Security Guard Allegedly Sexually Assaults 9 Yr. Old | Pressure for House Speaker to Apologize

good afternoon and welcome to the midday news here's what we have in the bulletin security guard accused of sexually assaulting 9-year-old girl in police custody agriculture sector sees 10% growth in first quarter and later in sports Usain Bolt named Ambassador for IC T20 World Cup thank you for joining us this am sham pulen here are the details a security guard attached to King alarm is now in police custody custody the security guard is accused of attempting to sexually assaulting a 99-year-old girl on the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies the details from kalicia Williams the incident reportedly happened on Monday afternoon about 2:15 at the University of the West indes moona campus speaking with TVJ News Wednesday morning director of security at the UA Norman Haywood says the 9-year-old child was going to a relative on campus when she encountered the guard at the access point near Garden Boulevard there is an allegation that he held on to a a child and attempted to have sexual intercourse with her she made an alarm and nearby person rushed to her assistant and rescued her and he ran uh a man on launch for him which included the police the king alarm quick response team and the campus police he was later caught by the king alarm team and handed over to the monop Poli in a statement managing director of King alarm JN AAR says the company is aware of the disturbing allegation involving one of its officers assigned to the uima campus Mr Azar says upon learning of the allegation the officer in question was immediately taken to the police for questioning he says King alarm will continue to cooperate fully with the police in their investigation in the meantime Mr Haywood says the University of the West indes Mona says the incident has reinforced the need for the University to conduct frequent assessment of the security Personnel from from a security perspective we have to be constantly rewing our initiative uh we have to be constantly reviewing our level of supervision and determining the closeness at which persons ought to be supervised and we have to do a a kind of re reorientation of all the other gods working on the campus so that they can understand that there is no no no no way that certain Behavior will be a tolerated Kalisha Williams TVJ News the agriculture sector is reporting a 10% growth for the first quarter of 2024 agriculture Minister Floyd Green made the announcement at today's post cabinet press briefing Mr Green says it's why the government has to assist farmers during this drought period according to Mr Green between January and March this year 9 million gallons of water was struck to 900 Farmers across the island additionally we have also been working with Farmers to be better able to withstand this current drought by being by making them more resilient and as such we've worked with about 45 Farmers to develop catchment eras and provide them with pond liners and that work has helped about a thousand farmers in enhancing their water management practices and their agricultural sustainability and there is more sustainability additionally we've targeted about six areas highly productive zones that we're building retention catchment areas um we have air marked over $8 million to that drive we have completed one already in hinston we're doing some work in luyen in St Mary to ensure that when the rain does come that our farmers are better able to capture that water and to use that water for their agricultural enterprise there is mounting pressure for a Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet holes to issue a public apology and withdraw a letter of reprimand to former house Speaker Val Curtis political commentator lloy bis Smith says the situation could have been handled differently he was speaking on TVJ SM Jamaica Wednesday on Tuesday there were high praises for the Decades of service former house Clark Valerie Curtis had given to the public sector among the persons Ling Miss Curtis's efforts was house Speaker Juliet holus of note there was nothing in her statements to say she apologized to miss Curtis for issuing a letter of reprimand over her handling of reports from the auditor General's Department political commentator Lloyd B Smith says an apology is critical at this time from Mrs honess as even in her profuse um statement yesterday this speaker skillfully avoided outrightly apologizing um instead she used a lot of what I would call um euphemistic language and you know um to sweeten the pot so to speak he believes Mrs hess's action was not only unfair but unlawful let's not forget now that due process was not followed um you know um in common law we all know that a person is not guilty until proven so and and and and there there are procedures in the Civil Service in the public service that must be followed when you are going to reprimand or punish an employee and all of that didn't seem to have been done you know so it begs the question still according to Mr Smith Mrs holess could have handled the situation differently the basic procedure is that you're calling the person into your office you lock the door no holes barred and you state whatever your concerns are she would have responded if you were not sufficiently satisfied you you would then set about to have a procedure whereby she would have to face some kind of tribunal which would then determine whether or not there there were any grounds for her to be sufficiently so reprimanded that was not done Amo Harriet TVJ News there's a call for a car countries to take a regional approach approach to addressing food insecurity in the region agriculture minister in the Cayman Island soan ibank says his country is seeking to reposition the Region's agriculture sector when strategies for Ministries to work with young people to implement smart technology to enhance agricultural productivity he was speaking at a recent forage meeting in business as usual we must reduce our food import Bill and increase domestic uction he also L lorded caricom's progress while there is still much work to be done significant progress has already been made through our CARICOM we have witnessed increasing allocations to the agriculture sector and introd introductions of new crops improve cross borders Investments and collaborations the develop and implementations of new agriculture trade policies and guidelines and identifications agreements on possible Insurance products to benefit farmers in the region residents in Comfort District in clar un staged the protest demanding for their rout to be fixed but as a mo Harriet reports there's a debate among the authorities on who's responsible for carrying out Rehabilitation work there are only two taxes that operate in the community of comfort District in Clarendon the others say driving on the roadway is too expensive once upon a time we usually take 15 minutes for reach work now take one and a half hour can't work them bad them deep it's been this way for years but TVJ News understands that the state of the road worsened after the recent direction of a bridge in the community that's in addition to laborers frequently transporting Building Material along the roadway during the construction of the mapen to williamsfield leg of Highway 2000 the residents say the current shape of the road does not allow for emergency transportation a particular young man lose his life in couple months ago because this road is bad we live back a god back God business with we at all if somebody sick around you can't reach upad because by time reach out if people in community and if we go there they're calling on their political representatives to intervene but when contacted councelor for the Yorktown division Anthony Davis said the National Road operating and constructing Company Limited enrock is responsible for fixing the damaged roads it's not in my jurisdiction I'm the councelor for the area but it's not uh a local government uh responsibility I'm supporting demand at enrock to fix the road because they use the road you understand they didn't use helicopter to carry carry any equipment or any material to to build that bridge to to construct the highway so they must fix the road but managing director of nrock Steven Edwards says otherwise the damage that the contractor has done to Comfort Road the contractor has fixed that the area that the counselor and Member of Parliament are talking about was not damaged by the contract in fact that damage predates the the construction of the highway and he knows that uh so the contractor will not be uh fixing that section of the roadway it is casting blame at each other it's left to be seen when or if the road will be fixed Amoy Harriet TVJ News it's time for a break stay with us more stories when we return welcome back to the midday news General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour party Dr heartstrong has sought to explain why changes were made in the part party's executive Dr Chang says the changes are critical going into the next general election the details in this report at a Jamaica Labour party meeting on Sunday General Secretary Dr Harris Chang announced a number of changes in the party's executive going into the next general election which is constitutionally due in 2025 the central executive voted in favor of senators Charles Sinclair and deloy Williams being elected as the new Deputy General secretaries and darl vas being appointed as the party's new Treasurer Dr Chang says the changes are necessary at this time in order to strengthen the party's Machinery we a different stage in government and we think we require some strategic changes the party does this periodically annually most time we when we have an annual meeting in January we had a local govern election in February so we decided to await that and review it later the the party machiner is the political part is a political party and has to make changes it leadership and direction from time to time Robert Morgan also resigned as a public relations chairman there have been questions about whether he was asked to do so but according to Dr Chang he was not forced from the post he says there is no immediate replacement for that post media land AP has changed dramatically in the last few years the different areas of specialization social media p a critical role but the traditional media contines an important very important role you know much of soci media real Fe come from the traditional media the print media still stands out as a way of certain permanence that the social media doesn't have an in fact the social media draws from that area yeah so we have to ensure that our communication is able to reach all media spaces ninski Robinson TVJ News it's now time for the business minute total assets held by credit unions in Jamaica reached $80.3 billion in 2023 the bank of Jamaica in its annual report says this represents a 99.2% or 15.2 billion expansion in 2022 Assets in the sector grew by 7.3% or $10.9 billion the Central Bank says the asset growth was linked to loans which increased by 12.1% or 13.2 billion reaching 121.9 billion in 2022 it was 8.1 billion the boj says with credit unions experiencing a rebound in loan demand in the context of an upti in loan loan promotions loans Remain the dominant asset category accounting for 67.6% of total assets at the end of 2023 the report says growth in loans last year was influenced by increased salaries for some public sector employees which resulted in an improvement in their disposable income further field the US Senate has passed legislation that could lead to a potential ban of the popular video sharing app Tik Tok the the bill was part of a wide- ranging foreign aid package the Senate approved on Tuesday night the legislation heads to President Biden's desk he's expected to sign it Tik Tok is owned by chinese company bite dance lawmakers have long railed against the company saying it gives the Chinese government potential access to the personal data of millions of Americans Tik Tok has threatened to go to court if the president signs the bill and that's it for the business minute I'm Kisha Williams [Music] and here's a preview of what's coming up in this evening's Health Report in this evening's Health Report we look at Thia 200 nervous operation and and more next that's the health report in Prime Time news at 7 and now for today's Healthy Living tip wear polarized sunglasses wear a wide brimmed hat and use eye drops time now for the top Regional and international stories in the region hades's Coalition of criminal gangs has intensified their violent attacks in a move to deter the newly appointed transitional presidential Council CPT from taking office the nine member CPT has recently been appointed but the members have so far not been able to be sworn in this because of continued assaults on the presidential Palace by heavily armed gangs that want to take over the facility however police special combat units have been resisting on the international scene Russian Deputy defense minister timir Ivanov has been arrested and charged with corruption the minister is suspected of accepting a bribe of 1 million Rubles as part of an organized group while performing contracted work for the defense Ministry if convicted he faces 15 years in prison and Justice officials in Spain have been left red faed after accidentally releasing a billionaire Dutch drug lord from prison in a bureaucratic mixup Karim buyak the alleged leader of the MRA Mafia was arrested in Marbella in January after a 5-year money laundering investigation but he was accidentally released a made confusion over a Dodge extradition request before Vanishing this month Spanish authorities remain confident the alleged cartel Chief will be found and those were the top Regional and international stories I'm Amoy Harriet we head to a quick break when we come back we'll have your mid sport support with oan Masters

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Length: 18min 42sec (1122 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 24 2024