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prime minister andrew hollis has
confirmed that the government will seek
an extension of the states of emergency
which are all due to end on saturday mr
holness made the announcement at a
function this morning
at the jamaica defense force up our camp
in santandro
i wish the signal today that
we will be asking for an extension
of the soes we have found them to be
quite effective and we have found it to
be
a very useful framework under which
joint operations or separate operations
could be undertaken by the jamaica
defense force
and that framework has assisted
the government's crime fighting strategy
in ensuring
that we are able to as lieutenant meera
said
lieutenant general mead i said flatten
the crime curve
now the attempt to extend the vsoes will
be made in parliament this afternoon
the emergency paused continuance
resolutions are listed on the order
paper earlier this year mr hollands told
the parliament that there will be
no election during an soe mr holland
says that commitment to end all soes
ahead of elections still stands
when the national security minister dr
horace chang told parliament recently
that the security measures would expire
on july 25
it fueled speculation about an election
in the summer
meanwhile the opposition has reacted to
the announcement by the prime minister
or reporter kirk wright
spoke with the general secretary of the
people's national party julian robinson
a short while ago at the same function
that the prime minister was speaking at
there are obviously members who have
concerns about the effectiveness of the
soes and those concerns i know remain
and their premise is giving an assurance
about not having elections
once you have soes i know that that's
important for a number of persons but
at this stage let's wait until
parliamentary two and we'll determine
what action we take
what's your personal feeling how you
vote um i have voted for the extensions
and i've done so
on the basis that not that i
believe they are totally effective but
in the absence of anything
else i believe that lifting them
the public is going to feel that they're
going to be left in a sense on their own
now part of the challenge is that people
equate the presence of the security
forces
with an soe and that's uh false
narrative because you can still have
heavy presence in an area without an soe
what
soe gives you is the ability to detain
and detain people for extended periods
of time without charge
right now that by itself is also
problematic
but as i said i don't want to commit on
behalf of the opposition
it's a matter being discussed and at two
o'clock you'll hear what our position is
and of course we'll give you more from
that uh parliamentary sitting in
primetime news
later on on to other news now daycares
are to officially reopen today
after being closed for over four months
but some operators
say they're struggling to reopen amidst
the financial hardship
while some operators worry they won't
reopen before september
at least one operator is set to reopen
on monday
new york city daycare kindergarten and
preparatory school in old harbeson
catherine
was all set to receive children on
monday owner shireen makala simmons
says while the announcement to reopen
was short notice
she was ready to restart her business
and so she began to prepare
personal protective equipment sanitizers
and all other necessities were purchased
to ensure the safety of children to
implement these strategies
is very very costly and synthesizer is
very expensive putting the markers
and to keep up with the gloves the ppe's
overall is very costly and
financially straining on me right now
the daycare which usually operates 24
hours
is now restricted with the nightly
curfew and with fewer hours than the
children
she says the cost to maintain the
business could push up the fees
well we're planning to increase a little
bit with the fees
but based on the fact that other parents
are impacting themselves
i won't go i'll go up a lot
and feed the apartment and also planning
to expand because we have to
be able to accommodate more kids and
able to go on with this institution
but with an institution that cares for
those between zero and
two years old how does she intend to
ensure they follow safety guidelines
well it's very hard to keep them apart
because they're babies and
we have to try our best our staff and
myself would have to try our best to
keep them
apart from each other we try um kids
under two years old cannot wear a mask
so we're gonna have to try our best to
keep them apart
and and to maintain the physical
distance and to keep them safe
on the other hand another operator is
finding it difficult to reopen
gloria williams the owner of kidsville
in spanish towns and catherine
says due to the cost of reopening it
might take her a little longer
we need some time we need some time
because we have to get stuff
the furniture for the the children
the spacing normally we do
all of this normally for reopening of
school
but this is like a technical for us due
to the financial burden
both are appealing to the government to
provide some assistance
yes we like the government to give us
some assistance to re-open because it's
very costly
we cannot accommodate the amount of kids
that we used to to
to top off the over the overall bill so
please
mr prime minister can you do something
to help the private institution
really need your help at this time hello
mr mackenzie
and all the other stakeholders
well we are early childhood
practitioners and we are
willing to work we're willing to follow
all the protocols
but we need help
the administration of the university of
the west indismona has agreed to make
changes to the document which will
indemnify it
if nursing students contract covid19
during clinical rotations
the university believes the changes
should alleviate the students concerns
ua registrar dr donovan stanberry was a
guest on raider jamaica's beyond the
headlines with dion jackson miller
here's shamella pullen with that report
the nursing students have been raising
concerns about the two-page document
given to them by the university of the
west indies
the students say they have been asked to
sign the document which would remove
liability from the institution
should the nurses contract covet 19.
