A man who was wanted by the Christiana police for shooting intent, was reportedly chopped to death by a mob last night in Bronty District, Manchester. A policeman was also injured during the incident.
According to reports, at approximately 7:55 p.m. last night, the man – Omar Levy of Greendale District in Manchester – was spotted in Bronty District, but managed to elude the police. Residents of the area reportedly went in search of him, and when they found him, he was mobbed and chopped. Police officers attempted to rescue him, and one of the policemen was also injured.
Both the injured policeman and Levy were taken to the hospital, where Levy succumbed, and the policeman was treated and released.
14 year old Delano Martin of Greenvale, Manchester, reportedly hung himself on Monday (July 12) after telling his mother that he would hang himself because she had refused to send him to summer school.
According to reports, Martin had told his mother that he wanted to go to summer school. She reportedly told him that he would be going the next day. This is said to have angered the child who reportedly told his mother that he would kill himself if she did not let him go. His mother later found him hanging from a rope on their verandah.
61 year old Mandeville businessman Vincent Young, of a Beverly Green address in Manchester, was reportedly shot and killed by gunmen during a robbery at his supermarket in Mandeville yesterday.
According to police reports, Young and his wife were closing their business place last night at approximately 10:15 p.m. when four men, three armed with guns, approached and demanded money. He refused and the gunmen opened fire, hitting him several times. Young reportedly pulled his licensed revolver and fired at the men, but not before they took a bag with an undetermined sum of cash and cheques, as well as his wife’s handbag.
The robbers reportedly escaped in a white Toyota motor car. Young was taken to the Mandeville hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Following consultation with the Ministry of Health, education officials have lifted the ban on summer schools and graduations in Manchester.
The ban was put in place in the parish last month, after two cases of Influenza A H1N1 (formerly Swine Flu) were detected in two students in that parish. Since then, there have been no new cases in Manchester.
The Ministry of Education is reminding parents that they are to keep children with fever and flu-like symptoms away from summer school. Adults working in schools who have these symptoms are also to stay away from work until the fever has cleared up.
School administrators are reminded that where students show flu-like symptoms the matter must be brought to the attention of the relevant health authorities and reported to the Ministry of Education.
Meanwhile, the ministry is reminding schools islandwide that they are to set up areas to quarantine any student with flu-like symptoms. The Ministry is also reminding schools that in such instances, parents are to be notified immediately, the students are to be removed from school, and the matter reported to the Ministries of Education and Health.
At last count, there were 33 confirmed cases of Swine Flu cases in Jamaica.
