#NewsUpdate...The police have confirmed that 9 persons were shot, 3 fatally during an attack by gunmen on St. Johns Road in Rockfort, Kingston.The shooting took place about 7 oclock yesterday evening. The police have listed four men as ‘Persons of Interest’ in Wednesday night’s deadly attack on people along St John’s Road. Members of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers Association (JUCDA) have declared that they will be boycotting a meeting set for Thursday by the Trade Board to sensitize stakeholders on the Motor Vehicle Import Policy. A man believed to be behind the recent violence in August Town, St Andrew, has been charged. Omar Shaw,33, otherwise called Bud, has been charged with murder by the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT). He was charged on Tuesday with the murder of Jeffus Ferguson,34, a reputed gang leader in August Town. More formal complaints have been received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the September 30 incident in which 13 Jamaicans were denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago. State Minister Arnaldo Brown says seven complaints are now with the Ministry. Earlier this month, the Ministry reported that it had received only one. The complaints are being reviewed and will be addressed via diplomatic channels. He said they want a full brief of what happened and the treatment the Jamaicans received in order to raise the matter with their counterparts in Trinidad and Tobago. Forecasters are keeping a close eye on the ninth tropical depression of the Atlantic Hurricane season that formed in the Gulf of Mexico, stating that it could redevelop in the Caribbean. It has already been named, and Hanna seems to be on a direct path to affect Jamaica. The European Union put up 24.4 million Euros Thursday in a race against time to find Ebola vaccines and treatments as deaths from the disease mount in the worst affected countries.The funds will be fast-tracked in order to start work as soon as possible, the European Commission said, with the latest figures showing nearly 4,900 dead and 10,000 cases in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. AFTER delays due to a shortage of jurors, the trial of former constable of police Jeffery Peart and his sister Roxanne Peart, who are charged with the 2012 murder of taxi operator Delroy Frame, started in the St Ann Circuit Court yesterday.The prosecutor made the opening statement after 3:00 pm, shortly after the court was successful in empanelling a 12-member jury, with several members drawn from among the bystanders in court. GUNMEN have continued to wreak havoc in Bog Walk, St Catherine, killing three men, among them a 70-year-old, at Pine Apple Lane, yesterday. Attorney-at-law Michael Erskine conceded that he was stunned after being beaten by businessman Dwayne Vaz during Sundays run-off in the race to be the People s National Party run off on the weekend. US$1=112.84...CAN$1=100.31...UKP=181.61. #GodBless
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 13:57:10 +0000
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