IT IS OVER | JULIET HOLNESS GETS TOTALLY EXPOSED FOR THIS WATCH BEFORE THEY TAKE IT DOWN

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]All right. So, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what I'm walking into, but we're going to do this reaction. Yeah.

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[00:00:23]You see right here on the screen. What else do I need to say? I think that's it. I think that's it. Let's go. Let's get it.

[00:00:32]Let's get it. Nikisha Burch is that several Integrity Commission reports connect issue that arose in Parliament today is that several Integrity Commission reports connected to the staff at the Firearm Licensing Authority were tabled in the House of Representatives and rightly so. These reports relate to failures to file statutory declarations in accordance with the law. However, the far more significant reports concerning the operations, governance, and management of the FAA itself still have not been tabled.

[00:01:18]Edly being submitted to parliament from the auditor general since the end of March. This issue already sparked major controversy yesterday with opposition MPs walking out of parliament in protest over concerns about what appears to be very selective tableabling of reports in this house. What Jamaicans are now seeing is reports involving relatively junior public officers being tabled quickly while reports reportedly dealing with governance concerns, firearm licensing irregularities, poor administration, and other serious matters involving the ELA itself remain withheld from parliament. This is a critical national security agency responsible for firearm licensing in Jamaica and public confidence in that system matters. Public concerns surrounding the Fila did not emerge overnight for all of them. It don't matter if you did or whoever you is TG any of them the every all lies will be exposed. That's all. and and and and anyone who takes that the wrong way know why they take it the wrong way.

[00:02:32]The truth is the light.

[00:02:34]>> Under executive director Shane Darling, who is a former twotime Jamaica Labor Party candidate for political Wait, wait, wait. What? Wait, hold up.

[00:02:56]Did I read this here correctly?

[00:02:59]Wait, wait, wait. What?

[00:03:02]Shane Dali, a former twotime What, man?

[00:03:07]I'm sorry. I'm watching this from um from Instagram. I I need to replay that, bro. Ain't no way, bro. Ain't no way.

[00:03:17]>> Office. He has had long-standing complaints against him from firearm dealers, firearm rangers, and citizens about inconsistent licensing decisions, politically targeted reviews, and what some have described as witch hunts against lawful firearm holders. Mr. Darling was also at the center of the highly publicized bullet making machine controversy which caused major alarm.

[00:03:56]emotional damage.

[00:04:06]Something right my wisdom warriors something is not right. H tell about them arm across the country and internationally before the claims were heavily disputed and the equipment described as an ordinary machine shop device. Against this background, the continued withholding of these reports only deepens public concern.

[00:04:31]Transparency cannot be selective, especially in matters involving national security and public trust. This is your update from your information spokesperson Nikisha Burch. Another issue that arose in parliament today surprise come to play that again without any interruption this time I make it so key want to know listen carefully listen carefully Jamaica listen carefully >> is that several integrity commission reports connected to the staff of the firearm licensing authority were tabled in the House of Representatives and rightly so. These reports relate to failures to file statutory declarations in accordance with the law. However, the far more significant reports concerning the operations, governance, and management of the FAA itself still have not been tabled despite reportedly being submitted to parliament from the auditor general since the end of March. This issue already sparked major controversy yesterday with opposition MPs walking out of parliament in protest over concerns about what appears to be very selective tableabling of reports in this house. What Jamaicans are now seeing is reports involving relatively junior public officers being tabled quickly while reports reportedly dealing with governance concerns, firearm unlicensing irregularities, poor administration, and other serious matters involving the Fila itself remain withheld from parliament. This is a critical national security agency responsible for firearm licensing in Jamaica and public confidence in that system matters. Public concerns surrounding the FAA did not emerge overnight. under executive director Shane Darling, who is a former twotime Jamaica Labor Party candidate for political office. He has had longstanding complaints against him from firearm dealers, firearm rangers, and citizens about inconsistent licensing decisions.

[00:07:12]politically targeted reviews and what some have described as witch hunts against lawful firearm holders. Mr. Darling was also at the center of the highly publicized bullet making machine controversy which caused major alarm across the country and internationally before the claims were heavily disputed and the equipment described as an ordinary machine shop device. Against this background, the continued withholding of these reports only deepens public concern. Transparency cannot be selective, especially in matters involving national security and public trust. This is your update from your information spokesperson Nikisha Burch.

[00:08:04]issue that arose.

[00:08:11]So Peter going to do that interview on CBM that I didn't get to check out and we're going to cuz it's the same topic.

[00:08:18]It's about this report. This FLA report is you know given the context that Misha Burch has put out. I saw some clips from this that I want to add to this reaction. Listen to this.

[00:08:33]You may only have heard about a walk out in parliament. Start us off first with what that means. What exactly the issue with the FLA report as it currently stands?

[00:08:44]>> Well, just to uh segue from your introduction, this is not a pro.

[00:08:52]>> Did she introduce him? Oh my god.

[00:08:57]Emotional damage.

[00:09:00]>> Let's play that back. Let's play that back to >> embarrassing. He needs some milk.

[00:09:09]>> For viewers who may only have heard about a walk out in Parliament, start us off first with what that means. What exactly the issue with the FLA report as it currently stands.

[00:09:21]>> So, she didn't introduce it. I didn't even realize.

