG is not elected and it was the responsibility of PNP government ministers to insist that their agreement be made public so that it could be legal. The TCI people, the TCI economy, the recession would not be possible had it not been for the deliberate acts of the PNP regime.
So Beaches and the PNP regime are now left with a problem, the Development Order, according to Mr Carlos Simons is not published, therefore the Development Agreement with Beaches and the PNP regime may not be legal. But nonetheless, between 2006 and 2012, some six years, thousands of workers came to the TCI to work under that agreement.
Because of the PNP Development Agreement, which may not be legal, many workers, many TCIslanders, many natives were displaced in the job market because Beaches had the right to bring in whom they wanted. It also showed how the PNP government and Beaches worked together to ensure that senior management places and staff be reserved for non-belongers and how the native at Beaches would have reached a glass ceiling in his or her career advancement. They were free to fly senior management staff into the islands without going through the labour clearance or work permit process. What the PNP government did not consider or care about when they were selling the people out was that this would hurt the people.
Again, many thanks to Mr Carlos Simons for pointing these issues out. Now it behooves the members of the PNP government to come out and explain to the people of the TCI how they sold them out. Mike Misick, Floyd Hall, Lillian Boyce, Karen Delancy, Jeffery Hall, McAllister Piper Hanchell and Galmo Williams, you all sold the people out. Could you please speak out against this agreement like the Hon Carlos Simons did? Please come and join the public, the people, the workers, the people who are starving as a result of this agreement and demonstrate. Why don’t you organize a demonstration and shut the Leeward Highway down like you have done on other occasions? Are the workers of the TCI not important enough for you to do something like this?
This “secret development agreement” approved in secret behind the backs of the people, is another example of what Sir Robin Auld described as political immaturity, systemic corruption, irresponsibility and that the TCI was leaderless. These acts, along with many others, justified the interim government, which has gone bad. Again, the PNP government must accept responsibility for the British presence, their absolute need to come, the destruction of the economy, the taxes to pay for their debts and mistakes and the fact that the worker in these islands are set back another 20 years.
Maybe if there was no secret development agreement, if it was published then the public would have been in a position to make a sound decision at the last election. One thing is sure, the PNP regime, former ministers, current party officials, or the PNP itself can never explain this secret agreement and how they conspired in that agreement to sell the people of the TCI out.
Samsune Taylor
PJ Denies Getting US$1M From OLINT
According to Patterson, during the last few days of the 2007 General Elections, he had a telephone conversation with Smith pertaining to reports that in addition to the donations he had already given to both political parties, Smith had made hefty contributions to the Jamaica Labour Party campaign in Central Manchester because he was determined to see the People’s National Party’s (PNP) Peter Bunting defeated.
Patterson says Smith admitted to doing so because he claimed that Bunting had orchestrated the raid on his Kingston offices.
Patterson says Smith also said he had heard that should the PNP win, Bunting could become the Minister of Finance and he feared that Bunting was out to destroy him.
“I told him that to my certain knowledge, Peter Bunting had denied any such involvement and while I was in no position to anticipate where Cabinet members would be assigned, I assured him that in any case, the traditions of the party and the guidelines for Cabinet conduct would not allow any person or group engaged in business. Anything done would be in accordance with the law.”
Patterson said Smith expressed great relief with that assurance.
“He stated that he had already made contributions to both parties, but he was disposed to increasing what he had previously given to the Party’s Campaign Fund,” said Patterson.
However, the former Prime Minister said Smith did not disclose to him a specific amount.
“I told him that I was not an officer in the Campaign and he was free to contact Comrade Danny Buchanan, the General Secretary and Campaign Director regarding whatever further contribution he desired to make.”
Patterson says he then informed Buchanan of the conversation and the general secretary promised to speak with Smith.
“I do not know what was the outcome of those discussions and how much more if any was contributed to the coffers of the campaign,” the former Prime Minister said.
Patterson concludes: “What I can assert is that no money came into any account owned or controlled by me nor was there any cheque signed by me, nor did any other financial transaction take place which required or obtained my sanction.”
On August 11 last year, former Olint boss, David Smith, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
He was accused of operating a ponzi scheme which bilked investors out of more than 200 million US dollars.
[Note: I don’t think on this blog we need to clear up the 200 or 220 “Hallmark” foolishness….Don’t you readers agree? Disbelieve the 750 million all you wish…until the time when I PROVE it to you until then who want to act silly just proceed accordingly….]
Smith had pleaded guilty to four charges of wire fraud, one case of conspiracy to commit money laundering and 18 cases of money laundering.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37069
JLP admits accepting OLINT donation
THE Jamaica labour Party today admitted that failed ponzi scheme boss David Smith was one of its contributors to its failed [“falied” LOL Observer you too cold..lol lol} September 2007 General Election campaign.
The party was responding to a Turks and Caicos Supreme Court Confiscation Order for US$5 million.
“The party is examining the claim that US5 million was donated to the party,” the release stated.
[Christopher Bovell ALREADY denied it]????
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/JLP-admits-accepting-OLINT-donation#ixzz1uEFeZlFE
Patterson said Smith admitted that he gave money to the JLP because he feared Bunting had orchestrated a raid on his offices and was out to destroy him.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/I-got-no-money-from-OLINT—PJ#ixzz1uEGFvRdJ
All now Smitty don’t know who shopped him out at the raid?
How come Patterson just start “helping out” with information on David Smith/Olint???
Early days still…the vault a call….the vault a call…oh YOU can’t hear?
What happens to who can’t hear again?…remind us nuh?…All who cannot hear….will see…their em………I forget the rest someone finish the statement deh fi mi….
From: Joseph Smith (ja.smith@cwjamica.com)
To: David Smith
Contributions to “WORTHY CAUSES”
http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=473
Lodge man Joseph Smith. Nothing honorable about lodge man dem. A some teef.
Question: How does JLP leader aspirant Dr. Christopher Tufton really seek to “run the shop” without ever addressing his Olint campaign financing?
Put your X squarely beside the truth?
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From: XXXXXXXXxxxxxXxx
Jun 3 2010
ABC
Hi XXXXXXXXX!
The points i raised in the bottom of the last email “Matter on hand” we need to get AmLaw, NY Times Washington Post and Hearal do story. We should also send points to other media. We got to make headlines News sir…..AbcNews too
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Think and check about the check…and the interest
Think and check, think and check, think and check. THINK AND CHEQUE
Toughest bond girl, Jamaican. Check the colours on her parachute…
Anonymously forwarded emails linking the Jamaica Labour Party’s narrow 2007 general election victory to massive funding from embattled investment banker David Smith and his floundering investment scheme, Olint, have been creating a firestorm in cyberspace.
The emails also name prominent people from corporate Jamaica, as well as well-established firms and the sums they allegedly invested in the foreign-exchange investment club.
Several politicians are named in the emails. Some are said to have received funding, while others allegedly asked for financial assistance.
James Robertson, minister without portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, is one of them.
Detailed email
However, Robertson yesterday categorically denied receiving funding from Smith or Olint.
“The St Thomas Education Development Foundation and my campaign in West St Thomas did not receive any funding directly from David Smith,” Robertson told The Gleaner last night.
In one correspondence, purportedly from Robertson and sent from a close relative’s email account, a request was made for Smith to provide “support” that would “make a meaningful difference to the Jamaica Labour Party’s success”. The email included a local bank account number.
“I can’t remember. I send hundreds of emails and I am not denying that I am aware or have knowledge or know David,” Robertson said.
“I am not denying that there was contact.I am denying nothing but in terms of that specific, I can’t answer that.”
FACEless SENDER
Robertson added that it was quite possible that a request was made, but he would have to check his records.
Robertson suggested that the person behind the recent spate of emails should come forward.
“I cannot speak to something that I don’t know the source of it. It is being sent around the world, but nobody is claiming it, nobody is stan-ding up and saying this is a fact,” Robertson added.
Another government minister named in the emails said he would not comment because it was a rumour.
Efforts to contact the other ministers and MPs named in the email were unsucces-sful. Messages were left with personal assistants and on voicemail, but the calls were not returned.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090213/lead/lead2.html
Court Document Says Olint Gave JLP US$5m
Monday May 7, 2012 | 6:54 pm
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) has admitted that Olint’s David Smith was one of its contributors for the 2007 election campaign.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37076
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
― George Washington
“People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…”
-Ayn Rand
“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”
― Barbara Bush
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
“The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.”
― Cheryl Hughes
“Anything is better than lies and deceit!”
― Leo Tolstoy
“I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It’s how rats are. It’s what makes them rats. But a human doesn’t run and hide in dark places, because he’s something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.”
― Nancy Farmer
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
― Alfred Tennyson
“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”
― Miguel de Unamuno
“If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.”
― Bruce Lee
“Cathy’s lies were never innocent. Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. Most liars are tripped up either because they forget what they have told or because the lie is suddenly faced with an incontrovertible truth. But Cathy did not forget her lies, and she developed the most effective method of lying. She stayed close enough to the truth so that one could never be sure. She knew two other methods also — either to interlard her lies with truth or to tell a truth as though it were a lie. If one is accused of a lie and it turns out to be the truth, there is a backlog that will last a long time and protect a number of untruths.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner
“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Don’t forget that we lawyers, we’re a higher breed of intellect, and so it’s our privilege to lie. It’s as clear as day. Animals can’t even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin,
lol
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
Big Olint Handouts
Published: Tuesday | May 8, 2012
Two prominent local figures last night moved swiftly to either clarify or distance themselves from fresh claims outlined in a court document that they received millions of dollars in donations from convicted Olint boss David Smith.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120508/lead/lead1.html
The media never seem to report that Vaz was a feeder to some well known police.
The media never seem to report that the child of a former Prime Minister ran a feeder.
The media never seem to report that the children of a former Prime Minister took a “loss.”
The media never seem to report that Shaw told a senior police that nuh money nuh deh to investigate Olint.
The media never seem to report that a well known brand name fugitive Olint conspirator is being shielded.
The media never seem to report that a next great grandson of national Hero was a feeder.
And Exhale (ballot counter) in Washington, and Ms “Super” JHTA and the missing files argument (Llewellyn and Pantry) and t5he media….is a crock a shit.
But even as the media itself lives on borrowed time….. for maybe a more comprehensive look at “media behind the scenes” might emerge….
The media never speaks about the two dialysis machines at St. Josephs..the church…the church?
Pastor use email too……
On the DPP:
You know, no prosecution (Olint) in Jamaica after one outside jurisdiction has convicted Smith is one thing…but TWO jurisdictions have charged and accepted his plea (Guilty).
Most of the money (not the 220 million) was stolen in Jamaica from JAMAICANS. That amount is way above US$220 million.
If in the future we wish to be a financial centre remember this: It will NEVER happen without the award winning (YES Edgemont group money laundering) Olint case is fully hashed out in Jamaican courts and/or full inquiry (with outside independent commissioners) and justice is seen to be manifestly done.
I wish I could lie and tell you its not so. Sorry…..
Prominent politicians, parties named as recipients
Jamaican political figures reacted swiftly last night to either clarify or distance themselves from fresh claims outlined in a court document that they received millions of dollars in donations from convicted Olint boss David Smith.
What Jamaicans need to avail themselves of is a critical thinking mind. The confiscation court document is dated April 25th 2012. A newspaper report “strangely” had a politicians bickering and rambling about Olint. So you know the document was in certain hands.
Responses come when? When the public is shown the documents of course!
“Swifty” as the Gleaner reports from “fresh claims” ??? fresh claims Gleaner?
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/tools/cartoons/ed-cartoon-may-08-2012
Vaz also pointed out that neither he nor the JLP has ever denied receiving donations from Smith, but he said that this should be seen in the context that up to 2007 Olint was a legally registered business, operating in Jamaica and the Turks and Caicos Islands
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Politicians-deny-Olint-allegations_11417650#ixzz1uGTeF0Jl
This is encouraging because it suggests that the taxes paid to government flowed into the kitty like water. Once t5his is substantiated by the Government Tax Department we can give our civil servants there all their due praises.
But if not….
Now, the GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA TAX DEPARTMENT went ahead and took action in regards to OLINT. Now I suggest this:
IF having taken action in regards Olint then the tax department should be able to show all the Olint accounting (for surely they would not have taken action without Full Disclosure from Olint).
How did they obtain the information? Has every Olint “investor” paid their taxes accordingly?
Tax Department….you are hereby served an early notice as a courtesy…
I would not like to hear the documentation somehow could not be furnished by the tax department for aside the firings the legal action.
Plus the accounting can be furnished on request…if in fact it has been misplaced by said tax dept….
No problem ..mon…
The country is in dire need of such revenues and penalties….
One would hate to think that the GOVERNMENT’S Tax Department is under the control of political partisans.
That has never actually been proven….yet
Calling Farmer Joe again
A.J. Nicholson, Contributor
No fallout then
Further, there had been no Olint or Cash Plus or any other widespread-financial-fallout phenomenon and, back then, favourable conditions existed in other countries for those who were of a mind and had the opportunity to ‘try their luck’ elsewhere. Independent Jamaica, he was sure, was about to venture deep into the economic unknown in circumstances in which, far from any programme or required sense of pause having been introduced to the citizens by the authorities, up until recently, persons at the highest level of government publicly entertained no fears for our fortunes in these troubled times.
Farmer Joe was livid, but it was impossible to resist the urge to mention to him that he had been a star in the show that helped to put the present administration in place. He immediately brushed me aside by reminding me that, in our conversation with Harry last year, he had told us that we should not read anything much into that: he had been paid a reasonable sum and, in any event, he had a deep passion for acting.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090809/focus/focus5.html
Esteemed Attorney bert Samuels has rightly suggested ‘caution’ in the statements made by convicted criminal David Smith as seen in the Confiscation Order dated April 25th 2012.
But I think anyone speaking about David Smith Olint matters should declare their associations before speaking. Tonight I suspect the radio stations my carry speakers including “so called” financial analysts who had accounts at one time or another with David Smith but who choose not to declare this.
Thankfully it is fairly well known that Bert Samuels represents an Olint/Usimo/Joey Issa victim. But all speakers on the very serious Olint issue should really declare their hands before passing comment on the radio.
A review of AJ Nicholson’s piece might be kept in mind:
Conflict-Of-Interest Showers
According to the Business Dictionary, ‘conflict of interest’ arises in a situation that has the potential to undermine the impartiality of a person because of the possibility of a clash between the person’s self-interest and professional interest or public interest. It is a situation in which a party’s responsibility to a second party limits its ability to discharge its responsibility to a third party.
For, the hallowed interpretation of the principles of the doctrine holds that “justice must not only be done; it must manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done”. It is the appearance of justice that conflict of interest seeks to attack. It is a situation which leads the everyday man to conclude that: it just doesn’t look good. As a result, conflict-of-interest situations are the arch-enemy of good governance. For, they breed the fact or perception of victimisation, influence-peddling and clientelism.
Conflict-of-interest breaches choke the movement to create the just society. They are the engine of corrupt practices. The society that turns a blind eye to conflict-of-interest situations, particularly in the public sector, is courting disaster. These are situations which are poisonous to the body politic. They cause people to feel hard done by, thereby breeding resentment and discomfort.
Just as dangerous is the notion of the folly of super-arrogant reasoning that a person’s unlawful actions have inured to the public good. A snapshot of the past four years presents a Jamaica saturated by conflict-of-interest showers. Yet, let’s remind ourselves that tools of accountability, including drinking unsparingly from the integrity cup, are the real ingredients of the tried and proven antidote. But then, can a leopard change its spots?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111120/focus/focus6.html
Golding And Trafigura
A.J. Nicholson, Contributor
The conventional wisdom has always been that secret donations to political parties across the globe, including to the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), are likely to be seen as having been accompanied by a tacit understanding, perhaps, that it is a back-scratching exercise.
The advocates of openness saw Golding’s revelation as a good thing; it opened the door wider for them to thrust forward for the system to be exposed to the light of day.
They even applauded him, and saw the banking official who divulged the information as a nationalist ‘whistle-blower’. This was at a time when Golding was seen as the engaging, almost pious, apostle of openness and transparency. Remember?
The Goebbels of the JLP, Audley Shaw, understands that the Trafigura build-up by Golding undoubtedly helped to propel them into Jamaica House, and it is crystal clear that they are of the view that it can help them to remain there.
…, the first parliamentary act of his attorney general in the new government, was to table a resolution in the Senate, to enable the Dutch authorities to conduct investigations here in Jamaica into the circumstances surrounding the campaign donation. And yet, it took an eternity, when he discovered that his spurious reasons for delay could no longer hold, for him finally to give instructions to the same minister to sign an authority to proceed upon a request for action by another foreign government, the United States, under the same mutual assistance regime by which he sought to invite the Dutch.
So, we have witnessed the corruption of the banking regime for partisan-political purposes. We have also witnessed the corrupt ‘interpretation’ of the law and the provisions of our Constitution for partisan-political ends, including the pursuit of vendettas. Jamaica needs to be assured that the offices of attorney general and minister of justice have not been further compromised, and that the integrity of the office of the DPP should not be called into question.
In the end, the public knows for sure where 31 million Jamaican dollars of the campaign spending by the PNP in the election exercise of 2007 came from. The public remains in the dark about the amounts contributed, or the source of even one cent of the unprecedented campaign spending spree of the party that now forms the Government.
With the exposure of the Trafigura donation, as in so many other instances of his machinations, the public is now wise to Bruce Golding’s regrettable habits. Sadly, there is more to come!
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101128/focus/focus7.html
What a pleasure it is to re read Mr. O.J. Nicholson with the benefit of hindsight. A true pleasure. Some of these passages flow so well one might well commit them to memorization to be quoted verbatim from the courtroom docks…
“Sincere apology is part of the body of hallowed conventions that make for the creation of the ordered society. It eases tensions, helping to absorb the hurt that might have been occasioned; it assists in releasing the errant individual from his self-created prison; it provides for frank admission of wrong-doing, paving the way for reconciliation; in short, it helps people to move on, propelled by mutual respect. It constitutes one of the principles of restorative justice – a mechanism utilised in the softer side of the proper administration of justice, and which must be encouraged, if Jamaica is to become a well-ordered society.
Of course, an apology does not have to be tendered by words. Indeed, the view is strongly held by the practitioners of restorative justice that actions speak far louder than words along that road. They say that the adage ‘by their deeds you shall know them’ will provide the best evidence as to whether lessons have been learnt by the perpetrator, and whether disappointment has come to a victim, on account of misplaced trust and confidence.”
Pledge broken
One of the real challenges that the advocates of restorative justice constantly face, is the fear that ‘what gone bad a mawnin’ caan come good a evening’. Recently, when I made a contribution to this newspaper concerning the children of the ‘Dudusgate’ hundreds-pound gorilla that resides in Jamaica House, I privately pledged that I would not return to the subject publicly. Not because of any urging on the part of some, that we should “forget and move on”, but, since the prime minister and his Government had stubbornly determined that they would stonewall on the issues, I decided that I would just watch the deeds of the prime minister going forward.
I must be able to repose full trust in the assurances given by a colleague in Gordon House. If my colleague does not show respect for me, by keeping his word, that represents action which isgeared towards the unravelling of everything that propels the wheels of morally sound behaviour in the chamber.
The disrespect shown to the leader of the Opposition is surpassed only by that shown to the good sense and intelligence of the Jamaican people. The puerile and insincere attempt of our head of government at giving an utterly unbelievable reason to the people that he leads as to why no consultations were held with her, even with them coming face-to-face on the morning of Heroes Day at King’s House, is the stuff that fairy tales are made of.
The head of government paused on his tortuous journey to feign an apology to the people of Jamaica for having taken them on a merry ride, when all other members of the government that he leads, declared that they saw nothing wrong in his conduct and actions. That situation did not seem to bother either him or his colleagues.
A.J. Nicholson is opposition spokesman on justice.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101031/focus/focus5.html
A.J. Nicholson, Contributor
Perhaps, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) parliamentarian Ernest Smith neither gathered his thoughts together nor looked about him when, in the company of his government leadership and party stalwarts, he felt emboldened to declare to all Jamaica: “Show me your company, and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Has anything changed? For, Smith and his companions will certainly not only be aware of the adage ‘Show me your company, and I’ll tell you who you are’, but also the pearls that are inherent in the wisdom of “wah gawn bad a mawnin caan come good a evening”.
Surely, Smith and Holness and their companions must know that the voting public is keeping score, even as they suffer in silence. But, they converse and exchange thoughts even more than a short time past. The actions and the attitude of the members of Holness and his team will be weighed in the balance, and the Jamaican public also knows of a maxim which sends the same message as Smith’s ‘Show me your company, and I’ll tell you who you are’. It is: ‘No better barrel, no better herring’.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37088
Since nothing is being heard from the authorities as to the resting place of the missing sand, or any other element of that unimaginable activity, one can never be sure that any tourist frolicking on a white sand beach at any hotel anywhere in Jamaica is not romping on stolen sand.
Tilting at windmill
I have heard tell that there might be a grand cover-up. I am persuaded that it is not only in my case that all bets are off; for, a thief is a thief is a thief.
A.J. Nicholson is opposition spokesman on justice.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081026/cleisure/cleisure2.html
By Any Means Necessary, Trevor?
A.J. Nicholson, Contributor
Like the spin doctors and the apologists, Trevor Munroe begins with this: By any means necessary, the present prime minister must remain in that position at this time. What is the best argument to support that endgame? The fact that principles which undergird our system of government are to be sacrificed is irrelevant, and if it is necessary to deflect the principle that is to be upheld, so be it. So, when that is attempted by the professor, for the apologists, his arguments are brilliant and everything that he says is agreed with.
The Suffragan Bishop of Montego Bay, Howard Gregory, pronounces that “this country stands in need” in the most urgent way of political leaders who are above reproach, whose hands are clean, and who are prepared to make laws and lead us on a path on which we can tackle corruption, dismantle garrisons and end criminality”. How does that square with trusting a leader for whom opportunism is always a reason to dissemble and constantly ‘reverse himself’, Trevor? Can a leopard change its spots?
(xi) A bank account number 5003829001 held in the names of Joseph and Evelyn [head of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association JHTA] Smith at the TCI Bank Ltd. holding US$ 1, 876,808.82
Yes, these two flatly refused to be questioned by the authorities. No help for their victims. Running down politics money and lodge. Guilty as Sin. The former Superclubs employee still representing Jamaica?
UNBELIEVABLE.
Does this Jamaican lodge have honour? or a money laundering cult?
TWO MONTHS ago acting general manager of Point Village Resort in Negril, Evelyn Smith commenced lessons in learning the words ‘My Worshipful’. Last Saturday night she accomplished the phrase with the word: ‘Master’.
Throughout an evening oversubscribed by Freemasons who chanted high and low notes with equal gusto, the interesting cast of characters made going to the dinner theatre seem unimportant.
It was an evening filled with an exciting and long list of toasts including: to the Queen, the Craft, the Most Worshipful Grand Master, Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland and Jamaica, District Grand Officers and the Ladies of Hope. However, the highlight was Evelyn Smith’s toast to her husband.
“Freemasonry is, and I should hope that I am reliably informed, strive to make good men better. It is a tradition that has survived for centuries and yet is often given a bad rap and is misunderstood in society,” said Mrs. Smith.
She said, the tradition continues because it fulfils a need that has and will always exist and which is particularly relevant in Jamaica today. “There is an urgent need for good men and good men to be made better, so they will form the worthy examples for the men of tomorrow.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20051118/social/social3.html
Steal from the poor and use the money to support a political agenda.
Nothing of honour in that. That is dishonour. To have such people represent Jamaica is dishonour. Our country has regressed back decades and we are a laughing stock to outsiders and are searched at airports with no respect as just one result.
These are greedy manipulative bastards whose selfishness is unmatched. They steal and refuse to assist law and order and on top of that hide behind a false cloak of being decent upstanding socialites looking down on others. Anything for a buck.
Well there you go. You made it. To a confiscation order document in the British Government Records. So I hope your “Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland and Jamaica, District Grand Officers and the Ladies of Hope” take some credit.
Now put on your skirts and dance…Mind Kunta Kinte don’t rain your parade…
So
Safe or satanic? Church leaders argue over Freemasonry
ANGLICAN CHURCHMEN who are Freemasons have come out in firm defence against charges that they are involved in a ‘secret and satanic’ operation.
The charges were made by other church leaders who insisted yesterday at the Gleaner’s Editors’ Forum that “lodges of whatever sort are satanic and not sacred and that the Jamaican society should come out against the movement.”
They said that the oaths taken by lodge members demand secrecy and exercise practices which are not consistent with Christian principles.
Beresford Keith Ashley, a former member of the Mechanic Lodge who is deacon of the Brown’s Town Baptist Church in St. Ann was unapologetic in
his charges. “The whole atmosphere of the lodge is built on fear hence this cloud of secrecy (exists within the group)” he said. Relating an ordeal that he said was compulsory before admission to the Mechanic Lodge, he explained,
“I was dying before I died… I was asked to repeat an oath and the words alone were so fearful.”
For his part Rev. Dr. Donald Stewart, Pastor of the Portmore Lane Covenant Community Church said it was important that the society oppose Masonry because it was “a system deceiving young men in particular, drawing them into a network where they became closer to their Lodge brothers than even their own wives.” (i.e Battyman/ Teef/liad)
But Bishop Reid said the “the only secret that is not available to your wife or to the public is how to get into a Lodge meeting.”
With over 5,000 members enrolled to the fraternity, the Freemasons present at the Gleaner’s forum said that their membership included nearly all the ‘upstanding’ men in leadership positions in medicine, the judiciary, the police force and even parliament. [i.e the teefing bwoy dem]
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20031104/lead/lead1.html
This latter requirement was hardly likely to be an impediment to someone recently taken from a slave ship. Following this, a white label was tied around the new recruit’s neck with his new name. These ex-slaves were then marched off to the army depot to be adorned by British scarlet tunic, probably to shouts of command coming from a Black non-commissioned officer.
A detachment was also used in Jamaica to suppress the Morant Bay rebellion in 1865. The Regiments were also used in various campaigns and anti-slavery actions in West Africa including the Ashanti War, 1873-1874. Lord Hill, as Commander-in-Chief of the army, opposed the extended use of African forces in the British Caribbean colonies. He believed they might refuse to suppress any public disorder by the newly freed enslaved Africans who made up the greater part of the population.
Reflecting on the actual history of the South Carolina Corps we can see a thread that runs from the American Revolutionary War and the Black Carolina Corps, to the Napoleonic Wars, to the Transatlantic Slave Trade, to the Ashanti Wars in West Africa, through the West India Regiments, finally to the South Carolina Lodge in Kingston today.
http://www.royallodge207.com/index.php?id=69
David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks before she quit NI, claims biography
Prime minister texted Brooks in the week she quit over the phone-hacking scandal to tell her to keep her head up
Biography claims David Cameron told Rebekah Brooks that she would get through her difficulties just before she stood down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/09/david-cameron-texted-rebekah-brooks
Just like the Olint story. They told Smith everything would be allright even in texts….even after IRS/FBI/SFO(secretly) were investigating.
It has also emerged that he agreed to met her at a point-to-point horse race so long as they were not seen together…
Olint again, recall the “summit of shame.” The Prime minister said he had not heard of any bad reports of Jamaicans living in TCI…with the under investigation Tracey smith sitting in the front and having (Golding) come from a location with more undercover police than guests lol lol…
You could not make this up!
The prime minister then sent an intermediary to Brooks to explain why contacts had to be brought to an abrupt halt after she resigned. The authors say the gist of that message was ‘Sorry I couldn’t have been as loyal to you as you have been to me, but Ed Miliband had me on the run’.”
Memories of Olint again. At the Italian Village we see snapper cruising in and out of the background caught by camera lens during an interview with one of those corrupt TCI ministers lol lol
You could not make this up!
later Saleem would say “Bruce don’t talk to David anymore.” lol Why the FOOL stop talk to him?
You could not make this up!
