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No Cameras Allowed In Today’s Tivoli Enquiry Proceedings As Lawyers Present Top Secret Evidence

Attorneys representing the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) are to make submissions today as the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry resumes.

However, the hearing will not be open to the public.

The lawyers for the JDF are seeking to prevent the disclosure of sensitive information.

They say revealing the information may be harmful and against public interest and public safety.

Following the submissions, the Commissioners will rule if the information is to be revealed.

Meanwhile, the public will be invited to take part in the enquiry on Monday.

At that time, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding and former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellingston are to go back on the witness stand where they will be cross-examined by attorney-at-law Jacqueline Samuels-Brown, who is representing Reverend Al Miller.

Miller was arrested and charged after he was found in the company of then fugitive Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

The enquiry is looking at the police-military operation in West Kingston in May 2010 which left more than 70 people dead.

The operation was aimed at capturing Coke.

Jamaica Observer

Former Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington Testifies In Dudus Coke Manhunt Enquiry

The enquiry is looking into the police/military operation in the West Kingston area of Jamaica in May 2010 to apprehend then Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

More than 70 people, including a Jamaica Defence Force soldier, died as a result of the operation.

Via Jamaica Observer:

FORMER Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington will today retake the witness stand when the Tivoli Commission of Enquiry resumes at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.

The enquiry, which started last year December, took a break in February.

The enquiry had previously taken a seven-week break for the Christmas/New Year season before resuming in early February.

Other high-profile witnesses to testify before the commission are former Prime Minister Bruce Golding; Former Security Minister Dwight Nelson; and Dorothy Lightbourne, the former justice minister and attorney general in the Bruce Golding Administration.

A number of West Kingston residents have testified at the enquiry.

Tivoli Gardens Resident Testifies He Witnessed And Suffered Police Brutality During Police Raids

57039tivoli — Maurice Tomlinson claims he witnessed and endured brutality at the hands of soldiers on May 24, 2010 during the Tivoli Gardens raids.

A Tivoli Gardens resident has testified that he witnessed a member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) collar another man and used him to smash several glass windows on a house during the 2010 police-military operations in the west Kingston community.

This was among several acts of brutally Maurice Tomlinson claims he witnessed and endured at the hands of soldiers on May 24, 2010 as he gave evidence before the West Kingston Commission of Enquiry at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.

Tomlinson, the seventh witness to take the stand, was also the first to report seeing what he described as “a rocket-propelled” bomb land in Tivoli Gardens.

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However, Linton Gordon, one of the attorneys for the JDF, interrupted Tomlinson’s testimony to indicate that some of the allegations “are taking us by surprise.”

As a result, Gordon questioned if the witness’ account was contained in a statement he had not received.
However, senior counsel for the Commission, Garth McBean, said that was not the case.

Tomlinson testified that after he saw the bomb, he became terrified and took his wife and three children to his mother’s house nearby.

Jamaica Gleaner