Homosexual Label causes a fight

Happy New Year again folks and hope all is well with you my readers, thanks so much for your support over the year and best wishes for you and yours. The annual round up is coming soon as well just tidying up some activities that needed winding up.

In the meantime as issues continue to affect some of our brethren across the island here is a carry over case in the courts from 2013........

Laughter was the response from members of the public when a case in the closing session of the Half Way Tree court continued just before the holiday season. A young man named Jermaine Gray Chambers and an older man Binsford Chambers was mentioned where it was heard that the men got into an altercation with the younger Chambers after he was accused of being a homosexual in Kingston some time earlier in the year. 

The older of the two Chambers is in his late fifties is accused of chopping Gray by his knee with a machete while he gray is accused of breaking Chambers jaw. According to Binsford Chambers he was walking home from work with his gardening tools in his bag when he heard Gray saying to his apparent girlfriend “See de battyboi deh” he said he went over to ask who he was referring to but Gray responded by reigning several blows to Chambers breaking his jaw in the process.

“Him just come up to me and gi mi several lick in mi jawbone and said time mi jaw start hurt mi” said a dramatic Chambers, “X amount a thump to mi face is about a dozen,” he said sparking laughter in the courtroom, “Mi seh de boi coulda kill mi, if a stab him did stab mi him wouda gi mi a hundred.” 

Gray did not deny punching Chambers said that he was defending himself from the elder man as he threatened to chop off his head with a machete and he denied calling him a homosexual, “Discrimination is never my thing” he also said. Gray explained that his girlfriend knew Chambers and that she was telling him Gray about something else pertaining to Chambers and her landlord when she saw him she exclaimed “see him deh” to which he responded in an enraged fashion. “Him start one bag a ray ray and say him a go chop off me head with him machete and start to swing it, so me neva gi him any chance fi tek it out,” Gray said.

Shortly after he said the accused man’s sister came along and broke up the fight, sitting judge Pusey after listening to both persons involved said to Chambers “I think you’re guilty”

“Guilty of what your honour? A him bruk mi jawbone,” Chambers replied the next trial date is February 8, 2014 and their bail was extended.