Cops detain woman accused of smashing window at RGD
June 28, 2006
A woman who was apparently dissatisfied with the service at Registrar General's Department (RGD), and who allegedly smashed a glass window with a stone at the company's head office in Spanish Town, has been detained by the Central Village police.
Her name was not released by the police.
An eyewitness told the Observer that the woman became upset after an attempt to obtain a birth certificate for which she had applied was not processed.
".She came here and they were giving her the run-around and she started some quarreling and the security pushed her outside and she just found a stone and flung it inside the glass window and mash it, and them carry her to lock her up," the eyewitness said.
The woman, she said, had applied for her daughter's birth certificate three years ago.
"She just couldn't take it anymore because they weren't paying her any mind, nobody was talking to her," said a woman who witnessed the incident yesterday.
She added that a police woman, who was apparently concerned about the woman, asked one of the staff 'who is going to deal with the lady outside' and she said 'nobody'.
Yesterday, chief executive officer at the RGD Dr Patricia Holness told the Observer that the situation was caused from an oversight on the part of the person who had made the application on behalf of the mother in July 2004.
Dr Holness said an October 18, 1988 birth date had been given instead of the correct October 18, 1997 date, resulting in the officers being unable to locate the document.
"We wouldn't have known because if it's your child and you make an application saying the date of birth was 1988 we wouldn't know," Holness said....
Author: Alicia Dunkley
Source: Jamaica Observer
