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‘Only a mad man would not get the vaccine’

Forty-two-year-old Garth Lindsay has been living on the streets of Montego Bay, St James, for the past 15 years. He left his hometown in Fellowship, Portland, in search of a better life, completing the 135-mile trek after five days, and today has...

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