Warmington’s legacy of controversy
· On March 8, 2011, Warmington told CVM TV news anchor Kerlyn Brown to “go to hell” when he was asked to respond to a question about his reasons for remaining a member of the House of Representatives since 2007, despite knowing his pledge of allegiance to a foreign country had made him an unfit candidate.
· In August 2015, the St Catherine South Western MP manhandled a female Gleaner intern and directed his fury at a colleague journalist who reprimanded him for his action as they covered a meeting of the then opposition Jamaica Labour Party’s caucus. He later apologised and blamed his action on medication he was taking at the time.
· Within a week, he was at it again, flipping the bird to journalists at the party’s New Kingston headquarters while wearing a neck brace.
· In 2016, Warmington twice referred to then-Government Member Lisa Hanna as “a Jezebel” during a sitting of the House of Representatives. A Jezebel is a term interpreted to mean a heartless, conniving woman.
· In 2018, a female reporter from Business Access TV called Warmington to get a comment on a strike by Jamaican workers employed to China Harbour Engineering Company, which was carrying out a government project. “Don’t call me and ask me any damn nonsense. If there is a strike, you speak to contractor and worker, don’t call me.” When the reporter attempted to continue her question, Warmington shouted at her, saying, “Don’t call me on my phone ... . Get off my phone!”
· In May 2021 Warmington, in a video circulated widely on social media, lashed out at the police with a profanity-laced tirade outside the Old Harbour Bay Fisherman Co-operative building during curfew hours in the height of COVID-19. Warmington was irate about the police presence, insisting that he was exempted from the restrictions.
· In May 2023, Warmington engaged in a heated exchange with the PNP caretaker for the Fellowship division in Portland, Collin Bell, after insisting that he should not accompany him on a tour of that section of the constituency. Warmington argued that he does not tour with caretaker-candidates. “You don’t follow my tour. Caretakers are not recognised in the Constitution of Jamaica,” he said.
· In June 2023, Warmington declared that Jamaica’s anti-corruption agency, the Integrity Commission, is a “rogue organisation” and “must be reined in”.