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Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:32 -0500
‘SHE WAS CONTROLLED’
WESTERN BUREAU: Meakof Jarrett, the elder brother of 39-year-old Tanicka Gordon, the woman whose throat was slashed during a sacrificial ritual at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, Montego Bay, St James, on...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:09:21 -0500
Kevin O. Smith’s social media footprint
WESTERN BUREAU: Kevin O. Smith, the man who presided over a murderous ritual in Montego Bay, St James, enjoys a commanding presence on social media, with posts detailing his objection to, among other things, mandatory vaccination, likening it to...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:45 -0500
Church leaders condemn ‘religious tragedy’
WESTERN BUREAU: As discernment is replaced by manipulation, one of the most respected voices in the Baptist denomination is warning that personality cultism has no place in the Kingdom of God. Former head of the Calvary Baptist Church in Montego...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:39 -0500
‘I don’t think I will see her again’
A St Catherine woman who reported her daughter missing almost two years ago has accused the Portmore police of doing little to locate the 33-year-old, theorising that her child’s sexual orientation may have impacted their efforts. Sandra Williams...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:13 -0500
Golding: Crack whip on rogue public officials
Leader of the Opposition Mark Golding has expressed concern that Jamaica’s leading anti-corruption bodies were failing to hold government officials accountable despite a litany of documented irregularities and impropriety in ministries and agencie...

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:00 -0500
CSEC maths passes plummet
The pass rate of Jamaican students in mathematics at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level has plunged by 23 percentage points. In the June-July exam administered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), only 38.2 per cent.....

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:24 -0500
Former CarMax exec freed in fraud case
A former executive of the now-defunct used-car dealership CarMax, who was implicated in a multimillion-dollar fraud probe at the company, was freed of fraud charges last Friday. Businessman Darren Blake, who was arrested and charged in March 2015.....

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 00:10:28 -0500
Gunman eludes cops after Grants Pen shooting
Blood trails led cops to a dead end in their search for a suspected fugitive who escaped after a shoot-out on Grants Pen Drive in St Andrew yesterday morning. The investigators could not determine whether the man, who narrowly escaped them, was...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:20 -0500
‘We never knew we would be murdered’
WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman who was among the congregants at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St James, on Sunday when deadly violence erupted is now emotionally drained after realising how close she came......

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:26 -0500
BLOODY HELL
WESTERN BUREAU: The bloodstained concrete where Tanicka Gordon, the woman who was reportedly sacrificed in a bizarre ritual in St James on Sunday, was testament to the horror that unfolded at the Pathways International Kingdom Restoration...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:07:15 -0500
‘It was like prison’
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Kevin O. Smith’s Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries raked in close to $1 million per week from offerings, consultations and spiritual encounter, The Gleaner has learnt. Smith, who assumed the title His...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:10:11 -0500
Ja has lost an icon in Powell, says Henzell
St Elizabeth businessman Jason Henzell yesterday expressed sadness at the passing of former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, who died on Monday from complications associated with COVID-19. Powell, 84, who was born in New York to...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:33 -0500
Search party rejoices in finding 13-y-o
Nineteen-year-old Giovanni Scott, who rescued 13-year-old Winshae Barrett in the mountains of Spring Bank, St Thomas, after a two-day search, is now left with mixed feelings. Although happy that Winshae was found, he was disappointed that the...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:15 -0500
Eminent politicians, civil servants top Heroes Day honourees
After three decades in politics, former People’s National Party (PNP) President Dr Peter Phillips yesterday headed the list of politicians honoured during the National Honours and Awards ceremony. Phillips, who previously served as a senator and....

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:08:40 -0500
Elderly female farmer chopped to death
WESTERN BUREAU: Residents in the quiet farming community of All Sides, near Warsop, in Trelawny, are still struggling to come to grips with the brutal murder of an elderly female farmer, who was found dead in her bed with multiple chop wounds on...

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 00:09:02 -0500
CPFSA: Children safe after deadly ritual
WESTERN BUREAU: The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has reported that the 15 children who were present during a bloody ritual at the Dr Kevin O. Smith-led Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries in Paradise, St...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:33 -0500
DEATH THREATS
NORWICH, Portland: The family of Davian Bryan, the Portland man who allegedly abducted nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and who has been implicated in the disappearance of another girl, said that they are now living in fear after receiving death...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:07:45 -0500
Bath feels betrayed by fugitive
Residents of Bath, St Thomas, are ruing that their goodnatured hospitality has come to haunt them as they cited betrayal on Sunday by the main suspect in the abduction of nine-year-old Phylisa Prussia and person of interest in the disappearance of.....

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:29 -0500
Bath’s women awake to new era of fear
The stark tension associated with the missing girls saga over the weekend in Bath, St Thomas, is in total contrast to what residents describe as a usually relaxed and safe environment. In fact, they admit that the happenings have dramatically...

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 00:05:24 -0500
‘A house divided will not stand’
In a no-holds-barred address to Comrades at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 83rd annual conference on Sunday, former president P.J. Patterson called for all hostilities within the organisation to cease as he delivered a sharp rebuke to warri...



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