COOPERS PEN: PNPLGBTQ+ POLITICS, SQUATTING & THE CULTURE OF LAWLESSNESS

COOPERS PEN: WHEN POLITICAL ENCOURAGEMENT COLLIDES WITH THE RULE OF LAW

There is a serious argument about political culture and crime here in Jamaica, and those of us who consider ourselves honest, ethical, and conscientious would argue that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has, for decades, played a significant role in what we see as a culture of political violence and lawlessness in Jamaica. The party even has Isat Buchanan serving in Parliament in 2026, whom I describe as a twice-convicted cocaine dealer—meaning, in my view, that a person with criminal convictions is now serving as a lawmaker. Then, to make matters worse—and what I regard as an insult to law-abiding citizens—we have Member of Parliament Angela Brown-Burke, whom I understand to be the alleged daughter of the late Anthony Brown, one of Jamaica's Most Wanted men in the late 1970s-1993. This man was reportedly wanted in connection with the killing of Ted O'Glivie, a Jamaican government official. Now, I would argue that politicians such as Fitz Jackson are part of the reason Jamaica continues to struggle with so many criminals and such widespread disrespect for the law. When political leaders appear to weaken respect for Court orders, property rights, or lawful enforcement for political advantage, they can contribute to the culture of lawlessness that Jamaica has struggled with for decades.

Squatting, Political Intervention, Private Property and the Dangerous Message Jamaica Must Confront

There comes a point in the life of every Country when its citizens must decide whether laws are merely suggestions or whether the rule of law actually means something.

Coopers Pen, Trelawny, has brought Jamaica directly to that crossroads.

This controversy is bigger than bulldozers.

It is bigger than approximately 20 houses demolished in August 2026.

It is bigger than Fitz Jackson.

It is bigger than Horace Chang.

It is even bigger than the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization and JLP.

At its heart is a fundamental question:

When a Court determines that privately owned property is being unlawfully occupied, does the judgment of that Court remain supreme—or can political intervention keep alive the expectation that the judgment will somehow never be enforced?

That question should trouble every Jamaican who owns a house, owns land, hopes one day to own property, operates a business, believes in constitutional government, or expects the courts to mean what they say.

I have compassion for people who lose the structures they have called home.

Children should not be punished for decisions adults made before they were born. The adults should be held responsible for their actions. Families caught in a demolition cannot expect humane treatment when they do not respect the rule of law and the rights of property owners. Anyone alleging unlawful treatment by the police is lying because the police have prevented a bloodbath from these gunmen who were detained for their roles in criminality in and around the community and the parish of Trelawny.

As a people, we can have compassion for people who are willing to violate the laws of the country.

Poverty cannot automatically transfer ownership of somebody else's property. That's Michael Manley's philosophy of badmind, thievry, jealousy, and socialism, and he believed that they are entitled to other people's property.

Longevity cannot by itself erase a registered owner's legal rights.

Political representation cannot become a substitute for a land title.

And, above all else, no political party should create the impression that a Court judgment is negotiable depending on who can mobilize the loudest political pressure. That is what the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has been doing for decades.

That is where the history of Coopers Pen becomes particularly troubling.

THIS DID NOT BEGIN IN AUGUST 2026

If Jamaicans discuss Coopers Pen only from the moment the bulldozers arrived, we will misunderstand the entire controversy.

The legal dispute goes back nearly two decades. Two decades, let that register!

According to the Court of Appeal record, New Falmouth Resorts Limited was the registered proprietor of land at Orange Grove in Trelawny. In 2007, the company brought proceedings against 99 defendants seeking recovery of possession of land that the Court record described as having been unlawfully occupied by these people who believed that what's yours is mine! That's the level of evil and madness the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has imparted to these people, making wrong right and right is double right, and they are never wrong!.

That case was not decided overnight.

It went through litigation for years.

Arguments were heard.

Claims were examined.

And on April 6, 2010, Justice Donald McIntosh ruled.

The Court ordered recovery of possession in favor of New Falmouth Resorts and required each defendant to pay J$50,000 in damages. The historical record also shows that the occupiers had pursued claims involving adverse possession.

Pause there.

2010.

Not 2026.

The basic legal determination was made sixteen years before the demolition that has now caused national outrage by the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization and their core constituents who are criminals at heart and beneficiaries of criminality.

