To: His Excellency Sir Patrick Allen, Governor General of Jamaica
And: The Honourable Members of the Parliament of Jamaica
We, the undersigned citizens of Jamaica and members of the Jamaican diaspora, hereby call upon Prime Minister Andrew Holness, National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang, and Police Commissioner Dr. Kevin Blake to immediately resign from their respective offices, and call upon Director of Public Prosecutions Claudette Thompson and the broader Cabinet to urgently account for the failures outlined herein.
Under Prime Minister Holness, the Integrity Commission produced a 171-page report finding unexplained net worth growth, undisclosed bank accounts, alleged misuse of charitable funds, and tax irregularities in connected companies — with his declarations for three consecutive years remaining uncertified, unprecedented in Jamaica's post-independence history. He imposed a gag order on his Cabinet while twelve of his own parliamentarians were under illicit enrichment investigations. He allegedly failed to disclose to Parliament that he was personally under investigation. He then went to court to quash the IC's report, shut down all financial probes, and have the Integrity Commission Act — his own legislation — declared unconstitutional. In February 2025, he publicly declared that criminals must "meet a judge or meet their maker, whichever they choose" — a statement opposition councillors have directly linked to police killings including the January 1, 2026 death of four-year-old Romaine Bowman and the Mother's Day 2026 killing of a 17-year-old boy, both in Granville, St. James.
National Security Minister Dr. Chang stood at a public press briefing and declared police will NOT wear body cameras on armed operations — calling the idea "a crazy idea" — even as those operations account for approximately half of all fatal security force shootings. In 2025, 311 civilians were killed by security forces, the highest figure since 2010 and a 65% increase over the prior year. INDECOM directly contradicted Chang's position, stating it was inconsistent with international policing standards.
Police Commissioner Dr. Blake has overseen this deadly surge without meaningful accountability. He refused to personally apologise when his force publicly and wrongly branded an innocent man a murderer. He dismissed calls for accountability as coming from "a small corner." He attempted to remove the head of the Police Officers' Association in a manner blocked by the Supreme Court.
Director of Public Prosecutions Claudette Thompson holds the sole authority to charge police officers with murder. With INDECOM investigating 311 fatal shootings in 2025 alone, the DPP's office issued just 12 charge rulings in the entirety of that year — averaging 27 months between file submission and ruling. The Supreme Court has even blocked INDECOM's attempts to compel the DPP to act in specific cases. Families of those killed by the state are left waiting years for justice that never arrives.
A governance watchdog has revealed that 16 government ministries failed to submit financial reports to the Auditor General covering $3 trillion in public spending for up to 11 years — meaning no audit of that spending has been possible. Following Hurricane Melissa in October 2025, ODPEM received $1.44 billion JMD in donations but spent only $26.2 million — just 1.8% — as of February 2026, leaving over $569 million sitting in accounts untouched while devastated families waited for help. Formal appeals have been submitted to the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch for international attention to extrajudicial killings.
We demand full accountability — not tomorrow, but now.
— The Undersigned Citizens of Jamaica