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    Attorney renews call for end to fingerprinting of ganja

    Attorney renews call for end to fingerprinting of ganja convicts
    Unjust!

    Thursday, August 14, 2014 2 Comments

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    Alando Terrelonge, G2K legal advisor (at right) speaks during a press conference called by G2K. At left: Floyd O’Brian Green takes notes of points raised by the G2K member. (PHOTO: LIONEL ROOKWOOD)

    LEGAL advisor to Jamaica Labour Party affiliate Generation 2000 (G2K), Alando Terrelonge, has reiterated the call for an end to the fingerprinting of people who are convicted on ganja charges.

    The attorney made the call Tuesday after two men, including an 18-year-old, were each fined $10,000 for smoking ganja and ordered fingerprinted. Additionally, several other men were fined $100 for possession of ganja plus an administrative cost

    of $5,000.

    http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Unjust-_17343921
    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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    No way!
    Mom of Mario Deane vows to ensure that no other parent suffers similar pain

    BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter MONTEGO BAY, St James

    Thursday, August 14, 2014 1 comment

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    FRAZER… son died while in police custody

    Mercia Frazer, the mother of 31-year-old Mario Deane, says her fight to ensure that no other mother suffers similar grief has just begun.

    Deane, a resident of Rosemount, St James, died at the Cornwall Regional Hospital on Wednesday, August 6, three days after he was battered while in custody at the Barnett Street Police Station, after he was arrested for a small quantity of ganja.

    "No, I could not sit back and see another child lost like that. Too long this has been happening and it hurts me when I see mothers crying and then the police fabricating stories," Frazer told the Observer West yesterday.

    http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/weste...-way-_17348898
    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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      Mario Deane: without the shedding of blood, no redemption of sin?
      Thursday, August 14, 2014 1 comment

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      Mario Deane

      AS one of the leading proponents of decriminalisation of ganja in this space, we are encouraged by the Government's very sensible decision to end arrests for possession of small amounts of the weed.

      Of course, we will continue to lament the fact that these far-reaching decisions have to travel on the backs of extreme tragedy, almost all of which could have been avoided if our governments just had the will to do better by our people. It is to our shame that it took the death of Mario Deane to bring us to this path. Indeed, it is said that without the shedding of blood there is no redemption of sin.

      http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/edito...-sin-_17349053
      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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        One Man's Death And The Decriminalisation Of Ganja
        Published: Thursday | August 14, 2014 0 Comments

        Donia J. Fuller, Guest Columnist

        Undoubtedly, any reader who is unfamiliar with the news reports of a young man who was brutally beaten and later succumbed to his injuries upon looking at the heading of this article would struggle to make the connection. Alas, your thinking and that of mine, notwithstanding the fact that I am the author, are at one. Indeed, surprise and utter irritation does very little to describe my reaction to those who have taken the unjustified killing of a young member of society, who was arrested allegedly because of possession of a 'ganja spliff' as a platform to advocate for the decriminalisation of the drug. Those who have taken this stance have sadly missed the entire point, or rather several points. Allow me to elucidate upon what they are

        http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure3.html
        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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          The hypocrisy in all of this makes my belly turn , it might seem odd but the magistrate and mother, seem the only two genuine bearers of the truth, the magistrate is beyond rehabilitation, in that both believe every word the utter and will defend it, regardless of the political price.
          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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