The revelation comes in the week that Cameron’s closeness to Brooks will come under intense scrutiny when she gives evidence to the Leveson inquiry on Friday. It is not known whether precise details of her text exchanges will be published by the inquiry, but it is thought that at certain points she was in repeated daily text contact.
Copies Olint again here. This part should need no explanation from loyal readers.
“Cameron has admitted that he and other politicians became too close to to too many newspaper proprietors and executives.”
-No explanation of the paradox needed here. Kingmaker arguments etc. Tufton? Don’t believe the hype son son.
“Following a ruling by the Leveson inquiry last week, the prime minister is being given early access to the evidence being submitted to the inquiry. He will be studying her evidence and preparing a counter-strategy.”
-This is reminiscent of why the letter read by Judge Scriven had to go in direct and at the time it did. For the plants/traitors/bought outs had long been known and purposely left alone but could not have access to that particular document. The traitors remain at large (for particular reasons) but it well locked. Tight.
“Letwin, the Cabinet Office minister, told the authors how the Conservatives viewed Brooks. “The realpolitik is that you have to get on with people who run newspapers. Labour did the same.
“If you are on the same side as her, you have to see her every week. This was how it worked. It was what was demanded if you wanted them on your side.”
-Standard Bow Wow. Sometimes you can be allowed to speak freely…but only after you have been given such an invitation to do so…but you never going to speak freely for fear so you pretend to speak freely.
“All of us should have said, ‘We’ll have nothing to do with them and we’ll only meet them when we absolutely have to’. But the problem with that is if the other guy is doing it … it’s an arms race. I don’t think this was a love affair based on a misjudgment. I think it was a carefully calculated view of what you had to do in order to carry the people onto our side.
-In jamaica the term ALMS RACE is better than Arms Race.
“Sources close to Brooks also told the Times said she would not be commenting ahead of her appearance before Lord Leveson.”
-Who are the ones being silent in Jamaica?…look for that..Silence mean consent?
The Jamaican media houses don’t even report on Murdoch /Levenson at all. the biggest media story on media itself
WHY? Sour grapes?
J J
5/8/2012
Mr Smith did not hold up anyone and say give me your money. He throw out his proposal and the greedy jumped on it, especially the churches. many of them invested their members money with Olint and held prayer and fasting sessions for him when he was arrested and even said he was chosen by the Lord. The foolish greedy investors should be in jail too.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Politicians-deny-Olint-allegations_11417650#ixzz1uLNB8UGS
Check the above comment found in the Observer. You have to love these “plant” comments to answer them is a treat:
David Smith was not forced or coerced to take my money. There was never any duress applied on my part for Smith to cash checks or take cash or spend and transfer wires. He had no obligation to accept my money whatsoever. I gave him ample opportunity for him to give it back at all material times.
I am not in prison and so you may call me foolish and greedy right down to the time of your arraignment and the subsequent proceedings. Call, me foolish and greedy if it makes you feel better.
I NEVER held up or juk dung David smith or baddhim up to take my money.
I won’t call him a fool though, why rub it in he is in prison chatting and shopping out his favourite people? That must be horrible for both him and them at this time. Sally even said she can’t believe its gone so far! Misick NEVER thought the TCI govt would fall….SMITTY never thought that could happen poor kid.
And still some predictions are yet to be fulfilled that will blow the minds of many a simpleton.
And back in the US…It WON’T pretty ..so just deal with the little Turks “problems” one at a time.
So JJ commentator call me greedy if it makes you feel better….
And don’t forget the sealed documents (no…you mad…i don’t go there) in the Dudus case tat’s may 22nd. You going to see former bredrins turn on each other and denials more than Judas as people scramble for air.
It’s not a pleasant thing to watch a deluded former high roller being exposed as the simple punks they are to the wider public.
And Ambassadors begging to stay and begging salary and perks…it is saddening to see them reduced to that kind of fate.
Nocotec? You are sorely missed at these upcoming junctures. Hope its not hard feelings because you were proven wrong….
Heavy, heavy heavy manners?
DRAFT
TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS
A PROPOSAL FOR
A
BILL
FOR
AN ORDINANCE TO SET OUT THE DUTIES AND POWERS OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER; AND
FOR CONNECTED PURPOSES.
ENACTED by the Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Click to access CFO-Draft-Bill.pdf
David Smith’s crime wave has many politicians on the defensive in Jamaica while those in the TCI remained mum
According to some insiders some politicians in the TCI would have to cough up monies donated to them personally and for political campaigns by David Smith as a result of the confiscation order issue recently by the TCI Supreme Court.
No names were made available to the editors of the GV but from reports we received through our normal grapevine sources, the panic has already set in as some persons who benefited from David Smith’s crime spree may not be able to come up with the money Smith donated to them.
This latest affairs may take on a life of its own and may reignite the David Smith scandal in the TCI. While the Jamaican politicians were quick to to distance themselves from any personal benefit from David Smith’s political contributions. The politicians in the TCI are all mum.
It is believed that in the very near future names will all be made public and sources are already hinting that there may be more surprises in store.
http://tcigrapevine.com/?p=693
Cool runnings?
“Gas stations are high risk facilities and you have a number of restrictions and warning posted but many of them are not adhered to,” he later told the Observer West.
” If people come to the service stations with naked lights it can cause a fire. Can you imagine what could happen with all these taxis and persons converging on the gas pumps –some of the persons smoking– or when there are trucks with large quantities of petrol there to off load and a fire is lit ?,” he asked. “Trust me we will have casualties …..so that lends itself to some serious concerns by us. It is really an unsafe practice and we really need to take some serious actions to mitigate against it.”
According to Haughton, the practice is prevalent at several gas stations located along the usually Barnett Street, particularly during peak hours.
Yesterday, President of the St James Taxi Association Dion Chance also expressed disgust at the practice as he agreed with Haughton that the situation is a recipe for disaster.
“It really is, because you don’t know the behaviour of
anybody who might come there and you don’t know the safety awareness of any passenger. One might just come there and light a cigarette and don’t care so we categorically denounce it (the practice),” he stressed.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/westernnews/Recipe-for-disaster_11433113#ixzz1uSjeCED8
Leave Digicel alone. We have a way of shooting ourselves in the foot, and ultimately in the head.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/We-re-shooting-ourselves-in-the-foot_11416794#ixzz1uSlFHwxR
More bad news for Olint investors
There’s more bad news for Olint investors. This after a Confiscation Order was filed in the Turks and Caicos Islands seeking to recoup money the collapsed scheme had donated to several individuals and entities.
There’s been a glimmer of hope for bilked investors that they could get back their money. But Andrew Mitchell, the TCI Prosecutor leading the case is cautioning that even if the Confiscation Order is successful, the chances of it resulting in a pay out are extremely low.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/more-bad-news-olint-investors
If you sat down for 5 years, did nothing, backed David Smith, participated in the cover up, thwarted legal proceedings in Jamaica and have been waiting for your favourite political party that you love so much to rescue you…well…you just plain out of luck.
Doing nothing can make you a great success in Jamaica. There are countless examples. But in the rest of the world (the real world) a nuh so it go.
If you were a police or tap shatta in the party or a co conspirator you would have gotten back money when they did.
Oh Well…
Prosecutor hoping to recover millions from beneficiaries of Olint
He is also appealing to good-conscience. lol lol lol in Jamaica? lol
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/prosecutor-hoping-recover-millions-beneficiaries-olint
Political intentions and tainted money
I honestly thought that, apart from the details as carried in a David Smith Confiscation Order in the jurisdiction of Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) April 2012, (which gave names of well-known Jamaican politicians, one Jamaican who was living in TCI and who was a member of the TCI Financial Services Commission (FSC) plus others), that we all knew that the PNP and the JLP in the months leading up to the 2007 General Elections had flocked around, hounded, petted and powdered David Smith to get money out of him.
In was my understanding in 2006 (from very close Olint-connected sources) http://www.olintja.com/images1/very_close_Olint-connected_rooster_sources.pdf that after the Jamaican FSC had forced action against Olint, all of the then depositors who requested refunds were given these funds back.
It could be that with the JLP in Opposition and with nothing to lose, it suits that party to admit the truth upfront, close, full frontal and early and, in doing so, force the ruling PNP to form a coherent position on the matter.
We can recall a well-known PNP official saying publicly, “Thank God for David Smith.”
We remember well-known lawyer David Rowe saying in 2006 that Jamaica’s loss is the TCI’s gain and that Jamaica has no regard for its talented people.
I can understand that with David Smith and Olint subsequently admitting to charges of money laundering and other financial fraud, those who saw Smith as a gift from God must now be forced to deny ever having anything to do with him.
“….deny ever hearing the crow of NY Rooster when it sounds off three times.”
Who, him? Mi nuh know him sah!
Wignall, observer, May 10 2012
Mi ak
5/10/2012
Mark, you make the mistake of first assuming that your underlying assumption is correct. There might have been many reasons for that “very close Olint-connected source” to perpetuate what amounts to a myth at best and downright dishonest conspitorial statement at worst. Of the dozen or more “investors” i know, many of whom i counseled not to touch oling with a long stick, i do not know a single one who even attempted to withdraw their “deposits.”
Stop perpetuating [/perpetrating] myths, Mark!
Read more comments at: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Political-intentions-and-tainted-money_11433253#ixzz1uVMave8d
Yawn…
It is not so much about who got paid (for there are many more proven examples outside the confiscation orders of TCI).
I think the most important consideration is who blocked and colluded and bribed and threatened in or to HINDER individuals who sought to pursue justice and even more important obstruct Justice.
Early days on Olint. This is a part of more….accelerant has not even been poured in this flame yet…..
MAY 11 2012- DAVID SMITH CONFISCATION ORDER
WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP IN THE TCI – PIMPING – ANOTHER CASE FOR THE PUBLIC FINANCING OF ELECTIONS
The political life of Jamaica has been turned upside down this week with the revelations stemming from a Confiscation Order lodged with the Supreme Court of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
This event has led prominent individuals and civic leaders within Jamaica and from the broader Caribbean to urge for dramatic campaign finance reform in Jamaica. (Please see article from the Jamaica Gleaner posted today.)
Apparently the confiscation order alleges that David Smith, who ran a $200+ million ponzi scheme and has since been sentenced to 30 years in prison in the United States, made multi-million dollar contributions to BOTH political parties in Jamaica and personally to various prominent political figures. Some of those contributions, the Jamaican political parties claim, are not present on their books.
David Smith who is reported to be co-operating with American Authorities and the TCI Special Investigation and Prosecution Team, SIPT, in exchange for leniency against his wife is alleged to have revealed his extensive set of dealings with Jamaican politicians, and with members of BOTH political parties in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
As in the case with Jamaica, the donations in the TCI do not appear to have been recorded in the books of the local parties.
Everyone is waiting for the other shoe to drop at any moment here in the TCI.
Public Funding of Elections
In light of the recent scandal in Britain concerning the Chairman of the Conservative Party, the recent revelations in the TCI during the Commission of Inquiry led by Sir Robin Auld, as well as these recent revelations stemming from the prosecution of David Smith, we once again plead that the Consultative Forum and the Advisory Council move the TCI towards the public funding of elections.
A truth as old as history, “He who pays the piper, calls the tune.”
Let us realize that in this tiny territory we will not have a clean democracy as long as politicians can sell access and favours in return for the money that they can then use to obtain or maintain political power. Only would be politicians who seek to use political extortion or who seek to live off contributions gained due to political position are trying to convince us otherwise.
Recent history has shown that individuals have been able to buy both political parties in the TCI for a few million dollars and then those individuals allowed to have their way with us. (David Smith, Leeward, Salt Cay, Seven Stars, Dellis Cay, Third Turtle, Johnston International)
Bruised and bloodied, we scream, “Enough! No-more!”
Respectfully,
Editors of the Journal
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/may-11-2012-%E2%80%93-david-smith-confiscation-order-waiting-other-shoe-drop-tci-%E2%80%93-pimping-another
Tainted Gifts And Political Donations
Published: Friday | May 11, 2012
TOO-Specific denial
Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson made a very specific denial of ever soliciting or receiving US$1 million. He states, “What I can assert is that no money came into any account owned or controlled by me, nor was there any cheque signed by me, nor did any other financial transaction take place which required or obtained my sanctions.” I believe him.
But the denial is too carefully worded and too specific. Did he receive cash? His denial does not cover that. Or was the donation sent to an account controlled by another party functionary? A denial that ‘no one in the PNP has ever received a donation of these proportions from David Smith of Olint’ would make me much more comfortable.
The JLP, on the other hand, admits receiving donations in 2007, but claims it was unaware that Olint was a tainted entity, despite the fact that the Olint offices were raided in 2006 by the Financial Services Commission. Immediately afterwards, Olint and David Smith moved to the TCI. No one can credibly claim ignorance that OLINT was under suspicion after these events.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120511/cleisure/cleisure2.html
Speech delivered by Minister Henry Bellingham on Overseas Territories
Honourable Premier, you have a world class financial services centre that is the envy of so many other countries and is also an absolutely vital part in the operation of the city of London.
I’d like to congratulate you on what you’ve done but I’d also like to say something about the UK’s plans and our aspirations as well because I was very pleased, honourable premier when you said that you were delighted there was a change in government in the UK. I was also delighted because I was fed up with opposition.
We are going to engage the Territories far more. We’re going to take them seriously. And we also take the view, as well, and this is very important, if you want to remain British, we won’t regard that as something to hide away or be embarrassed about.
Now as along as that engagement is concerned, I do want to see more trade between Britain and the Territories. But I will also say that where things go wrong, we will invest. We have invested very heavily in the Turks and Caicos Islands where as you know there was a terrible financial scandal. Without DFID, that is the Department for International Development, without DFID coming up with a loan guarantee of a quarter of billion dollars, the TIC government would not have been able to continue.
One of the other key aspects of this White Paper is we want other government departments to really engage with the Territories. I mentioned DFID. I mentioned the MOD. You’ve obviously heard about the work done by the Home Office and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. There are many other government departments across the whole of Whitehall.
There is that enthusiasm to see and find out ways which they can work more closely with the Territories. That, I think, is incredibly important. It is, of course, imbedding expertise, it’s giving advice. For example, when you had those terrible murders in the Cayman Islands a few months back. We were able to, very quickly, to send a number of Peace Officers over to help with the investigation.
We believe that we are doing a great deal more than what has been done in the past. We believe we are making that commitment. In return, we also want a few things back. And you mentioned good governance, Honourable Premier. We are indeed very keen to see good governance. We are keen to see the responsible, fiscal, financial management.
We must all try and have in place our check and balances when it comes to our budgets. We must also have in place proper check and balances on procurement, the world class checks and balances in place when it comes to procuring major projects.
Your Excellency, Honourable Premier, we live in a troubled, volatile, and unforgiving world. No one owes us a living. No one owes the UK a living. We have no divine right to keep our AAA rating. We can only do that by having credible economic policies. You have no divine right to keep your AAA rating.
http://tcigrapevine.com/?p=711
Jamaicans don’t know like Chucks?
So that’s how close they were! David Cameron signed off texts to Rebekah Brooks with ‘lots of love’ (and they DID discuss phone hacking)
Prime Minister finished texts with the phrase ‘lol’, thinking it meant lots of love, but had to be told it meant ‘laugh out loud’
Downing Street ‘prepared to hand over messages to Inquiry’
Cameron apologised to Mrs Brooks for not repaying the ‘loyalty’ she had shown him after he cut her loose in wake of phone hacking scandal
Sheds light on the numerous meetings she had with PM, which have been shrouded in secrecy and confusion
She discussed phone-hacking with the PM and BSkyB takeover with George Osborne
Met Cameron at least three times over Christmas 2010
Denies telling PM to get rid of Dominic Grieve as shadow home secretary
‘Threatened to put Theresa May on front page every day until she opened review into Madeleine McCann’
She admits she ‘may have’ discussed phone hacking with detective who was formerly in charge of the investigation
Criticism is ‘because I’m a woman and not a grumpy old man’, says Brooks
David Cameron faces acute embarrassment over his friendship with former newspaper boss Rebekah Brooks after she claimed he signed off his text messages to her with ‘LOL’, wrongly believing it stood for ‘lots of love’.
Mrs Brooks told the Leveson inquiry into media standards that the Prime Minister stopped using the acronym after she told him it actually meant ‘laugh out loud’ in the text-speak more commonly used by teenagers.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142917/Leveson-Inquiry-David-Cameron-signed-texts-Rebekah-Brooks-lots-love.html#ixzz1ubhrGMLA
LOL more commonly used by teenager roaches???
Drug dealer jailed for £125m cocaine scam forced to put luxury home up for sale after being hit with £800,000 confiscation order
This gated detached home in Bournemouth’s upmarket Talbot Woods has been put on the market after a court demanded the jailed drug dealer repay his ill-gotten gains
His wife, Fiona, 41, was jailed for three years for laundering money from her husband’s multi-million pound empire.
But a court has now ruled that Blake must repay nearly £800,000 of his ill-gotten gains under the Proceeds of Crime Act or face an extra four years on his sentence.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142981/Drug-dealers-mansion-leafy-suburb-hits-market-faces-800-000-confiscation-order.html#ixzz1ubmwu700
Hunt ‘asked Murdoch to steer No 10’s policy on hacking’
Explosive email at Leveson Inquiry piles fresh pressure on Cameron
Jeremy Hunt stood accused last night of conspiring with News International to prevent a public inquiry into the phone-hacking scandal.
The revelations at the Leveson Inquiry implicate Downing Street for the first time in a potential cover-up and heap further pressure on the Culture Secretary as he prepares to give evidence to the Inquiry later this month.
A damning email released to the Inquiry yesterday suggests Mr Hunt asked the company to “privately advise” and “guide his and No 10’s thinking” on the unfolding scandal. The existence of the previously secret email emerged during more than five hours of questioning of News International’s former chief executive Rebekah Brooks at the Leveson Inquiry.
….it is the emergence of an email to Ms Brooks from the News Corp lobbyist Fréd Michel, discovered on her Blackberry, which is most damaging for the Government. Sent on 27 June 2011, only a week before it emerged that journalists at the News of the World had hacked into the phone of the murdered teenager Milly Dowler, it suggests that ministers were colluding with News Corp executives to control the unfolding scandal.
Mr Michel then continues: “He wants to prevent a public inquiry (into hacking).
“People will be disgusted at the prospect of Jeremy Hunt and No 10 colluding with News Corp to avoid a public inquiry into phone hacking.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/hunt-asked-murdoch-to-steer-no-10s-policy-on-hacking-7738000.html
Yes Jamaica be still…for the hour fast approaches….
Partying with PMs: the charmed life of the ultimate
networker
Rebekah Brooks’ evidence provided revealing insights into the Murdoch empire’s special relationship with power
Prime Ministers, current and past, attended her birthday party. She has had lunch and dinner with anyone that has mattered at the top table of British politics over the last decade. And when Rupert Murdoch tried to explain why he had closed the News of the World and what his priority now was, he simply pointed to Rebekah Brooks and said, “This one.”
Yesterday, the unofficial member of the Murdoch “family” directed her charm at the Leveson Inquiry. The High Court heard nothing of the details that led to her arrest on charges of phone hacking, the bribing of police officers, and conspiring to pervert the course of justice. It was a revelatory day nonetheless.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/partying-with-pms-the-charmed-life-of-the-ultimatenetworker-7738041.html
What did Barbara Gloudon write in her column today? Oh yes …Bangarang!
On 27 June 2011, Fréd Michel, the News Corp lobbyist, sent the following email to Rebekah Brooks. The date of the email is crucial
date of the email is crucial
date of the email is crucial
date of the email is crucial
Rebekah Brooks lays bare the secret of her success
Zoe Williams deconstructs the former Sun editor’s charm – and faulty memory – during her Leveson inquiry appearance
“I’d never compromise my position as a journalist by having a friendly relationship with a politician,” was Brooks’s almost-closing remark. It came right after quite a long segment on the rights and wrongs of outing Gordon Brown’s four-month-old son as the sufferer of a dangerous illness. Most people would be left wondering “what’s to compromise?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/11/rebekah-brooks-ridiculous-person-leveson
Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to hand over presidency – and judicial immunity
Outgoing French president likely to return to law practice, but could be forced to explain himself over series of scandals
He has spent 30 bruising years in politics, often saying it would have been more pleasant to earn big money in private business, and now plans to return to work as a lawyer while his millionaire pop star wife takes to her tourbus with a new album. But after he hands power to the Socialist François Hollande next week, Nicolas Sarkozy’s biggest post-presidential headache is likely to come from the justice system.
But when Sarkozy’s presidential judicial immunity officially ends on 16 June, he risks dominating the headlines once more, as he could be forced to explain himself to magistrates over a series of party funding scandals that have dogged his time in power.
During the campaign, the Socialist former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal said Sarkozy was fighting so hard for re-election because he was so afraid of losing his immunity as head of state. “Everyone knows all the corruption problems that have peppered this last five years,” she said.
The first scandal Sarkozy could face questions about involves allegations over brown envelopes of illegal cash were given to that Sarkozy’shis party received brown envelopes of cash from France’s wealthiest woman, Liliane Bettencourt, during the 2007 election campaign. An investigating magistrate is trying to establish whether Sarkozy’s successful campaign received €800,000 in illegal funding, and whether transfers from Swiss accounts may have been handed over to Sarkozy’s campaign treasurer or even to Sarkozy himself.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/nicolas-sarkozy-leave-office-immunity
MPs’ expenses scandal: what happened next?
Disgraced, depressed and, in some cases, imprisoned: politicians tainted by the expenses scandal talk frankly about trying to rebuild their lives.
Lord Hanningfield talks about prison with a warmth verging on the nostalgic. There was a comforting familiarity to Standford Hill prison on the Isle of Sheppey. Two cells away was former Labour MP Jim Devine (jailed for claiming £8,385 worth of false invoices), while on the upper floor was fellow Tory Lord Taylor of Warwick (jailed for false accounting to the tune of £11,277).
He became hysterical when he discovered he would be charged for fraud. For months he was terrified of travelling by public transport. How did the hysteria express itself? “Breaking down, really. Panic attacks. Crying. Fortunately I had the dog to go for a walk with. I’m not a suicidal type person, but I didn’t want to be on a tube platform because the attraction was throwing yourself in front of a train.”
Hanningfield was one of six MPs and peers jailed for fraud, and one of hundreds judged to have wrongfully claimed expenses in Britain’s great parliamentary scandal.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the expenses scandal is the number of MPs and peers who claimed they did not know they were doing wrong.
It was all very well for the people who lived in London; they went maybe only two miles home, they could get all this money. But because I have a problem with getting back to Chelmsford, and if you’d had a few drinks you’d have to get a taxi, and a taxi home from Chelmsford late at night is about 30 quid…” He trails off, partly, you suspect, because he realises his argument is going nowhere. He can’t make a cogent defence of what he did.
Mr Justice Saunders observed when sentencing, that did not make right Hanningfield’s claim for overnight stays. “It is not for me to say whether peers should or should not be paid, but whatever you think of the scheme, it was not for any peer to take money to which he was not entitled, on the basis that he believes he is worth it,” the judge concluded.
Hanningfield is not an unsympathetic character – convivial, open, awash with human frailties. But he is quick to blame others (opponents with vendettas, the Tories for failing to advise him, the leadership for throwing him to the wolves, the judge for sending him down despite the psychiatrist saying he had suicidal tendencies) and slow to accept responsibility.
‘There’s a lord on board. I bet he’s posh.’ They all imagined I lived in a castle, whereas I live in a bungalow. Someone shouted out, ‘Bet he went to Eton.’ I shouted back, ‘No, I’m just a farmer who went to grammar school.'”
‘I knew that everyone would think I was a big liar and a sleazebag’: Jacqui Smith, the expenses scandal’s biggest scalp.
Smith says Lyon’s findings did not come as a shock. “I wasn’t at all surprised he found me guilty. The guy sat in front of me and said he was concerned about what all the blogs said, and he didn’t like having Daily Mail photographers outside his house. I think he thought if he didn’t find me guilty, he’d get a massive kicking.” When asked to respond to this, Lyon said he did not comment on his inquiries.
I had to talk to my mum and dad, and I thought, they’ll think I’ve done something wrong and I haven’t. So it was horrible. Really horrible. But then I knew it was going to the committee and I thought, they will at least be fair.” She wipes her face. “Sorry… And they were really fair. In their report they said there were big mitigating circumstances, like I had actually asked whether I was doing the right thing. The committee made me apologise to parliament, which was horrible. I’d stood down by then.” She had to: it had become impossible to do the job. “Any time I tried to go out and talk about crime or immigration or terrorism, it just came back to expenses.”
Suddenly, a terrible smell overpowers us. Smith smiles. So does Richard. “It’s the dog. Terrible farts.”
As they talk about their relationship, I’m checking out the DVDs underneath the television. I think Smith knows what I’m doing.
“We’re very similar politically,” Richard says.
“We disagree about pornography,” Smith says, out of the blue.
Who’s winning the porn wars? Smith laughs.
Richard: “It’s interesting…”
Smith: “I think he’s asking if you’re still watching the films.”
Richard: “Occasionally, yes. Hehehehe.”
Smith: “I’m winning because I had the more justified position.” Anyway, she says, he doesn’t need porn now because she’s back home.
We talk about the fairness of the punishments handed out. Richard calls it a farce, but they both agree that, after the claim for the films was discovered, there was no coming back.
Does Smith think some politicians in the Labour party were protected?
Silence.
British lawyer arrested in New York over role in ‘conspiracy to dodge millions in tax by hiding money overseas’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2143329/British-attorney-held-2M-bail-New-York-tax-evasion-charge.html#ixzz1uj4Tpzbs
So where is it at now? The usual hacks, crybaby and two bit commentators are talking about greed blah blah blah.
Bless them…den nuh know betta…
You want it? TUN UP THE TING?
You sure you ready???? Don’t worry your intention your request is concrete…
Former FSC head received ‘tainted’ gift
According to recently obtained court documents, Neville Cadogan, the former managing director of the Financial Services Commission, received a “tainted” $20,000 gift from convicted Ponzi scheme operator, David Smith.
In the TCI, the payment to Cadogan may prompt comparison to a similar situation in Antigua and Barbuda, where the former head of that country’s Financial Services Regulatory Commission, Leroy King, is one of four people accused of taking bribes to divert regulatory attention from the activities of another convicted Ponzi scheme operator, Allen Stanford.
Smith, who was residing in the TCI when he was arrested, was a close friend of former Premier Michael Misick, who publicly referred to him as a “model citizen”.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Former-FSC-head-received-%27tainted%27-gift-5266.html
Former Executive Director of the FSC, TCI and Jamaican politicians and a local policeman received tainted gifts from David Smith according to a TCI Supreme Court confiscation order
US$190,000 to Dwaine Williams
larger payments were made to political parties and politicians in Jamaica:
http://tcipost.com/?p=20452
Who are the Jamaican Police who were paid? What about those in the Judiciary….how did they try to hide it?……..stay tuned……
Sunday, May 13th 2012
Foreigner murdered on Providenciales.
According to multiple well placed sources the police is proceeding with the investigation on the theory that the deceased was kidnapped and murdered. The police appear to believe that the deceased refused to hand over the PIN number for his bank account to the kidnappers and as a result he was killed.
http://tcipost.com/?p=20449
David Smith/Olint Ponzi scheme named “largest to be prosecuted outside the U.S.A.”
David Huw Williams QC
He both prosecutes and defends in heavy criminal cases. His recent work on behalf of the Serious Fraud Office has included the successful prosecution of a number of internationally structured high-yield investment frauds. He has advised with regard to mutual legal assistance issues and the extradition of foreign nationals.
Recent Notable Cases
R v David Smith
Att Gen of the Turks and Caicos Islands
Leading Counsel in the largest “Ponzi scheme” to be prosecuted outside the USA.
http://fulcrumchambers.com/davidhuwwilliams.html
TCI Policeman to Answer To Gun Charge On May 2nd
Officer Dwayne Williams [who received US$ 190,000.00 from monies stolen by David Smith] appeared before magistrate Clifton Warner charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear.
http://www.rtc107fm.com/2010/news/local-headlines/1530-tci-policeman-to-answer-to-gun-charge-on-may-2nd
The “badness” correction will come after the court runnings is fully completed. Why you pay and hide under police frock for Smitty? I never see no police go war?