your registrar dr donovan stanberry says
the university also had concerns about
the document
so it worked with its legal team and
other stakeholders to produce a second
document which they believe is
reasonable
we ourselves had some concerns so
we work our nursing school along with
our dean and our legal officer
work with the uhwa legal team to
produce another document more mild
milder and um unreasonable we think
does it does it still purport to exclude
negligence
that that's why anything that would have
been changed so you could see the new
document that would not have been there
dr stanberry argues that the students
have requested
additional time to sign the document he
says
the university has granted their request
they have come back and said we need
more time we mentor them together we say
fine if you want more time
you'll get more time we're not forcing
them because
the truth is that anybody has a document
there that would want to have the
benefit of a lawyer so we have
considered that
they have some more time we have given
them more time how much more time
um it's up to them in the meantime the
president of the ue guild of students
says
the council will use the additional time
to seek legal advice
the students again they they don't want
to sign and many students don't have the
resources so
it's good to say that we're giving
students time to sign and to go through
it
but the students don't have the
resources some students will have the
resources to
independently seek legal support uh to
go through the huevos so that's what
we're doing as well as the guild council
shamila polan tvg news a defense this
afternoon from the member of parliament
of santander eastern fayetteville
williams
about the low returns on the high level
of investment especially in social
programmes in augustan centennial
the communities to benefit from social
programs among other initiatives
during the ongoing zone of special
operations zozo more in the support from
dwayne anderson
in addition to a guaranteed security
presence the august town community in
saint andrew will benefit from social
programs
during the period of the zone of special
operations also
but augustana has had a lot of social
programs in the past
and yet here it is again a community
plunged back into violence
some of the complaints about the
failures of social programs in august
town
have come from within the very cabinet
that member of parliament fable williams
is a part of but miss williams believes
the initiatives have not been given a
fair chance
they get interrupted there has not been
a a sustained period of time
where you can really make those measures
take hold
and work and for people to begin to see
results
and to claim it and and really fight for
it to stay that way it just gets
interrupted every time and i can tell
you as a fact having been
in the community for the last four go
maybe you know
five six years that's what happens we
put something in place
and then pretty soon uh the gunshots at
night
somebody shot dead killed and people
become afraid
she warned that even with the zozo the
healing won't be achieved overnight
because the problems run deep august
stone has a primary school
right in the middle of the community
there have been gunmen
who've run through the schoolyard firing
at each other can you imagine the trauma
that those children would have had
elderly people at nights when they hear
the gunshots they have to
you know scatter trying to get under
their beds because they don't know what
direction is coming through
it's torture and so to have the spirit
of peace
and to allow people to just kind of you
know get to that place again where they
can engage
it is going to be wonderful this also is
expected to coincide
with a return to classes at the
university of the west indies yuemona
auguston is an area which provides
rented accommodation to students
the mp said the frequent flare-up in
crime and violence
has sent lots of students running from
the area but she is hopeful
the presence of the zosa will encourage
more students to return
every single household in augustan
should have
a student or two in their homes
providing services for students it's a
significant economic benefit
that august zone has not been able to
hold on to for a long period of time
because
of the violence that interrupts it and
when gunshots start
students are not staying in that
community
along with august stone denim town and
greenwich town in kingston
as well as moon salemans and james are
the other communities to benefit from
zozos
dwayne anderson tvj news
and we now take a break on the midday
news but please stay with us we'll be
right back with more local stories
welcome back continuing the news now
member of parliament for treylon in
northern victor wright has chided the
prime minister saying he is only playing
politics
with talks about an mp in possession of
government lands
under questionable circumstances mr
wright confirmed that he's the only
opposition mp occupying government lands
at the moment
but insists that he came into possession
of the property
through legitimate means and did not
capture it as suggested he said the land
deal was part of the redundancy
settlement with employees
of froome sugar factory where he worked
as the operations manager
before it was divested the pan caribbean
sugar company in 2013
the sdj wrote to us there are some
monies that they owed us as far
employees
and they gave us the option of putting
those funds they acknowledge that the
government was unable to pay
and that we can choose the option of
putting the sum that the government or
so the property that we acquired i chose
that option i was given my 50 percent
and today
the sdj orleans is clearly reported in
receipt of those funds
for me which is more than adequate to
cover any outstanding balance since
2014.