That timeline matters tremendously.

Because if politicians want Jamaicans in 2026 to focus exclusively on the pain produced when the judgment was eventually enforced, citizens are entitled to ask another question:

What happened during those sixteen years?

Why were people still constructing, investing, living, and apparently developing expectations on property after such a significant Court decision? The best answer is that they do not respect the laws of Jamaica, and they know that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization will be defending their criminal behavior because that is their core philosophy.

Who was telling them the truth? The landowners and the court were telling them the truth, and the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization was misleading the people for votes.

Who was telling them that eventually the law could catch up with them? The Judges!

And who may have been giving them hope that political intervention could prevent that day from arriving?

Those are not cruel questions.

They are necessary questions.

THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY WORDS IN THE Court RECORD

Perhaps the most important portion of this entire controversy is not something said by the JLP.

It is not something said by Jamaican Young Police.

It is not even something a newspaper columnist said.

It appears in the judicial record itself.

When an application to stay execution of the 2010 judgment came before Justice McIntosh in 2012, the formal order recorded the Court's view that the defendants "seem to have been misled by politicians into squatting on private property."

Read those words carefully.

The Court did not identify which politicians.

The Court did not say those unnamed politicians were necessarily PNP politicians.

It would therefore be irresponsible to rewrite the judgment and insert a political party where the judge did not.

But what the judicial record does establish is extraordinary enough:

The Court already identified political encouragement or political misinformation as part of the problem.

That should be a national scandal regardless of party. But the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization, and criminals have no shame!

Imagine what happens when people occupying private property begin believing that political influence can rescue them from the consequences of a lawsuit.

Imagine what happens when communities learn to trust a politician more than a title. Some Jamaicans love liars, propagandists, and the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is the right vessel for them.

Imagine what happens when political promises become more psychologically powerful than Court orders.

Eventually reality arrives.

And when it arrives, families who believed they were protected discover that the politician cannot outrank the Court.

Then the bulldozer arrives.

Then children cry.

Then furniture is in the roadway.

Then everybody becomes angry at the police and government for enforcing the laws of the land!

Then everybody blames whichever government happens to be in office when enforcement finally occurs.

But by that stage the tragedy may have been developing for years.

That is why political encouragement of informal occupation is not compassion. It can become cruelty postponed, and the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has used these squatters for votes and has fooled them all the time and time again, then blames the laws of the land.

THEN CAME 2012

This is where the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization role becomes impossible to ignore.

The Portia Simpson Miller-led PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization administration took office at the beginning of 2012. Dr Omar Davies was appointed Minister of Transport, Works and Housing.

By then, remember, the 2010 judgment already existed.

The private owner had already won the recovery-of-possession case.

Yet on February 29, 2012, the Minister declared the relevant lands to be improvement areas under the Housing Act. Applications were subsequently pursued for a stay of execution and injunctive relief, according to the Court of Appeal's detailed chronology.

On May 1, 2012, the Minister lodged a caveat against New Falmouth Resorts' title. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization was trying to steal the owner's land for the squatters; that is not a government for the rule; that is a criminal organization and not a political party which is in power.

A notice declaring the land an improvement area was published in the Jamaica Gazette on May 15, 2012, as part of an effort to facilitate compulsory acquisition. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization again shows that they do not respect the courts and the rule of law in Jamaica!

On May 18, 2012, the Minister brought another claim seeking declarations, including one asserting entitlement to acquire the land compulsorily.

Supporters of the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization have a response to this history.

They argue that the administration was not simply encouraging squatting. Their position is that the Government was attempting to steal, regularise a difficult community; acquire the relevant portion of the property; compensate the owner; subdivide the land; and create a pathway through which occupants could eventually pay for legitimate holdings.

That is essentially how current PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization spokesman Member of Parliament Lothan Cousins has defended the intervention.

That argument deserves to be stated fairly.

Governments do have responsibilities toward impoverished citizens, but not to steal other people's land and give it to them. It is wrong on all fronts!

Governments can legitimately acquire land for genuine public purposes, subject to constitutional and statutory safeguards and compensation.

Governments should develop housing. Not to encourage squatting and creating these criminal-infested communities.

