According to the Broadcasting Commission's website www.broadcastingcommission.org, the following are the prohibitions regarding the transmission of certain matters as listed by the Television And Sound Broadcasting Regulations of 1996.

30. No licensee shall permit to be transmitted - (a) any matter in contravention of the laws of Jamaica;

(b) any statement concerning or comment upon the race, colour, creed, religion or sex of any person which is abusive or derogatory or any pictorial representation thereof except where such statement, comment or representation is contained in a news report or in a programme on matters of public interest or is an objective report thereon;

(c) any malicious, scandalous or defamatory matter;

(d) any indecent or profane matter, so, however, that any broadcast to which regulation 26 relates shall be deemed not to be indecent;

(e) any advertising matter which the licensee knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be false or deceptive in whole or part;

(f) any news or matter which the licensee or his employee or agent who is concerned in the collection, editing, publication or printing knows or has reasonable cause to know is false or misleading;

(g) any matter which is offensive in the description of any function or symptomatic result of disturbance of the human body or relief therefrom through the use of any appliance or medicament;

(h) any offensive description or pictorial representation of the mutilated disfigurement of the human body;

(i) any advertisement or programme which, in relation to an educational institution or other institution or agency, offers a promise of employment as an inducement for enrolment as a student or client thereof, as the case may be;

(k) any matter which is likely to incite violence or criminal activity or lead to a breach of the peace;

(l) any portrayal of violence which offends against good taste, decency or public morality.