[00:09:27]She then said, you know, we have the opposition spokesperson first and such and such, longtime MP Peter Martin of six years in the parish of in in constituency of such and no introduction. She just went right into it. I hope you're not the same person that interviewed Mar because you guys are very buddy buddy. You guys are tight. OH MY GOD. OH YES, PAUL. And I'm not saying anything romantic is going on between y'all. I just feel like you lean more towards the Jamaica Labor Party, which is cool, but don't let it show so much. Come on, man. You on mainstream media, man. Come on.

[00:10:10]This you didn't introduce Peter Bont.

[00:10:14]Wow. And you don't even look happy to see him. No smile on YOUR FACE.

[00:10:20]WELL, just to uh segue from your introduction, this is not a procedural technicality.

[00:10:29]This is a test whether Jamaica's anti-corruption architecture still works or whether it is being quietly neutralized by this JLP administration.

[00:10:50]The report, as we've heard in the media, concerns allegations of corruption, impropriy, and irregularities involving the grant variation and revocation of firearms.

[00:11:06]>> I just want to make it very clear here, lead story, since this has not been published, has not seen this, and can neither confirm nor deny the content of this parliamentary document. Something that is at issue here. But this is what you have heard Peter Bunting about the content of this report by the integrity commission >> in a media story and it has not been denied by by anyone who has access to the report. The there is clearly an overwhelming public interest in seeing this report.

[00:11:41]The FAA is not an ordinary entity. It is a public authority exercising coercive state power um and determining who may lawfully possess firearms. We know that in the past I think it's about five or 6 years there's been other reports that have spoken to these um the corruption impropriet and irregularities there. The FLA has not um provided an annual report to cabinet and through cabinet to parliament for over seven years. This you cannot have such an important institution being what what can go. So what are you saying over seven years that ain't no way bro? Ain't no way. You got to be kidding me. Ain't no way.

[00:12:41]Um, and determining who may lawfully possess firearms. We know that in the past, I think it's about five or six years, there's been other reports that have spoken to these um the corruption, impropriet irregularities there. The FLA has not um provided an annual report to cabinet and through cabinet to parliament for over 7 years. This you cannot have such an important institution being run in such a shabby way and the you know the very possession of the report um would be unlawful. So it is interesting how someone who should not be in possession of the of the report would be able to bring a court action based on the contents of the report. So the whole thing creates a very dangerous precedent.

[00:13:44]What we >> So so the FLA so what Peter Bund is saying the FLA is not supposed to have the report but what I understand and I could be wrong I learned this on um Mr. I will show based off the market me situation.

[00:14:08]I learned that pretty much the the way how the the um the entity does it is that the integrity commission is that they actually communicate to the persons that you know they're investigating. So they know what they're investigating. So that I think that's how FNA would know what is being investigated and what the report would say in some capacity. So now they are they have said no before the before the t of the report we don't want this thing to come out so let's go to the courts that's what I'm understanding that's pretty much what I am understanding from all of this you know so hey I could be wrong but let's continue would if this is allowed to stand then any public body under investigation could rush to court and use that filing as a cloak of of secrecy.

[00:15:08]>> Let me just clarify something here, Peter Bunting, because you have spoken about a court action coming out of this farm licensing authority saying that they would have now um attempted to get the court involved on this. Parliament as a result has said that this matter is subjudicated that it the court proceedings are active. But a previous Jamaican court ruling established that the tableabling of such a report is a parliamentary internal affair immune from court jurisdiction. Has a court actually ordered parliament not to table this report? Yes or no? Because that seems to be um for many people. not and and a court will not because if you look in the Ian Hills heels versus the office of the contractor general ruling section 60, it said the speaker and president would have been acting intravirus that is within their powers by tableabling report submitted to it by the OCG. their actions would be categorized as parliament conducting their internal affairs and as such their actions would be immune immune from the jurisdiction of the court. So there's no likelihood of there being any success in in such a court action if somehow the speaker could end up acting as a gatekeeper to protect the administration from embarrassment rather than as a a you know impartial president. So let me just clarify for those at home. This precedent that you have raised is important. It's Ian Hales and the office of the contractor general matter because what we now have as the integrity commission was formally um the office of the contractor general. There was some rearranging to have us now have the integrity commission. So that is why that particular case matters. But you've imputed motive there onto the speaker of the house. Something that she said though in 2023 in a ruling Juliet Holes as speaker she said um and let me quote it here when she was talking about integrity commission reports submitted under the section 54 subsection 4 of the integrity commission act. She said that they would be tabled as soon as possible after receipt by the parliament having regard the serious nature of the matters contained therein. Gordon House is now saying though in a release that the act sets no specific tableabling timeline which is what seems to be the controversy here why we have 51 days without this report being tabled. Can both positions be true at the same time?

[00:17:52]>> It can't. And in fact that if you were to go to the final sentence of that paragraph of the speaker's ruling in 2023 and it's not a previous speaker, it's a current speaker. The final sentence said, "No effort will be made to delay such reports. Yet we have waited 51 days for this report to be tabled. And were it not perhaps for the media story, parliamentarians like myself would not even be aware that such a a report was at parliament. And there are other reports. And now you know you cannot help but ask in whose interest is being served by delaying the tableabling of this these reports as sharp as ever ladies and gentlemen.

[00:18:49]My goodness.

[00:18:50]Who benefits from this? That's the question.

[00:18:55]Who benefits from the support not being tamed?

[00:18:59]Can you imagine when we actually know and this and this report is stable it's going to be a berm mighty god sir hunting and um you know I'm very proud of the People's National Party.

[00:19:31]The way they have been on point.

[00:19:34]Whether you missed it or you're paying attention, they've been on point with pretty brown eyes.

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