Only one man in the cell control the toothpaste…
20 Apr 2011
Memory Lane?
Word on the streets is that the Vaz and Golding lawsuits against Professor David Rowe are said to be only the tip of the iceberg. Several other lawsuits could be following soon.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Pepperpot–Best-let-sleeping-dogs-lie-_11350878#ixzz1uptFDEOH
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Patterson, himself an eminent lawyer, is known to guard his reputation jealously and is not likely to treat the e-mail lightly, given its global distribution through the Internet.
Yesterday, Tufton told the Sunday Observer that he was very distressed by the e-mail and had received many “alarming calls about it”. He said he has started legal consultations and would likely take his cue from actions now being pursued.
Vaz is the first of the group to have filed a libel suit against Rowe on April 13, 2012 in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida, claiming that Rowe, “hiding behind pseudonyms… fabricated and published a document purported to be an official ‘US Law Enforcement Memo to Turks and Caicos Special Investigation and Prosecutions Team’.”
The document made “direct accusations of bribery, money laundering, corruption and close affiliations with a notorious convicted drug lord”, Vaz said in court papers.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Former-PM-Patterson-seeking-legal-advice-on-libellous-e-mail_11361956#ixzz1upz1fjNL
??? What’s happening?
Step up into the court Tufton…your Olint money was mentioned by Ian Moore and clearly visible on the spreadsheet….
You have the look they like for Prime Minister but you have to get something Tuff on your C.V.
May 17th for Vaz I beleive and May 22 for Dudus (what are those sealed documents we have seen piling up in that case???)
What if these people (David Smith included) do NOT challenge the allegations in the ‘Paul Azan’ letter? What if those mentioned do not deny the allegations?
What do we the public do then? Assume everything is true?
What would you do if you were mayor of Kingston for a day?
I would ask the politicians to give back the money they have ripped off from us.
You’re known primarily as a comedian outside of your day job, but what wipes the smile off your face?
Injustice, especially when it affects children.
What book are you reading?
The Dead Yard by Ian Thomson. It’s a wickedly good read that gives a perspective of Jamaica that we often don’t talk about. I think we need more books like that. Too many of our politicians are deifiled and need to be made answerable.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/lifestyle/My-Kingston—Michael-Abrahams_11448117#ixzz1uq7In4CQ
Hello, Dr. Freddy Hickling…Vanessa Paisley…are you there? Hi my name is floridian and I have one Dr. Godfrey McAllister here…yes he is one of those 40% “mentals” in your report…yes he ran a ponzi Scheme called Kingdom Investments and he has been running from jail ever since…..yes I will bring him up to UWI…yes yes ….BTW have my tin of Milo ready!
Yes he is still talking shit in an efort to stay out of jail but the time has run out he must pay his depositors for they gave him the money not David Smith…
I think he is on the Kool Aid …yes call Rise Life…
Today he spewed, “However, Dr. Godfrey McAllister, the president of the Association of Concerned Olint Members, said it would first have to be determined if Olint was a ponzi scheme at that time the funds were donated.
According to Dr. McAllister, had David Smith gone on trial instead of accepting a plea deal on fraud charges, that information might have been revealed. ”
Yes professor Hickling, last year (Monday | August 15, 2011) The gleaner editorial had this to say on the fraudster:
Take, for instance, Mr Godfrey McAllister, a former insurance agent and man of many causes, who once enjoyed a high profile in Jamaica and was a loud voice on many issues. In his latest incarnation, Mr McAllister is chairman of an organisation called the Association of Concerned Olint Members (ACOM) – Olint being the vehicle that Mr Smith used to perpetrate his fraud.
On the day before Mr Smith was sentenced, and in the midst of speculation over how much time he would spend in jail, Mr McAllister told this newspaper: “The quicker he can get out of prison, the quicker we can get our hands on him, because we believe that he knows where the money is, knows where the money has been sent, or has the ability to trade the money all over again.”
The last remark, especially, is peculiar. It seems to suggest that ACOM believes that if Mr Smith was not in jail, he could get on with the business of playing the currency markets, thereby earning money to repay clients.
Mr McAllister’s remark is, on the face of it, a piece of monumental naivety, with which we would have no problem if it was merely to the bane of Godfrey McAllister himself. But Mr McAllister is not without some influence. We assume that he did not install himself chairman of ACOM, but that the organisation’s members elected him as their leader.
The problem is not that the regulators were overly aggressive in going after people like David Smith. It’s that they were too slow and not aggressive enough. The upshot: the ruin of many lives.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37201
Even the 40% Maddix dem can get Phd and all kinds of ratings in that abnormal environment. Who is gonna help us save Jamaica?
Michael “Mikey” Smith was a gifted dub poet and outspoken critic of all “politricks”
Jamaica’s external judiciary
When one Jamaican is fingered by the international community as being corrupt, let alone the two main political parties in the country, it affects all of us as citizens.
The compelling questions Jamaicans should be asking is, “Who is going to prosecute whom when both the governing party and the Opposition are accused of wrongdoing? Who will bell the cat when those who are supposed to uphold the law and those who should help provide the oversight and accountability, namely the Opposition, are both embroiled in allegations of corruption?”
When did the Government know that the schemes were going under, and were certain persons alerted before the collapse took place? Which politicians had money in the schemes, and did they pull out their money before the schemes crashed?
Then there is the matter of allegedly tainted money being donated to the two main political parties.
It is clear to me that the Cash Plus and Olint debacles warrant an independent commission of enquiry, depending of course on whether or not any competent, “independent” persons can still be found in the society. In any other jurisdiction an investigation would have started a long time ago.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Jamaica-s-external-judiciary#ixzz1uvZ459F4
Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice
Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, is to be charged with perverting the course of justice, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Tuesday.
Brooks, who was arrested in March by Scotland Yard officers investigating phone hacking, is the first person to face charges in the major criminal investigation into hacking and allegations of bribing public officials.
Her husband, Charlie Brooks, the racehorse trainer and friend of the prime minister, is also to be charged, the CPS announced.
The CPS is still studying four more files which have been passed to them by detectives investigating phone hacking, leaks and alleged bribes to the police.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/15/rebekah-brooks-charged-perverting-course-justice
David Smith paid US$190,000.00 to Dwayne Williams, a policeman in Turks and Caicos. Do you think David Smith paid any bribes to Jamaican police? Do you think any bribes were paid to jamaican police on behalf of David Smith?
Was the course of justice perverted in the case of Olint in Jamaica? Were lawyers involved? If so who? Were Senior police involved? The Judiciary? Politicians?
What of the so called “missing Olint files?” spoken about on the radio? Have Kent Pantry and Paula Llewellyn sorted that one out yet? Has there been a record kept of the efforts to find the missing files? What exactly has been done?
What about the MLAT with Cayman? Reports have not made Jamaica look…hmmm…enthusiastic to justice…..EVEN AFTER THE MANATT INQUIRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and more questions…..
9 day wonder? Where? A new Day Jamaica.
9 Day wonder?
Sick a dat….
Two further arrests in Operation Elveden corrupt payments investigation
Metropolitan police arrest a man and woman over alleged corrupt payments to public officials
Two people, including an employee of HM Revenue and Customs, have been arrested by detectives investigating alleged corrupt payments to public officials by journalists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/15/two-more-arrests-operation-elveden
Was the Jamaican tax/revenue department used to try and intimidate? Who had such contacts to do so? Who wanted the lid shut on an Olint investigation? Which civil servant would put their own freedom at risk for a bribe?
Former TCI Premier Michael Misick denies receiving gifts or contributions from David Smith
http://tcipost.com/?p=20499
Vetting Finance Minister For Ponzi Compliance!
It’s scandalous that David ‘Ponzi’ Smith, his abettors, enablers, co-conspirators and henchmen haven’t been charged for a single thing in Jamaica. As with Dudus, we’ve outsourced our law-enforcement to America on the seeming basis that we can’t manage it ourselves.
As a society, we’ve painted ourselves into quite a corner. So much of the leadership is compromised by their relationship with this felon that it’s hard to get a straight word about why a charge hasn’t been brought. Nor has there been a public investigation. How is it that when Olint was originally shut down by the FSC, such powerful forces bellowed that it was because “dem nuh waan see people mek money!”
Where is the punishment for those irresponsible people? Were they doing paid advertisements for Smith, or were they just loudmouths getting scammed like everyone else? We should know. I recall hearing the suggestion that Smith should be given the monetary reserves of the country to ‘trade’.
Smith and his cronies, sometimes with the endorsement of powerful and influential people, plundered the wealth of many and destroyed lives in the process.
Smith wanted to be certain that Peter Bunting was NOT procured as finance minister. So it turns out that Bunting had to fight harder against the now custos of Manchester on the basis that a crook suspected he might uphold the law! Did Sally Portentous consider why this man was pouring money into her campaign?
Another feature of the Olint scandal is the inability of the two major political parties to say definitively how much money they received.
Anyway, it’s worth bearing in mind that laws already mandate declaration by politicians, and that there are sanctions for failures to report truthfully. So one immediate question is: Did those who have now publicly confirmed that they received donations from Smith report accurately after the 2007 election? I do not know the answer to that question, but I would like to think that what Desmond McKenzie calls the ‘revelant ahhtarity’ does.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120515/cleisure/cleisure3.html
From: Audley Shaw fitzalbert_2@yahoo.com
To: David Smith
Saturday January 1 2007 4:43PM
David, happy new year to you, your dear wife and family. I am still hoping to get the info on the fx trading by Australia in dealing with their debt problems. Also, I had given Daryl the necessary information to have the thing activated, and he advised me that he had sent you an email in that regard. I’m told you might be here next week. I would like to see you as I have two persons who would like to meet with you. Please let me know. Regards. Audley.
David Cameron, Rebekah Brooks and the hazards of political friendships
The ex-News International boss was on close terms with many politicians, but the PM was closest when the music stopped
The decision of the Crown Prosecution Service to charge Rebekah Brooks came early during a cabinet meeting, and will have sent an unwelcome chill through the room.
Cameron has now discovered that the allegations of wrongdoing by senior figures at News International are not just being taken seriously by Guardian conspiracy theorists, but also by the most senior figures in the legal profession.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/15/david-cameron-rebekah-brooks-hazards
Rebekah Brooks told Lord Justice Leveson last Friday morning that she exchanged up to two texts a week with David Cameron during the 2010 general election campaign.
Former Premier denies bribes from David Smith
To be sure, I was not involved at any stage in the granting of his licenses and I had absolutely no business, officially or otherwise, with Mr Smith.
http://www.suntci.com/
‘Vulture funds’ circle as Greece fears grow
As Greeks rush to withdraw savings, bailout fund pays US tax exile €400m
An American tax exile living in the Cayman Islands has emerged as a winner from the chaos engulfing Greece, even as the political and economic turmoil in the beleaguered nation deepened yesterday, with Athens putting a senior judge in charge of an emergency government to lead it to fresh elections.
Kenneth Dart, the Michigan-born heir to a disposable cups fortune, was handed an estimated €400m (£320m) cheque from Greece this week, after successfully calling the country’s bluff and refusing to take part in the restructuring of government debt that saved Greece from default in the spring.
[Who called the bluff with Jamaica’s JDX? wink wink]
After decamping from the US on his 220ft yacht, he settled in the Cayman Islands, where he is a powerful real estate developer.
The two firms are still suing Argentina in the US courts to demand full payment of bonds on which that government defaulted in 2002. Mr Dart first came to international attention in this sphere by pocketing an estimated $600m from putting pressure on the Brazilian government after its default in 1993.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/vulture-funds-circle-as-greece-fears-grow-7758127.html
Newly installed Anglican Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands, the Right Reverend Dr Howard Gregory, is urging the church to dissociate itself from tainted money, which continues to circulate in the society where corruption is rampant.
“I warn the church that the rally card and some of the fund-raising activities need to be subjected to closer scrutiny as they run the risk of bringing drug and other tainted money into the coffers of the church,” he declared.
“We live in a society which is permeated at every level by corruption, and in which we benefit cooperatively from ill-gotten gain and not just the acts of corruption, supposedly restricted to politicians and those in the public service,” Gregory said.
Area of concern
One member of the congregation, Denton Maxwell, told The Gleaner that the lack of transparency in relation to donations was an area of concern.
“As people of God, we should know exactly what we are involved in or what we are doing and so I believe that Rev Gregory is correct,” Maxwell said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120518/lead/lead1.html
The Business Of ‘Money Politics’
Published: Friday | May 18, 2012
It’s a never-ending battle to rid Jamaica’s politics of corruption and to stymie a leading cause of this corruption, the financing of political parties, candidates and elections in the country since 1944.
The current condition has now become unbearable, as the practice has eroded the reputation and standing of the country, and the legitimacy of the political process.
Money is a major, if not defining, issue in deciding the outcome of elections on the current world stage. This does not bode well for Jamaica, as we are now at the bottom of the world indices of corrupt, highly indebted and non-performing nations, owing to the pervasiveness and prevalence of our culture of ‘money politics’, which handicaps the State in tackling crime and corruption more effectively.
Influencing politicians
The recently published Turks & Caicos Islands Supreme Court confiscation order in the matter with Olint and David Smith’s operations in Jamaica, where it says that donations were made to the PNP and JLP, is proof of the dangers of this reality.
Over time, financiers give to parties that they wish to win elections, or to both parties to ensure the protection of their special interests. The bankers, ‘banksters’, Ponzi schemers, mammon and the money masters, they are the puppeteers pulling the strings of the politician.
The other side of this coin is that parties or independent candidates who may not support special interests are, of course, denied financing. The following excerpt from former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson, who denied receiving any contributions from Olint, is in essence a history book of election financing in Jamaica:
“… In addition to the donations he had already given to both political parties, he had made hefty contributions to the JLP campaign in Central Manchester because he was determined to see the defeat of Peter Bunting. He admitted doing so because he claimed that Bunting had orchestrated the raid on his Kingston offices and he had heard that should the PNP win, Bunting could become the minister of finance and feared that he was out to destroy him.”
Mr Patterson told him that Bunting denied any such involvement and Cabinet would not allow any member to pursue any such vendetta or action. Anything done would be in accordance with the law. He expressed great relief with that assurance.
We should now see the absolute necessity for campaign-finance reforms in order to help change our discredited political system and to rid the country of the old corrupt practice of ‘money politics’.
The corrupting influence of money in politics is not limited to outright bribery or discreet quid pro quo. Campaign-finance reform has to consistently, sensibly and strategically focus on and address the more pervasive distortion of electoral institutions by concentrated wealth, on the special access and guaranteed favour that sap the representative integrity of Jamaican governments and defy public confidence in institutions.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120518/cleisure/cleisure3.html
Three more for trial at Supreme Court
After two days of sufficiency hearings, High Court judge Madame Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale ruled that attorneys Chal Misick and Melbourne Wilson and former Cabinet minister McAllister “Piper” Hanchell will have to stand trial in the Supreme Court.
The judge gave her decision with respect to two counts for Hanchell, two counts for Wilson and seven counts for Misick on Wednesday, but she returned to court on Thursday to rule on a particular indictment in relation to Misick who yesterday reported sick and was absent.
The three men must return to court on July 10, 2012.
Hanchell faces charges of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to receive bribes in relation to the Salt Cay development, while Wilson’s charges are for conspiracy to defraud and money laundering in connection with a condominium development at North West Point.
Misick’s indictments were for conspiracy to receive bribes, conspiracy to defraud and money laundering, all relating to the Dellis Cay project, the North West Point development, the Juniper Hole land sale in Middle Caicos, Joe Grant’s Cay and the purchase of a Gulfstream jet for his brother, former Turks and Caicos Islands Premier Michael Misick.
Judge Ramsay-Hale found that the evidence presented to her was sufficient for the accused to be tried before the Supreme Court on the allegations brought.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2550
Nov 26 trial for accused in ATL pension fraud
The three appeared relaxed as they sat in the prisoners’ dock, while Lynch scribbled in a notepad in his palm. Both men wore grey-coloured jackets without tie, while Barber sported a soft blue, button-down top.
During a break in the proceedings, the three could be seen smiling and chatting in the far corner of the small courtroom, presided over by Magistrate Lorna Shelly Williams.
Apart from their battery of attorneys, there was a handful of supporters for the accused persons.
Yesterday, the court ruled that sections of the minutes of the Gorstew board meetings from 1990 to 2010, relating to the company’s pension policy, are to be disclosed to the defence on or before June 22.
The court also ruled that the pension statement of five members of the ATL Group are to be served on the defence. These, the defence told the court, will assist their case.
Lynch, Pyne and Barber are accused of conspiring to have monies distributed from the surplus in the pension fund to workers and, in so doing, they allegedly benefited from the distribution, using forged documents to defraud the pension fund.
It is further alleged that the distribution was done without the approval of Gorstew Ltd, which is the holding company for the Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart-owned Jamaica Observer, ATL and the Sandals Group.
The three accused have denied the allegations.
They were arrested in December 2010 after the alleged fraud was discovered.
Pyne and Lynch received support recently from one “Paul Azan”, suspected to be a pseudonym for the author of a globally circulated e-mail which libelled several prominent Jamaican politicians and businessmen, including former prime ministers P J Patterson and Bruce Golding, former government minister Daryl Vaz and ATL Group chairman Stewart.
Vaz has sued Jamaican-born Florida attorney David Rowe, saying he is the author of the e-mail. But Rowe has denied the accusation and asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Nov-26-trial-for-accused-in-ATL-pension-fraud_11494537#ixzz1vDwpqXAf
The ‘Paul Azan’ letter also mentioned David Smith of Olint among others and also the British Territory known as the Turks and Caicos Islands and the SIPT investigations.
PEPPER POT: Diplomatic offensive
The one accused of fraud has linked up with the hate-mailer and both have taken their case to the US Embassy. Not sure yet if it is asylum they are seeking or trying to create mischief. But Uncle Sam can’t be that easily fooled, can they?
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PEPPER-POT–Diplomatic-offensive_11494588#ixzz1vEXxlM5l
Interesting, very interesting. So many are accused of fraud. Can the ‘hate mailer’ and the sender of the ‘hate mails’ be distinguished…all that.
The guessing game
The big question these days is where is Michael Misick, the former Turks and Caicos Islands premier who is said to be cooling his heels these days in the Dominican Republic. Some say he has been sighted in Venezuela with his friend President Hugo Chavez. From what we are hearing, Misick might need Chavez’s prayers.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PEPPER-POT–Diplomatic-offensive_11494588#ixzz1vEYZVmO0
‘cooling’ his heels? Eva Jean..sometimes I can’t gauge your ‘level.’
The father was dismissed by Google. Wither the stepson?
Watching. watching.
Observer, your picture of Chavez look like the Monsignor. Monsignor had to leave….leave the pickney them alone!
Anyway, good luck to all the sides. You will all need it when I crank up the system (If needs be). Lotto scam tape will get knocked off the charts…lol…START the collection early…”pastors?”
Time very short….
Tickets are still available for the most popular events of the 2012 Olympics – if you have the money.
Research by The Independent has established that thousands of corporate hospitality packages for the most popular days of the Games – likely to feature the likes of the sprinter Usain Bolt and the diver Tom Daley – are still unsold with just 69 days to go.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/what-ticket-shortage-packages-still-unsold–at-4500-per-person-7767047.html
Think and check before…you chat foolishness…
The accidental millionaire finally made to pay
Woman given £5m in bank error found guilty after international spending spree
It was the banking error that was too good to be true, but that did not stop a New Zealand woman from enjoying the fruits of the multi-million-pound bounty inadvertently credited to her partner’s account.
Mr Gao, later extradited from Hong Kong, has yet to face trial. But his wife was yesterday found guilty of 30 charges of theft, dishonesty and money laundering by a jury at the Rotorua District Court.
She also claimed that Mr Gao had told customers at the service station where he worked that he had won the lottery.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/the-accidental-millionaire-finally-made-to-pay-7766919.html
A developing world of debt
More than a decade after the cancellation of billions of dollars of debt, developing countries owe $4tn … and counting
The JDC says debt is “still a huge issue” for developing countries, which have been hit hard by the financial crisis. Exports have crashed, nationals working overseas have less money to send home, and multinational companies scale back costs and investment. The JDC estimates that the current $4tn of external debts owed by developing countries costs them more than $1.5bn a day in repayments – and $34m of that comes from the very poorest countries.
A major chunk of the debt owed by 32 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, was eliminated by the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) initiative of the World Bank and IMF, which was reinforced by the G8’s 2005 multilateral debt relief initiative (MDRI).
But many poor countries in Asia and Latin America (for example, Jamaica and El Salvador) did not have debts written off because their income per capita was too high to meet the IMF and World Bank criteria. Others, such as Bangladesh, did not qualify for cancellation because their debts were seen as sustainable.
Other problems came with the strings attached by the World Bank and IMF as a condition of debt cancellations. As economist Jeffrey Sachs said, it’s “belt-tightening for people who cannot afford belts”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2012/may/15/developing-world-of-debt
Anthony B, hits out at corrupt politicians and business men in Jamaica.
Financial crisis ‘will drive up debt repayments for poorer nations’
New report by the Jubilee Debt Campaign says payments will increase by an average of a third by 2014
Just as in the first wave of the global credit crunch, poor countries are likely to suffer falling income from exports as demand from recession-hit European countries declines; from capital flooding out of the country as banks and other multinational firms repatriate funds to shore up their finances back home; and from declining revenue from migrants living in Europe who send cash back to their families.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/poor-countries-debt-repayment-economic-crisis
More fraud! Complaints valued at over $2b filed in last 3 yrs
New head of the Fraud Squad, Superintendent Clifford Chambers told the Jamaica Observer last week that the unit was seeing an average of around six to eight new complaints each week with his 26-member staff — some of whom have between 30 and 40 case files working on being stretched to the hilt.
“The nature of our cases see us frequently in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to get guidance. We have a very good relationship with the DPP’s office, and we want to have a closer relationship with the Bankers’ Association’s anti-fraud unit, [we will also want to} developing public campaigns, having conferences and seminars surrounding fraud prevention, and raising awareness about what is happening out there and how to counteract it,” Chambers said.
He had high praise for his staff who he said were true professionals.
“I must commend the guys out there who are working. The level of professionalism that is displayed by the staff here is marvellous.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/More-fraud–Complaints-valued-at-over–2b-filed-in-last-3-yrs_11507801#ixzz1vPs0QIic
For Nocotec
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid610244352001?bclid=640891246001&bctid=1647653672001
Round one of hate-mail saga to Vaz
Court says former minister can subpoena Google, Yahoo!
Vaz, the first to react, filed his lawsuit against Rowe in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
Patterson said that he had referred the matter to his lawyers for their advice and Dr Tufton said he too was seeking legal advice.
The others named in the offensive, e-mail which was distributed globally via the Internet, are expected to follow suit.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Round-one-of-hate-mail-saga-to-Vaz_11513528#ixzz1vUUVovCs
Round one of hate-mail saga to Vaz
Court says former minister can subpoena Google, Yahoo!
Vaz, the first to react, filed his lawsuit against Rowe in the Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
Patterson said that he had referred the matter to his lawyers for their advice and Dr Tufton said he too was seeking legal advice.
The others named in the offensive, e-mail which was distributed globally via the Internet, are expected to follow suit.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Round-one-of-hate-mail-saga-to-Vaz_11513528#ixzz1vVi9Y7
This needs a closer look. Why is David Smith not mentioned. He is mentioned in The “Paul Azan” letter. Vaz was keynote speaker at Smith’s birthday. Something not right with the reporting.
Dr. Christopher Tufton seems to be rearing to go (if we are to believe Observer reports) so where iss Tufton? Rearing backwards…come on man sghow some backbone…they want you as PM but you have to step into the ring…..of fire?
The fraud squad is also stepping up its efforts to arrest persons who have been operating unregulated financial schemes, all of which, Supt Chambers said, have been shut down.
“That is something that we are giving some serious attention to. We have over 10 unregulated financial institutions that we will be looking now to get some directives from the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions) as to how we advance from here,” he said.
“The (Carlos) Hill (Cash Plus) matter is in court; there is this (David) Smith matter as it relates to Olint, but there are others for which we have several complaints and we will be seeking guidance on the progression of these.
“All of them have shut down. People have lost money, people have made complaints and people have expectations, so we need to get some work done,” said Supt Chambers, who also confirmed that World Wise Investments was one of the 10 institutions listed for further probe, following numerous complaints filed against that company.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Identity-theft-growing_11513510#ixzz1vWLn1Qc1
POLITICS, MEDIA, DONATIONS, INTERFERENCE, CORRUPTION, JAMAICA
UK culture minister faces disclosure probe
LONDON—The British Parliament’s commissioner for standards has opened an investigation into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has faced calls for his resignation over his office’s dealings with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
LONDON—The British Parliament’s commissioner for standards has opened an investigation into Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who has faced calls for his resignation over his office’s dealings with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
John Lyon confirmed on Monday that he is looking into allegations that Hunt failed to register donations from several media companies.
Lyon said the investigation is in response to a complaint from an opposition member of Parliament that Hunt had failed to disclose his participation in a series of networking events staged by eight creative industry organizations.
Hunt’s former special adviser, Adam Smith, is scheduled to testify Thursday at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards.
Smith resigned following the disclosure of email communications with News Corp. lobbyist Fred Michel about News Corp.’s proposed takeover of satellite broadcaster BSkyB. Hunt was the minister in charge of deciding whether the takeover could go ahead, and has denied that he was secretly aiding the bid.
http://www.mygripeanthing.com/uk-culture-minister-faces-disclosure-probe
Smith, man of ‘boundless benevolence’
DAVID SMITH, head of troubled investment club Olint Corporation, has the reputation of being a high-roller in this British dependent island he has called home since 2007. According to those in the know, he is a big spender who likes a good party.
Smith is a popular figure in corporate circles here and is known to throw down as much as US$100,000 ($7.2 million) a night at the Players Club and Casablanca casinos, two of his favourite spots.
Two weeks ago, he celebrated his birthday with a massive party at his mansion in the upscale Chalk Sound area. It was reportedly attended by several Jamaican members of Parliament.
“I’m under strict instructions from my lawyers not to say anything,” Smith said. Attempts by The Sunday Gleaner to speak with Neville Cadogan, head of the Financial Services Commission here, were unsuccessful. His assistant said he was on vacation and calls to his mobile phone were not answered.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20080720/lead/lead6.html
Interesting judgement here. A Jamaican firm brought an action against Google and lost. Vaz seems to be doing something similar and making observer headlines as well.
Although the case below refers to “Butch” Stewart and he himself is mentioned in the Paul Azan emails along with David Smith, Vaz and others, it is assumed that it is coincidental and unrelated.
I do not know if Vaz is following the failed strategy used in the case below against Google. But i wonder if he (Vaz) might ask Mr. Stewart for some advice seeing as they seem to have a very similar way of thinking regarding Google.
Instructive for any aspiring lawyer interested to read.
At all times keep in mind this is not Jamaica.
Sandals Resorts International Limited,
Petitioner-Appellant,
-againstGoogle, Inc.,
Respondent-Respondent
This appeal from an order denying the petition
raises questions regarding the distinction between assertions of
fact and expressions of opinion, the social context of the e-mail
at issue, and anonymous e-mail communications generally.
The writer of the email is identified as John Anthony, at “jft3092@gmail.com”; its
addressees are Betty Ann Blaine and “UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS.”
The gist of the e-mail is that the country of
Jamaica gives subsidies to the Sandals resorts, paid for by
Jamaican taxpayers, while the foreign corporation that owns the
resort company hires only foreigners for its senior managerial
positions and hires Jamaican nationals only for menial jobs at
its Jamaican resorts.
The e-mail then quotes from another article (with accompanying
images) published at the Jamaican Observer Web site on August 9,
2008, entitled “‘Butch’ Stewart Superstar!,” which relates that
the founder and chairman of Sandals Resorts International, Gordon
“Butch” Stewart, and his son, Sandals’ CEO Adam Stewart, attended
a reception for Canadian travel agents and tour operators.
