JAMAICA
The Gleaner
Thursday | January 12, 2017
Damion Mitchell and Erica Virtue, Gleaner Reporters
The bishops of the Moravian Church in Jamaica are to set up an independent committee to investigate allegations brought against president Dr Paul Gardner and vice-president Jermaine Gibson.
Gardner and Gibson stepped aside today, two days after a woman wrote a seven-page email titled “the shame is yours” to Bishops Stanley Clarke and Devon Anglin, the spirituals heads of the Moravian Church in Jamaica.
The email details damning allegations.
According to the complainant, a series of incidents began at the Mizpah Moravian Church in Manchester when she was 14 years old and continued for years.
Bishops Clarke and Anglin in acknowledging receipt of the complaint informed the writer about the decision to establish the independent investigative committee.
They also told her that Gardner and Gibson have stepped aside and that the appropriate actions will be taken by the church on completion of the independent investigation.
The email complaint and the bishops’ response were copied to Gardner and Gibson, as well as a Gleaner columnist, a human rights advocate and a public commentator.
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