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Good afternoon and welcome to the midday news here’s what we have in the bulletin 63 yearold paralal shot and killed by gunman in St Andrew female arrested after a major drug bust at Norman Manley International Airport and later in Sports West indis fac defeat against Australia in first
Test thank you for joining us I’m sha pulen here are the details the legal fraternity has been plunged into morning after 63-year-old pargal was shot and killed on her way to work this morning the victim has been identified as Sandra risden our reporter Kalisha Williams has been tracking this
Development and brings us the latest I’m standing at the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Aldan Drive in St Andrew and just moments ago this area was transformed into a crime scene around 7:00 this morning 63-year-old Sandra risden was shot and killed she was attacked by a Pon traveling on a
Motorcycle along this roadway Now understand a police officer was also in the area challenged the gunmen but they managed to escape M Ren was assisted to the Andrews Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead investigation is ongoing I also went to the law firm where Miss risden was a paralal and they
Declined to comment on camera and I was also advised that the law firm has been closed for the day now I’ll be monitoring this story and I’ll provide more updates in subsequent newscasts it’s back to you guys in studio thank you Kisha to a TVJ News followup the child protection and Family Services
Agency cpfa is refuting claims by the management of the Sun beam Children’s Home that there was no communication about the allegations of abuse at the facility speaking on Smile Jamaica head of the cpfa LA Adams Thomas insists there was communication and so I ensured I met
With all the managers of the child care facilities and I reiterated the zero tolerance approach that will be taken towards abuse and then to see this type of abuse being inflicted on a child in January that where we had to take him to the doctor to be treated
And also bring the matter to the police it was just too much the cpfa says it is going ahead with plans to shut down the home despite the Management’s announcement announced intention to seek legal advice a location that we are um going to move them to so for those for those who will
Be um relocated to another child care facility where ensuring that we keep them together so they will be at one child care facility and we are waiting on the court order now to act and to to move the children a call this afternoon for the leadership of the country to step up in
Bringing back love and unity to the nation it comes as the country continues to be plagued by a number of ills such as gang Warfare speaking at the 44th Ann annual leadership prior breakfast Thursday morning Reverend Omar Morrison called for a reset my brothers and sisters needs to be rescued from this
Hopelessness and this madness of which we have pictures right across the nation our society need to be rescued from gangs and guns and lawlessness rescued from reprisals and extortions rescued from Injustice in high and low places rescued from lewdness that is in some of today’s music that leaves nothing into the
Imagination the church too he says must be rescued the church needs to be rescued from doctrine of demons from greed from sexual immorality Pride a over concern for our own safety the church needs to be rescued from Disobedience regarding the Great Commission and the great commandment the
Church need to be rescued from our post pandemic Comfort zones the following story we will air contains graphic images viewers discretion is advised the government says it will be moving ahead with plans to ban corporal punishment the clearest indication came from prime minister Andrew holess on Thursday morning it
Follows a video circulating on social media of a woman physically abusing a teenage young woman in the video the woman is seen standing on the child and stepping on her repeatedly have taken a firm decision now that we have to ban corporal punishment through legislation nationally not just in our schools but
Right across the country we must break the cycle of passing on violence from parent to child and that I think will make a fundamental shift in our society there are other measures which I’ll speak about what we’re seeing now is just outright abuse education Minister fael Williams says the child protection
And Family Services agencies currently conducting investigations and will remove the child from the home when found cocaine estimated at $44,000 was seized at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston Wednesday morning according to reports at about 5:00 p.m. a female checked in to board a flight for London during security screening procedures the
Cocaine was found hidden in alasco packages in her suitcase she was subsequently arrested said her name is withheld pending further investigations four persons received minor injuries following a four vehicle collision on the Rocky Hill Main Road in St Elizabeth Thursday morning according to reports about :30 three trucks and a
Nutsford express bus were traveling towards Santa Cruz when the accident happened okay so dri w d yeah To move the police are investigating it’s time for a break stay with us more stories when we return welcome back to the midday news the minority leader in the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation kcmc Andrew SBE is weighing in on the controver involving the Housing Development by NWC president Mark
Barnett and his wife Mr SBE contends it shows the flaws in the corporation am Amoy Harriot reports all eyes are on the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation KMC to see whether action will be taken against the bares over the breaches at the 11 Charon Drive property the minority
Leader Andrew sui however says he’s displeased with the approach being taken by mayor Delroy Williams and his overall handling of the matter the nonchalant approach of the mayor it’s quite disturbing a matter of fact he just put out a release to say that they are doing an internal
Investigation as far as iware we should have been having the results of the internal um investigation I believe that he’s trying to buy time to on this one as part of its investigation the KC is looking into reports inspections and approv related to the construction of the apartment complex it was prompted
After the office of the director of public prosecutions referred the case to the corporation to conduct an administrative review in accordance with the provisions of the building act this after it was discovered that in 2020 a senior building inspector at the ksmc conducted final inspections at the site
