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JAMAICA | Forty-One Years and Still Standing: LMAJ Renews Its Covenant With Justice

At a church service in Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica’s lay magistrates celebrated four decades of quiet, unpaid service — but the sermon and the speeches carried an unmistakable subtext: this organisation’s independence is under siege, and its members intend to fight for it.

LUCEA, Hanover April 15, 2026, The pews of the Lucea United Church were filled last Sunday with men and women who ask for nothing in return. No salary. No pension. No public recognition beyond the two initials they are permitted to place after their names.

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President of the Lay Magistrate's Association of Jamaica Paulette Kirkland at the 41st anniversary churtch service in Lucea, Hanover.
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