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~ Two new MP’s support the coalition~

PHILIPSBURG — In a joint statement issued by the leadership of the National Alliance (NA) and United People’s (UP) Party it has been confirmed, that it was a success; a proactive measure to ensure stability within the governing coalition. This was mentioned many weeks ago when they began exploring options to broaden the coalition.

“After many discussions regarding support for the sitting government, we hereby inform the public that the government, coalition, and by extension its governing accord in its present form, despite the announcements of independence by sitting coalition members, has the support of two extra members of Parliament, namely MPs A. Arrindell and C. Brownbill.” said Member of Parliament and Leader of the UP Party, Mr. Rolando Brison.

The decision has been confirmed to His Excellency, Governor Eugene Holiday, who is aware of the government’s majority support in Parliament which allows it to continue to govern.

“The public can rest assured that we will continue to work in the best interest of St. Maarten and her people. We ask that you not be deterred by those who seek to create further confusion in the minds of the population for political gain.” Said Prime Minister and Minister of General Affairs Silveria Jacobs, in her capacity as the leader of the NA Party.

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With a rise in the number of murders and robberies in Manchester, the police are urging residents of the parish to utilise social media and form alliances to alert their fellow citizens, as well as law enforcers, of criminal activities within their communities.

The grim developments on the crime front in one of Jamaica’s rapidly developing southern parishes and possible solutions to the issue were highlighted by sub-officer in charge of the police’s Community Safety and Security Branch in Manchester, Inspector Berthlyn Lloyd.

In addressing Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Manchester Municipal Corporation, Lloyd said there have been increases in most of the seven major crime categories in the parish.

Specifically, there were 37 murders recorded across the parish since the start of the year, along with 81 robberies.

“One of the challenges we’re seeing – some of these murders are committed by persons coming from outside of the parish and the crimes are not only in one area. It is spread right across the parish,” Lloyd disclosed.

“So the community groups will have to help us, because gone are the days when we could say it (the crime) is confined to one area. It is right across the parish,” she added.

The law enforcer said the police are noticing that the crimes are not being perpetrated by one individual, but rather, “small groups of persons”.

Continuing, she said: “Some of the criminals now have become so sophisticated that some of the break-ins that we are having, they are using welding torch to get into the buildings.”

Against that background, Lloyd is reiterating her call for persons to get involved in community groups and install security cameras, “because this can help us.

“If we are unable to catch them (the criminals) on spot, at least this will help us in the investigations,” she pointed out.

Another recommendation made by the inspector is for citizens to create WhatsApp groups.

“We also encourage persons to have WhatsApp groups with the community members, so that persons can be informed of happenings in the area(s), and this they can do to help to alert persons of what is happening in the area,” she said.

Additionally, she pointed out that the use of the WhatsApp groups can alert the police to happenings “in a timely manner because, as you know, communities are large.

“… And we are few in numbers and most of our stations are equipped with one service vehicle,” Lloyd stated.

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Dimanche 11 Septembre 2022 – 19h24

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Prime Minister Andrew Holness says despite his Administration’s struggle to implement the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) Bill, due to wide-scale criticisms, it will be passed into law.

Holness hit back at critics of the Bill, arguing that it will bring order and form to the profession, as well as make teachers more marketable.

“It is before the Parliament now, we going through the process, it is being debated, but it is our intention to have that Bill passed,” he declared.

The vow to implement the JTC Bill was made by the prime minister at the Education and Youth Ministry’s face-to-face Town Hall meeting dubbed ‘Education: Time for Action!’, at the Jamaica College auditorium in St Andrew on Friday.

Under the JTC Bill, which is aimed at regulating the teaching profession, it is being recommended that persons found guilty of teaching without the requisite licence should be fined some $500,000.

The definition of a teacher, as defined in the Bill, is also of much contention, as the educator must have completed a bachelor’s degree in education or its equivalent or, alternatively, the individual must have a first degree with a teaching diploma.

But speaking last month at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) annual conference, its newly installed President, La Sonja Harrison, vowed to oppose the passage of the JTC Bill into law, describing it as seeking to oppress JTA members.

On Friday, Holness rubbished such suggestions from critics of the Bill.

“We developed the (JTC) Bill. It went through a long process of consultation, we reassured all the stakeholders that the Bill was not intended to criminalise anyone,” he indicated.

“It wasn’t intended to take away the power of the teacher in the school or the classroom. It wasn’t intended to overburden the teacher with regulations.

“It was about empowering the teacher in an orderly, structured way to give order and form to the profession of teaching, in the same way that there is order and form to the profession of medicine, the profession of nursing, the profession of accounting. That was the intent!” Holness charged.

Though admitting that there is still debate about the JTC Bill, despite the Government’s assurances, he remained resolute in his stance of getting it implemented, noting that any opinion poll will show that he is the prime minister who has the capacity to get things done.

Meanwhile, the prime minister insisted that the JTC Bill “will only improve the profession”, making teachers more marketable.

“Once there is a system that can be standardised, our teachers become more marketable.

“But once there is a system that is also standardised, it would mean that standards are set, and once you set standards, you start to enter upon the conversation about quality,” stated Holness

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