PANA­MA CITY—Ja­maica’s Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs and For­eign Trade, Kam­i­na John­son Smith, con­tin­ues to rec­om­mend her coun­try’s Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSOs) as a key part of a crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy, es­pe­cial­ly af­ter sim­i­lar leg­is­la­tion failed to pass in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Sen­ate.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar must fire the Gov­ern­ment sen­a­tor who al­leged­ly re­ceived “bribe” so­lic­i­ta­tions from two un­named in­de­pen­dent sen­a­tors, since the Gov­ern­ment sen­a­tor’s fail­ure to alert the Sen­ate of the is­sue is tan­ta­mount to a crim­i­nal act, says Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy leader San­jiv Bood­hu.

The lawyer rep­re­sent­ing the fam­i­ly of po­lice shoot­ing vic­tim Joshua Sama­roo says they be­lieve Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro should step aside as the probe in­to the mat­ter is car­ried out. They say this is be­cause they do not be­lieve he will be neu­tral giv­en his ear­ly com­ments on the in­ci­dent in de­fence of the of­fi­cers in­volved.

The griev­ing fa­ther of 31-year-old Joshua Sama­roo, who was killed in a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in St Au­gus­tine last week, is re­ject­ing Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der’s sug­ges­tion that laws may be need­ed to lim­it the post­ing of po­lice videos on so­cial me­dia.