ACM flays Jamaican MP over media impasse

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The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) has criticised Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) parliamentarian Everald Warmington over his current impasse with the local media.

“The Association of Caribbean Media Workers, in unqualified solidarity with our colleagues in Jamaica, wishes to roundly condemn the conduct of parliamentarian Everald Warmington, following a legitimate query by CVM Television anchor Kerlyn Brown during a live television interview on March 8, 2011,” ACM President Wesley Gibbings said.

“We understand that a subsequent question on the issue put to him by CVM’s Manager of News and Current Affairs, Garfield Burford, was also met with highly inappropriate, coarse and vulgar language,” Gibbings, a Trinidadian, said in the ACM statement.

Warmington dismissed Brown by telling her to “go to hell” when she asked him about knowingly remaining in Parliament while he was a citizen of the United States. Burford alleged that Warmington used nasty language when he called to ask him about his conduct with Brown. Gibbings said Warmington should know that, as a representative of the people, he was entitled to answer questions put to him in the public interest, and was certainly obliged to treat these questions “with the civility and decency that would recommend him to remain in public service, even those (there would be some) questions he does not like and does not feel obliged to answer”.(Jamaica Observer)

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