Governments should regularise appropriate informal communities where lawful mechanisms permit it.

The problem is what happened when this particular intervention collided with what the courts had already determined.

THE Court WAS NOT IMPRESSED

Justice McIntosh refused the 2012 application for a stay.

His recorded reasoning was exceptionally strong.

The judge considered an indefinite delay inappropriate and referred to the dispute's history and the rights already established by judgment. His formal order described the application as an abuse of the Court's process and refused it.

The dispute continued.

Another proceeding eventually went before Justice Lennox Campbell. The Government's claim was dismissed in 2014. The government of the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is trying to do what no other government has ever done by trying to use the government to break the law and take away private citizens' land that they have owned legally.

The Minister appealed.

And in 2016, the Jamaican Court of Appeal delivered its decision in Minister of Housing v New Falmouth Resorts Ltd, [2016] JMCA Civ 20.

The appellate Court examined the Housing Act, the proposed acquisition, the earlier proceedings and the Government's actions.

Its conclusion is enormously important to today's debate.

The Court of Appeal found no basis for overturning the lower Court's overall treatment of the matter. It said the later claim was, in substance, similar to the earlier effort and appeared to have the effect of attempting to circumvent Justice McIntosh's orders. The Court concluded that the proceedings amounted to an abuse of the Court's process.

The appeal was dismissed.

That was 2016.

Another ten years passed before the 2026 demolition.

This is why the political discussion cannot honestly begin on demolition morning.

WHAT MESSAGE DID POLITICAL INTERVENTION SEND BY THE PNPLGBTQ+ CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION?

This is where my criticism becomes direct.

Even if one accepts that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization administration's intention was humanitarian, the practical political message created by intervention after intervention must be examined.

Put yourself in the position of an occupant.

A landowner takes you to Court.

The landowner wins.

You are ordered to leave.

Then the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization and governmental machinery becomes involved.

A minister declares the area an improvement area.

A caveat is lodged.

Government lawyers become involved.

Efforts are made to prevent enforcement. By the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization.

Compulsory acquisition is pursued.

Years pass.

What conclusion might an ordinary person draw?

Would that person conclude:

"The Court has ruled, so I need to prepare to leave?’’

Or might that person conclude:

"Don't worry. Government is dealing with it. Are we going to get the land eventually?’’

That distinction is the heart of the Coopers Pen tragedy.

A politician may believe he is giving people hope.

But false hope can become a political narcotic. That's what the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization did to these gullible residents by lying to them.

It feels good temporarily.

It delays pain.

It encourages dependence.

And eventually reality produces an even greater disaster.

If government cannot legally secure property for occupants, political leaders have a responsibility to tell those occupants clearly and repeatedly:

Do not build another room. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization failed to tell them the truth, because they are liars by nature!

Do not pour another foundation.

Do not borrow money to expand a structure on land you do not own.

Do not believe that an election promise can defeat a final judgment.

That is responsible leadership.

Anything less risks encouraging people to invest more deeply in a situation from which the law may eventually remove them.

SQUATTING CANNOT BECOME A POLITICAL HOUSING POLICY

Jamaica has an enormous housing challenge.

That fact is undeniable.

The Jamaica Gleaner's editorial on Coopers Pen noted estimates that a substantial portion of Jamaica's population lives in squatter or informal settlements and referred to a significant national housing deficit.

Those problems demand solutions.

They do not justify taking private property.

The answer to landlessness must be land policy, not political permission to occupy somebody else's property. the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization need to stop abusing the minds of these low IQs Jamaicans who are cultured, nurtured, and domesticated to be criminal minded people and they must ignored their conscience at all times.

The answer must be faster titling.

Affordable housing.

Serviced lots.

Transparent access to public lands where appropriate.

Mortgage reform.

Rental housing.

Community redevelopment.

Government acquisition undertaken lawfully for genuine public purposes.

Education about titles and boundaries. A majority of the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization supporters, voters and activists are the “FULLY DUNCE” Jamaicans!

And enforcement before informal occupation develops into a settlement containing hundreds of people.

What Jamaica must never accept is a political arrangement under which one group pays a mortgage, pays property taxes, hires lawyers, purchases land legally and obtains a registered title—while another group is encouraged to believe that prolonged occupation plus political pressure can eventually produce ownership.