Specifically, the e-mail quotes portions of the article in which
it is stated that “Butch . . . was mobbed by travel agents and
tour operators hungry to meet the man who had built the brand
many of them had made million [gap]” and that relate that a
travel agent named “Affonso[] . . . disclosed that this year she
had sold 90 bookings and had made over $1 million selling
Sandals/ Beaches.”
Sandals contends that this e-mail is false and defamatory in
asserting essentially that Sandals is racist and discriminatory
in hiring non-Jamaicans for all positions of management and
authority, and giving native Jamaicans only low-paying menial
jobs.
It therefore seeks
“all information concerning the Google account
designated as jft3092@gmail.com including but not
limited to all e-mail, instant messages, text messages,
buddy lists, address books, contact lists, account
histories, account settings, profiles, mail boxes,
folder structure, detailed billing, user activity
records (log on and log off times), user identification
records, phone number access records, ISP access
records, and all information provided by the user at
the time the account was created.”
Initially, we observe that nothing in the petition
identifies specific assertions of fact as false. That is, there
is nothing in the petition contradicting the e-mail’s claim that Sandals offers only menial jobs to native Jamaicans of African
heritage.
Even were we to find that the petition sufficiently alleged
that the subject e-mail injured Sandals’ business reputation or
damaged its credit standing, we still would deny the application for disclosure of the account holder’s identification on the
ground that the subject e-mail is constitutionally protected
opinion.
There is validity to Sandals’ argument that the “natural
connotation” of the e-mail is that Sandals’ hiring policies are
racist. Although most of the comments in the e-mail refer to
“Jamaicans” and “foreigners” without reference to race or skin
color, there is one specific assertion that Sandals “does not
even have a single dark-skinned Jamaican on its board,” from
which it is reasonable to infer that the writer is suggesting
that Sandals is biased in its treatment of Jamaicans of color.
It is also true, as Sandals states, that assertions of objective
fact seem to be contained in the comments that Jamaicans are
relegated to menial, low-paying jobs such as making beds,
cleaning toilets, and giving massages, while foreigners hold
“high profile luxury-style jobs,” and that the government is
subsidizing tourist empires with the taxes of poverty-stricken
Jamaicans.
“It is . . . imperative that courts learn to view
libel allegations within the unique context of the
Internet. In determining whether a plaintiff’s
complaint includes a published ‘false and defamatory
statement concerning another,’ commentators have argued
that the defamatory import of the communication must be
viewed in light of the fact that bulletin boards and
chat rooms ‘are often the repository of a wide range of
casual, emotive, and imprecise speech,’ and that the
online ‘recipients of [offensive] statements do not
necessarily attribute the same level of credence to the
statements [that] they would accord to statements made
in other contexts.’ Because the context of a statement
impacts its potentially defamatory import, it is
necessary to view allegedly defamatory statements
published on the Internet within the broader framework
on which they appear, taking into account both the
tenor of the chat room or message board in which they
are posted, and the language of the statements.
Indeed, the e-mail at issue here, which questions not so
much Sandals’ conduct with regard to race as its use of Jamaican
wealth and the Jamaican labor pool, bears some similarity to the
type of handbills and pamphlets whose anonymity is protected when
their publication is prompted by the desire to question,
challenge and criticize the practices of those in power without
incurring adverse consequences such as economic or official
retaliation (see generally Martin, Comment and Casenote, Freezing
the Net: Rejecting a One-Size-Fits-All Standard for Unmasking
Anonymous Internet Speakers in Defamation Lawsuits, 75 U Cin L
Rev 1217, 1219 [Spring 2007]; Levine, Note, Establishing Legal
Accountability for Anonymous Communication in Cyberspace, 96
Colum L Rev 1526, 1531 [1996]).
In sum, while isolated portions of the subject e-mail are
arguably factual, those portions constitute facts supporting the
writer’s opinion, which renders the writing as a whole “pure
opinion” since it does not imply that it is based upon
undisclosed facts (see Steinhilber, 68 NY2d at 289-290). Far
from suggesting that the writer knows certain facts that his or
her audience does not know, the e-mail is supported by links to
the writer’s sources. Moreover, the “content of the whole
communication, its tone and apparent purpose” (Immuno AG., 77
NY2d at 254), and its very anonymity, would signal to any
reasonable reader that the writer’s purpose is to foment questioning by native Jamaicans regarding the role of Sandals’
resorts in their national economy. Thus, the communication is
not actionable.
Accordingly, the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York
County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered April 16, 2010,
dismissing the petition for pre-action discovery in an action for
libel, should be affirmed, without costs. The appeal from the
order, same court and Justice, entered April 30, 2010, which
denied petitioner’s ex parte application for reargument
(incorrectly denominated an application for renewal and
reargument), should be dismissed, without costs, as taken from a
nonappealable order.
http://www.olintja.com/uploadeddocuments/20120423-221533-431-2011_05_19_dec.pdfb
Sandals Resorts International Limited,
Petitioner-Appellant,
-againstGoogle, Inc.,
Respondent-Respondent
Accordingly, the judgment of the Supreme Court, New York
County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered April 16, 2010,
dismissing the petition for pre-action discovery in an action for
libel, should be affirmed, without costs. The appeal from the
order, same court and Justice, entered April 30, 2010, which
denied petitioner’s ex parte application for reargument
(incorrectly denominated an application for renewal and
reargument), should be dismissed, without costs, as taken from a
nonappealable order.
Click to access 20120423-221533-431-2011_05_19_dec.pdf
Click to access Coke-sentencing-documents-main-20120521.pdf
“Petal was particularly trusted by Duddus and therefore was permitted to take the cocaine and insert it in her body at home prior to travelling. Petal was unusual in that she was a very large woman who could carry more cocaine than the other females – Petal’s quantity was over 12 ounces. I recall this specifically because the size was a topic of conversation between Duddus and others.”
Click to access Coke-sentencing-documents-witness-20120521.pdf
Gosh Petal!
The Shower Possse
Politicians, Businessmen Named At Dudus Hearing
The afternoon session of the evidentiary hearing of confessed Jamaican crime lord Christopher Dudus Coke featured more compelling evidence about the criminal pursuits of the man also called “Presi” and his link to prominent politicians and businessmen in Jamaica.
Coke’s former lieutenant, Jermaine ‘Cowboy’ Cohen, who is jailed in America, was on the witness stand for more than three hours when he told the United States Southern District Court in Lower Manhattan that businessman Justin O’Gilvie was Coke’s “chief finance minister”.
From: David Lazarus dhplaz
To: dsmith
2/6/2007
Barry,
Below is the names you asked for:
1. Neil Andradie
2. James Robertson
3. Charlene Robertson
4. Patricia Nicholson
5. Justin Ogilvie- plus any in his wifes’ name.
6. Gassan Azan
7. Andrea Hughsam
8. Patrick Tempral
9. Ansel Tempral. new & old.
10.Charles Condell. (Eric)
Hope this will do.
David
Cohen also said in 2004, politicians, Bruce Golding and Edward Seaga, and businessmen Saleem Lazarus and Justin O’Gilvie met with Coke in a bid to quell the feud among his loyalists and those of Dudus.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37386
No one to blame for Keith Clarke killing, says DPP
Nearly two years after businessman Keith Clarke was killed in his St. Andrew residence by members of the security forces, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn is unable to say whether anyone is responsible for his death.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/no-one-blame-keith-clarke-killing-says-dpp
Predicted years ago, unfortunate and representative all in one. One wrong turn and being O’Gilvie’s neighbour sealed the fate of the murder victim Keith Clarke.
Clearly the “security” was instructed to kill the potentially talkative target (O’Gilvie) but Clarke just got it (for there is know through road from Keith Clarke’s house).
O’Gilvie is obviously very lucky. Clarke got 22 shots with his hands up RIP. This is Jamaica. It always has been.
The issue is that Jamaica seeks to become a financial centre and the legal systems are the most important concerns for investors in that realm.
News Americas, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Tues. Mar. 15, 2011: Jamaica Justice Minister, under oath before a commission of enquiry Monday, swore she had no idea Christopher Dudus Coke had ties to the ruling Jamaica Labor Party.
Minister Dorothy Lightbourne on Monday made the comment under cross examination to the commission charged with looking into the extradition of Coke and the hiring of U.S. law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips to block the extradition.
http://www.newsamericasnow.com/jamaica-minister-unaware-dudus-coke-had-jlp-links/
Judge Who Will Sentence Jamaican Drug Lord Hears Testimony of Ghastly Killings
The maximum sentence he can receive is 23 years, while the lowest end of the range recommended under federal guidelines is just 14 months less.
But the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan has made it clear in court papers that it believes Mr. Coke, 43, is no ordinary defendant, describing him as so powerful in Jamaica that he enjoyed “virtual immunity from the reach of law enforcement.”
In testimony on Tuesday, Jermaine Cohen, 37, a former member of Mr. Coke’s gang who has cooperated with the authorities, offered vivid testimony about a half-dozen killings. He said that Mr. Coke disappeared into the jail with a power saw, hatchet or gun, and appeared to calmly dispatch those who had stolen from his group, not paid him, or otherwise violated his rules.
Mr. Cohen said he remained outside the jail, but heard what was happening. In the case of one man, he mimicked the sound of a power saw that he observed Mr. Coke take in with him.
“One scream, and then I don’t hear nothing more, sir,” Mr. Cohen told the prosecutor, John T. Zach, who was questioning him.
Mr. Cohen, who wore an orange prison jumpsuit and who is serving a federal sentence for illegal re-entry and other charges, testified that his job was to clean up after his boss. He said that he would wait until Mr. Coke left the jail, often with bloody hands and sneakers, and then he would enter, and find butchered remains and blood on the floor.
During cross-examination, one of Mr. Coke’s lawyers, Stephen H. Rosen, tried to undermine Mr. Cohen’s credibility, citing his use of multiple false identities and leaping on inconsistencies in his testimony. “You’ve got a great memory, sir, for things that happened 15, 16, 17 years ago, but you can’t even tell us what you pled guilty to” under a different name in 2009, Mr. Rosen told the witness at one point.
Jamaica should have been able to watch on t.v. like Manatt.
It is a pity that Rosen lied upfront in front of the whole world and so has NO CREDIBILITY.
Recall he said adamantly that Dudus would never plead guilty. And the other bucket full of holes he carried on (to much to mention here). Why would Dudus not get credible lawyers? He could afford it.
What happens today.
Two former Prime Minister’s names called. Are they going to quiet under a rock and just have their “credibility” smashed?
Jamaica needs some denials….IF POSSIBLE?
“Rosen has accused the United States Government of working with the People’s National Party (PNP) by using the Coke extradition issue to drive the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from office in December 2011”
Jamaica Gleaner.
[THE attorney for reputed drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ is pleading for anyone who may have benefited from the kindness of his client to now return the favour.
Hours after Coke pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a Manhattan court on Wednesday, attorney Stephen H Rosen told the Observer that Coke is now in need of people to send letters to Judge Robert P Patterson outlining his good deeds and kindness ahead of his sentencing on December 8.
Coke’s guilty plea comes just two weeks ahead of his scheduled trial on September 12 and shocked most Jamaicans — especially those in Tivoli Gardens — who were of the view that the former strongman would have put up a fight.
Rosen told the Observer on Wednesday that Coke’s decision to make a plea resulted from the failure last week to have the court throw out damning wiretap evidence against him and the fact that 12 felons from Tivoli Gardens were set to testify about Coke committing at least six murders in the furtherance of his alleged drug and gun-running operations.
Rosen said his client risked being imprisoned for life had he gone to trial and was convicted.]
From: “Dudus Appeal” by the Jamaica Observer
Asked by U.S. District Judge Robert Patterson whether he understood the charges, he replied with a simple, “Yes, sir.” A defense attorney temporarily assigned at the arraignment told the judge Coke planned to hire another lawyer. Attorney Frank Doddato said after the hearing that he expects to represent Coke and would vigorously fight the charges. “There’s not going to be any leeway for compromise here,” he said.
[Liad, simp0le nothing more]
And of Jay (Warren common blog):
Adjunct Professor Rowe was wrong again, Dudus to get 10-15 yrs ?
Posted on March 16, 2012 by jay
David Rowe had indicated that the judge will throw the book at Dudus, but no such thing occurred. In fact the judge indicated that their is insufficient evidence to support a 23 yrs prison sentence and as such has delayed sentencing until May. This will allow time for the prosecution to provide further evidence again Coke.
Now given this latest development, there are very worried folks in both New York and Jamaica because if Coke was to get 10 -15 years he could be out and back on Jamaica soil before he becomes an old man and could to stir up trouble.
If I should listen to Turthlives, then Dudus could return to Jamaica when the PNP is power and we know how powerful he became under that administration. Will the local cops build a case against him, while he is serving time in the USA ?
[Wrong again. not really LIAD just don’t know betta}
Dodatto is paid to lie. People have to feed family.
According to Cohen, the guns issued by Dudus to his soldiers included Mac 11s, 45s and .357 Magnums, AK-47s and M16s, and all came into Jamaica from the United States hidden in beans, garlic, and onions. He said the guns were stored at a warehouse along the Bustamante Highway.
The hearing is expected to continue today with cross-examination from Dudus’ defence team. The prosecution is expected to call another witness to the stand.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120523/lead/lead1.html
Bonded warehouse 124?
Payback For Slavery?
Published: Wednesday | May 23, 2012
For a country which has hundreds of churches, it seems that religion is waning in its impact because large segments of the society are now run on greed and criminality.
As a result, Jamaica is overrun by apologists who argue that it is socially acceptable for people to be robbed, exploited and abused. But all of us are complicit in these acts of greed and criminality when we fail to tell the police what we know.
It’s the same mentality of apologising for wrongdoers that apparently motivated women of Tivoli Gardens to take to the streets in 2010 in defence of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, even though he was facing serious allegations of criminal acts, including murder.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120523/cleisure/cleisure3.html
Payback For Slavery?
This idea of defending the scammers has reinforced what I have said repeatedly in this space: As a people, we have lost the ability to choose between what is right and what is wrong. Too few people care about what is right and honourable these days.
Jamaica is overrun by apologists who argue that it is socially acceptable for people to be robbed, exploited and abused. But all of us are complicit in these acts of greed and criminality when we fail to tell the police what we know.
It’s the same mentality of apologising for wrongdoers that apparently motivated women of Tivoli Gardens to take to the streets in 2010 in defence of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, even though he was facing serious allegations of criminal acts, including murder.
Dennie Quill, Gleaner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17396024
Questions raised in UK Parliament about Lord Ashcroft ‘s involvement in the two TCI Hospitals
http://tcigrapevine.com/?p=810
Penn Relays abused to smuggle cocaine into the USA.
AUDIO: Former track coach testifies against Dudus
A former assistant track and field coach at the St. Jago High School, in St. Catherine is now on the witness stand at the evidentiary hearing of confessed gangster, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
During cross-examination earlier, Anthony Brown, who is jailed in Brooklyn, New York, admitted that he got visas for Coke and his men for them to smuggle drugs into the US.
But he said he fled to the US after his attempts to get visas on one occasion failed.
radio@gleanerjm.com
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=37397
floridian, you really DO need your own blog/facebook/twitter so you can connect the dots for people and shine some light where CLEARLY the powers that be want there to be darkness.
In this day and age of information liberation, where revolutions can start on facebook it’s a shame that Jamaica has no source to put out in the open what people want to keep hidden.
You’re doing all this posting on what I’m sure has been a largely abandoned blog and the message is just not getting out there.
come on man.. all it takes is a few clicks 😉
(and if/when you’ve started it just let these guys know so they can direct the masses to the truth https://www.facebook.com/onthegroundnews)
I tell you what Cynic you deal with facebook. i don’t run to the waterfront to have my picture taken by the Canadian Military nor do I use my phone while the birds are in the air..heheh.
This blog serves a particular purpose. Key URL’s read it religiously. Enemy dem? An they need to read it.
If I wanted EVERY Jamaican to come here all at once I could. Not time yet. The time now if for who think them smart BUT not smart at all use the time to consider what they are worth….their own worth.
http://www.olintja.com/docs/document-for-theCynic.htm
Link dead….
Former premier denies receiving tainted gifts
Published on May 23, 2012
“I have never received, directly or indirectly, $25,000 from Mr Smith as a gift or as a campaign contribution. The assertion made by him or whoever in the recently released Supreme Court documents is completely false,” Misick claimed.
He recalled that he met Smith in the summer of 2003, after coming to office as then chief minister of the TCI.
“When I met David Smith, he and his companies were licensed to carry on business in the Turks and Caicos Islands. To be sure, I was not involved at any stage in the granting of his licenses and I had absolutely no business, officially or otherwise, with Mr Smith,” Misick said.
He is currently a fugitive from justice, being the subject of an arrest warrant and an Interpol “Red Notice”.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Former-premier-denies-receiving-tainted-gifts-5270.html
Another former minister and two attorneys committed for trial
Published on May 23, 2012
Also headed for trial in the Supreme Court is attorney Chalmers “Chal” Misick, brother of Michael Misick. The charges against him appear to involve a number of tainted prospective developments, where funds were alleged to have been systematically sidetracked to members and associates of the former government.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Another-former-minister-and-two-attorneys-committed-for-trial-5272.html
Mystery virus hits resorts in Turks and Caicos
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2572
Grace Bay Club suspends new reservations
Grace Bay Club, a high-end Turks and Caicos Islands resort whose guests included US vice-presidents, world-famous actors singers, novelists and billionaires, has suspended new reservations because of a mysterious illness that has irritated about a dozen other resorts in this upscale Caribbean tourist destination.
Mark Durliat, Chief Operating Officer, confirmed that some of their hotel guests have complained of diarrhoea and flu-like symptoms that also affected about a dozen other resorts in this country’s tourist belt, Grace Bay, which has won several coveted international awards, including the world’s best beach.
“Grace Bay Club’s primary concern is to ensure guests’ health and safety, and a full sanitization of Grace Bay Club is now fully underway to circumvent further symptoms,” Durliat said. “In order to fully ensure all guests safety, Grace Bay Club has chosen to no longer accept new reservations as of Wednesday May 23rd for 7 days , and a few on-property amenities will be reduced to ensure the property is fully sanitized. Currently, Grace Bay Club is providing hand sanitizers throughout the resort to all guests and staff, and all public spaces, kitchens, restaurants, plumbing systems and guestrooms are being thoroughly sanitized with bleach according to the safety standards of the Department of Environmental Health. Grace Bay Resorts values every guest experience and offers its fullest attention and assistance to address concerns immediately and effectively,” he added.
Durliat added that Grace Bay Club is providing medical assistance to affected guests, alerting current and future guests of the situation and offering them the option to adjust existing reservations without penalty.
“Once all guests depart the resort, a more extensive, full-property sanitization will take place,” he said, adding that the resort will be accepting room reservations on June 1, 2012. Government health officials are working with the private sector and taking a proactive approach to the situation to determine the exact cause of the sickness, characterized by diarrhea and vomiting, that has affected many of the high-end resorts in this British Overseas Territory located 500 miles from Miami.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2573
Jeremy Hunt: minister for Murdoch
If this module of the Leveson inquiry has a smoking gun, it is the memo Jeremy Hunt wrote to the prime minister on 19 November 2010
Having, quite inappropriately, spoken to Mr Murdoch on a private line, Mr Hunt could not, apparently, help himself. He promptly wrote a memo to Mr Cameron telling him that Mr Murdoch was “pretty furious” at Mr Cable’s decision to refer the bid to Ofcom. He warned the prime minister the government “could end up in the wrong place” and demanded that they shouldn’t cave in to the “Mark Thompson/Channel 4/Guardian line”. He wanted the government to support Murdoch’s vision – “to repeat what his father did … with Wapping and create the world’s first multimedia operator available from paper to web to TV to iPhone”. He requested a meeting with Cameron, Clegg and Cable. A month later, Mr Cable was removed from overseeing the bid on the grounds he was biased against it. Mr Hunt – whose bias in favour of the bid was evident from this memo – was asked by Mr Cameron to take over.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/24/jeremy-hunt-minister-murdoch-editorial
Jamaican man pleads guilty to lottery scam
The men were arrested last October about 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh after a victim in Topeka, Kansas sent 25-thousand US dollars to the men, supposedly to satisfy costs associated with the winnings.
The victim never received any money and reported the suspected fraud.
Sentencing is scheduled for September 4.
Bernard could face 40 years in prison, a fine of 750 thousand US dollars , or both.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/jamaican-man-pleads-guilty-lottery-scam
10 love Paula. How much open goal case DPP get and can’t score. Who colt the game?
Female arms dealer sentenced
A female firearms dealer in the US, who is believed to have sold guns to members of a Jamaican gang, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/female-arms-dealer-sentenced
11 love Paula. Can’t score no goals in Jamaica? Them threaten you and the umpteen Jamaican judge judy dem? Hush.
Every open goal they get DPP office kick wide past the upright over the crossbar. Can’t the country see that who not bought out is under threat? Jury to judge to guardie at the gate.
http://www.olintja.com/docs/coke/Witness_2_Jane_Doe_DECLARATION_IN_CONNECTION_WITH_THE_SENTENCING_OF_CHRiSTOPHER_MICHAEL_COKE.htm
PEPPER POT: The strangest bedfellows
It’s not just politics that makes strange bedfellows. The hate-mailer and the fraudulent one are teaming up for a second time. First, they worked together for the failed bank, tossing work from one to the other. Now they are protecting each other against what they perceive as a common enemy. When everything comes out in the wash, it will be quite a bombshell! Stay tuned to this space.
And speaking of planes…
The hate-mailer also has a history of verbally attacking the successful one, going all the way back to claims of corrupt use of Air Jamaica. He was relatively silent after a New York court found that his vicious claims were entirely without evidence. Now he is back, and worse than ever, clearly having learnt nothing. This time, however, he has gone too far and his lofty claims about himself are about to be exposed as falsification.
Insofar as the airline was concerned we were always operating at a current red ink, in any given quarter, when the airplanes were full we were losing money, when we inquired we could not get a proper answer as to the revenue sharing arrangements between the tourist industry and air JM…it seems all the monies ($$) was going to the all inclusive operators. When we examined some of the maintenance practices we found that there were foggy arrangements between our selves and farmed out operations in Miami, while our hanger, facilities and manpower was idle. It seems we were spending a lot of advt $$in saturated markets and not coordinating with the Tourist board and operators to share this cost and could never get access to a proper audit. In short Air Jamaica has been subsidizing the tourist industry. When we were finally granted access the contradictions were glaring. We noted where the four 727 Boeing aircraft was sold/leased back to Guiness Peat in Ireland, nothing wrong with that business decision, except that the $$(some 27 mill usd plus) stopped in a Cayman bank.
On the same day that I was fired the Gleaner company, a pre slavery institution, printed my dismissal in bold red ink and as the headline. A much smaller article lower down on the said front page featured a convicted smuggler in a united states court claiming that his smuggling partner was The Prime Minister of Jamaica.
http://www.maydayairjamaica.com/
Century National Bank (CNB), established in 1984, was one of the many new institutions that were added to the banking sector. CNB became one of the fast-growing financial institutions largely because of the dynamic, expansionist personality of its chairman, Don Crawford, who had graduated from the ranks in banking. As a member of the black middle class, he was also particularly welcomed, in keeping with the policy expectation that private ownership of the heights of the economy would be more mixed racially in the future than it was in the past.
Shortage of foreign exchange to keep up the pace of development of the hotel led CNB to outbid other financial institutions on a bloc of foreign exchange being auctioned by the United States Embassy. These funds were one of many instances in which the US Embassy auctioned the foreign exchange received from Washington. But in so doing, the CNB bid exceeded the unofficially proclaimed ‘official’ rate of exchange of J$22 to US$1 promoted by the Bank of Jamaica. CNB bid J$25.10.
This was embarrassing to the Government because it signalled a meaningful depreciation of the rate of exchange – although it was well-known that the BOJ was paying more for foreign currency bought by their street agents. (These agents were authorised non-employees of the BOJ who were financed with millions of dollars of BOJ cash in the trunks of their cars to buy dollars on the street, a project which came to an expected infamous and abrupt end with one of the street buyers being robbed of millions of Jamaican dollars).
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20110626/focus/focus10.html
Prophetically, I had asked Dennis Lalor, Paul Chen-Young and Oliver Jones, leaders of three powerful financial groups, to come to see me individually shortly after the CNB closure. My message to them was – judging from the way the CNB matter was handled as an exposé – ‘They are coming for you next’. This warning was born out of my background experience of how the People’s National Party thought and acted in regard to the issue of wealth. The party was historically anti-wealth and socialist, and had always resented established big private business, particularly if the wealth was not bonded with its leadership in terms of its racial and political preferences. Lalor, Chen-Young and Jones did not fit this bonding profile.
Edward Seaga is a former prime minister. He is now chancellor of the University of Technology and a distinguished [Bed]fellow? at the University of the West Indies. Email feedback to columns@gleanerjm.com and odf@uwimona.com.
PEPPER POT: The strangest bedfellows
It’s not just politics that makes strange bedfellows. The hate-mailer and the fraudulent one are teaming up for a second time. First, they worked together for the failed bank…
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/pepperpot/PEPPER-POT–The-strangest-bedfellows_11542192
‘Were it not for God, I would have been dead’ — Crawford
Crawford alleged that he was cheated and fraudulently robbed of all his assets, and forced into involuntary exile because of the threats.
“By all intents and purposes, were it not for God, I would have been dead a long time ago. That was the obvious intent of the five motorcycle gunmen, all dressed in black, who stormed my house,”
Having an institution led by someone like Don Crawford here in the banking … “Seaga” Bank as pay back for Seaga’s closing of JaminCorp Merchant Bank…
http://doncrawford.info/Text%20of%20Oral%20Testimony.htmlh
Jupiter omnipotens, audacibus annue cœptis
Patience Cynic, everything proceeding according to plan. Sometimes one has to wait on the plan to catch up. The timing coming along perfect.
Keep it locked. Only one mystery. They ALL should have known better in this technological new age (Novus Ordo Seclorum?)
Is not 70’s and 80’s this….I going to fail them. The should have known better and they can’t afford the price at this point.
Times change. How could they ALL not see that?
Nonco whey yu deh? Once my extended sabbatical is over (yes the past few months has been a sabbatical hahaha) it going to get rolling fast….only the strong survive…..
Jamaican email to you head this summer!
Noncs…come een noncs….I have a front row seat reserved for you….
7 years for Duds? Dem get f…?
Close confidants of David and large Olint investors have called me and told me to leave David alone, I am hurting him, even some of my friends who know David Smith have warned me to be careful, thy have asked me why am I pushing the matter, why am I seeking he truth, why am i talking to the authorities about David Smith. On Friday 19th September 2008 about 7:30 p.m, I received a phone call from David Smith in the presence of my wife Carol Wildish, he said to me, “John Wildish may you burn in hell forever”, he then disconnected.
I have also received numerous phone calls from his associates and investors of Olint saying that my search for the truth is causing David so much troubles that he cannot pay Olint investors back. Some of these people are JUDY JONES from Providenciales and SALEEM LAZARUS from Jamaica.
My response to this and to them and everybody else has been that, one cannot be afraid of the truth, and that the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands Police Force and the US Department of Justice are simply agents of the truth and need help and co-operation from all involved. SALEEM LAZARUS, a Jamaican national who invested a lot of money in Olint told me that he cannot believe that I would tell people to go to the authorities and tell them the truth.
From the affidavit of John Wildish
“…under questioning by Commissioner Charles Ross, the FINSAC head admitted that the records did indicate that there were discussions at the bailout agency in the 1990s about a special policy for debts owed by politicians.”
