Awaiting action on Warmington

THE EDITOR, Sir:

As my good friend and Gleaner letter writer Ken Jones knows, or ought to know, his arguments on why media workers protest Mr Everald Warmington's disgusting conduct are plain wrong-headed. It is disingenuous to represent complaints against Mr Warmington as being about his "go to hell" outburst on CVM Television, as inappropriate and unacceptable as was this conduct.

Members of the media and numerous citizens are well aware of the reasons why media workers protest Mr Warmington's conduct and demand that action be taken against him. As a result, Mr Jones' misrepresentation of the facts ill-serves Mr Warmington, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Mr Jones himself.

The demand remains that the prime minister and the JLP take action against Mr Warmington for two reasons:

1. Mr Warmington's pattern of abusive verbal assaults against members of the media, the JLP party leaders and various citizens.

2. Mr Warmington crossed the Rubicon when he reportedly hurled vile, unprintable, sexual vulgarisms at CVM anchor Kerlyn Brown through CVM News and Garfield Burford, Ms Brown's direct supervisor. This, while Mr Burford engaged with Mr Warmington about the people's business.

Accountability necessary

Action must be taken against Mr Warmington's pattern of abusive assaults. Moreover, those who enable Mr Warmington's abusive conduct ought to be held accountable for doing so.

Despite assurances that the JLP would investigate and advise on action the party would take on the concerns about Mr Warmington's conduct, to date, the JLP has failed to respond. Two whole months have passed since the issues were first raised with Prime Minister Bruce Golding and members of the JLP's executive. We remain optimistic that information will be forthcoming soon on the outcome of the JLP's investigation and action.

Moreover, by Mr Warmington's and Prime Minister Golding's admission, Mr Warmington knew he was not qualified to be a member of the House of Representatives.

Therefore, Parliament and the attorney general ought to show their respect for the Constitution by taking action to recover such sums that have been paid to Mr Warmington for the entire time he has unlawfully sat in the House, and enforce the application of fines that he should pay for each day he unlawfully sat in the House as required by Article 46 of the Constitution.

Similar action ought to be taken against each person on both sides of the House who unlawfully sat in or currently sits in the House.

I am, etc.,

KAY M. OSBORNE