That destroys the incentive to obey the law.

Why should a struggling young Jamaican save for ten years to purchase property if the political message is that occupying somebody else's land for long enough may produce a government intervention on your behalf?

Why should investors trust Jamaican property rights if a Court victory can be followed by years of political efforts to prevent them from receiving the benefit of their judgment? This means that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is a threat to the Jamaican justice system and the rule of law; based on what they have been doing in this case, it is one hundred percent criminality.

Why should Jamaicans respect Court orders if politicians behave as though a judgment is merely the beginning of another political negotiation? For decades, the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has committed some of the most egregious crimes, and they have never been prosecuted- none!

A society cannot function that way.

PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE NOT ONLY FOR RICH PEOPLE

One of the most dangerous narratives in debates like Coopers Pen is the suggestion that property rights are somehow an elite concern.

They are not.

Property rights protect poor people too.

The little woman with half an acre needs a title.

The farmer needs boundaries.

The returning resident who worked abroad for thirty years needs confidence that the land purchased with retirement savings belongs to him.

The widow needs protection from people attempting to take family property.

The young couple paying a mortgage needs certainty.

The small shopkeeper needs confidence in a lease.

Property rights are not an enemy of poor people.

Secure property rights are one mechanism through which poor people build wealth.

The moment Jamaica begins treating legal ownership as morally suspicious whenever the owner confronts unlawful occupation, ordinary Jamaicans should become concerned.

Today it might be a company with hundreds of acres.

Tomorrow it could be your grandmother's land.

The principle must remain the same.

COMPASSION DOES NOT REQUIRE SURRENDERING THE LAW

Fitz Jackson, the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization spokesman on national security, criticized National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang after the demolition.

Chang argued that the property owners had a Court order and that the police were duty-bound to support lawful enforcement. That’s why, as a man who is from the “Belly-Of-The-Beast,” where the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization imparted criminality to us, I strongly condemned their actions as deliberate and done with malice aforethought, and they wanted a bloodbath to make it a political football. These people are a danger to our democracy and to the rule of law.

Jackson responded that he was not arguing that the Court order should be disobeyed. The man is talking through two parts of his mouth becaus ehe lying and thinking that every Jamaicans are as stupid as the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization supporters, and voters, who are mostly criminals at heart. Instead, he argued that lawful enforcement should have been accompanied by greater humanity, planning and protection for vulnerable residents, especially children, women and older adults. This is the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization's tactics they have been using all the time: children, children, women, and elderly!

On that narrow point, there should not even need to be a partisan argument.

Of course enforcement should be done, and there is no humane way to do it, but to get off the people’s land forthwith.

Of course children should be protected.

Of course reasonable notice matters. But more than sixteen years is more than reasonable; they have no intention of vacating the people's land because the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization told them that they will eventually get the land and that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization would give it to them.

Of course elderly residents should receive assistance.

Of course the Government should respond to homelessness.

Of course, allegations of unlawful police conduct are a PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization talking point for their constituents that the police are the bad guys in Jamaica and that the people who have been told more than sixteen years ago to vacate are the victims; give me a break.

None of that changes ownership.

None of that reverses the judgment.

And none of that answers the historical question:

Why were people still in this position sixteen years after the 2010 judgment?

That is the question politicians should answer. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is a group of people who support, promote, and are sponsors of criminality in Jamaica for decades; that is their modus operandi!

The easiest political strategy is to arrive after enforcement and photograph the rubble.

The harder form of leadership is to arrive ten years earlier and tell supporters something they may not want to hear:

The land is not yours.

The Court has ruled.

We will help you find a lawful solution, but we cannot promise you somebody else's property. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization failed to tell the people the truth because they want the vote from them to continue their criminality by being the government.

That politician may lose votes.

But Jamaica will gain respect for the law.

MARK GOLDING'S ARGUMENT MUST ALSO BE EXAMINED FAIRLY

The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization President Mark Golding visited Coopers Pen after the demolition and called for an inquiry and policy changes governing the enforcement of private property rights against vulnerable communities. That has all the hallmarks of criminality at best, and he knows what he is doing, not siding with the landowners and the police.