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111104/business/business3.html
Charles Ross to chair FINSAC Commission of Enquiry
Justice James was poised to preside as Commission Chairman after the Supreme Court ordered that Justice Boyd Carey be removed from the post as he was a FINSAC debtor.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/charles-ross-chair-finsac-commission-enquiry
Osborne to face questions over links to Murdoch
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/osborne-to-face-questions-over-links-to-murdoch-7791515.html
http://www.acomaction.com Shut down? Since the CONFESCATION ORDER and the new developments in the USA the criminals running AGAIN?
Ponzi Operator Godfrey Mcallister (KINGDOM INVESTMENTS) Ready to pay or ready to run?
About the Author
Godfrey E. McAllister was born in Guyana, South America. He completed his early education in Guyana before migrating to Jamaica to read for his Bachelor s degree in Theology and Psychology. After working as a Guidance Counselor for two years, Godfrey was recruited into the Life Insurance Industry in 1978.
He became the first person in Jamaica to qualify for the International Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) in his first three months at Life of Jamaica. He again qualified for the MDRT in 1979 and in 1980, became the first person to qualify for and attend the ultimately prestigious Top of the Table section of the Million Dollar Round Table. In that year, the world-wide convention was held in Marco Island in Florida. At the same time that he qualified for the Top of the Table, Godfrey broke all the Industry sales records in Jamaica in 1980.
Godfrey then went to work with Delaware s American Life Insurance Company (ALICO) s local office in Jamaica. In his first year at ALICO, Godfrey was named the #1 Personal Accident Insurance salesman in Jamaica. In his second year, he was named #1 in the Caribbean. In his third year he was named #1 in ALICO s world of over 70 countries. For the next six consecutive years, Godfrey was named the #1 world-wide Personal Accident Insurance salesman, each year breaking his own record.
Before leaving the Insurance Industry, Godfrey McAllister served as President of the Life Underwriters Association of Jamaica and Vice President of the Caribbean Association of Life Underwriters. He also earned the industry s two highest academic designations, that of Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant.
Godfrey McAllister served in his Island home of Jamaica as one of its most prominent Consumer Advocates for five years. In addition to several pamphlets, he authored Young Consumer Power for children and Winning the War? , which doubled as his doctoral thesis covering the Consumer/Provider Relations in Human Relations. His other major title is, You ve Got All it Takes to Succeed. Godfrey McAllister is also a Distinguished Toastmaster, a feat which he achieved in the world-record time of 1 year. He is a Motivational Speaker on topics such as, Rise from Your Slump and Succeed, Conquering Through Creative Communication, The power of the Mind in Reverse and To be or Not To Be… Sucker or Suckee!
Godfrey McAllister’s interest in the United States of America dates back to 1979 when he first visited its shores.
http://www.fscjamaica.org/content.php?action=readnews§ion_id=&id=303&title=news
1. A 3 Union
2. Afflu Wealth/Anthony Sinclair
3. Bridging Options Limited (\”BOLFX\”)/Oswald Francis
Oswald Francis
4. BSL Group Ltd./Ajani H. Williams
5. Capital Blu/Donovan Davis
6. Capital Ventures/Bradley Clacken
7. CAREIF Investment Fund (CAREIF)/Anthony Tharpe
Anthony Tharpe
8. Cash Plus Limited/Carlos Hill
9. CIG Advisors/ Joshua Rowe
10. F1 Investments/ F 1 Holdings/Steve Palmer
11. Forex Capital Market (FXCM)
12. FX Direct Dealer, LLC (FXDD)/Jeffrey Baskins
13. Global Gains Associates
14. Hands Across Jamaica/Yvonne Coke
15. HDA Investment/Sean Seymour
16. Higgins Warner Music and Entertainment/Emil
Max Higgins
17. IPS International, LLC/Ouida Stennett
18. Image Consultants & Services/Ouida Stennett
19. Keen Exchange/Gareth Harris
20. Kingdom Investments Unlimited International
(KIUI)/Godfrey McAllister
21. L.A. Investment Club/LA Wise Investment
Scheme/
LA Private Members Club/ Orlando Johnson
22. La Bell/ Chester Stewart
23. LewFam Investments/Neil Lewis
24. MayDaisy E Partner Plan Club/Ingrid Loiten
25. MInvestment
26. Money Express/ Ricardo Azan
27. Naresh R. Nagrani
28. New Development/Gladstone Bisnott
29. Nicroja Ltd./Nicholas Grant
30. Nipo Farms/Nipon Farms/ Nipoline/
George Dave Ranglin & Carl Ranglin
31. Norman McLeod
32. O��an Corporation/Orlando Johnson
33. OLINT Corp./ David Smith
34. Outstretched Hands Limited/Yvonne Coke
35. Overseas Locket International Corporation/
David Smith
36. Partner Financials/Gerald Pusey
37. Phillip Phinn Ministries/ Faith International
Investments/ Phillip Phinn
38. Progressive Accounting Management/ Collin Brown
39. Proli��c Investments Ltd./Dr. Glen Brown &
Dawkins Brown
40. Regency Capital Worldwide/ Chester Stewart
41. RKR Fund/Kyle Riettie/Royden Kyle Riettie
42. Sayvek Investment Corp/Yasmine &
Clinton Campbell
43. Seifund/David Ranglin
44. SGL Holdings/Dr. Sylvene Blisott, Glen Clement &
Lester Clyne
45. SilverSand Capital Markets
46. Strategic Alliance Investment
47. Swiss Cash
48. USIMO Joseph Issa
49. UWIN Antigua/Dwight \”Tony\” Williamson
50. Vacation Makers & Consulting Group Inc.
51. Vanreil Lindo Financial & Investments Ltd. /
Angella Lindo
52. Vision Increase SA Corp/Yvonne Coke
53. Waterman and Gates Consultant Limited/
Roxanne Brown & Paul Richards
54. Wealth Builder Associates/ Dwight \”Tony\” Williamson
55. WiMi Wealth Managers
56. Wisdom Investment Holdings/Wisdom Investments
Holdings Ja. Ltd./ Joey Issa
57. World Wise Partners Limited/Noel Strachan
58. Write Vision E Partners Private Members Club/
Yvonne Coke
59. Zoom Accounting/ Ralph & Stacie Ann Williams
Court to hear FSC’s application on Intertrade Finance Corporation
The police are trying to locate the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Joan Powell, who is wanted on fraud related charges.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/court-hear-fsc%E2%80%99s-application-intertrade-finance-corporation
Rainforest Seafoods joins Vaz lawsuit against Professor Rowe
In addition to Jardim — who is also the proprietor of Margaritaville — the email under the name “Paul Azan”, also libelled former Prime Minister P J Patterson, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding, former Finance Minister Audley Shaw, former Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, and Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, chairman of the Sandals group which includes the Jamaica Observer. [The named persons/entities also include the award winning fraud Olint and its convicted principal David Smith.]
The email raised questions because while it libelled the others, it rose to the defence of two ex-Appliance Traders employees — Dr Jeffery Pyne and Patrick Lynch — who are both facing the courts on fraud charges connected to the ATL pension fund.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Rainforest-Seafoods-joins-Vaz-lawsuit-against-Professor-Rowe#ixzz1wAeuBVug
Publish the complaint and amended complaint Observer.
Tony Blair says Rupert Murdoch did not lobby him on media policy
Former PM at the Leveson inquiry highlights cases where his government went against the News Corp founder’s wishes
Blair said on Monday that he and Murdoch had “a working relationship until after I left office”. After this they became closer and Blair was godfather to Murdoch’s daughter Grace, he added.
Lance Price, former Labour and No 10 press officer, had previously described Murdoch as the “24th member of the cabinet”.
Blair also said that his relationship with Murdoch changed after he stepped down as prime minister in 2007. “So I know there has been all this stuff about me being godfather of one of his children. I would never have become a godfather of his children on the basis of my relationship in office. After I left, I got to know him and his family and the relationship can be easier and better,” he said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/28/blair-murdoch-media-policy
More than 150 treated for gastro in TCI
More than 150 persons have been affected with gastroenteritis and sought medical attention in the Turks and Caicos Islands since the end of April 2012, according to health officials investigating the mysterious sickness that has affected about 12 hotels on the island of Providenciales.
The officials also reported they recently have discovered one case of norovirus, but they noted that this virus cannot be confirmed as the cause of the current outbreak of diarrhea and vomiting.
The Government statement said: “It (norovirus) can be transmitted from person to person, through contact with vomitus or feces of infected individuals, consumption of contaminated food or water, contact with soiled surfaces and bed linens etc.
Government, health and tourism officials have gone into a state of high alert, given that the mystery sickness can adversely affect tourism, which is the mainstay of the Turks and Caicos Islands economy.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2574
Politicians and their cronies caught lying under oath. Memories of Jamaica?
You see, when it gets slightly complex and fast they state one thing under oath in one forum and something contradictory in another.
Can’t remember the first lie exactly hahahaahaha
Read the play below:
Andy Coulson charged with perjury
Former NoW editor charged over allegations of lying on oath when he gave evidence in court about phone hacking
Andy Coulson, David Cameron’s former director of communications, has been arrested and charged over allegations of lying on oath when he gave evidence in court about phone hacking at the News of the World.
The charge against Coulson comes as the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, prepares to give evidence to the Leveson inquiry on Thursday in a session that could make or shatter his political career just weeks before he oversees the London Olympics.
Hunt will attempt to show that he handled the News Corp bid for BSkyB impartially from January 2011 until the bid was withdrawn.
But he will have to explain how he was unaware that his special adviser Adam Smith – for whom he was responsible under the ministerial code – was systematically funnelling sometimes commercially confidential information to News Corp lobbyists.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/30/andy-coulson-charged-with-perjury
The search continues
1. Story going around in political circles is that when some in the party say the entity did not receive any funds from the now-disgraced and imprisoned former high-flying one, they are speaking the truth. They say a search of the party’s finances shows no wire transfers to the party coffers. They say, however, that some individuals are on record as having admitted to receiving money from the felon so those searching for the funds should turn the searchlight on the finances of the ‘facilitator’.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120531/ent/ent4.html
facilitators
Is Jeremy Hunt a scoundrel or a fool? He has been driven to absurdity
The culture secretary’s defence is straight out of Lewis Carroll. David Cameron will soon have to explain why he appointed him
Like several other witnesses, and notably his chum James Murdoch, Hunt has been driven to absurdity by the desperate need to open up a space between the two most plausible interpretations of his conduct: that he is a scoundrel and that he is a fool. Like James, he veered a little closer to the latter, which after all is safer.
Will he resign? Why would he? If he doesn’t know the right thing to do, he would only resign for wrong reasons, and who can know those? Nonetheless, a clock is now ticking both for him and David Cameron.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/31/leveson-hunt-scoundrel-or-fool
PEPPERPOT: What hate-mailers and fraudsters have in common
They both rob people of their values. One commits theft of people’s image and reputation while the other commits theft of kind, whether money, property or goods. So when they start acting together it is judgement! In the current situation, both the hate-mailer and the fraudulent one have been fellow travellers together for a long time, with a shared antecedent. And they are both having sleepless nights after making big blunders. Continue to watch this space for the bombshell.
Helping out political friends 101
Supporting highflying political friends is usually expensive. It gets even more expensive if the political friend is overseas. That was bound to lead to problems. Now he is pining for the good old days when things were simple and people did not even know his name.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PEPPERPOT–What-hate-mailers-and-fraudsters-have-in-common
Click to access JCPC_2010_0116_Judgment.pdf
Mystery sickness outbreak escalates
What started out with 20 reported cases of a malady described as the stomach flu now appears to have moved into a major outbreak.
One week ago the 20 cases became 100 and on Thursday reports from Providenciales-based broadcast media said it has now affected 300 people, primarily tourists. Local health officials have not determined if the sickness, which causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, headaches and low grade fever, is virus based or caused by biological sources. The possibility of the Provo water system being contaminated is suspected. Samples taken from victims are being sent to Trinidad for analysis.
Post mortem examinations have determined that two major blood vessels of the dead man’s heart were suffering up to an 80 percent blockage.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/headline-Mystery-sickness-outbreak-escalates-5290.html
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/june-3-4-2012-guardianobservor-uk-lord-ashcroft-faces-questions-over-relationship
So it go sometimes Cynic
Danville Walker loses another legal battle
Justice Panton dismissed the Appeal and awarded costs to the respondent.
The OCG began investigating Mr. Walker and the Customs Department after it was revealed that 97 shipments of scrap metal were exported, during the ban imposed by the previous administration.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/danville-walker-loses-another-legal-battle
JUNE 5 2012- COPY OF SCAN OF JOHNSTON FAX
Paragraph 1: “I have been given the file of the TCIG representative on PAC [Provo Airport Company] and it contains nothing contentious or useful to our cause.”
Paragraph 4: “I know that wouldn’t work in a “normal” country but given that this is the TCI and given the various relationships and a commitment made by us that Ariel would handle all future legal work on the airport on our behalf might conflict Griffiths enough to encourage COXCO to the table”.
Hand Written Note at top: “…..we are the buyer.”
Both Conrad Griffiths and Ariel Misick are attorneys with the law firm Misick & Stanbrook. Conrad Griffiths was the attorney for COXCO at the time of this memo.
According to a Freedom of Information, FOI, request by the Guardian in 2010 (please see article below the scan – “Caribbean governor questioned proposed deal with firm allegedly linked to Ashcroft”), the plans above had progressed significantly until just before the Auld Commission.
Note in the article that Michael Misick was willing to give away part of the departure tax for 49 years!
Also of general interest are the facts that installed as CEO at the TCI Airport Authority by fugitive former premier Michael Misick in executing his airport strategy was/is a former avionics mechanic with no formal or informal experience in running an airport, John T. Smith.
Also installed as Vice-Chairman of TCI Airport Authority is former CEO of Misick and Stanbrook, and the current CEO of Misick & Stanbrook’s corporations handling subsidiary, Gordon Burton. ]
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/june-5-2012-%E2%80%93-copy-scan-johnston-fax-allan-forrest-%E2%80%9Ci-know-wouldn%E2%80%99t-work-%E2%80%9Cnormal%E2%80%9D-country
2012/2013 Budget Debate Presentation by PM the Most Hon. Portia
Simpson Miller
Mr. Speaker, let me set the record straight. My Government was elected to power less than six months ago.
Background to the Crisis
Mr. Speaker, we on this side acknowledge that there are several aspects of the economic crisis which faces the country which result from factors which are outside the control of any Administration or any individual. It would be either naïve or dishonest to suggest otherwise. The number of countries with formerly powerful economies that are on the brink of economic collapse is evidence of this.
Some of the world’s greatest economies have still not fully recovered from the recession. The European economic powers ranging from Italy to France to Spain are seeking to devise solutions which will simultaneously address their fiscal challenges even whilst protecting social stability. Earlier today the Ministers of Finance from the G20 countries held an emergency meeting to consider a new strategy to address the deepening economic crisis in the Euro Zone.
Here in Jamaica, we on this side of the House can speak to these issues with total frankness. We are on record, both within and outside of Parliament, warning the then Government, immediately after it came to office, of the looming crisis and the need to take action.We did not make these statements in order to create panic. We did so as we recognized that, unless the potential dangers were addressed, we could further damage an already fragile economy. It is also a matter of record that our advice was rejected. In a manner of speaking, we were “laughed out of court”.
It is hard to forget the Opposition Spokesman on Finance,(See: http://www.olintja.com/blog/archivebookmark.aspx?ID=853) in his role as Minister of Finance & Planning dismissing our warnings. He argued that, rather than taking defensive measures we should be bold and seize the opportunities brought forward by the crisis.
This approach to macro-economic management informed the design of their first budget, which projected expenditure levels which simply could not be financed. We are not being wise after the event. We said it then. We characterized the budget as lacking credibility.
Rather than accepting the empirical evidence presented during the initial months of fiscal year 2008/09, the then Government sought to stick by its expenditure budget. They borrowed way beyond the amounts projected thus pushing up interest rates and increasing inflation.
Let no one forget that when we left office in September 2007, interest rates, totally determined by the market, were just over 11%; the debt stock was J$950 Billion and the debt to GDP ratio was 107%. The increase in the debt stock over the period September 2007 to December 2011 illustrates my point.
The public debt as at September 30, 2007 was J$973 billion. By December 3, 2011 it had jumped to $1.6 Trillion, an increase of over 60%.
As the debt increased over the period the economy remained sluggish. Finance Minister Shaw then began a ‘borrowing binge’. (Smith’s Australian model?) He had found a cheaper way to put the country into more and more debt. (OLINT & the OLINT related “Clubs”?) My administration is now reaping that bitter harvest.
[Where was the DPP? too many Ponzi connected prosecutors in the ODPP?] -the book will reveal their names.
The reality is that the fiscal accounts have not recovered from that wild adventure of 2008/09.
Mr. Speaker, let me remind the country that we have been in office for just over five months. Don’t blame us for your mismanagement.
If you on that side believe that the Jamaican people in just over 5 months have already forgotten what they went through for 4 years under your government, you are sadly mistaken.
It is about listening to the voice of Bob Marley so that our people will not have rock stone for their beds.
It is by upholding the values of honesty and truthfulness that we achieve accountability and transparency in governance, and through commitment to the values of discipline and punctuality that we achieve excellence and international competitiveness.I want respect and trust to be a principal defining characteristic of my Administration
The National Security Policy will also frame our cooperation and
collaboration with our international partners. As a major strategy, the
Government of Jamaica will be moving to “take the profit out of crime”. The intention is to dismantle and suppress the criminal gangs and organized criminal groups, as well as their facilitators.
Jamaica’s international reputation has taken a severe battering over recent years. Our Administration has faced challenges related to the loss of trust that we inherited. Our administration has begun to reconstruct those broken foreign relations fences and the response has been good.
Click to access PSM-Budget-2012-final.pdf
Bilderberg 2012
Another conference over. Charlie Skelton talks to some of the 800 activists outside the gates to find out what they learned
What a Bilderberg it’s been. Big names, big money, big decisions, big crowds. Somewhere around 800 activists outside the gates (up from about a dozen in 2009), and inside?
Did Romney have to get down on one knee in front of David Rockefeller? This sounds flippant, but it’s a serious question: has Bilderberg switched allegiance? Are they going to toss away Obama after just one term?
“I think there’s a frisson that’s gone through the ruling class against Obama,”
You won’t see the names Mitt Romney or Bill Gates on the officially released Final List of Participants because, well, the list is a nonsense. It’s nothing like a complete list of people who attend Bilderberg. It’s a smokescreen, a bit of spin. So can we all, please, stop repeating it as gospel?
A statement of support from Occupy London was read out at Occupy Bilderberg. A symbol of Anglo-American unity, like Bilderberg itself. The statement protested against (amongst other things): the rise of an undemocratic “technocracy” – a “network of cronies” in which financial “experts”, largely from the international banking community, who have been appointed rather than elected, are handed the reins of government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-news-blog/2012/jun/05/bilderberg-2012-chantilly-occupy
PM among those hit by NHT fraud
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is among several National Housing Trust contributors hit by fraud uncovered at the National Housing Trust.
Six persons including a senior employee at the Trust were arrested today during a series of raids conducted by the Fraud Squad and Flying Squad in the Corporate Area and St Catherine.
Sources at the NHT told RJR News that the fraud involves NHT refund.
It’s understood that over a period of time millions of dollars were taken out of the accounts of NHT contributors who failed to apply for refund.
It’s understood that the Prime Minister’s account was among those defrauded.
The police are tight-lipped about the investigations.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/pm-among-those-hit-nht-fraud
Former Employee Nabbed In $160m NSWMA Fraud
The police have arrested a former employee of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) in connection with a multi-million dollar crime at the public cleansing body.
In a statement to the House of Representatives today, Local Government Minister Noel Arscott, said the crime involves at least $160 million.
Arscott said the former employee was arrested and charged under the Corruption Prevention Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act.
The police have arrested a former employee of the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) in connection with a multi-million dollar crime at the public cleansing body.
In a statement to the House of Representatives today, Local Government Minister Noel Arscott, said the crime involves at least $160 million.
Arscott said the former employee was arrested and charged under the Corruption Prevention Act and the Proceeds of Crime Act.
PM’s NHT Money Stolen
The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre understands that millions of dollars were removed from the accounts of the victims and that five people, including an employee, have been taken into custody by the police.
Police investigators say they are searching for at least two other persons believed to be involved.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37693
Stanford Should Get 230 Years In Prison – Prosecutors
CMC – Federal prosecutors want the convicted fraudster Allen Stanford, described as a “ruthless predator” to be given the maximum penalty of 230 years in prison at his sentencing next week.
However, Stanford has asked that his sentence be limited to the three years he spent in jail awaiting trial.
Federal prosecutors said 230 years is at the top of the range of sentences for Stanford’s crime under US federal guidelines but is appropriate given the tycoon’s apparent hubris and lack of remorse.
Stanford has asked the court for leniency, partly because the conviction is his first offence, prosecutors said.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37694
IMF says Ja squandered JDX
An Article Four Consultation conducted by the International Monetary Fund, IMF, has concluded that Jamaica may have wasted the opportunities provided by the Jamaica Debt Exchange, JDX.
“They (the IMF) regretted that the successful debt exchange under the 2010 stand-by agreement had not been accompanied by the fiscal consolidation necessary to put Jamaica’s public debt on a sustainable downward path. That is what we mean when we say that the opportunities provided by the JDX was squandered.”
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/imf-says-ja-squandered-jdx
Animal Farm?
Now if we look at the world around us we will see many great nations that were built on the basis of capitalistic principles, as these nations became socialist the productive gains went to support none productive entities instead of being reinvested into building better and more efficient productive enterprises as a capitalist would demand. The result is these nations are now crumbling under loads of debt, while their most productive cash cows have died or fled their jurisdictions for territories that do not have the same level of predation by the wolves, mice and jackals.
I would encourage those who rule this nation to choose the path of capitalism and create an environment that welcomes and protects capitalists. When I first visited this nation about 13 years ago it was one on the most capitalistic places I had even visited, it was also a lot different than how it is today. Now our farm mangers shipped in from England are adding one tax after the other on the milk cows within these islands, they are not discussing how to make these cows customers happier and also produce a better environment for more milk cows to invest on this farm.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/june-8-2012-what-do-we-want-capitalistic-society-socialist-society-john-wildish
PNP executive announced
The Progressive National Party (PNP), which has seen many of its top executives heading to court to answer allegations of corruption in government and related offences, has now announced the names of the new executive that has been put in place on the coattails of new leader Dr Rufus Ewing.
National chairman is now Trevor Cooke, who is the former director of the National Insurance Board when the board purchased stock in the ill-fated TCI Bank. He also directed the deposit of tens of millions of dollars in pension funds in the bank, creating a potential loss of $23.5 million in funds collected from workers and employers, who pay an 8 percent levy on earnings into the fund.
Meanwhile, in his first press conference since becoming leader, Ewing told reporters his number one priority was to move the TCI towards independence.
“We are ready for independence right now. However there are a number of issues the public needs to embrace and we will be concerned with addressing these issues,” the new PNP leader said.
Both Ewing and his sole opponent for leader, attorney Carlos Simons QC, have stated that their party’s position is to seek independence quickly. Simons said that, had he become leader and then elected premier, his first act would be to fire special prosecutor Helen Garlick and permit former premier Michael Misick to return to the TCI without fear of arrest or prosecution.
JUST IN: Two Rifles Found In West Kingston
Published: Saturday June 9, 2012 | 8:58 pm
Two fifty calibre rifles, one an M-14, have been found by the police in an operation now underway just outside Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston.
Information reaching The Gleaner is that 600 rounds of ammunition have also been found at a premises near Tivoli Gardens.
The find comes a day after former Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was sentenced to 23 years in prison in the US on racketeering and conspiracy charges.
http://www.olintja.com/docs/coketranscript/transcript_of_Christopher_Michael_Coke.aspx
IMF Throws Support Behind Jamaica’s Fiscal Programme
Meanwhile, in what appeared to be a criticism of the former political administration, the IMF said in the report that it regretted that the successful Jamaica Debt Exchange had not been accompanied by fiscal consolidation to reduce the public debt.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37763
Just In
http://www.olintja.com/docs/coketranscript/transcript_of_Christopher_Michael_Coke.aspx
I read John Wildish’s recent letter with equal parts astonishment and revulsion. This “non-productive” members of society nonsense is appaulling and it’s clear he’s read too much Ayn Rand.
In the past, I’ve heard plenty of comments from him about his deep belief in Christianity. Do I really have to point out that it was these “non productive” members of society who Christ loved the most? If fact, wasn’t he always on about giving what you had to the less fortunate. Apparenty John wouldn’t like Jesus’s approach to the world if he was to return for a chat tomorrow.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/june-11-2012-letter-critical-response-letter-john-wildish
Pepper Pot – Saving the golden goose
Hate-mailer and company have their knickers in a twist
Word is that the hate-mailer and his fraudulent friends are so worried they are seeking all the help they can get But the friend who tossed him work from the bank can’t do much because he has his own legal fees to pay.
Image is everything
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/pepperpot/Pepper-Pot—Saving-the-golden-goose#ixzz1xWJYS0K8
22 responses to “JMG PPL NEVA LIE UNNO MEMBA WHO DEM SEH GET THROWN OUTA DI COURT?”
Loyalpeepa says:
June 11, 2012 at 6:39 pm
Frm mi a pickny mi a watch ironback pon cassette now mi a watch har pon dvd a she name foundation ,next mi ago watch har pon halogram..no sah a time fi retire n collect har dancehall social security
Enter your name… says:
June 11, 2012 at 6:15 pm
She might just end up with a Federal Charge for threatening a Federal Witness. She think she is in Jamaica? We will wait to hear the final outcome, since the US Marshall did interview her and the Judge was keenly aware of the incident. They don’t take these things lightly.
http://jamaicangroupiemet.com/2012/06/jmg-ppl-neva-lie-unno-memba-who-dem-seh-get-thrown-outa-di-court.html
DUDUS’ TRANSCRIPT
Enter your name… says:
June 11, 2012 at 10:01 am
A lot of people name being called from Jamaica, Detroit and Massachusetts. Uptown people who provide false identity in Jamaica, Drug dealers, Murders and even Bruce and Seaga, Saleem Lazarus. Justin O’Gilvie, the “Minister of Finance” is featured prominently.
What I would like to know is who was the female that issued direct threat to the Witness in the court building, saying the Witness (Cowboy) and his family will die? Interesting reading.
Met says:
June 11, 2012 at 10:09 am
oh dem a try lick out cowboy people dem…to late ooooooooooooooooooooooooo but all justin mi hear seh dem waa get out yah now a whole heep a tings a gwaan dung deh
http://jamaicangroupiemet.com/2012/06/dudus-transcript.html
Block my comment on Shields in the Guardian ehh…cool runnings mate…
No cents of humour? ‘mi laugh like a comedy?’
here’s the article minus my comments:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/07/british-officer-changed-jamaican-policing
Elections set for November 9
In a written ministerial statement issued on Tuesday morning in London, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, announced that Friday, November 9, 2012, has been set as the date for the resumption of democratic elections in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).
Implementation of a transparent and fair process for acquisition of belongership
A territory wide consultation reported strong support for a process for the acquisition of belongership (the status of Turks and Caicos Islander) based only on birth, descent and marriage to a belonger for ten years. A revised Citizenship Ordinance will implement this policy. The TCI government will have no discretionary power to grant belongership.
Significant progress with the civil and criminal processes recommended by the Commission of Inquiry
Thirteen people, including four former ministers, have been charged with corruption and money laundering offences. An international arrest warrant has been issued for former Premier Michael Misick. It is now for the courts to decide whether the persons charged are guilty. The investigations and prosecutions will proceed independently of a future elected government.
“I want to make clear this government’s determination to ensure that there is no repeat of the maladministration that led to the suspension of democratic government in TCI, either there or in any other British overseas territory,” Hague concluded.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Elections-set-for-November-9-5307.html
Supt. Hewitt. Hewitt says the police has no problems with ‘Dudus’, but wants to find ‘Cowboy’, who is wanted for escaping custody recently. He advised Cowboy to turn himself in to police.
But Cowboy says turning himself in would be a ‘death wish’, as the police seem to be strongly biased towards Tivoli Gardens, as was evident when they turned off a dance in Denham Town on Independence Day, but allowed one in Tivoli to continue.
http://jamaicangroupiemet.com/2012/06/how-cowboy-and-dudus-became-enemies-part-of-the-reason.html
Coke’s sentencing brings to a formal end his violent reign that last almost 20 years with the complicity of Jamaican political interests.
He ran the neighbourhood of Tivoli Gardens on the west side of Kingston as a sort of walled military encampment within which his rule was unchallenged. Through his gang, the Shower Posse – a reference to its members fondness for spraying people with bullets – aka the Presidential Click, he ran a state within a state.
He is widely believed to have remained immune from the law for so long because of protection from leading Jamaican politicians. When the US asked for his extradition, the Jamaican government initially refused, only relenting in May 2010.
At the end of his sentence, Coke will be deported to Jamaica, at which point he faces retribution of another nature.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/08/christopher-dudus-coke-jail-term
Dudus phone conversation(s) Audio File:
http://www.olintja.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm
EDITORIAL – Scammers Must Pay First
Published: Wednesday | June 13, 2012
We are afraid we have to ask for more and demand greater clarity from the Montego Bay city leaders whose comments on the lottery scam were reported by this newspaper yesterday.
For, on the face of it, unless they were being deliberately glib, they seemed to conflate cause and effect and believe that people should be rewarded for criminal behaviour and not face punishment.
The lottery scam – which a police task force has been established to crush – is essentially a cybercrime of fraud and identity theft. It is largely based in Montego Bay on Jamaica’s northwest shores.
The perpetrators hack the personal information of mostly elderly Americans from call centres or buy the data from corrupt employees of these facilities. The victims are then told they have won lotteries, but required to transfer money into the scammers’ accounts before recouping their rewards.
Links to murder wave
The scam has bilked people of hundreds of millions of dollars, broken many lives and fuelled crime in western Jamaica. More than 200 murders, it is said, have been linked to the fraud network in Jamaica in half a dozen years.
However, the scammers had a lot of money to flash around, although it appears that they have fallen under increasing pressure.
But few, if any, have so far been convicted. And it appears that won’t be the case in the world of a respected Montego Bay city leader like Mark Kerr-Jarrett, who also has a national profile.
The scammers, Mr Kerr-Jarrett notes, are “ingenious”. That, perhaps, they are.
Now, if they could channel that intelligence into legitimate employment solutions, “we would be on the path to fill the void created by the (disruption of the) scam”.
Davon Crump, president of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, rightfully wants resources to be put in place “for persons to get skilled or start their own businesses”.
This newspaper, of course, supports such interventions, but believes the argument, as articulated by city officials such as Messrs Kerr-Jarrett, Crump and O. Dave Allen, fails to address an important element.
What of accountability?
They appear to suggest a seamless transition from the hacker and identity thief and purveyor of death, to legitimate clerks, customer service representatives or entrepreneurs. There seems to be no need for calling people to account.
That, for sure, would not be the intent of Messrs Kerr-Jarrett, Crump or anyone else. For that, they understand, is a failure of Jamaica – our penchant for moving on and accommodating our actions with a hike in our threshold of tolerance. So, we tolerate 500 homicides a year, then 1,000, on to 1,600, with no one, or very few, ever paying the price for the crime.
We say yes to steering potential new recruits from crime, the lottery scam included. Reform and rehabilitate the existing criminals, but that must include having them pay for their crimes.
Should they avoid punishment, it would be tantamount to again victimising the victim, by denying him justice. And that, we know, wouldn’t be the intent of the MoBay city leaders.
The opinions on this page, except for the above, do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gleaner. To respond to a Gleaner editorial, email us: editor@gleanerjm.com or fax: 922-6223. Responses should be no longer than 400 words. Not all responses will be published.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120613/cleisure/cleisure1.html
A post the above in its entirety for a reason. Call me biased if you wish. I have no right to stop your opinion. However, the fact is that this has got to be, at the very least, in the top ten editorials in almost 50 years.
I’ve read perhaps 40-55% of all editorials covering a significant period of decades, Daily News, and more, a good way back. Hector Bernard, Cargill, Hearn, Maxwell….. too many to name..writers of all persuasions, politics and personal agendas. I challenge anyone to
put up a “contender editorial” for our review.
I’m sure many exist..remind me of them please.
Allen Stanford to be sentenced Thursday June 14
US prosecutors have urged the judge to send the convicted fraudster to prison for 230 years, calling him a “ruthless predator”
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/regional/allen-stanford-be-sentenced-thursday-june-14
Former Fisheries Officer sentenced to 8 years for possession of Cocaine
Sometime in November 2010, Fisheries Officer Dwayne Cox was busted by police officers and arrested and charged for possession of approximately eight kilos of cocaine.
The Cocaine was found at his home along with what police officers referred to at the time as undersized lobsters.
http://tcigrapevine.com/?p=998
Murdoch marches on
As Hunt is denounced in Commons for ‘lying’ over links with mogul and former chief executive charged with perverting justice, BSkyB scoops record £3bn TV deal on Premier League football
The Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, was accused of lying to the House of Commons over his handling of the proposed deal. And meanwhile, Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of Mr Murdoch’s News International, appeared in court to be told by a judge that she will have to stand trial on charges of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, linked to the phone-hacking scandal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/murdoch-marches-on-7848924.html
EDITORIAL – Towards A Tivoli Enquiry
The Tivoli operation was to capture Christopher Coke, the mobster who was recently sentenced to 23 years in jail by a court in America, to which he was extradited to face charges of drug and gunrunning. With the then administration acquiescing reluctantly to the extradition request, only after a long delay, Coke’s militia barricaded the community and fired on the security forces.
Coke phone call:
http://www.olintja.com/photo_gallery/photo_gallery.htm
Towards and OLINT Enquiry
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/pnp-tracks-some-olint-donations
The Independent Source of News
JUNE 14, 2012 – SHOCK AS INTERIM ADMINISTRATION INADVERTENTLY AND ACCIDENTLY TELLS THE TRUTH
Speaking about the National Health Insurance Board and Plan, NHIB/P, he said, “Let me tell y’all this; the NHIB is the biggest financial mess I have had to sort out since I’ve been here, it is an ABSOLUTE scandal!”
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/june-14-2012-%E2%80%93-shock-interim-administration-inadvertently-and-accidently-tells-truth
PM Simpson Miller not aware of US $1 million contribution
Meanwhile, in stark contrast to Mr. Pickersgill’s pronouncements, PNP President, Portia Simpson Miller, Thursday afternoon said she was not aware of any contribution of one million US dollars being given to the party by Olint.
Speaking with our news team, Mrs. Simpson Miller noted that she was only made aware that an investigation was being carried out by the party into the matter.
The Party President said she was not briefed on the results of the probe.
“They are going to be briefing me, i am not briefed on what is happening with that. I was told that we’re never going anything of that magnitude in terms of contribution. The fact that I knew the party was doing some investigation to find out what happended.”
Mrs. Simpson Miller added that although she was made aware of the release that was sent to the media this morning, she was not privy to the position the party would be taking in the release.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/pm-simpson-miller-not-aware-us-1-million-contribution
JLP Still Investigating Olint Claim
The Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) this afternoon said its investigation into claims that it got a US$5 million donation from the operators of OLINT is still ongoing.
A Confiscation Order issued by the Supreme Court in the Turks and Caicos Island, last month suggested that JLP got a donation of US$5 million, but the party said it would examine the claim before making any comments.
Today, acting chairman Robert Montague insisted that the investigation was still being conducted and said the JLP would make an announcement as soon as it is completed.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37879
PNP Says It Got US$1m From Olint, Defends PJ
The People’s National Party (PNP) has released a statement saying it was the organisation which received US$1,000,000 from the alternative investment scheme Olint in the run up to the 2007 general election and not P.J. Patterson, a former party president and former Prime Minister of Jamaica.
According to the PNP, its investigation has established that US$1,000,000 was received in an account on its behalf and spent in the party’s election campaign.
PNP: No evidence we got Olint money
“Though the party has not yet received documentary evidence as to the source of this sum, our information is that it came from Olint,” party chairman Robert Pickersgill said in the statement.
Pickersgill also said the facts gleaned by the party’s investigators confirm the truth and accuracy of the statement previously released by Patterson that he did not get any money from Olint.
“This was an account of which the former Party President, PJ Patterson, had no knowledge or control,” Pickersgill said. “Our enquiries confirm that he neither obtained nor received this amount or any portion of it, in cash or kind. All the available evidence reveals that at no time was he told or made aware of the deposit or any disbursements made from it.”
PJ denies getting US$1m from OLINT
Pickersgill said in view of these findings, the PNP will be advising the authorities in the Turks & Caicos, so that the recipient of the funds is not wrongly identified.
The TCI had issued a confiscation order to recover the US$1 million from Patterson as well as several other people and organisations.
Meanwhile, the PNP says regarding the Confiscation Order’s reference to a gift of US$2,000,000 to the party, so far, its investigations have not identified any such amount, or any other amount as having been received on its behalf from Olint/David Smith.
Pickersgill says the PNP’s attorneys-at-law have written to the authorities in the Turks & Caicos to further request that they provide the Party with any relevant information that may assist in these investigations.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37862
Breaking OLINT news! You are not going to believe this
Think and Check….
It’s Father’s Day coming up and the Father’s of the nation being should up as wanting, corrupt and illegitimate.
50 years.
*Shown up
Follow the parallels Jamaica….even if you think you are one of the smart ones …follow the parallels….
Why the Brooks text is so embarrassing for David Cameron
Text shows Cameron’s links with the former NI chief were far closer than former PMs’ contacts with the media empire
Rebekah Brooks’s text message ended: ‘I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a personal friend but because professionally we’re definitely in this together.
There was a puzzle as to why David Cameron looked slightly nervous when the Leveson inquiry had the innocent feel of a sixth form seminar on media studies on Thursday morning.
Shortly after midday we had our answer when Robert Jay QC, counsel for the enquiry, announced that Lord Justice Leveson had required News International to hand over text messages between Rebekah Brooks and Cameron.
With no fanfare Jay read out this beauty, sent by Brooks at 4.45pm on 7 October 2009 on the eve of Cameron’s Conservative party conference speech: “But seriously I do understand the issue with the Times. Let’s discuss over country supper soon. On the party it was because I had asked a number of NI people to Manchester post-endorsement and they were disappointed not to see you. But as always Sam was wonderful. (And I thought it was OEs that were charm personified?) I am so rooting for you tomorrow not just as a personal friend but because professionally we’re definitely in this together. Speech of your life? Yes, he Cam!”
But for the moment the text, which was sent days after the Sun had abandoned its support for Labour, is immensely embarrassing for the prime minister for one simple reason. It goes to the heart of the case against him: that he was too close to News International.
The prime minister’s defence – to use his phrase pinched by Brooks – is that all political leaders are “in it together” because successive prime ministers were too close to media proprietors and particularly to Rupert Murdoch.
But the Brooks text shows that Cameron’s links with the former News International chief executive went way beyond Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s contacts with the media empire.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2012/jun/14/why-brooks-text-embarrassing-cameron
Will Bovell and Pickersgill keep their honours?
50 years?
Anonymous, on June 15, 2012 at 8:32 am said:
First Bobby said he had received US200,000.00 compared to the many millions (he did say a figure but I can’t remember and I do not want to be mendacious) the JLP had received. Then when David said he gave the PNP US$2M, Bobby said they had not received any money from Olint. Now he is saying they did get $1M. Want to know something, I hope they find the other million because although David is a criminal, based on the denials from Mr. Pickersgill, I have to believe David story.
Why is it taking the JLP to find their contribution amount from David? Mark you, they did acknowledge receiving funds from Olint.
Only in Jamaica!
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Anonymous comments here on admittedly faulty memory. My memory has ZERO faults.
Two proven liars…both Attorneys running the full gamut of sexuality…orange and green
Will they keep their honours? Simple as that. or honours mean nothing in independent Jamaica?
Take your time to reconcile the Olint matters. Hopefully the full accounting will reconcile with what is ALREADY proven.
Tan deh bout statement and July and your fumbling. This time is different. You know after you make your chat THEN and only AFTER the truth will be given to you pro bono…..and you will have to LEAVE.
hahhahaa….Chess anyone. Best and Briightest….where, when?
How does it feel to not have any power…fate in someone else’s hands
Fagots…
Danville Walker Back In Court
Former Commissioner of Customs, Danville Walker – file photo.
Walker is charged with failure to comply within the prescribed time with a request from the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) and obstructing an investigation of the Office
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37885
CAN’T THEY SHOW ONE PICTURE OF THAT GUY WALKER WITHOUT HIS MOUTH OPEN?
Cliff Hughes asked Robert Pickersgill if he was and Olint “investor.” Hughclffe? Let me take you and Bobby out of the misery. Pickersgill has money in Olint but not in his name.
All the feeders accounting is known and will be released at a certain individuals LEISURE.
There is no obligation or solicitation to do so on any fools agenda or calendar.
All the police force feeder money is well documented.
Much time and leniency has been allowed for people to “Find Jezas” on their own. How much longer do they have? Anyone’s guess.
But the thing sort out by superior talent long time. You nuh si Bruce quiet? Choppy waters.
On another note:
I notice pepperpot did not seem to mention anything about the “hate mail” saga today. I am disappointed. Yes…I AM!
Press forward is my humble advice LOL. PRESS FORWARD. Do not let me down and turn back.
I will be bex.
I need unno to fit into the Master’s plan. If you need help… then ask.
British minister admits shock at missing money
Published on June 15, 2012
“We all know that a huge amount of money which should have gone to the TCI people went missing and that was a tragedy for the territory… this happened because there were not checks and balances in place,” he said
The 2006 TCI constitution gave the TCI greater autonomy and permitted the Michael Misick government at that time to operate with less oversight. However, the new constitution revokes much of that autonomy and has apparently prompted the Progressive National Party (PNP) to adopt independence as its number one priority.
Bellingham cautioned the media as well, saying, “It will be up to you guys to hold the political parties to account without fear… we and you will be looking for sound financial management by the democratic elected government.”
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-British-minister-admits-shock-at-missing-money-5316.html
Nerves Frayed As Bond Payment Nears
The Ministry of Finance and Planning has been talking quietly to dealers and analysts to tamp down on concerns among bondholders who have grown nervous about the payout of the €200-million bond which matures in July.
Jamaica is facing the equivalent of about a J$25-billion payout to external and other creditors when the bond becomes due.
Jitters about payment began emerging, traders said, after recent statements by Finance Minister Dr Peter Phillips were read as a signal that he would not return to the international market to raise new funds until Jamaica has made progress on a new International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreement.
International creditors, according to one analyst, were thrown by the signal and read it as intent by the finance ministry to cover the bond by tapping the country’s falling reserves.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120615/business/business1.html
Coming To America (to launder his millions?)
Question: how did an African politician, on an official salary of roughly $6,000 a month, manage to acquire the lifestyle of a Hollywood billionaire, partying at the Playboy mansion, travelling in private jets, and living at a $30m Malibu mansion filled with impressionist artwork, and surrounded by its own private golf course?
Answer: simple. First, that politician was lucky enough to be Teodoro Nguema Obiang, heir apparent to the autocratic dictator of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny country in West Africa which since discovering huge oil reserves in the mid 1990s has acquired the dubious distinction of having one of the world’s most spectacularly-corrupt governments.
Secondly, Obiang was able to find a pair of high-flying Beverly Hills lawyers who – in exchange for extravagant fees – were prepared to set up an opaque string of shell companies that allowed him to secretly control dozens of US bank accounts through which tens of millions of his ill-gotten dollars could be laundered.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/coming-to-america-to-launder-his-millions-7855043.html
Remembering a celebrated burglary, 40 years ago
It began as what one central figure called “a third-rate burglary” and ended up as one of the most traumatic episodes in the public life of the United States and in the only case of a president resigning office.
A District Court judge, John Sirica, thought from the beginning that there was something fishy, that pertinent details about the case were being deliberately withheld. As the case continued it became increasingly clear that the Watergate burglars were connected to CREEP and the Central Intelligence Agency.
In March 1973, Sirica read a letter to the court from one of the Watergate burglars, alleging that defendants had been pressured to remain silent, and that they had committed perjury during the trial. The White House claimed that it had no prior knowledge of the burglary, but soon the dyke began to crumble and Nixon’s aides began to talk to the FBI. Nixon had to ask his chief of staff, HR Haldeman, and his adviser, John Erlichman, to resign, and fired his staff counsel, John Dean.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Remembering-a-celebrated-burglary–40-years-ago#ixzz1xx8Zvf4h
This much I know: Usain Bolt
The athlete, 25, on the spirit of Bob Marley, being romantic, and sitting under trees
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/17/usain-bolt-this-much-i-know
Savers start a ‘jog’ on Europe’s banks as Greece votes
There is a steady “jog” on the banks at the moment, rather than a full-bore run.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/savers-start-a-jog-on-europes-banks-as-greece-votes-7856647.html
Rupert Cornwell: In 2012, Nixon would probably have got away with it
Out of America: Today is the 40th anniversary of Watergate. How would the US deal with the scandal now?
And all of them were reunited last Monday evening at an event in the office building that was the scene of the crime that ignited the most celebrated political scandal of the 20th century. In case you’d forgotten, exactly 40 years ago today, in the early hours of 17 June 1972, a private security guard called Frank Wills noticed tape covering the latches of several doors, allowing them to close but remain unlocked. He removed the tape, only to come back an hour later to find them sealed over again. At that point Wills called the police, who arrested five burglars, all dressed in suits and ties but wearing rubber gloves. The building was called Watergate. The rest is American history.
What a White House spokesman then contemptuously dismissed as a “third-rate burglary” would be revealed as the tip of an iceberg of wrongdoing that brought down a president.
Above all, Watergate proved that the American system, when faced with an ultimate test, worked. It showed that no one – not even the man in the Oval Office – was above the law. The country kicked out its leader according to the rules of the constitution and replaced him with another, without even an extra policeman on the streets. But would the system work today? Could a 21st-century Watergate be exposed?
There are some who believe that, had the internet been around, reporting Watergate would have been a doddle. Oh yes? In Watergate, nothing had been put on public record, there was nothing to Google. The internet might have helped on the margins – for instance, for finding phone numbers more easily – Bernstein argues. But, in the end, there was no substitute for old-fashioned reporting, working the phones, knocking on doors unannounced, and following the money.
Between them, they set out six essential conditions to get to the bottom of a scandal of such dimensions: an aggressive press, a strategically placed inside source, a top White House official ready to co-operate with investigators, a tough judge, tapes of key conversations, and a Congress ready to put duty to country ahead of duty to party. Today, a question mark, at minimum, must be set against almost every one.
Probably, a new scandal would throw up another Dean, ready to switch sides and to spill the beans. One hopes that there would be a judge as implacable as John Sirica, a source as authoritative as the then deputy FBI director, Mark Felt, aka “Deep Throat”, reporters as resourceful and diligent as Bernstein and Woodward, and an editor as brave and committed to the story as the Post’s Ben Bradlee. But would a modern Bradlee have the resources? Newspapers are in financial straits; investigative journalism, requiring time and money with no guarantee of ultimate reward, is a luxury ever fewer media outlets can afford. Independent websites and public interest groups can fill some of the gaps, but not all of them.
Modern emails are a treasure trove for historians but tell only part of the story. And, as far as one can tell, there are no longer taping devices that preserve every presidential word, offering incontrovertible evidence to cut short the “he said, she said” disputes with which many scandals peter out.
Without the tapes, Nixon would almost certainly have got away with it. But sitting in Monday’s audience was the 86-year-old Alexander Butterfield, one-time assistant to the president. It was Butterfield who, on 16 July 1973, appeared before the Senate committee and, in answer to a question from Thompson, confirmed the existence of a White House taping system. In doing so, he sealed Nixon’s fate.
Most depressing perhaps, the campaign finance reforms passed by a post-Watergate Congress are today all but gone, given a helpful kick on the way by the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that reopened the floodgates to unlimited individual campaign donations. Once again, perhaps inevitably, money rules.
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-in-2012-nixon-would-probably-have-got-away-with-it-7856605.html
OLINT? Usain you said have all Marley’s albums? Put the needle on “Time will tell” selector..hahaa
EDITORIAL – The Funny [you too cold Gleaner,… with your play on words] Mr Pickersgill
Published: Sunday | June 17, 2012
Robert Pickersgill must be a funny guy. Good-for-a-laugh, ha-ha funny.
Further, it is a reasonable conclusion that, if not now, Mrs Portia Simpson Miller was, in the past, personally negligent about the management of the finances of the People’s National Party (PNP), of which she is president.
First, Mr Pickersgill, the almost perennial chairman of the PNP, his logic, and what he would wish the Jamaican people to accept.
He was reported by this newspaper last Friday as, at long last, confirming that in 2007 the PNP received a US$1-million campaign donation from now-jailed Ponzi schemer David Smith. It took several weeks after it emerged that a court in the Turks and Caicos Islands was attempting to recoup the money for Mr Pickersgill and his party to determine that the money was actually received and spent.
Since we do not presume Mr Pickersgill to be callous, he must possess an extraordinary sense of humour and public leg-pulling for his otherwise egregious declaration of seeing no moral obligation on the part of the PNP to return David Smith’s gift.
Mr Smith ran an unregistered financial company, Olint, that offered returns of upwards of 100 per cent of people’s ‘investments’. By the time of the general election of 2007, Mr Smith had long been in trouble with Jamaica’s regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC).
Indeed, Olint’s office had been raided by the police, and Smith had already begun to move his operation offshore while attempting to make a case in the Jamaican courts that he did not need FSC authorisation since he operated a private ‘investment club’ rather than a general financial-services company.
Paying its obligations
Not only was Mr Pickersgill, as he is now, a senior minister in the PNP government of the day, but was likely to have been in Parliament as Omar Davies, the finance minister at the time, defended the FSC’s actions against Smith/Olint from an assault by the shadow finance minister, Audley Shaw, and PNP backbencher, Errol Ennis.
Mr Pickersgill’s declaration that Olint, at the time the money was received in August 2007, was solvent and was “paying its obligations to investors as they fell due” is, in the circumstance, extremely laughable. Except that it is cynically dangerous.
But what is equally shocking is that at the time Mrs Simpson Miller, more than a year into her leadership of the PNP, was “totally unaware” of the contribution and that, up to this point, had not formulated a position on whether the money would, or should be, returned.
At the time, Smith was splashing around his victims’ money – up to US$2 million to the PNP, depending on who you believe – the PNP already had the Trafigura affair on its plate – the previous year’s donation of J$30 million by a Dutch firm to the party. We would have expected Trafigura to heighten Mrs Simpson Miller’s interest in ensuring that all PNP funding came from legally and morally legitimate sources.
On the matter of the return of the money, the obligation and its basis are simple and clear. Smith’s gift was from the proceeds of crime, whose fruits neither he nor the recipient was entitled.
Again, this matter has placed squarely on the table the urgent need for political-party and campaign-finance legislation.
The opinions on this page, except for the above, do not necessarily reflect the views of The Gleaner. To respond to a Gleaner editorial, email us: editor@gleanerjm.com or fax: 922-6223. Responses should be no longer than 400 words. Not all responses will be published.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120617/cleisure/cleisure1.html
Cash, vehicles, cocaine & weapon seized by police
Members of the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division assisted by personnel from the Caribbean Search Centre and the Canine Division seized 11-point-2 kilograms of cocaine with a street value of just over eleven million Jamaican dollars.
The police also found cash amounting to almost twenty million Jamaican dollars along with close to eight thousand US dollars.
In addition, the cops seized, four high end motor vehicles, a licensed 9 millimetre firearm along with 36 rounds of ammunition.
A statement issued this morning by the Constabulary Communication Network, CCN, says operatives from the newly launched Major Organized Crime and Anti-Corruption Task Force (M.O.C.A.) have expressed an interest in the case.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/cash-vehicles-cocaine-weapon-seized-police
Showers and thunderstorms to continue across the island
Periods of showers and thunderstorms, which could be heavy at times, are forecast to continue into late today.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/showers-and-thunderstorms-continue-across-island
If it is Y:O:U I going F you up… Yes man print it and keep this comment for you records.
Expect More Rain Today
Fishers and other marine interests are being advised to exercise caution as strong, gusty winds could be experienced in the vicinity of showers and thunderstorms.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=37961
No elected government can stop SIPT/CRP investigations
PUTTING a halt to the work of the Special Investigation and Prosecutions Team (SIPT) and Civil Recovery Programme (CRP) has been a feature in many local discussions and even the point of political posturing by local politicians.
However, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Mr. Henry Bellingham, made it that no elected government will be able to stop the work of SIPT and CRP.
Bellingham, at Tuesday’s press conference, pointed out that an elected government cannot stop an independent criminal investigation.
He questioned why anyone would want to stop the investigations.
http://tcweeklynews.com/no-elected-government-can-stop-siptcrp-investigations-p2677-1.htm
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Assange risks arrest in London if he leaves Ecuador embassy asylum
WikiLeaks founder faces arrest the moment he leaves the embassy even if he is granted asylum, police have indicated
Ricardo Patino, Ecuador’s foreign minister, said on Tuesday that the WikiLeaks founder had written to the country’s president, Rafael Correa, to ask for asylum. Assange interviewed him last month for his TV show The World Tomorrow, broadcast on the Russian state-sponsored channel Russia Today, in which the president told him: “Welcome to the club of the persecuted.”
Ecuador is the only country to have expelled its US ambassador over the WikiLeaks cable revelations. It was during the filming of this interview that an offer of asylum was made, the Associated Press reported, quoting a woman who had been present during the interview but had spoken on condition of anonymity. It did not say whether the offer was personally made by Correa.
Ratner said Assange’s move had been prompted purely by his fears of future prosecution in the US rwhere a secret grand jury has been empanelled into the WikiLeaks founder, ather than a desire to avoid the Swedish accusations. “Had the US come forward and said, ‘We will not prosecute Julian Assange, I think he would be in Sweden tomorrow to deal with the allegations of the sex crimes. It was not about that at all. It was only about the US.”
There are a lot of people who believe the work he did at Wikileaks was in the public interest
At a press conference, Julia Gillard, the Australian prime minister, said: “Mr Assange’s decisions and choices are a matter for Mr Assange We, our officials, our consular officials, will be in contact with him and also with Ecuador in London about this, but his decisions in relation to this matter are for him to make..”But the Australian Green party attacked its government’s response as “feeble”, saying it amounted to “malign indifference”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/20/assange-risks-arrest-london-embassy
Lots Ofmoney Says:
October 28, 2008 at 1:44 pm
….only got to come on just before 8:00am…not sure when the interview actually started but it ran the whole way till 9:00am…interesting allegations were made….and the host of the club had to make it sure that they were in no way able to verify what the callers were saying were verbatum….just a few quotes that struck me…
http://whaddatsurvivors.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=real&action=display&thread=762
Re: The Breakfast Club …
Post by watchdiryde on Nov 2, 2008, 1:39pm
Tony Abrahams has made much of what was said to be a ‘string of bad words’ which he alleges Vaz reeled off to him on the phone after he had called Vaz for a response. When I called Vaz he told me that Abrahams and company on The Breakfast Club were playing political games and revelling in propagating the wild accusations. According to Vaz, he told Abrahams, “You are a despicable character and on behalf of the many who would like to tell you that, I am telling you so. I would also like to add one other thing. Something I am certain that the many would like to tell you too. Go F***yourself.”
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/html/20081101T200000-0500_142043_OBS_WILD_ACCUSATIONS_AND_OLINT.asp
FRIDAY, JUN 15, 2012
The opposition Jamaica Labor Party has acknowledged that Smith was a contributor but has still not confirmed that he gave $5 million, as the Turks and Caicos court order states. The Labor Party’s former information minister, Daryl Vaz, earlier acknowledged receiving $50,000 from Smith for his campaign in Portland parish ahead of the 2007 general elections.
