A Supreme Court judge on Monday granted an interim injunction to restrain councillor of the Rae Town Division in Kingston, Rosalie Hamilton, from making any further statements that are deemed false and defamatory against Donovan Williams, the Member of Parliament (MP) of Kingston Central.

The interim injunction was granted until July 13, at which time a judge is expected to hear submissions and make further ruling. The Jamaica Observer was given access to the document on Monday by a source close to the matter.

Both Hamilton and Williams are political representatives of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) who seemed to have had a falling out earlier this year, which led to the councillor launching a sleuth of allegations against the MP in voice messages.

Hamilton claimed she sent these voice messages in a JLP WhatsApp group and wasn’t shy about what she had said. However, she expressed that she did not intend for the messages to go public or viral on social media. Of note is that Hamilton’s division falls with Williams’s constituency. The rift got so heated, that the councillor even threatened to campaign against the JLP so that the party would lose in any future election concerning the constituency.

Williams had filed for an injunction through his attorney-at-law Rodain Richardson on March 26.

The interim injunction granted on Monday restrains Hamilton from making any false or defamatory comments against Williams. The injunction prohibits Hamilton from causing comments aimed at defaming Williams, to be published, disseminated or cause to be published or disseminated, whether via social media platforms, messaging applications including WhatsApp or any other medium.

The injunction also requires Hamilton, whether by herself, her servants or agents to remove, retract and or cause to be removed, all the statements that were published concerning Williams.

There was also an order prohibiting Hamilton or people connected to her from disseminating or sharing on social media or any public platform, any documents, pleading, evidence or material relating to the proceedings.

On March 25 the Observer published a story entitled, ‘JLP councillor unshaken by demand letter from fellow Labourite’.
The article highlighted that, Hamilton, a long-serving member of the JLP was unfazed by threats of possible legal action, after receiving a demand letter from the attorney representing Williams over the statements which were attributed to her in social media posts.

At the time when the Observer asked her to comment on the letter, Hamilton said she had nothing to say about it.

In one of the voice notes Hamilton suggested that there was a plot to put forward an aspirant to challenge her as the JLP councillor. She declared that she would not be engaged in a run-off with the aspirant, but would contest the seat “on a ticket”.

“Everything is going in the media. You want a confrontation and me a go give you the confrontation. Mi a wait pon the right time,” she added.

In another of the voice messages, Hamilton said that Williams cannot remain in Kingston Central as MP.

“Mi a go campaign mek you lose. Mi ‘affi get rid a you. You mi ‘affi get rid of, mi nah ask you dat,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton herself, had filed an injunction against Williams.

In March as well, Hamilton had filed a cease and desist request, which basiclly stated that she feared for her safety and that she wanted Williams to stop making unwelcomed contact with her.

Williams had denied making any such contact with Hamilton and said that he would not be prevented from carrying out his duties as MP