A group of angry residents staged a protest in Greenwich Town, South West St Andrew on Wednesday after one of their own was fatally shot by the police and his body report
Detectives from the Hunts Bay Police Station arrested and charged 20-year-old Malike Johnson, otherwise called Ralph , of Palm Grove Court in South West St Andrew following an incident on Uganda Drive off Payne Avenue in the parish on Wednesday, April 7.
Reports from the police are that about 11:30 am, the now complainant was standing on the roadway when Johnson approached her and pulled a firearm, with which he fired a shot at her.
The matter was subsequently reported to the police and Johnson was arrested on Friday, April 9 and was charged after a recent question-and-answer interview.
His court date is being finalised.
Member of Parliament (MP) for South West St Andrew, Dr Angela Brown-Burke (second left), cuts the ribbon at the handing over of shops to vendors at the DC Tavares Market at Three Miles in the constituency on Saturday. Joining in the occasion is Councillor for the Greenwich Town Division of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), Karl Blake (second right); Kinson Case (left) of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCO); and Yekini Binnie of the KSAMC.
Thieves robbed six doors from newly constructed shops at DC Tavares Market at Three Miles in South West St Andrew, the constituency that is represented by Dr Angela Brown-Burke, resulting in a delay to vendors being able to sell their ware from the facilities.
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Opposition Member of Parliament for South West St Andrew, Dr Angela Brown-Burke is encouraging women and girls to research how to make their own mace as a way to defend themselves from attacks.
Brown-Burke’s suggestion came as Members of Parliament recently used the House of Representatives to voice their disgust at the recent spate of murders of women and girls. They were particularly outraged at the murder of 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson, whose partially decomposed body was found near the fishing village along the Dyke Road in Portmore, St Catherine. She was strangled to death.
A 50-year-old mechanic, Robert Fowler, otherwise called ‘Backra of Portmore, has since been charged with her murder. The police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to decide whether additional charges will be brought against Fowler.
Amid growing concerns about the administering of leftover AstraZeneca vaccines to persons who are not registered for inoculation at this time, the Health Ministry has sou