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/15/jamaica_party_says_it_got_1_million_from_swindler/singleton/
*The contract for refurbishing of Carder Park football field was not mentioned.
* Several other of the Smith’s “charitable” donations of stolen money designed to prevent a run by investors such as the St. Joseph’s hospital dialysis machines and others are not mentioned.
* Church leadership remains cuckold and silent.
That Pickersgill Comment
Published: Thursday | June 21, 2012
Jamaica Gleaner – Commentary
In his infamous remarks, Mr Pickersgill admits that the People’s National Party received from a fraudulent operator at least US$1 million and declares they may have no moral obligation to account for, or return, or report to authorities what happened.
Based on my knowledge of the subject, I think the matter should be sent to the director of public prosecutions for a ruling and action. It is not reasonable to expect compliance of every other entity, save the officers of the Government of Jamaica, and its ministers, who remain above the law.
I looked up the definition of ‘moral authority’ and found: Basis for a sense of right and wrong according to conscience.
‘Justice System Doesn’t Understand Proceeds Of Crime Act’
Published: Thursday June 21, 2012 | 12:07 pm
Outgoing Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green believes Jamaica has failed to exploit the Proceeds of Crime Act because the justice system does not understand it.
justice system does not understand it.
justice system does not understand it.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=38042
White man dis the Jamaicans again? We will beat them at the cricket.
I’ve made a terrible error of judgment’: Comic Jimmy Carr apologises and pulls out of off-shore ‘tax avoidance’ scheme
It had emerged the comedian is one of thousands using a legal off-shore scheme to pay as little as 1 per cent income tax
He says accountant advised him the scheme was legal
Jimmy Carr today admitted he had ‘made a terrible error of judgment’ by using an off-shore scheme to pay as little as 1 per cent income tax as it emerged he paid cash for his £8.5million home.
The comedian said he is no longer involved in the controversial ‘tax avoidance’ scheme after Prime Minister David Cameron branded his conduct ‘morally wrong’.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161852/Jimmy-Carr-apologises-pulls-shore-tax-avoidance-scheme.html#ixzz1ySIBnSjv
UK SIGNS DEAL WITH DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Foreign Secretary William Hague and Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Bilateral Co-operation between the UK and the Dominican Republic.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2664
PEPPERPOT: The Whistleblower’s satisfaction
BY EVA-JEAN
Friday, June 22, 2012
THE whistle-blower is finally getting the satisfaction of seeing the fraudulent twins face the music. Word from the grapevine is that there is a lot more whistle-blowing to come and some of it won’t be pretty. The morale is never to pine over other people’s property.
Hate-mailer on the retreat
It just goes to show that ‘duppy know who fi frighten’. The hate-mailer is now regretting his actions and has gone low-profile. But the damage has already been done.
Wrong jungle, Mr Pickersgill!
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Jamaica has a serious question to answer why it was left to those jurisdictions to convict Smith and not Jamaica where the scheme originated and operated for a considerable period.
Already there seems to be some prevarication from both parties as to how they will treat with the tainted gift.
As events now reveal, the money was not Mr Smith’s to give. It was tainted when he gave it and tainted when received by the recipients. Mr Smith hurt a number of people when he doled out money that did not belong to him to various organisations and people. This was corrupt philanthropy because Mr Smith knew that he was giving away money that was not his to give in the first place. Whether Mr Pickersgill knew that this was the case earlier or later is a moot point. The fact remains that his party was a recipient of stolen money.
There can be no question that the tainted money from Olint has to be repaid by those who received it, however big or small the amount.
No person or entity boasting of high moral sensibilities should allow himself or itself to be forced to do what is right. In fact, even before the claw-back request came from the TCI authorities, those who knew that they had received money from Olint should have anticipated returning it. To now receive the request, and to prevaricate about it by suggesting all kinds of specious arguments why one may not be obligated to return it, is unworthy and downright immoral.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Wrong-jungle–Mr-Pickersgill_11772217#ixzz1yc8wYvf9
‘No moral responsibility’
This same PNP was in power when its organ, the Financial Services Commission, made public statements in 2006 regarding the operations of Olint. Mr Pickersgill is quite happy to say that although the Olint operations were not sanctioned by the authorities appointed by our Parliament, he noted that the company was operating in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Come on, Mr Big Lawyer, that is totally disingenuous. Certainly the current and previous governments have made no move to recover monies stolen from Jamaican citizens in Jamaica, and so stupidity and disrespect are firmly at the feet of both sides of politics in their attitude towards us the citizens.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/-No-moral-responsibility-_11758682#ixzz1yjG8ce00
Just two small notes here that should not be hidden UNDERGROUND:
1. Many persons who invested or were feeders have been on the backpedal in recent weeks swearing not only to the lie that they were not “feeders” to Olint but also that they were telling people not to be feeders. The most blatant case of this was noted many thousands of miles from Jamaican shores…what a pickle…what a joke.
Be careful about denials one makes on behalf of Olint investors. Saying this and that person never invested in Olint when such a claim is patently false only makes the messenger look foolish and confirms a lack of credibility.
2. Not only did the political parties accept stolen “gifts” that were designed as public relations in furtherance of the crimes. Many less prominent people did as well and also to date have not yet made their repayment obligations…yet.
The Best Payback Is Reform
charities, churches to pay too?
Warm your heart closer to home. On June 22, 2007, The Gleaner carried a story titled ‘Olint donates dialysis machines to St Joseph’s’. It reads: “Chief executive officer of Olint, Wayne Smith, brother of the founder … handed over the machines, valued at several million dollars … .” Everyone remembers the Jazz and Blues Festival. Refund or no refund?
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120624/cleisure/cleisure4.html
A few notes on this piece by Thwaites:
1. The 10% myth should not be appearing in any more articles concerning Olint and certainly not from a writer of this calibre. At times Olint quoted monthly rates that when annualised would be significantly lower than what any blue chip an Jamaica stock exchange pays in dividends.
2. Yes the writers father will admonish him for speaking about Olint donations to Catholic entities and for this the writers bravery is noted. There is more than one catholic Deacon in the Olint mix as is well known.
3. Obama and Pickersgill are similar in “certain” aspects but not the ones mentioned by the writer. Figure out the similarities for yourselves and we might build a better nation.
Ray Stennett
6/24/2012
Olint is the fly in Jamaica’s ointment. It has really change the value of this commodity. People have had their consciences smeared and have lost touch with reality. They are now in a zombie-like state of mind without a soul and lacking the will to face up to the truth. The sorrowful state of our politics is really coming to light, with the handling of stolen funds by Olint given into their coffers. Are they that brazen to think Jamaicans are all idiots and they are the smart ones? Shame!!
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/-No-moral-responsibility-_11758682#ixzz1yjNlXkEF
Top Tory donor linked to Jimmy Carr tax scheme
David Cameron, who attacked Jimmy Carr’s use of tax avoidance schemes, faces new questions over his position on the issue.
One of the Tories’ biggest donors was signed up to a tax avoidance scheme that also included comedian Jimmy Carr, the Observer has established.
The revelation is intensely embarrassing for David Cameron, who attacked the comic’s use of such schemes as “morally wrong”.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/24/tory-donor-tax-avoidance
Jersey threatens to break with UK over tax backlash
Island should be ready to become independent, says senior minister after political attacks on finance industry
A barrage of regulatory clampdowns and political attacks on the Channel Islands’ controversial financial industry has prompted one of Jersey’s most senior politicians to call for preparations to be made to break the “thrall of Whitehall” and declare independence from the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/26/jersey-threatens-independence-tax-backlash
Alexandra Resort and Spa in receivership
Hotelier Washington Misick says he is “disappointed” that the Lord Ashcroft-owned British Caribbean Bank (BCB) chose to place the Alexandra Resort and Spa into receivership instead of exploring other options.
“I am disappointed that BCB chose receivership rather than a number of possible work-out options available to it,” Misick said in a press release.
Misick, a former Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands and who is a 33 year veteran in residential and commercial real estate sales, development and property management, added: “The Alexandra, for me, is as much a legacy project as it is a business: it is the only locally owned development on Grace Bay, the Turks and Caicos’ Gold Coast. It is for this reason that I have poured my soul and resources into it, over the last twelve years. I genuinely consider it a national imperative to have local ownership in the islands’ only major industry. I hope that others will follow my example, despite increasing obstacles, and that Turks and Caicos Islanders will be able to maintain a modicum of ownership interest in the industry.”
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2666
Spotlight falls on Televisa, Mexico’s all-powerful TV station
Critics accuse Televisa of manipulating politicians and viewers and threatening democracy
“You could say it’s like Murdoch on steroids in the sense Televisa has operated under far fewer constraints than Murdoch,” said Andrew Paxman, a historian and co-author of El Tigre, a biography of Emilio Azcárraga Milmo, the mogul whose father founded the company and the dynasty that still controls it.
Now, however, the logo suddenly evokes something else: a critical eye turned on Televisa itself in unprecedented scrutiny of the way it allegedly manipulates politicians and viewers.
The frontrunner for president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has been thrown on the defensive over evidence uncovered by the Guardian detailing his links to Televisa, whose channels account for about two thirds of free-to-air television. Its rival, Azteca, accounts for most of the other third.
“The power of the television networks does not lie in their economic power but in their ability to manipulate opinion.
“The degree of concentration in television is an attack on democracy. It gives them enormous power to extort. The [networks] have the political class under control because nobody wants to be insulted or rubbed out or exhibited on TV. The television calling somebody corrupt is tantamount to a judgment from the supreme court.”
How Televisa acquired and uses its clout is a tale of intrigue worthy of the overwrought telenovelas – soaps – which it makes and exports across the Spanish-speaking world.
“Before those with political power paid the media to be on their side, now the media charges. Paying for something is very different to being charged,” said Rubén Aguilar, a former spokesman for Vincente Fox, a PAN leader and president from 2000-06.
In 2007 the Mexican congress hit back at the media lords with a law giving political parties free TV advertising during elections and banning paid-for political spots. The networks responded to this threat to their income with fury, then subtlety. Santiago Creel, a senator who had championed the law, found himself erased from Televisa’s news reports. Seated in the middle of other legislators, all identifiable, he was transformed into a pixillated blur.
Much political promotion was subliminal, he said, and lulled Mexico into accepting manipulation: “An entertained country doesn’t conspire.”
Most of Mexico’s traditional media – radio, newspapers and magazines – were just as mercenary as Televisa, said one editor, who declined to be named. “Ninety per cent of media income comes from public funds,” the editor said. Some journalists’ salaries were scaled according to willingness to disguise propaganda as reporting, he said.
A senior PRI official, he added, had recently offered his news organisation a large amount of cash for just one month’s positive coverage.
Evidence uncovered by the Guardian suggests Televisa now champions Peña Nieto and tries to undermine his rival. The network declined interview requests for this article, saying it was still awaiting an apology from the Guardian for a previous article detailing its support for Peña Nieto, which it called libellous.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/26/spotlight-televisa-mexico-tv-station
Order to Bring UK and Territories under Mutual Assistance Act Tabled In Senate
He said the Order resulted from a letter he had received from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) in late March this year, bringing his attention to a request the Office had received from the relevant authorities of one of the British Overseas Territories, pointing out that the request could not be granted because this country had not been brought within the ambit of the Act.
“It was pointed out by the ODPP that failure to bring this and the other British Overseas Territories in the region under the Act was adversely affecting Jamaica’s co-operation arrangements in criminal matters with the law enforcement authorities of those countries, as many requests for legal assistance had been coming to Jamaica from those countries and Jamaica was not able to respond favorably,” he said.
Senator Golding noted that this, in turn, was affecting how favourably those countries respond to mutual requests for legal assistance from Jamaica. “The ODPP requested me to rectify this situation by making an Order bringing these countries within the ambit of the Act,” he explained.
“Several of these countries are offshore banking centres and tax havens, and well known jurisdictions for the holding of funds and other assets, and Jamaicans have significant investment and commercial links with these jurisdictions. It is clearly in the public interest to facilitate mutual legal assistance between the law enforcement agencies of Jamaica and these countries,” Senator Golding argued.
The forms of legal assistance available under the Act include matters, such as the location, examination and taking the testimony of witnesses, the production of documents and other records, the carrying out of search and seizure, and tracing, seizure and forfeiture of property.
He further pointed out that the Order is subject to affirmative resolution and it is anticipated that the resolution will be taken and passed at the next sitting of the Senate.
http://www.jis.gov.jm/news/leads-109/31013
Britain does not govern the TCI, says FCO
In response to a request for documents under Britain’s Freedom of Information Act 2000, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has stated that, notwithstanding the imposition of direct rule by Britain in 2009, the Turks and Caicos Islands government is not part of the British government and the FCO has no access to TCI government documents.
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-Britain-does-not-govern-the-TCI%2C-says-FCO-5325.html
JLP Still Probing Olint Donations
Published: Thursday June 28, 2012 | 9:12 amwith audio
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/latest/article.php?id=38167
Holness “thanked” Smith on official Government of Jamaica letterhead. Fact. Irrefutable. Holness why can’t you tell the people Smitty was your bredrin? Is it that hard Andrew?
On another note:
BG interviewed for the New Yorker? Interesting.
Pepperpot? Talk up the tings dem tomorrow.
Jersey’s ‘secrecy culture’ led to my suspension, says former police chief
Graham Power claims he was punished for daring to investigate allegations against some of the island’s power players
Graham Power: ‘I was suspended by the very government whose institutions were being investigated. You cannot get much more conflicted than that.”
Before moving to Jersey to take charge of the island’s police in 2000, Graham Power had served in the senior ranks of four other forces in a career spanning more than 30 years. A recipient of the Queen’s Medal for distinguished service, he had been vetted by UK authorities to “top secret” level and was so well regarded that he had also been appointed an assessor for the body that selects chief officers for UK constabularies.
But after eight successful years on Jersey, Power found himself suddenly suspended in what one local politician supporter believes was a “coup d’etat engineered by a small group of powerful people who denied him natural justice”.
The States of Jersey have also agreed to hold an independent “committee of inquiry”…[hahahhahaah]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/28/jersey-secrecy-culture
I wonder if Graham Power will be the next UK Policeman to head to Jamaica for a baptism like what Green, Shields, Felix et al got!
The newly disclosed emails, details of which were obtained by Associated Press, appeared to support the attorney general’s insistence that at that time he was unaware that guns had been allowed to “walk” at the time. On 23 February, three weeks after the administration denial had been made, Holder wrote to his officials following new revelations in the media to say: “We need answers on this. Not defensive BS. Real answers.”
On 3 March, Holder’s deputy, James Cole, sent an email to all his officials saying: “We obviously need to get to the bottom of this.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/28/eric-holder-contempt-historic-congress-vote
Guilty! Peter Madoff blames brother Bernie as he gets 10 years after admitting conspiracy charges over Ponzi scheme
Peter Madoff, 66, taken into custody earlier today and pleaded guilty in court to conspiracy and falsifying records
Will remain free until October 4 sentencing but agreed to 10 years in prison
Plea to take place where Bernie Madoff taken away after being condemned to 150 years in prison
The younger brother of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff – the loyal No. 2 at an investment firm that fronted a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme – pleaded guilty Friday, agreeing to serve 10 years in prison and saying he was ‘in total shock’ when he learned of the fraud.
Peter Madoff revealed in court that he agreed to assist his brother in sending out the only money left to favored people, including friends and family.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166536/Peter-Madoff-gets-10-years-admitting-conspiracy-charges-Ponzi-scheme.html#ixzz1zKXIur00
Just like the Smith’s did. Pay gunman first.
Paula you must very busy in the background….
‘Peter Madoff enabled the largest fraud in human history. He will now be jailed well into old age, and he will forfeit virtually every penny he has,’ U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. ‘We are not yet finished calling to account everyone responsible for the epic fraud of Bernard Madoff and the epic pain of his many victims.’
Friends and business associates had described the brothers as very close.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166536/Peter-Madoff-gets-10-years-admitting-conspiracy-charges-Ponzi-scheme.html#ixzz1zKZpsppf
Given Peter Madoff’s ‘level of financial experience and sophistication,’ he either knew or should have known that he reaped gains from ‘fraud and deception,’ the trustee alleged.
The trustee also took aim at his daughter Shana, who once worked as an in-house lawyer at the firm and has denied involvement in the scheme.
‘Had Peter, as the Chief Compliance Officer, or Shana, as Compliance Counsel, done their jobs properly, the fraud might have been revealed years earlier,’ the complaint said. ‘Either they failed completely to carry out their required supervisory/compliance roles, or they knew about the fraud but covered it up.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166536/Peter-Madoff-gets-10-years-admitting-conspiracy-charges-Ponzi-scheme.html#ixzz1zKckRQX2b
Budget cuts killed off Libor inquiry
Britain’s premier anti-corruption agency refused to carry out a criminal investigation into alleged manipulation of the benchmark Libor bank lending rate because it did not have enough money to fund it.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ruled out an investigation into allegations that staff at Barclays and other banks had tried to rig the lending rates which could have led to anyone found guilty facing prison sentences. Officials said last night that the SFO and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) were now urgently reviewing details of the allegations following the outcry over the decision not to investigate originally. Justice Secretary Ken Clarke said yesterday: “Once these investigations are complete, if they have committed criminal offences they should be brought to trial.”
The failure to get to grips with the Libor claims from the start laid bare profound concerns over the state of the UK regulatory system.
SFO chiefs complain that their ability to investigate cases has been compromised by cuts to their budget, which fell from £51m in 2008-09 to £33m this year – and it is set to fall to £29m by 2014-15. Mr Clarke yesterday conceded the UK was “very bad at prosecuting financial crime”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/budget-cuts-killed-off-libor-inquiry-7901940.html
The emails that have been published display in excruciating detail a culture in the investment banking side of Barclays that treated the rest of us as “little people”. A culture that showed a complete disregard for probity and honesty. Behaviour that was conspiratorial and possibly criminal.
The culture of a bank is critical.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/30/barclays-corporate-culture-disregard-honesty
The events of the past few days are proof that not all organised criminals go around carrying violin cases. Some sit jacketless in City offices, bent over computer screens, rigging interest rates. Others give their salesmen’s smiles to small-scale entrepreneurs desperate for a loan, and make them buy products that are as much a swindle as a three-card trick. And, if there’s the slightest whiff of official action that might cramp their style, there’s always some big-shot to whisper to the Government: “That’s a lovely economy you’ve got there. You wouldn’t want it to have an accident, would you?” The voice of the protection racket down the ages.
Criminal investigations are now under way.
And with these revelations is gone, for many a year, the reputation for trust on which the City was based.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/banking-scandal-greedy-shoddy-deceitful-a-modern-cesspit-7901949.html
Obama stops TCI duty-free exports to USA
President Barak Obama has ordered the United States Congress to terminate the Turks and Caicos Islands from the list of countries that will be allowed to export products to the USA duty-free.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2687
PEPPER POT: One hate-mail too many
Friday, June 29, 2012
The hate-mailer is said to be having sleepless nights after hitting the wrong people. While he has a long history of circulating hate-mails, this one was one too many. He is literally waiting for the other show to drop…
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/pepperpot/One-hate-mail-too-many_11836609#ixzz1zKmCT0Zt
Lauryn Hill pleads guilty to tax evasion
Lauryn Hill pleaded guilty in a New Jersey courtroom to evading federal taxes on $1.8 million earned between 2005 and 2007.
The singer faces a maximum one-year sentence for each of the three counts.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/entertainment/lauryn-hill-pleads-guilty-tax-evasion
Apology to DYC Fishing Limited (Part V)
Sunday, July 01, 2012
In its issue of 1 July 2010, the Observer carried an article titled ‘Don’t be held hostage, Minister Tufton’ written by Mark Wignal.
This article was libelous in its entirety and fallacious, all contrived for the sole purpose of publicly maligning DYC Fishing (DYC) and its principals.
Wignal continued his campaign of trying to induce Minister Tufton to revoke DYC’s licences, thinking that the minister had that power. Wignal manufactured facts in aid.
He made no effort to seek truth to his utterances, however found oodles of time for “teleconference” with senior GOJ officials.
Wignall resorted to conjuring antecedent nationality making clear his express prejudice to naturalised persons, when he denoted a “foreigner (having) more rights to Jamaica’s marine resources than even locals”. His reference to Paul Bogle was inapt and unfortunate.
Since the publication of this article, the Observer has learnt and is now satisfied that there was no truth whatsoever grounding Wignall’s utterances and it deeply regrets that they were ever made. The Observer is pleased and takes this opportunity to retract the offending article and expresses its sincere apologies to DYC.
Further, the Observer is keenly aware of the hurt and dislocation effected to DYC’s principals, partners, employees and well-wishers to whom it extends its most earnest apologies.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Apology-to-DYC-Fishing-Limited–Part-V-_11847685#ixzz1zNQCZn2G
Apology every week for 100 years???
New BBC investigation into Krishna Maharaj case
“Five alibi witnesses all of whom place [Maharaj] more than 30 miles away at the time of the murder, but none of whom were called to testify at his trial. The original trial judge was led away in handcuffs for taking bribes in another case, and the new judge ordered the death penalty to be drawn up even before a verdict of guilty had been given.
Subsequent investigation revealed that the victims had been laundering money in the Caribbean, and that the murders were almost certainly carried out by the Medellín drug cartel.”
Maharaj came to Britain penniless in 1960 but built up a fruit import business and became a multi-millionaire. He encountered the Moo Youngs after establishing two newspapers in the Caribbean.
25 years on, Krishna Maharaj’s extraordinary case will not be forgotten
Beside the Moo Youngs’ bodies, a briefcase belonging to the Moo Youngs’ which was never revealed during the original trial in 1987. It contained evidence of possible illegal activities of the victims that would have provided a strong motive for someone else to kill them.
Papers, some signed by the Moo Youngs’, suggested their companies had given loans of up to US$1.5 billion each to several Caribbean governments. One document referred to a financial transfer involving a staggering US$5 billion in Japanese Yen bonds.
Receipts also revealed evidence of a lavish multi-millionaire lifestyle seriously at odds with their annual tax returns in the United States which suggested that the Moo Youngs’ lived on the breadline with a total household income of just US$20,000 a year earned through a modest bathroom fittings business. That would have meant the Moo Youngs living in relative poverty, yet they travelled the world staying at expensive hotels and ate at the best restaurants.
The accountancy firm Ernst and Young have carried out analysis of the contents of the briefcase, which were not disclosed at the trial. They conclude that the Moo Youngs could not have been operating a legitimate business and were either dealing in drugs or laundering money. According to Mr Maharaj’s current lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, the briefcase papers showed the Moo Youngs’ were big time “money-launderers.”
When first interviewed Tino Geddes confirmed Mr Maharaj’s story that they were together at the printing press. But later he changed his version of events and testified against him. Mr Geddes’s testimony was crucial to the conviction.
Astonishingly, during the 1987 trial a stunned jury watched in amazement as the trial judge, Howard Gross, was led away in handcuffs, and later disbarred, following an FBI sting into a number of corrupt judges in Dade County, Florida.
Mr Maharaj says the same judge tried to solicit a bribe from him through intermediaries, but his original defence team failed to complain or call for a retrial. Just as bizarrely, the new judge, Harold Solomon, asked the prosecutors to write the order sentencing Mr Maharaj to death before the sentencing hearing had even begun.
Mr Abchal also claims that Mr Hosein told him he had “eliminated” a two people whom he had owed money to, been paid $200,000 and gained possession of some cocaine. Yet Mr Abchal was never called to give evidence. Yet police never interviewed Mr Hosein or considered him material to the case.
Court documents show that Mr Hosein and Mr Dames have been linked to F. Nigel Bowe, a former Bahamian attorney who, in 1985, had been charged with a large drug trafficking scheme involving the Columbian Medellin Cartel, and that Moo Youngs’ Bahamas-based companies were taking a percentage of the Columbian cartel’s income.
One of the Moo Youngs’ companies, Cargil International, was negotiating to purchase a Panama bank for $600m. Cargil’s office was based at the same office address as Nigel Bowe’s law office.
BBC Newsnight are currently renewing their investigation amid signs that even more evidence is about to come to light which may prove Mr Maharaj’s innocence.
However there are also reasons why some people may not want the conviction quashed. If Mr Maharaj is freed it will bring into even sharper focus suggestions of a web of corruption involving the Florida justice system, a Columbian drug cartel and individuals from Caribbean, and possibly even Caribbean governments.
http://cllrlesterholloway.wordpress.com/2012/06/03/25-years-on-krishna-maharajs-extraordinary-case-will-not-be-forgotten/
Dear Editors, TCI Residents, and Shareholders of BCB / Belize Bank,
On June 28, 2012 the above Banking Institution held an illegal public auction in an attempt to sell both my home and parcels of land In Leeward. There Is a Court Order and Caution on the above properties FORBIDDING the Bank from doing so until my case and my wife’s case is heard in Court! ….. but that did not stop this banking Institution from holding the auction (which I attended).
There were three people who attended:
Two where spectators from one of the largest legal firms on island who represent the Bank and are under investigation by the A.G. Office; one of their attorneys and a legal assistant will be called as witnesses in my case against The Bank should it get to court.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/july-2-2012-%E2%80%93-letter-illegal-public-auction-british-caribbean-bank-belize-bank-%E2%80%93-harry-clarkn
Obama stops TCI duty-free exports to USA
President Barak Obama has ordered the United States Congress to terminate the Turks and Caicos Islands from the list of countries that will be allowed to export products to the USA duty-free
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2687
Libor scandal: George Osborne to announce independent inquiry
Chancellor likely to stop short of full-scale inquiry, as Serious Fraud Office considers possibility of criminal charges at Barclays
The prime minister’s spokesman ruled out a full-scale inquiry, saying: “We know what happened.”
Ahead of the Commons statement, the Serious Fraud Office said it would decide within a month whether there were any grounds for a criminal investigation at Barclays, which was fined a record £290m last week for attempting to manipulate key benchmark interest rates. Fourteen of its staff were implicated.
“Now that the investigation into the issue of regulatory misbehaviour has concluded, the SFO are considering whether it is both appropriate and possible to bring criminal prosecutions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/02/libor-scandal-george-osborne-inquiry
The police are cautioning persons against allowing others to use their bank accounts to facilitate the movement of large sums of money, as they could face serious charges.
Assistant Commissioner of Police, Devon Watkis, says Jamaica is signatory to several international conventions, which seek to combat money laundering.
He’s therefore urging persons to be very skeptical when asked to have their accounts used by other persons.
ACP Watkis says the activity could be deemed as aiding and facilitating as well as conspiring; which are serious charges.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/police-warns-don%E2%80%99t-use-bank-accounts-facilitate-money-launderingg
City suits laugh at the law while hoodies get their collars felt
Outlook: The regulators simply aren’t feared. They are looked upon as ‘stupid’
The law isn’t quite the same for those who wear a suit as it is for those who wear hoodys, which sends out a terrible message.
Oh the Serious Fraud Office has been called in. But its record in securing convictions is mixed even if its lawyers and accountants feel that there are cases that can be effectively pursued against the Barclays traders.
Part of the problem with British banking is that the regulators simply aren’t feared. They are looked upon as “stupid” by battalions of City folk who spend their time dreaming up ways to get around them in the knowledge that, if they do get caught with their pants down, the sanctions they face will be limited and they’ll get paid off.
They snigger when they look at their American colleagues, who, when they commit similar deeds, are hauled off to Riker’s Island jail in shackles.
Ah yes, the Americans. They’re involved in this little affair too, and they’ve proved very willing to extend their legal system overseas when the mood takes them, making use of a certain lop-sided extradition treaty. Remember the so called NatWest three? And the furore that accompanied America’s use of the treaty to reel them in?
All of a sudden we may find ourselves thankful for those arrangements. US capitalism might be red in tooth and claw, but so is the system that polices it – as Barclays’ traders may learn to their cost.
