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DEANDRAE GARY Lakeland Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with a fatal shooting. The incident took place on Tuesday around 6:30 a.m., near the 1500 block of Fairbanks Street. According to police, when officers arrived, they found a 36-year-old man suffering from
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Jamaican mother and daughter accused of murder - Stabroek News
(Jamaica Star) The Port Maria police have arrested and charged a mother and daughter in the December 25 killing of 26-year-old Jerome Forrester, otherwise called 'Mop Head', of Tank Lane, Oracabessa. The article Jamaican mother and daughter accused of murder appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper
Fisherman hopes to overcome paralysis after near-fatal dive
A dive nine months ago near the Pedro Bank, off the island’s southwest coast, almost cost Dwyer Robinson his life, leaving him wheelchair-dependent. Despite his slow recovery, he remains very eager to get back to hustling for his family. The...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Alex Haley, renowned author, dies
American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in
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Who killed Kenrick Genas?
An air of mystery surrounds the death of a man in the Sydenham area of Spanish Town, St Catherine, yesterday. The deceased, 33-year-old labourer Kenrick Genas, of a Sydenham address, was reportedly shot about minutes after midnight. According to...
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Great Queens of Africa
Queen Amina came to power between 1588 and 1589 in the Ancient Nigerian Kingdom of Zaria. A brilliant military strategist she fought many wars and won them all. She is credited with the building of the famous Zaria Wall. Today she is remembered as Amina, Yar Bakwa ta san rana meaning Amina
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago lie in the Caribbean Sea off the northeast coast of Venezuela. Trinidad, the larger at 1,864 sq mi (4,828 sq km), is mainly flat and rolling, with mountains in the north that reach a height of 3,085 ft (940 m) at Mount Aripo. Tobago, at just 116 sq mi (300 sq km), is heavily
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Murder suspect fatally shot by police
The police are reporting that a man was fatally shot during a confrontation with cops in Kingston on Monday. They report that he was a suspect in a fatal shooting committed earlier in the day. According to the police, about 10:20 a.m., 31-year-old...
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Bodies found in Portmore open lot
The bodies of a man and a woman were found in an open lot adjacent to the National Commercial Bank in Portmore, St Catherine this morning. The discovery was made by passers-by. The bodies were found lying on the ground outside a Honda motor car....
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner
St Thomas man charged for fatal home invasion in Bull Bay
The Kingston Eastern Police have charged 30-year-old Dueton Morris, otherwise called ‘Mullo’, a mason of East Albion, Yallahs in St Thomas, in relation to a fatal home invasion. Following an intelligence-led operation, Morris was...
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Mother witnesses son’s killing in Braeton
A man is now in police custody and his cronies are being sought by the police after they carried out a brazen daylight shooting of a man at about 2 p.m. yesterday in Braeton, Portmore, St Catherine. Rohan Martin, 42, had just left the burial of his...
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Trinidad: Police release man caught on camera pulling teen into car - Stabroek News
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have released a man who was caught on camera taking a teenage girl into his car after the girl refused to give them a statement. The article Trinidad: Police release man caught on camera pulling teen into car appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Alexandre Dumas is born
Alexandre Dumas is born in Villiers-Cotterets to a Haitian mulatto, Thomas Alexandre Dumas, and Marie Labouret Dumas, a French woman. He will become an acclaimed author of the French classics The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Man in the Iron Mask, and The Corsican
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Fatal accident in Shady Grove, St Catherine
An investigation has been launched to the circumstances surrounding a vehicular crash along the Lluidas Vale main road in St Catherine on Friday, which claimed the life of Sashane Berry. Reports from the Shady Grove Police are that about 11:00 p.m...
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VIDEO: Who Called The Crops? Police Bust Illegal Barbershop Party  | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
LONDON — A party at the Kiss Kuts barber shop in Croydon, south London, was cut short by police this week for breaking the government’s Covid-19 rules. The organizer and 22 guests face fines for participating in an illegal party. Police were dispatched to the shop on the night of Feb. 20 after
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Dwight Fletcher | Growing up Jesus
At Christmas, we are accustomed to the usual accounts of Jesus’ life: the manger, the virgin birth, the escape to Egypt, and so on. However, there were other incidents and circumstances that occupied Jesus’ life. This Christmas, we are going to...
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Black Panther Party emerges
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale students at a California college create the Black Panther Party for Self Defense.
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Getaway driver in Trelawny church murder to plead guilty
The man who allegedly drove the getaway car in the shooting death of 51-year-old Andrea Lowe-Garwood, is expected to plead guilty when he returns to the Home Circuit Court on February 18.  Leon Hines, who appeared before the court this...
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WATCH | Cape Town man assaulted, allegedly by taxi drivers, on N2 | News24
A man has been assaulted, allegedly by a group of taxi drivers, while travelling on the N2 between Bhunga Avenue and Jan Smuts Drive in Cape Town.
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(1889) John E. Bruce, “Organized Resistance Is Our Best Remedy”
The Negro must not be rash and indiscreet either in action or in his words but he must be very determined and terribly in earnest, and of one mind to bring order out of chaos and to convince Southern rowdies and cutthroats that more than two can play at the game with which they have amused their
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(1964), Dr. Martin Luther King, “Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize”
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10
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Taxi operator’s vehicle recovered following robbery in St Mary
Cops assigned to the Port Maria Police Station, with the assistance of a private security company, recovered a motor vehicle on Purcell Lane, Annotto Bay, St Mary following a robbery on Wednesday. The police report that about 12:45 p.m., two men...
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Captain on station bail over death of wife, grandchild in river mishap - Stabroek News
Riley Gill, the man who was arrested on Friday night after the boat which he was captaining capsized in the Lower Pomeroon River resulting in the deaths of his wife and two-year-old grandson has been released on $100,000 station
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Illegal gun and ammunition seized in St Catherine
A Smith and Wesson nine millemtre pistol with a magazine containing twelve 9mm rounds of ammunition was seized by the police during an operation in Lakes Pen, St. Catherine. The recovery was made about 6:10 p.m., on Thursday, December 31. The...
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NA woman fatally stabs partner during scuffle - Stabroek News
A New Amsterdam, Berbice, woman is now in police custody after she fatally stabbed her  partner during the wee hours of this morning at Main and Pitt streets, New Amsterdam. The article NA woman fatally stabs partner during scuffle appeared first on Stabroek News.
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St Catherine siblings charged over attack on relative
The police in St Catherine have arrested and charged three siblings in connection with an attack on a relative. Charged are 36-year-old tiler Jermaine Morrison, otherwise called ‘Fabian’, 36-year-old housewife Tashann Morrison-Humphrey...
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Kenya: Ruto Allies Planning Mass Jubilee Exodus
[Nation] The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) associated with Deputy President William Ruto's camp has crafted its power plan, including grassroots elections in April and defections from Jubilee three months to next year's elections.
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Crowd rushes Sparendaam station during protest of police killing - Stabroek News
Family members of Sherwin Fileen, a man who was shot dead by the police after he allegedly attacked ranks during an attempt to arrest him, staged a protest on Wednesday outside of the Sparendaam Police
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