Identifying the constitutional problem

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Identifying the constitutional problem

March 30, 2014, 08:50 PM

Jamaica, there is no right of third-party standing, and this has prevented groups from taking legal action for breaches of fundamental rights.

"We might have something in the Constitution that says we have a right to a clean environment, but unless it is operationalised, how do we compel the Government to do this?" asked Lee.

"They (political representatives) behave with impunity, as if they are not accountable to the people who have elected them, or even to the people who didn't elect them. What gets results in Jamaica is block road and burn tyres," added Lee.

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THERE IS ONLY ONE ONANDI LOWE!

"Good things come out of the garrisons" after his daughter won the 100m Gold For Jamaica.

"It therefore is useless and pointless, unless it is for share malice and victimisation to arrest and charge a 92-year-old man for such a simple offence. There is nothing morally wrong with this man smoking a spliff; the only thing wrong is that it is still on the law books," said Chevannes.
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