PAJ, MAJ reject JLP's 'attempt to politicise' Warmington matter

The Women in Media group, which is now fully supported by the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and the Media Association Jamaica Limited (MAJ), said yesterday it noted JLP General Secretary Aundré Franklin's claim the party would review the circumstances and consider what action it would against Warmington.

"Any comfort that our associations could have hoped to acknowledge from the position of the JLP on the Warmington issue has been entirely eroded by the offensive attempt being made in the released statement to politicise the issue by calling on our grouping to be sidetracked into the fray of the already nationally hurtful displays by several participants in the commission of enquiry now taking place at the Jamaica Conference Centre," the statement said.

The MAJ and PAJ said they wished to repeat the position they made clear to JLP Chairman Mike Henry, Andrew Holness and Daryl Vaz at Jamaica House on Monday.

"We stated that 'it is the specific conduct of Mr Warmington last week that was offensive and which must signal the low from which we must return," the statement read.

"We made it quite clear that our focus is on the persistent, unacceptable conduct, and will not be dragged by anyone into any partisan one-upmanship and distraction, while the country is embarrassed by those who refuse to set a better standard and who actively enable poor conduct to flourish by doing little or nothing to curtail or condemn it."