Sadly, ours remains, well, just a light touch.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/comment/james-moore-city-suits-laugh-at-the-law-while-hoodies-get-their-collars-felt-7904554.html
Olint? Jamaica? Bigwigs? Financial Center? ……Paula….hehehee
Jamaican gets 97 months for embezzling US 22m from Citigroup
Former Citigroup Vice President Jamaican Gary Foster has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for embezzling almost 23 million US dollar from the bank.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York say Foster pleaded guilty to bank fraud in September after admitting that he transferred money from various Citigroup accounts to his own at J.P Morgan Chase.
According to the prosecution he concealed his activities by making false accounting entries.
Prosecutors said he used the money to buy real estate and luxury sports cars, including a Ferrari and a Maserati.
The US government has seized or restrained property from Foster valued at 14 million dollars.
The Jamaican started at Citigroup as a temporary employee and worked his way up to Vice President.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/business/jamaican-gets-97-months-embezzling-us-22m-citigroup
This summer going to be the most interesting season yet….(most of you are lost I know) but several of you are NOT lost…..this season going to be hot….can’t take heat? Stay out of the kitchen.
Want to escape? Get your money ready………
People’s National Party (PNP) supporter and former candidate for the constituency, Gary Foster, was irate over the incident.
“James knows the law and he knows that it is not allowed. Yet he came here with a truck and three tents to pitch right beside the polling stations,” Foster fumed. “Everything was all right before he turned up. Now you have the two parties cussing each other. Even families arguing with each other now. As a MP that should not happen!”
Observer.
You’ve Got The Wrong Foster, Mon!
Former People’s National Party (PNP) activist Gary Foster has found himself at the centre of a major political gaffe in the United States, through no fault of his own.
A case of mistaken identity by a US Republican congressional candidate has made the Jamaican a household name in a section of Illinois.
Bill Foster’s campaign responded with a press release humorously titled, ‘Hey, Mon! You Got the Wrong Guy’.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100811/lead/lead3.html
Full Tilt poker tycoon arrested by FBI
Ray Bitar faces nine charges including fraud, money laundering and operating a ‘Ponzi scheme’ from a base in Guernsey
In April last year the US authorities struck against Full Tilt and two other large websites they said were offering poker illegally in the US. Soon afterwards they discovered what they alleged was a “Ponzi-style scheme” at Full Tilt, where huge sums supposed to be in segregated players’ accounts were missing.
On Monday Preet Bharara, US attorney for the southern district of New York, said the alleged fraud orchestrated by Bitar and co-conspirators had left Full Tilt unable to pay about $350m (£223m) to players around the world, believed to include thousands in the UK.
Bharara claimed Bitar had “bluffed his player-customers and fixed the game against them as part of an international Ponzi scheme that left players empty-handed.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/03/full-tilt-poker-bitar-arrested
Nicolas Sarkozy’s home raided by French police
Detectives investigating alleged illegal campaign-financing by L’Oreal heir Liliane Bettencourt search Carla Bruni’s mansion
French police have raided the home and offices of the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of an investigation into illegal campaign financing and alleged brown envelopes of cash from France’s wealthiest woman, the L’Oreal hairspray heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
The investigation is part of the wider Bettencourt saga, which has gripped France for years with plot-twists including a disgruntled butler who hid a tape-recorder in the drawing room, and, crucially, security services at the head of the French state which might have spied on journalists to hush it all up.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/03/nicolas-sarkozy-home-raided-police
The BBC Panorama programme broadcast earlier this year detailed the extent of Ashcroft’s involvement in Johnston despite his claims that he had had “no economic, beneficial or legal interest in the Johnston Group since 1999.”
That was a simple lie.
Were it otherwise, the highly litigious Ashcroft would have sued the pants off the BBC.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/july-3-2012-gordon-prentice-british-mp-1992-2010-lord-michael-ashcroft-johnston-michael
Turks & Caicos Islands: Synonymous with Corruption
Truth Seekers, it is no accident, coincidence, or anything like that, that you see so many posts here national and international, with the Turks and Caicos and its people be branded as being corrupt. Our country has become synonymous with corruption. And no matter how one might try to get around it, and expect the rest of us to put it all behind us and act as one, this was brought upon us by none other than our own Progressive National Party, PNP.
It boggles the mind that the country can be branded as corrupt, but the parties that caused it can and should not!
http://tcigrapevine.com/?p=1108
Retired Jamaican judge to try SIPT cases
Prominent Jamaican judge Paul Harrison has been appointed to the Turks and Caicos Islands Supreme Court to deal with the criminal trials arising out of Sir Robin Auld’s Commission of Inquiry and the probe by the Helen Garlick-led Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT).
In a letter circulated to the Bar Council, Chief Justice Edwin Goldsbrough said that Governor Ric Todd appointed Mr. Justice Harrison for the period July 10th 2012 to June 30th 2014.
The new judge will arrive in Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday July 10th when he will take his oaths of allegiance and office and will preside the following day over plea and direction hearings for 14 individuals charged by the SIPT.
Meantime, before his appointment to the Turks and Caicos Islands High Court, Justice Harrison served as chairman of Jamaica’s Parliament Integrity Commission, the body which examines the annual statutory declarations of politicians to ensure that they adhere to the Corruption Prevention Act.
He was appointed to the post on December 28, 2011 on the eve of the December 29 general election. The appointment was made on the recommendation of then Prime Minister Andrew Holness in consultation with former Opposition Leader, now Prime Minster, Portia Simpson Miller.
Harrison also headed the Commission of Inquiry into the fire that killed seven wards of the state at Armadale Juvenile Correctional Centre in St Ann, Jamaica in May 2009.
http://www.suntci.com/index.php?p=story&id=2704
MPs evade Integrity Committee
Most of them constitute offences which can be reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in addition to the parliamentary leaders,” Ambassador Muirhead said.
“We don’t have the records of prosecutions sought efficiently by the Corruption Commission, maybe that’s a lesson we should learn because somehow over the years endeavours have been made to effect compliance and letters have been written to the members which some have responded to with alacrity and others have not,” he said.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/MPs-evade-Integrity-Committee_9915951#ixzz1zdwkJva3
The Bank of England was dragged into the interest-rate rigging scandal last night after an email was released suggesting it may have encouraged banks to doctor their borrowing costs during the financial crisis.
The email – an account of a conversation between the chief executive of Barclays, Bob Diamond, and the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Paul Tucker – appears to show Barclays was under the impression that manipulating rates was being sanctioned at the highest level.
The email was released by Barclays ahead of today’s high-profile showdown between Mr Diamond and MPs on the Treasury Select Committee.
The email came at the end of a day of dramatic developments in which it emerged that:
The email, dated 30 October 2008, was from Mr Diamond, then head of Barclays Capital, to John Varley, Barclays’ chief executive, and copied in to Jerry del Missier, then co-head of the investment bank.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/the-libor-conspiracy-were-the-bank-of-england-and-whitehall-in-on-it-7906916.html
Jamaica….the time is uncomfortably short….
“implausible” [As implausible as the Manatt Inquiry report?]
“When I read the emails from those traders I got physically ill. It is reprehensible behaviour and if you are asking me should those actions be dealt with – absolutely.”
A Barclays source said the allegation made by Tyrie about the FSA was selective leaking of highly confidential documents, which misrepresented the meeting.
The Labour leader, who clashed with David Cameron in the Commons on Wednesday on the best way to investigate the manipulation of interest rates at Barclays, will table a motion calling for a time-limited inquiry along similar lines to the Leveson inquiry into press ethics.
“We learnt that Bob Diamond says he didn’t know anything about this until about month ago which I find rather surprising. We also learnt his Chief Operating Officer received a memo from his boss and asked him to fiddle the Libor rate and it didn’t cross his mind that it might be a good idea to check out whether that’s really what Bob Diamond meant him to say, and to act on, which of course Bob Diamond now says that was not the case.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/04/libor-bob-diamond
Happy Birthday America!
Jagans, play this one at the BBQ get together
For Ambassador Bridgewater. Enjoy you celebrations! Family time NY, East coast…Jagans in America…
hehheeheeeheeeahahahaa…yes…YES…any doubts? hhahaha
Last one: Who have ears to hear let them hear…..a lot more coming…
Wikileaks begins release of 2.4 million emails from Syrian government
The WikiLeaks website said it had begun publishing more than two million emails from Syrian government officials that would embarrass not only Damascus, which is trying to crush a 16-month rebellion, but also its opponents.
WikiLeaks spokesman Sarah Harrison told a news conference the emails from Syrian political figures, government ministries and companies dated from August 2006 to March 2012.
She read out a statement quoting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as saying: “The material is embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syria’s opponents.
“It helps us not merely to criticise one group or another, but to understand their interests, actions and thoughts.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wikileaks-files/9378940/Wikileaks-begins-release-of-2.4-million-emails-from-Syrian-government.html
Wha dem seh? Teck death mark sleep? What a Jamaica 50 it might be…..
PEPPERPOT: Fraud or greed, which is worse?
Friday, July 06, 2012
Well, the latter leads to the former, so maybe there is no real difference. Pity that neither of the fraud twins could have helped the other to see the light before committing the deed. Latest word is that story is rapidly coming to bump. Remember, this is the space to watch.
Whose playground?
They say that when the cat’s away the mice will play. But when the cat’s right here on the Rock why are the mice still running around looking like they hope the cat will soon be found?
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/pepperpot/PEPPERPOT–Fraud-or-greed–which-is-worse-_11896025#ixzz1zpr6juah
ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
I have agreed to discontinue the criminal proceedings against Varet Jak Civre. I took this decision having considered the public interest, primarily because of Mr Civre’s age and state of health.
In turn, Mr Civre has agreed not to resist the SIPTs application for a civil recovery order, by which he will pay the Civil Recovery Authority the sum of $4,750,000 plus $250,000 costs. I consider this to be a proper and proportionate outcome of the case against him.
The prosecution of those persons who are suspected of serious crime and charged with offences as a result of the SIPT’s investigation will continue. The Crown will also continue vigorously and wherever possible to recover assets that are the proceeds of wrongdoing.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/july-6-2012-tcig-ags-statement-prosecution-jak-civre-seven-stars-project-etc
Justice for sale in the TCI under the interim regime
Folks, I told you that the white developers charged in the corruption cases by SIPT will never face a judge except in the sufficiency hearing. I was right but no one listens to a semi literate blogger.
I also told you that justice and integrity was on sale in the TCI. It is said that justice is blind but not in the TCI. Once you are white and rich you can pay your way out of any charge while the black persons and indigenous Turks and Caicos Islanders must face the full wrath of the court.
The Attorney General Huw Shepheard and the Special Investigation and Prosecution Team (SIPT) have dropped criminal charges against multi-millionaire Jak Civre, the developer of Seven Stars.
I would like the AG to tell me what he considers to be the proper and proportionate outcome for those Turks and Caicos Islanders charged for the same crime under the same circumstances. Why were they not offered the same deal.
The AG further said that he prosecution of those persons who are suspected of serious crime and charged with offences as a result of the SIPT’s investigation will continue. The Crown will also continue vigorously and wherever possible to recover assets that are the proceeds of wrongdoing.”
I am sure that the persecution will continue against Turks and Caicos Islanders because they are black. This is selective justice at it best and collusion between the interim regime and suspected criminals at its worst.
If you are white and rich and you are accussed or suspected of committing a crime in the TCI don’t worry justice is openly on sale under the interim regime.
This corruption investigation is now contaminated.
John Glasgow
http://tcipost.com/?p=21922
[I wonder if the cat John Glasgow is a pseudonym for an insecure black chip on shoulder wearing idiot like Courtenay Barnett …. even the hate mailer himself]
Anyway don’t get distracted….focus on what needs to be done..9If you don’t know by now then dawg nyam yu suppa)…..for if this coming winter exposes that in the sunshine you chose to “call my bluff” and wait and see…… you going get F….K.
Les Green Flies out of Jamaica this afternoon July 6th 2012.
Jamaicans tolerant of gays — Les Green
Jamaica Observer
Friday, July 06, 2012
OUTGOING Assistant Commissioner of police Les Green, says despite claims by gay lobby group Jamaica Forum for Lesbians All Sexuals and Gays, (JFLAG) that gays are being persecuted and subjected to mob beatings, Jamaicans are actually tolerant of gays.
In an exclusive exit interview with the Jamaica Observer Green said he had worked closely with JFLAG and found that most gays who were victims of murder were killed by other gays.
“There isn’t that sort of backlash that some people say. I think we are much more tolerant. I think Jamaica is far more tolerant than the public hype,” Green said.
See your Sunday Observer on July 8 for the full story!
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Jamaicans-tolerant-of-gays—Les-Green#ixzz1zra3e0SC
Jamaica has always been tolerant of a lot of things such as theft and police corruption. People claim asylum from Jamaica because they are homosexual…that is a ruse.
The GAYLADS are headliners for the Jamaica 50 endorsed concert series at the 02 Arena in London.
Will Les Green be there?
Assistant Commissioner of Police Les Green told The Gleaner yesterday it was unlikely that Smith would be indicted locally given that other jurisdictions had already implemented investigations and brought charges.
He said although the question as to whether Smith had committed a fraud while in Jamaica had to be considered, he was more likely to be prosecuted in another jurisdiction where the greater offence was committed.
“When we look at these international scams, as this is suspected to be, what is normally common practice is that each of our law-enforcement agencies agrees who is going to take the lead,” said Green.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100821/lead/lead2.html
It is a sad story. the story of Les Green and Olint. Walker exposed Green’s confidant to be Vaz and yeas after Vaz’s name appears on the Turks and Caicos Supreme Court Confiscation Order all courtesy of Helen Garlick and the SIPT.
Hard knocks Les Green. You can’t win all the time. There was no way staying in Jamaica was on the cards.
Enjoy the retirement.
From Reed Smiths letter to Bruce Golding
Dated 21st November 2008:
“Dr. Walker’s letter raised two serious issues for your response. The first was the lack of substantive engagement by the Jamaican police officers in response to the concerns raised by our clients. Our clients, in common with many Olint investors, are suffering as a result of their inability to access the funds they have invested in Olint and the refusal of Mr. Smith to facilitate repayments. Although the Attorney General’s office in the Turks and Caicos Islands has taken steps to freeze the assets of Mr. Smith in that jurisdiction and the National Futures Association in the USA has been looking at the conduct of Olint AND RELATED PARTIES, no substantive steps to investigate Olint or THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, including Mr. Smith, have yet been taken in Jamaica (other than litigation relating to it’s regulatory position).
Secondly, the disclosure, WITHOUT CONSENT, of Dr. Walker’s communications with Assistant Commissioner of Police, LES GREEN, to member of parliament Daryl Vaz which then resulted in a wholly inappropriate email being sent by Mr. Vaz to Dr. Walker (a copy of which is enclosed for reference) is a matter of concern.
Your reply of 3 November did not deal with either of Dr. Walker’s concerns. Instead you sought to characterise Dr. Walker’s concerns as ‘innuendo’. (As you can see from the attached email, the communication from Mr. Vaz referred to by Dr. Walker evidently took place and so we are at a loss to understand how you could dismiss the issue).
[The whole series of these are classics to be shared with Jamaican youth and those not yet born…classic…encompassing the shortcomings of media in the country and so much more…classic]
The JLP said they would “investigate” …Clarify? their Olint “dealings” in JULY 2012. Three weeks to go?……..
Parting Shot – Les Green Urges Gov’t To Give More Support To Police
FORMER ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police Les Green has left the island with a parting shot aimed at the political directorate.
According to Green, the Government needs to provide the police force with the financial and legislative support they need.
“I think we really need to properly invest in the forensics,” Green said during an interview on Nationwide 90FM hours before he left the island.
He also argued that there needs to be amendments to the Finger Prints Act, fundamental changes to the Evidence Act, and major changes to the legislation governing the operations of the police force.
” … We have very antiquated powers – especially of arrest and detention – and these need to be updated and put into modern practices.”
The former British cop – who is credited with bringing about significant improvements to Jamaica’s criminal investigations, particularly homicides, during his time in the force – is heading to France to spend his retirement years.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120707/lead/lead1.html
I’ll never forget you Les Green. Enjoy your retirement.
christopher walker to me, Denise, Special
show details Apr 3
Dear Professor Rowe,
Another victim of OLINT has contacted me. She is an elderly retiree by the name of:
Miss Hazel Black
Tel: 519-632-7564
She resides in Canada and invested over $500,000 in OLINT.
I specifically asked her to please support the ongoing investigation being conducted by the Federal authorities and she reassured me she will.
Further, I am now working on getting information regarding the whereabouts of David Simpson, brother of Jonathon Simpson former assistant to David Smith, who resides and works for a financial entity in Atlanta Georgia. I understand he has a plethora of information regarding OLINT that the Federal authorities would welcome.
Alas, it might require a subpoena to get him to cooperate with the investigation.
I shall keep you abreast of my progress in trying to get more cooperative witnesses.
Regards,
Christopher
SECRET AND CONFIDENTIAL XXXXX XXXX PROFFER Of Winston Hepburn
1. I am a Jamaican national.I understand that nothing in this proffer will be used against my interests.
2. I was a silent partner in Sterling Asset Management a Jamaican investment bank, my wife was the chief operating officer.
3 David Smith and Olint maintained several accounts at Sterling Asset Management.
4. David Smith sent wires to make Olint payments from these accounts in 2007 and 2008; this may have constituted money laundering.
5. Peter Bovell also had accounts at Sterling; which has a New Kingston Jamaica branch and an offshore brach on the island of St Lucia.
6. Peter Bovell had a hypothecation agreement between Olint and Sterling Management which insured Peter’ Bovell’s deposits in Olint.
7. I was threatened By Daryl Vaz, a political thug for supporting Peter Bunting MP who criticized Olint’s practices with the FSC.
8. Olint’s failure has destroyed Jamaica economically, I suspected Olint because, inter alia, of the fund’s aggressive constant need for additional deposits.
9. Olint was promoted in Jamaica in 2007 by Daryl Vaz MP and James Robertson MP, many Jamaicans deposited funds there because of ignorance and lack of financial sophistication.
10. The Jamaican Government will not investigate the crimes associated with Olint because of the 11 million dollars of campaign contributions made By Olint. Olint deposits were used for high life,lear jets and alien trafficking.
11.In 2007, many Jamaican Financial Institutions were threatened with a run on their deposits because of Olint’s 10 percent per month promise of high interest.
12.It is my understanding that the Federal Government will preserve the secrecy of my XXXXX XXXX proffer.
Winston Hepburn
Campaign Financing From Public Purse Fundamentally Flawed
Published: Sunday | July 8, 2012
In The Sunday Gleaner of June 24, in an article titled ‘Money woes unsettle JLP’, a source is reported to have explained in relation to political party financing that both major political parties operate accounts “outside of the party accounts, so that private-sector entities could make donations without drawing cheques directly to the party”.
In the same article, the long-serving treasurer of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Chris Bovell, admitted that “some members hold dual functions within the party and, therefore, raise funds in different capacities without the need for candidates to report fund-raising activities to the Treasury/finance committee”.
A week earlier, in The Gleaner of June 15, Robert Pickersgill, equally long-serving chairman of the People’s National Party (PNP), confirmed that in 2007, US$1m had indeed been received from Olint in an account (clearly not that of the PNP) to finance the party’s election campaign.
no expression of alarm
Between himself and Bovell, they still could not, after several weeks of investigations, account for any of the combined contribution of an additional US$7m (J$600m) said by the Turks & Caicos authorities to have been donated to the parties. In all of this, there was no expression of alarm, no shame, no suggestion of any awareness of the consequences which would flow to persons holding similar positions in any self-respecting organisation.
In short, the state of political party financing in Jamaica is one of financial anarchy, devoid of any semblance of self-regulatory control or any regard for accountability.
Bovell’s call for change rings hollow. A lawyer of some eminence, he is urging the fast implementation of public party financing as the solution to the now sharply focused transparency deficit problem. However, to the enabling legislation he is ascribing no greater weight, no greater importance than that it will “set guidelines”.
The call for public party financing has understandably intensified since the Olint revelations, for everywhere it is being promoted as the ultimate panacea.
In this 50th year of our Independence, let us renounce all deceptive overtures and seek to pursue true justice for all before it is recklessly foisted upon us.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20120708/cleisure/cleisure5.html
Assad’s mystery woman who ‘loves him’ is getting PhD from top UK university thanks to Syrian despot’s sponsorship, leaked emails reveal
Website suggests Lamis Omar enjoys close friendship with Bashar al-Assad
800 affectionate emails between pair revealed by Wikileaks
Durham University refused to say whether it had accepted money from Assad regime
Something to hide? Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s close friendship with an aide has been revealed by Wikileaks
They appear to have a close friendship, in which he buys her gifts and she repeatedly says that she ‘loves’ him. In the emails she refers to Assad, who has been married to British-born Asma, 37, for 12 years, as the ‘sponsor’ of her course.
The emails were among a tranche of 2.5 million obtained by Wikileaks, a controversial website that publishes leaked documents.
A member of the House of Lords charged thousands of pounds to redesign the summer palace of Bashar al-Assad, emails obtained by Wikileaks reveal.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170368/Wikileaks-Emails-reveal-Assad-mystery-woman-UK-university.html#ixzz204aKvfoP
There should always be the name of a real person attached to every political contribution, otherwise nameless corporations will be created or taken off the shelf and used simply for funneling money to politicians.
Remember the case of Bearwood Corporate Services in the UK. After almost a year of investigation into the company linked to Lord Michael Ashcroft by the UK Electoral Commission for contributions to the British Conservative Party, the results were inconclusive as to whether laws were broken because some of the companies involved had been shutdown and their corporate documents allegedly disposed of.
If the UK with all of its enforcement resources cannot get to the bottom of something like this, what hope have we, and why would the UK inflict corporate donations upon the TCI?
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/july-9-2012-%E2%80%93-buying-elections-part-ii-recommendations-if-interim-administration-does-not
JOE CONNOLLY RESIGNS FROM ADVISORY COUNCIL
With the most sincere thanks for all of his efforts on behalf of the people of the Turks and Caicos, Acting Governor Patrick Boyle accepted the resignation of Advisory Council member Joe Connolly yesterday, Thursday, 5 July 2012.
http://www.tcijournal.com/newsite/content/july-9-2012-tcig-july-6th-joe-connolly-resigns-advisory-council
VAT under them claut…they are best and brightest you know? More issues for them….THOU SHALT NOT STEAL….but you can if you want….but after that don’t bawl…Ja, turks…anywhere….more coming…early days…ole teef…you canb ‘move on’ as much you want (no one stopping you)…BUT MORE A COME….
VAT rate set at 11 per cent – 400 TCI businesses expected to be captured in the tax net
THE effective rate of Value Added Tax (VAT) to be charged in the Turks and Caicos Islands has been set at 11 per cent – the second lowest rate in the Caribbean region after Haiti.
http://tcweeklynews.com/vat-rate-set-at-per-cent-tci-businesses-expected-to-be-captured-in-p2718-1.htm
Has Rev Ainsley Blair’s dream of an Olint sponsored hospital out of the failed Forum hotel/nurses dormitory finally ended?
UDC gets 4 bids for Forum Hotel
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/udc-gets-4-bids-forum-hotel
From “Warren’s” blog:
Its understood that the JLP raised close to $800m leading up to the elections and spent just about $60om, however no proper explanation seems to be available to account for the remaining $200m.
In a stormy meeting at their belmont rd Headquarters over the weekend, their were fiery exchanges as members demanded to see evidence of where the monies collected were spent. It was reported that outspoken MP of parliament Mr Everald Warmington indicated that he know personally of one donor who donated $100m and wanted the treasurer to state how these funds were expended.
The JLP treasurer reported that the JLP is essentially completely broke.
.http://commonsenseja.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/200m-of-800m-raised-by-the-jlp-leading-up-to-the-2011-elections-unaccounted-for/
JLP announces scholarship
The opposition Jamaica Labour Party has announced a scholarship programme for party workers and their children.
The programme was announced during Sunday’s meeting of the Party’s Central Executive Meeting.
The meeting also received reports from the Party leader Andrew Holness, Acting Chairman Robert Montague, General Secretary Aundre Franklyn and Treasurer Christopher Bovell.
The JLP Central Executive is the highest decision making body outside of the National Conference.
Newly appointed Senator Alexander Williams has been asked to form a committee to disburse the scholarship funds and to administer 10 grants of 50 thousand dollars each.
http://rjrnewsonline.com/news/local/jlp-announces-scholarship
London 2012 organisers drawing up wet weather contingency plans
The government and Olympic organisers are drawing up contingency plans to deal with the inclement British summer, following a series of meetings to predict the extent to which London 2012 could be adversely affected by the dismal weather.
As event organisers in Hyde Park were on Tuesday forced to cancel a major concert with just 24 hours notice after the muddy site was declared unfit, London 2012 organisers are drawing up plans to deal with the potential impact of heavy rain on competitors and spectators.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jul/10/london-2012-wet-weather-contingency
Mandela accuses ANC of ‘shabby treatment’, leaked email shows
Document given to Guardian appears to suggest ex-wife of Nelson Mandela believes party is using family during centenary
The message, purportedly written by Madikizela-Mandela, an ANC MP and ex-wife of the former South African president Nelson Mandela, says the family is “deeply hurt” by the governing party’s actions and has been made to feel that “we do not matter” unless “to be used for some agenda”.
The 75-year-old, regarded as the “Mother of the Nation” by her supporters, is known to be at odds with the current South African president, Jacob Zuma, and has publicly called for a change of leadership.
The leaked email is headed “From: winnie mandela”, with her personal email address, is dated 4 July 2012 and is addressed to the office of the ANC national spokesman.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/10/winnie-mandela-anc-email-family
NoW did threaten woman over Max Mosley story
Mogul says he now agrees with judge’s finding that behaviour of paper’s chief reporter, Neville Thurlbeck, was unacceptable
Rupert Murdoch has said he agrees with the judge who found the News of the World had threatened a woman over a Max Mosley story.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jul/10/rupert-murdoch-now-max-mosley
US urged to recruit master hackers to wage cyber war on America’s foes
The professor was part of a five-member team which advised the Obama administration last year. “Old Higgs had to wait 50 years,” he said, referring to the physicist Peter Higgs, whose proposed Higgs boson particle was recently all but confirmed. “I had to wait only 20 years.” Last November he published an article titled From Blitzkrieg to Bitskrieg: the military encounter with computers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/10/us-master-hackers-al-qaida
New PDM leader faces bribery accusations
A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach indicted Warren Johnson on nine counts, alleging bankruptcy fraud, bank fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors called for Johnson to forfeit assets, including his interest in Ice Ban America and a real estate development in the Turks and Caicos Islands as reported here
http://www.tcinewsnow.com/topstory-New-PDM-leader-faces-bribery-accusations-5360.html
One line for the rich, another for the poor: minister’s solution to border control crisis
Fast-track lanes for visitors from wealthy westernised countries are to be set up at Heathrow to reduce queues at Britain’s biggest airport, the Immigration Minister said yesterday.
Damian Green’s announcement of the two-tier border system for non-Europeans provoked accusations that the move discriminated against travellers from developing nations.
This is a list of wealthy countries with links to the UK. It is based on wealth and trade links and it discriminates against people from the developing world.”
* The UK Border Agency is bringing in a private firm to track down a backlog of at least 150,000 missing migrants who have been refused permission to stay in the UK, Mr Green disclosed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/one-line-for-the-rich-another-for-the-poor-ministers-solution-to-border-control-crisis-7932663.html
Florida man sues Prof David Rowe over Wal-Mart lawsuit appeal
In an unrelated action also filed in Florida earlier this year, Daryl Vaz, the former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government minister, accused Rowe of libelling him in an e-mail circulated globally under the pseudonym “Paul Azan”. Several top Jamaican politicians and businessmen were also libelled in the e-mail. That case is awaiting the outcome of a subpoena served by Vaz on search engines Google and Yahoo! to determine if the e-mail originated with Rowe as he (Vaz) is claiming.
Among the others libelled in the e-mail are: Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson; Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding; Former Government Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and Sandals Chairman Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart who is also the publisher of the Jamaica Observer.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Florida-man-sues-Prof-David-Rowe-over-Wal-Mart-lawsuit-appeal_11881647
Kehhehe….