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ONE of the world’s leading bioethics publications, Developing World Bioethics Journal, says Jamaicans are making it difficult for men who have sex with men (MSM) to be monogamous. The publication also suggested that Health Minister Rudyard Spencer is unhappy with the fact that his government “continues to support legislation that contributes significantly to the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among MSM”. Following are excerpts from the recently published article:
“It is tempting to feel sorry for Jamaica’s Health Minister, the Hon Rudyard Spencer. There he is, trying his best to do his job, and, among other urgent health matters, reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in his nation.
  Health Minister Rudyard Spencer
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Unfortunately, on his own account, this is proving to be next to impossible unless Jamaicans change their cultural attitudes to — you guessed it — sex. The Jamaican Ministry of Health’s website quotes him with these eminently sensible concerns about specific attitudes:
“These include a widely held belief that sex with a virgin can cure HIV/AIDS, the high level of sexual relations between older men and young girls and a persistently hostile anti-gay environment which all contribute to the stigmatisation and discrimination of infected and affected persons. A strong religious culture also inhibits open discussion on matters of sexuality… We too need to begin the process of unlearning those beliefs that endanger the health lives of others and rethinking the tendency to be obscene and degrading in rejecting values that conflict with our own…”
Public health experts are very familiar with the long-standing conflict between a utilitarian approach to harm minimisation and harm reduction and a cultural context that prizes firmness in the ‘fight against drugs’ over demonstrably positive health outcomes for individual drug users. It seems as if this same culture war is being played out in the Caribbean where centuries old religious teachings on sex take precedent over the insights of 20th and 21st century sex research.
“A bit of pertinent background on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica: a 2008 study commissioned by the Ministry of Health concluded that about 31.8 per cent of men who have sex with other men (MSM) are HIV infected in the island state. There is a strong correlation between men being HIV infected and them belonging to lower socio-economic groups, and them having been victims of anti-gay violence. The number of AIDS deaths per year is decreasing because the country has begun the rollout of anti-retroviral medicines.
“Jamaica reports the second-highest HIV-prevalence rate among MSM in the world, right after another notorious violator of the human rights of gay people, Kenya.
Homosexual men in Jamaica rarely ever live in monogamous relationships because of the security risks involved in living with a member of the same sex over longer periods in the same household. This is partly a result of colonial legislation prohibiting same sexual activities among men… The flowery prose under the heading ‘Unnatural Offences’ is sufficiently antiquated:
“Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal, shall be liable to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for a term not exceeding 10 years… Whosoever shall attempt to commit the said abominable crime, or shall be guilty of any assault with intent to commit the same, or of any indecent assault upon any male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding seven years, with or without hard labour.
“Up to 10 years at hard labour for a mature-age man who has voluntary sex with another consenting adult male is a fairly draconian penalty for a self-regarding act.
One justification for this law is hidden under that well-known Christian natural law moniker of ‘unnatural’. There is no such a thing as unnatural conduct. If something is physically possible it is very much within the laws of nature, and therefore by necessity it is natural. The phraseology of the ‘unnatural’ explains or justifies nothing. However, normatively nothing follows from this trivial insight.
“Many natural things are not desirable, natural conduct can be unethical, even criminal. Furthermore, as is well known among legal philosophers, even if such behaviour were ‘unnatural’, and even if we declared it unethical, nothing would follow with regard to the question of whether or not it should be illegal. The Jamaican law is not making a case for why same sex sexual conduct between consenting male adults is problematic, and why it is legislated against.
“Declaring homosexual conduct unnatural is arguably unintelligible and it begs the question of why the law exists to begin with. For good measure ‘abominable’ has been added to this ‘crime’. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary enlightens us that the 14th century originated adjective ‘abominable’ means that something is variously disagreeable or unpleasant or worthy of causing disgust or hatred. All of these are terrible foundations on which to build sound moral judgments. Finding something disagreeable or unpleasant is insufficient to make it illegal…
“No doubt, plenty of Jamaicans hate gay people, but how does that provide a justification in terms of outlawing same sex sexual conduct among consenting adults? One does not have to be an old-fashioned liberal in the tradition of John Stuart Mill to realise that the criminal law has no right to interfere with important self-regarding actions of consenting adults. Surely, by any stretch of imagination, our sexuality determines, to a significant extent, who we are.
“Jamaica today finds itself in a difficult situation. Sectarian religious mores have been enshrined in law by its former colonial master, and have since been duly maintained as the gospel by generations of Jamaican politicians. The US-based human rights organisation Human Rights Watch published a report a few years ago highlighting the pervasive nature of oftentimes violent homophobia in Jamaica. The price MSM are paying in Jamaica for this situation is very significant indeed, as can be demonstrated by the extraordinarily high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among this group of Jamaicans.
“Unsurprisingly, research has shown that gay Jamaicans are reluctant to present with health problems that could disclose their sexual orientation to health care providers out of fear of reprisals by health care professionals and others…
“…Many Jamaican MSM patients’ reluctance to consult health care professionals is indicative of the climate in the country. It cannot surprise then that the country’s health minister laments the harmful impact of existing legislation on reasonable public health objectives. In his government’s report on HIV/AIDS to the United Nations General Assembly (2010) he (Spencer) explicitly acknowledges the problems this legislation is causing:
The political framework towards HIV has not changed. With outdated laws that present obstacles for adolescents, SW (sex workers), MSM and prison inmates, prevention and treatment efforts to these populations are not able to be fully maximised.
“The existing political framework has also been implicated in contributing to the stigma and discrimination faced by MSM. Several efforts have been made in this area, however, through the review of laws that stand as obstacles to prevention, but to date no major achievements are noted in this aspect of political support. Enlightened politicians such as Jamaica’s Health Minister Spencer and his staff find themselves in an unenviable situation. They are representing or working for a government that continues to support legislation that contributes significantly to the high prevalence of HIV/AIDS among MSM.
