Reggae Artiste Vybz Kartel was Release from Jail
Dancehall artiste Adijah Palmer, popularly called Vybz Kartel, who turned himself in to the police on June 29 after he, too, was asked to do so, will also be released.
Kartel's release would allow him to perform at the Reggae Sumfest show next week and several other events.
But his attorney, Valerie Neita Robertson, is reporting that despite the signed order for the release of her client, up to late last evening, the St Catherine divisional command had given no indication that he would be released.
"If the members of the police force are so disrespectful of the orders of the minister of national security under whose authority the state of emergency falls, then we can understand the kind of country that we have now," she told The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre.
Questioned whether there was any legal recourse. Neita Roberston responded: "That will come at another time. and I am sure you will hear about it."
But Superintendent Anthony Powell, the commanding officer for St Catherine South, said Palmer was still being detained because he was yet to see an order for the release of th
e artiste.
'LIVITY' (Dudus Coke brother)
remains custody
In the meantime,
our sources say Sandra Coke's brother, Leighton 'Livity' Coke, who also
turned himself into the police last month in the company of Reverend
Miller, will not be released; neither will any of the other detainees
regarded as area leaders.
These include
Michaelous 'Zeekie' Phipps of Matthews Lane; Spanish Town resident Tesha
Miller; and Justin O'Gilvie, a close associate of Christopher Coke's.
They will remain
behind bars under the Emergency Powers Act.
Over the past few
weeks, the Emergency Powers Review Tribunal has been hearing the
objections of people detained under the state of emergency.
Nancy Anderson, a
member of the tribunal told, The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre yesterday
that the body has made recommendations to the national security
minister on all the cases heard. However, she would not say how many of
the recommendations were for the release of detainees.
Sandra Coke
Police sources are reporting that Sandra 'Sandie' Coke, sister of
alleged crime lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke, is being released from
police detention under strict conditions.
Among the reported conditions is that she must not go to Tivoli
Gardens in west Kingston, the former power base of Christopher Coke, who
remains in a Manhattan Federal prison awaiting trial on drugs and
gunrunning charges since his June 24 extradition. It is also reported
that she will be closely monitored by the police.
Sandie is one of at least 20 persons for whom National Security
Minister Senator Dwight Nelson has reportedly signed orders to be
released from detention. She has been in custody since June 4 when she
turned herself into law-enforcement authorities, days after the police labelled her as a person
of major interest and asked her to do so.
source:gleaner
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