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Censure motion against Phillips for MOU signing
Mair wants former security minister disciplined for signing MOU without PM's knowledge
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Senior staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
GOVERNMENT Member of Parliament for St Catherine North East Gregory Mair, has tabled a censure motion against Opposition Member of Parliament for East Central St Andrew Peter Phillips.
Mair wants Phillip censured for his action as minister of national security, when he signed two Memoranda of Understanding with the United States and United Kingdom, without the knowledge of then Prime Minister PJ Patterson.
The MOUs, signed in 2004 without the knowledge of Patterson and the Cabinet, give local and foreign law enforcement agencies the right to intercept all landline and cellphone conversations on Cable and Wireless (now LIME) and Digicel switches in an effort to gather intelligence in the fight against drug trafficking and organised crime under a programme named Operation ANTHEM.
Phillips, in his testimony to the Dudus/Manatt commission of enquiry, rejected that the MOUs violated the rights of Jamaican citizens.
The US had waved the secret MOUs before the Golding Government when it refused to sign the extradition warrant for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Jamaica had contended that wiretap evidence on which the request was based was
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1G3E5ujDI
Mair wants former security minister disciplined for signing MOU without PM's knowledge
BY ALICIA DUNKLEY Senior staff reporter dunkleya@jamaicaobserver.com
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
GOVERNMENT Member of Parliament for St Catherine North East Gregory Mair, has tabled a censure motion against Opposition Member of Parliament for East Central St Andrew Peter Phillips.
Mair wants Phillip censured for his action as minister of national security, when he signed two Memoranda of Understanding with the United States and United Kingdom, without the knowledge of then Prime Minister PJ Patterson.
The MOUs, signed in 2004 without the knowledge of Patterson and the Cabinet, give local and foreign law enforcement agencies the right to intercept all landline and cellphone conversations on Cable and Wireless (now LIME) and Digicel switches in an effort to gather intelligence in the fight against drug trafficking and organised crime under a programme named Operation ANTHEM.
Phillips, in his testimony to the Dudus/Manatt commission of enquiry, rejected that the MOUs violated the rights of Jamaican citizens.
The US had waved the secret MOUs before the Golding Government when it refused to sign the extradition warrant for Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Jamaica had contended that wiretap evidence on which the request was based was
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1G3E5ujDI
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