Importantly, Golding acknowledged that private property rights must be respected. He argued that the State also has obligations toward vulnerable citizens and that Jamaica needs mechanisms to prevent similar humanitarian disasters. Now, a majority of Jamaicans are members of the slave class in Jamaica and what out grandparents and parents did, was to work their asses off and purchased land and not waiting on government or squat on other people's land because that is wrong and thieving.

Again, there is something inherently lawless about that proposition.

Jamaica absolutely should develop better procedures to evict people as soon as the court rules and stop playing footsie with them.

Courts, property owners, law enforcement, housing agencies, and welfare authorities should coordinate when large numbers of people face displacement.

But policy reform must never contain a hidden promise that occupying private property creates an entitlement to remain indefinitely.

Otherwise every future enforcement operation becomes politically impossible. And the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is responsible for everything that happened in this situation.

And once enforcement becomes politically impossible, property ownership becomes conditional upon political approval.

That would be disastrous.

AN ATTORNEY'S WARNING JAMAICA SHOULD HEAR

One of the most thoughtful interventions in this controversy came from Helene Coley-Nicholson, president of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, a known PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization member, and the wife of A.J. Nicholson, a man who looks like he is from a different era or time.

She called for emergency housing, relocation assistance and social support for those affected. Why did she and her husband invite some fo the squatters to live in her house?

But she simultaneously warned against partisan approaches that leave generations of Jamaicans trapped in informal settlements and dependent upon political actors. Stop encouraging criminality and thieving people's land!

She urged transparent, apolitical land policy and warned against the political practice of enabling informal housing developments.

Jamaica needs.

The inhabitants to respect the rule of law

They must be told the truth and not lies

That the court is supreme and that the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization is a set of criminal-minded people who have no respect for the rule of law.

Know that breaking the laws has consequences.

One Jamaica, where

This should not be difficult.

But partisan politics makes simple principles complicated.

THE POLITICAL INCENTIVE IS OBVIOUS

Why does squatting become politically dangerous? The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization have been the driver behind lawlessness in Jamaica for decades and this have followed our people to foreign shores and that is why Jamaicans are the number one convicted criminals as immigrants that any other nationality.

Because informal communities can become voting blocs. And the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization used it to their advantage by lying to these people for decades and then crying “inhumane treatment.”

Once hundreds or thousands of people settle on land, eviction becomes politically costly.

Every administration knows this. Except the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization does not respect the laws of Jamaica!

Every constituency representative knows it.

Every councilor knows it.

A politician who tells occupants the painful truth may lose support. That is why the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization always lies to their voters, and that doesn’t bother them as they are cultured, nurtured, and domesticated ot be liars.

A politician who promises regularisation, intervention, acquisition or protection can become extremely popular.

That creates a terrible incentive.

The politician benefits today.

The residents receive hope today.

The legal problem gets pushed into tomorrow.

Then another administration inherits the crisis.

This is exactly the political behavior Jamaica must reject, regardless of whether the politician wears orange or green.

Because the rule of law cannot have a party color.

I AM PARTICULARLY CRITICAL OF THE PNPLGBTQ+ CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION RECORD AT COOPERS PEN

Being fair does not mean pretending all actions in this particular history were identical.

The documentary timeline shows something specific.

A 2010 judgment established the landowner's right to recover possession.

Then, under the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization administration that came into office in 2012, the housing ministry became directly involved in efforts that included seeking a stay, declaring the property an improvement area, lodging a caveat and pursuing compulsory acquisition.

Those efforts ultimately failed in Court.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the Minister's appeal in 2016 and described the later proceedings as an attempt to circumvent the earlier orders.

Therefore, it is entirely legitimate to ask whether the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization governmental intervention reinforced among residents the expectation that political power might ultimately override the consequences of the 2010 judgment.

That is an inference from the chronology, not a claim that every PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization politician intentionally encouraged unlawful occupation.

The distinction matters.

But the question must be asked.

And the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization should answer it.

WHAT SHOULD THE PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization HAVE DONE?

Imagine a different history.

Suppose that after taking office in 2012, the administration had said:

"We recognize that these families face displacement. We will negotiate with the property owner if the owner is willing. We will seek alternative public land. We will assist qualified residents with housing programs. We will provide relocation assistance. But unless we obtain the property lawfully, the 2010 judgment stands, and nobody should continue building in expectation that government will erase it."

