Earl and Marcia Edwards.
The family of a Jamaican man who died on the job from COVID-19 could sue the United States operators of Gebbers Farm in the wake of a US$2-million fine for “egregious” breaches of coronavirus safety regulations.
Earl Edwards, a 63-year-old who hailed from Crooked River in Clarendon, collapsed at the Washington state farm and died from COVID-19 on July 31. A Mexican farm worker also succumbed to the coronavirus weeks earlier.
Edwards’ widow, Marcia, confirmed to
The Gleaner that she was aware of the developments, but declined to comment on whether she would be taking court action.
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Jamaica’s national security establishment is now grappling with how to deal with four serving policemen who have been sanctioned by a “hypocritical” lame-duck Trump administration for alleged “gross violations in human rights”.
“I’m searching and trying to understand why now; why almost two decades later,” a senior official in the Holness administration said of the US imposing the entry block and other sanctions on the six men and their immediate families over the 2003 incident in Kraal, Clarendon, that left four civilians dead.
“Visas are cancelled all the time, but we’ve hardly ever seen something quite like this where the law is invoked. It must mean something. What? Should current officers in the JCF (Jamaica Constabulary Force) and the army be worried if they are linked to any other controversial shootings?”