Category: Editorial

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Brace Yourself says Anthea McGibbon on Christmas Day 2021

Anthea

Brace yourselves!! Its Christmas Day… and many across Jamaica are experiencing the yuletide atmosphere. At the same time, the hour has come to Brace yourselves! While the celebrations increase, the Bible has come to a new era of fulfilment. The Bible has taught us well that there is a time for everything under the sun. Indeed there is nothing new. This 2021 has opened our minds to understand how very little respect is now placed on human life. Hard times approach as the times get even more perilous. Fear grips…

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Some Jamaican police ARE hogwashed

Anthea

There are just some police who are unbelievable. Heres a man, aged over sixty years, who is always posing as a police himself, and a bailiff, and a lawyer and now a paralegal because of his obsession with actual ones. Unbelievably and undeniably, it is this man more than the decent law abiding citizens that at least ten supposedly trained and outstanding police taake their cue from for tax dollars. The mischief caused by this ONE MAN with police officers as tools is surprising.

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‘Bailiffs’ war with Process Servers – a game with Jamaican law

Anthea

The war is on between ‘bailiffs’ and ‘process servers’. It’s really a summons war. On one hand there is an established Bailiff office or bailiff officers and their assistants at each Jamaican Parish Court. Several noted assistants to the sworn Court bailiff operate under one license assist the official bailiff in carrying out bailiff acts. The Bailiffs in the Corporate area carry out said activities for the Supreme and Appellate Courts. These acts include evictions, service of summons and other pertinent documents relating to the legal process, seizures, transportation, and…

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