That would have been compassionate.

That would have been responsible.

That would have respected both citizens and the Court.

Instead, governmental litigation continued.

And years continued passing.

That is why this story is not simply about squatters.

It is about political signals. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization exploits them for votes.

THE WORST THING POLITICIANS CAN DO TO POOR PEOPLE IS LIE TO THEM

There is a form of politics that treats poor Jamaicans as adults.

It tells them the truth.

Then there is another form that keeps people dependent.

It tells them what politicians believe they want to hear.

"We will sort it out."

"Don't worry."

"Government soon buy the land."

"Nobody can move you."

"Vote for us and everything will work out." The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization, as usual, knows how to fool their supporters with lies and they have never been held to account for these lies.

I am not claiming those exact statements were made at Coopers Pen.

I am describing the political culture Jamaica must reject.

Because when political promises substitute for legal certainty, poor people frequently suffer the most.

A wealthy person can hire lawyers.

A wealthy person can relocate.

A wealthy person can absorb a financial loss.

A poor family that pours every dollar it owns into concrete and steel on land it does not legally own may lose everything and should lose everything because the land is not theirs.

Therefore, politicians who encourage unrealistic expectations are not protecting poor people.

They may be setting them up for catastrophe.

THE DEMOLITION WAS A HUMAN TRAGEDY

Nothing I have written should be interpreted as a celebration of people losing homes.

The Jamaica Observer reported devastating scenes following the August 11 demolition, with families displaced and belongings exposed after approximately 20 houses were torn down.

Government agencies subsequently provided tents and other assistance. Residents demanded relocation and longer-term support. If the government gives in to these squatters' wishes for relocation, it rewards lawlessness, and I am totally against that. No reward for bad behavior.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness described the situation as a humanitarian crisis while also saying that squatting and informal settlement should not be encouraged. I am in support with the Prime Minister because Jamaicans must be for the rule of law and the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization for once need to support the rule of law and not criminality as they have been doing as it is destroying lives.

That is exactly the distinction Jamaicans must preserve.

We can cry with displaced families while still saying:

You cannot take another person's land.

We can help children while saying:

A Court order must be respected.

We should not provide emergency shelter while saying:

Do not build on property you do not own.

The police have a lawful responsibility to support the execution of legitimate Court orders.

Those positions are not contradictory.

They are what a mature democracy should be able to hold simultaneously.

THE RULE OF LAW MUST BE SUPREME

Suppose Jamaicans begin accepting the argument that Court orders should not be enforced whenever enforcement creates hardship.

What happens next?

Every eviction creates hardship.

Every foreclosure creates hardship.

Every repossession creates hardship.

Every demolition of an illegal structure creates hardship.

Every enforcement action affects somebody.

Courts exist precisely because rights sometimes conflict.

One person says:

"I have lived here for thirty years."

Another says:

"I own the land."

One side says:

"My children have nowhere else to go."

The other says:

"I have a registered title."

A politician may prefer one side.

A crowd may prefer one side.

Social media may prefer one side.

But ultimately a lawful society needs institutions capable of determining legal rights.

Once that determination is final, it must mean something.

Otherwise, Jamaica does not have rule of law.

It has rule by pressure.

THIS IS BIGGER THAN COOPERS PEN

Today the issue is Trelawny.

Tomorrow it will be somewhere else.

Jamaica needs a national policy that makes four principles inseparable:

Do not encourage unlawful occupation.

Protect private property.

Create realistic pathways to lawful land ownership.

No political party should be allowed to choose only the principle that benefits it during a particular election cycle.

A JLP administration must respect these principles.

A PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization administration must respect them.

Independent politicians must respect them.

The courts must remain independent.

The police must enforce lawful orders professionally.

And citizens must understand that politicians cannot promise away somebody else's property.

MY MESSAGE TO THE RESIDENTS

To the people affected at Coopers Pen:

I do not celebrate your pain.

I do not celebrate children losing shelter.

I do not celebrate older adults seeing years of possessions scattered.

I do not believe poverty strips anyone of human dignity.

But dignity also requires honesty.

If political figures gave you the impression over the years that you could safely continue investing in property despite the Court's judgment, then Jamaicans deserve to know exactly what was said, by whom, and when.