mr wright also said the deal includes an
option to acquire the property and he
will see through
he also said suggestions that he's in
arrears in lease payments or utilities
are wide off the mark and said the prime
minister was misinformed about how he
came to be in possession of the property
the prime minister was trying to play
using his office to play politics and if
he wanted the truth
he could have gotten the truth i think
he's just trying to
create a small screen for the
revelations that we made
about um the transactions at holland
which i think is
embarrassing to his government and
embarrassing to us as a country
and he's just trying to get back well
probably at me
but this is just not going to cut it for
him
in the meantime president of the jamaica
agricultural society jas
lenworth fulton is calling for a new
land distribution system
speaking this morning on tvj's small
jamaica program mr fulton said
over the years governments have failed
to reform the system
according to the js president
politicians continue to use land
ownership and access
as a political football board government
every time you comes up to an election
this whole
plethora of land is given away
um thai club being issued and nobody
goes into the title's office
to amend the tackle zach whatever
legislation there is to make it
something that you could do every day
easier
and and therefore it become a political
um
gift to get vote and therefore it it
would suit any politician
to cut up this estate into one acre
plant because every acre you cut is a
vote
now mr fulton wants the government and
opposition to sit down together and
revisit the current system
i think if they come together and say
the best use of agricultural land
is to give it that peppercorn to serious
farmers
and and and with a condition that the
farmers develop the land along the
lines of government policy so we would
like to see a system
a new system mr johnson is calling
for the whole seal firing of people but
if you do
that a thousand times and this system is
still there you're going to continue
fire and fire and fire and you need to
change the system
residents of denham town in west
kingston have had to find creative ways
to survive the water shortage gripping
the island but after months
of struggle they have had enough and
they wanted the authorities to act
more the support from doing anderson
it's been a tough few months for some
residents of denham town in kingston
they say the area has not had a
consistent supply of water for several
months
we really actually need the water
we can't wash we can cook we need the
water
soon as possible during our visit to the
community
we witnessed residents in survival mode
several children ran to this pipe
to fill their containers by contrast an
old lady hobbled along with a bucket of
water
another person used a wheelchair to push
a bucket of water
these men used a bicycle to transport a
washing machine
the washing machine was brought to close
to the most reliable water source in the
community
so that the owner could wash some
clothes some of the people in all them
care managed for care of watermark for
you understand so we need some water
to help what we sell and then jump here
five hundred dollars full wanna have the
right up on the old stop
appear
for residents the situation gets
trickier because not far away in the
neighboring tivoli gardens
a recent cluster of coveted 19 cases was
discovered
authorities say it has since been
contained but for residents
it is a reminder of the risks they face
hence they feel it is critical
they have water to help survive the
pandemic don't travel coming would you
say
be water read jeffrey and you have a
flat rate on a one boy or so
you are flatter yet there will be a
water bill what's so long when i say
anderson tvj news news overseas now
after a marathon summit lasting more
than four days
eu leaders have agreed on a new plan to
hopefully pull europe out of a deep
recession
brought on by the coronavirus pandemic
the 27 nations agreed upon
an unprecedented 1.83 trillion euro
overall budget
it includes 750 billion euros in grants
and loans
to counter the economic impact of
kovit19 in addition it includes funding
for the union's
seven-year budget european council
president charles michelle
announced the agreement on twitter with
a single word
deal french president emmanuel macron
hailed it as a historic
day for europe and the belgian prime
minister called it
a tremendous investment in europe's
future
timeout for sports jason holder's
18-month reign atop the icc test
all-rounders rankings
has been ended by england's ben stokes
following his match-winning performance
in the second attest against the
caribbean team
stokes moves ahead of holder following
scores of 176
and unbeaten 78 in addition to taking
three wickets
in the match which saw him earn man of
the match honors
his average of 497 rating points
is the highest of any test all-rounder
since south africa great
jakes khalis racked up 517 in april
2008.
holder in the meantime fell to number
two in the all-rounders rankings
the windest captain also fell one place
to number three in the bowling rankings
being led by australian pat cummings new
zealand's
neil wagner is at number two although
although remaining top ranked win
display in the batting
rankings holder fell to 42nd in the
world
stokes jumped to a career best number
three behind
india's virat kholi and australia's
steve smith
and that's the middle news i'm vashen
brown join us at 7 for primetime news
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