The Jamaica Constabulary Force in Maggoty and the Question Accompong Can No Longer Ignore
There is a question hanging over the hills of St. Elizabeth.
It is not a complicated question. It does not require legal training or political analysis to understand.
It is simply this:
In Maggoty — whose side are the police on?
Because the evidence, compiled across multiple incidents, points in one direction. And that direction is not toward the people of Accompong. It is not toward the courts of Jamaica. It is toward one man.
Richard Currie.
Colin Palmer is a Maroon. A candidate in the Accompong chieftaincy election. A man who took a land dispute to the St. Elizabeth Parish Court — and won. A man whose property is protected by a mandatory injunction issued by that court. A man whose opponents are currently facing committal proceedings for contempt of that very order.
When a retaliatory break-in occurred at his property — with individuals visibly connected to the Currie administration present — Colin Palmer went to Maggoty Police Station to file a criminal complaint.
He was turned away.
He came back. Turned away again.
A third time. A fourth.
On his fifth visit, Maggoty Police finally took his statement.
Five visits. To report a crime. Against a man holding a court judgment. Whose property sits under active judicial protection.
And during those visits — officers told Colin Palmer to take his concerns to Richard Currie.
The man whose associates were at the scene.
The man whose network is before the courts on contempt charges.
Police. Directing a crime victim. Back to the faction he was reporting.
But this is not where the pattern begins.
When Richard Currie conducted his contested signing-in ceremony — in open defiance of a Supreme Court injunction, Claim Number 2026 CV 01911, which had moved to restrain that very act — members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force were present at that ceremony.
Not to enforce the injunction.
Not to advise those present that a court order was in effect.
They were there as witnesses. As presence. As the visual weight of state authority — lending that authority to an act a sitting judge had said should not happen.
A mandatory injunction on one hand.
Police standing by while it was defied on the other.
These are not two unrelated incidents.
This is a pattern.
In both cases, the courts have spoken clearly. In both cases, the conduct of police in the Maggoty corridor has materially benefited Richard Currie. In both cases, the people invoking their legal rights have been the ones made to wait, turned away, or ignored.
Colin Palmer has now formally notified the District Commander of the Jamaica Constabulary Force about the conduct of Maggoty Station. Command level is on notice.
Accompong News is also on notice — and on record.
We are calling on INDECOM, the Independent Commission of Investigations, to open a formal inquiry. The question before INDECOM is not complicated either: why did it take a citizen with an active court judgment five attempts before Maggoty Police would receive his complaint — and why were those same police present at a ceremony conducted in contempt of a Supreme Court order?
We are calling on the Commissioner of Police to explain what institutional relationship, formal or informal, exists between the Jamaica Constabulary Force in the Maggoty corridor and the Currie administration in Accompong.
And we are saying plainly what the record now supports:
When police tell a crime victim to go talk to the man he is reporting — that is not a mistake. When police stand beside a man defying a court injunction — that is not a coincidence.
That is alignment.
And in a sovereign Maroon community whose treaty rights are already under siege — a police force aligned with one political faction is not just a law enforcement problem.
It is a threat to the community itself.
This is Darius Reed for Accompong News Network.
The truth does not require permission.