“Unlike in South Africa where church leaders have come together to support efforts aimed at reducing the incidence of HIV/AIDS, in Jamaica, church leaders are busy trying to preserve the homophobic climate and legislative framework that helped bring about some of the public health problems the country faces today. It will be interesting to see how the situation will evolve in Jamaica…”
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OGNR Exclusive: A family member of the slain St. Mary family says Corporal Llewellyn committed pre-meditated murder.
Below is a statement issued exclusively to OGNR.
MURDER, SUICIDE and THE TRUTH
(By Marcia Garrell)
Detective Corporal Wayne Llewllyn would have liked everyone to believe that he was a victim in this horrific war that he raged on a helpless family in early morning of Thursday, April 7, 2011. He weaved a steadfast plot of deception on his Facebook page, posting statements like ‘Heart Closed Until Further Notice’, changing his ‘married’ status to ‘complicated relationship’, then to ‘no longer complicated’, etc. He needed to have everyone believe that he was a troubled husband, who was soooooo in love with his wife that not having her by his side was unbearable to his heart. Llewellyn skillfully engaged his (possibly innocent) audience in his plot while working up the nerve to carry out his massacre. The Three Hills Massacre was not the act of a passionate and desperate husband; but the final drama of a manipulative, insincere, murderous philanderer!
I have chosen to present these facts to the press and to the public for a number of reasons. The four murdered victims are my immediate family members. My Mother, Step-father, Brother and Niece, as well as my Sister whose life is hanging on by the Grace of God – deserve to at least have the truth told on their behalf.
After nearly 15 years of marriage my sister could no longer take the mental and emotional abuse she suffered on a regular basis from Llewellyn. She also grew tired of the embarrassment of his behavior and weary of the Baby-Mama-Drama. Llewellyn has fathered several children outside of his marriage; all of whom were conceived AFTER he vowed to commit to one wife. His womanizing was so blatant that one co-worker, several years ago told my sister that if he was her brother, he would beat the S*** out of Llewellyn for doing that to her. Another co-worker once asked Llewellyn why was he ‘such a dog when he had a wife who was physically attractive, intelligent and such a Lady?’ Not only was Llewellyn a dog toward his wife, but as his late step-daughter matured into adolescence, he demonstrated a kind of possessiveness and control which caused my sister great concern. He would search her personal belongings and question her every move, more aggressively than a normal concerned parent would. During one of his searches, upon finding a report she had begun to write, about an egg she had to care for as if it were a baby (a school project) – he flew into a fit of rage, went to the child’s school and promptly blasted her out to the teacher, calling her a whore and accusing her of having sex. He removed her from school, took her home and questioned her relentlessly about who she was having sex with. When she insisted she was not sexually active, he beat her, went to her mother’s work place, and carried on so disgracefully, that my sister was too embarrassed to continue working there. She quit her job. He didn’t stop there. Still not convinced, he took my niece to the doctor where the doctor finally confirmed that she was still a virgin! During their last argument in the marital home, Llewellyn burned their wedding pictures in the presence of his wife, and threatened to do the same to her. My sister left him because she had had enough! When I saw her just over a month ago, she told me, verbatim “Sis, I’m tired of fighting with this man. There’s no point in spending the rest of my life miserable.”
The fact that Llewellyn ‘appeared distracted yesterday’ was most definitely not because of stress resulting from domestic issues. It was not simply because his wife had moved out of the marital home. He did not just snap. This man has spent weeks, if not months planning his revenge. He painted a picture of an uneasy marriage so that if he was caught he would have a ‘good alibi’ of stress and heartache. When he responded to his friend on Facebook saying that ‘…..life has its options too….’ , he had already decided what his next move would be. I am not a psychologist, a policeman, nor a lawyer; but I am pretty sure this falls under the category of pre-meditated quadruple murder.
The information I have presented here did not come from my imagination. Llewellyn’s wife is my baby sister. We have shared a lot, encouraged each other a lot, and she shared with me a LOT of her pain. The facts I have stated earlier came from her mouth to my ears.
I want to make sure that all of Jamaica knows that Wayne Llewellyn is NOT a Victim! He is a murderer, and he made a conscious choice to take the life of others who were defenseless. He used a tool that was meant to protect, as a weapon of mass destruction. He misused the authority given to him to be of service to others, to serve himself. He seduced and abused, without regard or respect for his vows to God or to his wife. Like a greedy dog he over-indulged himself with all that was available, and like an ungrateful dog, he bit and killed the very hands that nourished and nurtured him. He told his friend that ‘….life has its options too…’. My sister’s and my family’s option was tolive a life of peace. Wayne Llewellyn (opted); he chose to murder an innocent family, then he chose to end his own life, because he chose to not be man enough to stand up to the consequences of his actions.
I sincerely hope that the police force in not intending to honor this malicious MURDERER with the recognition of a respectable Police Officer at his funeral. It would be an insult to our family and to Jamaicans throughout the world (since our siblings reside internationally). It would even more greatly, be a permanent disgrace to the police force in Jamaica.
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Good morning met. I’m replying about the post u had on yesterday about sasha lee grant. I’m happy that u actually posted that cause I have also nearly fall victim to her as last august I was planning my wedding and she told me she could get a dress for me and she acted like she had all the dresses in stock which in fact she had no such thing all she wanted was the money from me she even recently sent me an email about a show she is keeping in may called wishes(with fantasia Borneo) were she was still try to collect 25000 us form me telling me that I could get 25% interest. Met please repost back her story as she have always been like that and the world needs to know she can’t be trusted.
http://jamaicangroupiemet.com/2011/04/diplomatik-pik-pakkit.html— Reference post
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