Produce the letters.

Produce the agreements.

Produce the receipts.

Produce the government correspondence.

Produce the promises.

Produce the documents.

Let Jamaica see the complete record.

Because if residents were politically misled, the people who created that expectation should be held politically accountable. That is where the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization comes in this matter.

MY MESSAGE TO THE PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization

The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization has every right to advocate for vulnerable residents.

It has every right to criticize the manner of enforcement.

It has every right to call for housing reform.

But it must also confront its own historical involvement. Of supporting criminals and criminal behavior. These people in the PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization are NOT for the rule of law.

What did the 2012 administration tell the Coopers Pen residents?

What expectations were created by the declaration of an improvement area?

What expectations were created by the caveat?

What expectations were created by attempts to stay enforcement?

After the Government ultimately lost in Court, what was communicated to residents?

Were residents plainly told that the legal route had failed?

Were they warned not to continue constructing? Yes, and they ignored it, and that is why I have zero sympathy for them.

Were alternative lands seriously pursued?

Those are legitimate questions.

Answer them.

AND MY MESSAGE TO THE JLP

Do not become self-righteous.

Governments of both parties have presided over Jamaica's enormous informal-settlement problem.

If the present administration believes squatting is wrong, then it must create lawful alternatives.

Enforcement without housing policy guarantees another Coopers Pen.

Identify suitable public lands.

Expand serviced-lot programs.

Speed up titles.

Prevent new squatting before communities become entrenched.

Create relocation protocols.

Coordinate social services before major enforcement exercises.

And stop allowing illegal settlements to grow for decades before discovering that there is a problem.

Rule of law must be accompanied by competent government.

JAMAICA MUST CHOOSE

Coopers Pen gives Jamaica an opportunity.

We can turn the demolition into another five-day political argument.

The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization blames JLP.

The JLP blames PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization.

Politicians tour the rubble.

Television cameras leave.

Everybody moves on.

Then another informal settlement expands somewhere else.

Another politician makes promises.

Another landowner goes to Court.

Another judgment sits unenforced.

Another generation builds.

Another bulldozer eventually arrives.

And Jamaica repeats the cycle.

Or we can finally say:

Enough.

No more political encouragement of squatting.

No more pretending that occupying property is a housing policy.

No more telling poor Jamaicans what they want to hear instead of what they need to know.

No more treating private ownership as optional.

No more allowing Court judgments to remain unresolved for decades while political intervention creates additional expectations.

At the same time:

No abandoning displaced children.

No ignoring older adults.

No unnecessary force.

No inhumane enforcement.

No government escaping responsibility for developing affordable housing.

That is the balance Jamaica needs.

THE FINAL QUESTION

The question Coopers Pen leaves us with is painfully simple:

Who served these residents better? The JLP government who is telling them the truth: You cannot steal other people's land and ignored the court order to vacate the land because it is not yours.

The person who told them the uncomfortable truth: the land was privately owned, and the Court had ordered possession returned?

Or the person who gave them reason to believe that politics might somehow change the outcome?

Sixteen years after the 2010 judgment, Jamaica has seen the answer written in broken concrete.

That is why political encouragement of squatting must end.

Not because we hate poor people.

Not because we lack compassion.

Not because property owners are more human than occupants.

But because false political hope eventually sends the bill to the very people politicians claim to protect. The PNPLGBTQ+ Criminal Organization owns it.

A nation governed by law cannot permit politicians to transform illegal occupation into an unofficial pathway to ownership.

Help the landless.

House the homeless.

Protect the vulnerable.

Build affordable communities.

Use public lands intelligently.

Negotiate with private owners where they voluntarily agree.

Compulsorily acquire property only where the Constitution and law genuinely permit it.

But when the courts have spoken, respect the judgment.

Because when political power becomes more important than legal rights, everybody's rights become temporary.

Today it is New Falmouth Resorts.

Tomorrow it could be your land.

Your house.

Your farm.

Your business.

Your title.

Your inheritance.

And when that day comes, you will want the Court's judgment to mean something.

The rule of law must be supreme.

Compassion must remain.

Political accountability must follow.

And Jamaica must finally say:

NO MORE POLITICAL ENCOURAGEMENT OF SQUATTING.