In question and reported that all requirements were in order with the approved building plans issued by the corporation councilor says he believes there needs to be a separation of power within the ksmc as it relates to the administrative regime for building approvals can’t be with the same person
Who recommend to the committee for the approval of the pro of of of that approval is the same person do the enforcement clearly there has to be a line of demarcation in terms of one a set of person who’s dealing with um enforcement and a set of person who are
Recommending approval he says there are roughly eight building in ectors which is inadequate what I know that it is insufficient so probably that is the investigation we should be doing to do an audit of it to see what do we need the KSC says it will keep the public
Informed about the findings of the investigation Amoy Harriet TVJ News the St James Health Department is reporting a significant reduction in co9 cases in 2023 medical office of Health for the parish Dr Tanque bis small made the disclosure at last Thursday since St James Municipal Corporation meeting she
Says in 2022 the parish recorded 7,701 cases compared to 338 cases in 20123 been following the news on a global global basis in the US there has been a new variant of Omicron jn1 which is now the most which is now that which is responsible for most of
The cases um especially during the holiday period you know a lot of persons would have come together um would have been had you know had some fun family gathering and so sometimes when we have those types of gatherings then we tend to see an increase after so just to
Remind us that Co is here j.1 you know anything that is happening in the US usually eventually gets here sometimes um so we have to be vigilant Dr Bailey small says the fiser vaccine is available in the parish as well as the flu vaccine and as it relates to non-communicable diseases Dr
Bailey small is making this appeal just to say again while we talk about our communicable diseases we cannot forget our non-communicable diseases so we know we’ have had the launch of the know your numbers campaign I just want to encourage persons that it’s important um we look so like have
The activity or lower numbers campaign for St James in February we’ll pass on the information once available just to encourage to know your numbers get your cancer screen get your screening done um especially AG appropriate screening it’s now time for the business minute local businesses appear to not be
Less optimistic about their profits improving in the new year the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce commissioned business confidence survey found that while the Outlook was better in comparison with the last quarter of 2022 local firms were a bit timid about future earnings head of market research limited Don adderson says in the PRI
Year 69% of the 100 firms pulled in the fourth quarter believed their profits would improve the last quarter recorded 70.5% of the businesses who said they expect their profit to improve down from 80.4% consistent with the changes that they expect in their finances over the same period so they expect their
Finances to drop they expect their profits to drop by 10 percentage points 25.3% of businesses were of the view that their finances will remain the same going forward while 4.2% believed they would get worse further a field the OS Commerce department is reporting that retail spending Rose 6% in December from the
Prior month that’s well above economists expectations the data was adjusted with seasonal swings but not inflation American Shoppers could continue to drive growth in 2024 but economists expected to be at a slower Pace compared to last year and that’s it for the business minute I’m a SHINee
Masters time now for the top Regional and international stories in the region the Ministry of Health and anguila says both the flu and covid-19 continue to be detected with the latest surge being attributed mainly to covid-19 the health Ministry says angua and several other Caribbean territories are currently experiencing an increase
In acute respiratory infections on the international scene Pakistan has launched missile strikes into Iran killing nine people the strikes are in retali ation following strikes Iran carried out in Pakistan late Tuesday Iran condemned the attack which it said killed three women two men and four children the reciprocal air
Strikes common tensions in the Middle East are high with several overlapping crises and an Israeli air strike on a home killed 16 people half of them children in southern Gaza the military continued to strike Targets in areas of the besieged territory which it has told civilians to seek refuge in the meantime
There is no word on whether medicines that enter the territory Wednesday as part of a deal broken by France and Qatar had been distributed to dozens of hostages with chronic illness who were being held by Hammers and those are the top Regional and international stories I’m K and
Simpson we head to a quick break when we come back we’ll have your midday Sports support with spener Darlington
33 Comments
someone put hit on this lady.. crazy !! wow…! 60 + year old.. ridiculous..!!
Covid still a keep?
No more punishment:'' a now the prison an cemetery ago full
", Jamaica God is saying you should come a little closer to him he would love to Speak to you. "Monica M Edwards( Fay).
Mi condolences to the family ❤😢
What about the roads in the community of Jamaica 🇯🇲 it’s devastating 😢where’s the love ❤️
Jamaica Jamaica. Jesus Christ why? why? Time to stop the crime. Time to turn to Jesus. Almighty God please help Jamaica. Jamaicans need to do better. Look how bless you are. Look how people love your country so what is the matter. Let people live until God is ready to take them. Stop the killing stop the stealing. Stop the badness. This badness does not pay in the end. Let us put our heart and hands together and be one. What happen to out of many one people? Are we out of many one people?
If corporal punishment is in force & Jamaica has over 1400 murders per year and so many accidental deaths, what will it be if it becomes null & void? DISCIPLINE IS WHAT NEEDS TO BE ENFORCED IN THE HOMES & SOCIETY AT LARGE!!
True words I was saying the same thing we all need help
Government need to give up the scammers they who they are
Every day you all blame PM a PM a tell people fi kill every killing in jamaica as something behind it I'm only sad when inocent person's get caught at the wrong place at the same time don't get me wrong because no 1 deserve to died without being sick ,my condolences to her family and friends R.I.P
🔷️EXODUS 20:13
🔷️DEUTERONOMY 5:17
🔷️DO NOT KILL
🔷️DO NOT MURDER
🔷️THOU SHALT NOT KILL
IT IS FORBIDDEN 🚫 TO MURDER
We are living in the last days wars and rumors of war boaster lovers of plesure than lovers of God mans heart will grow cold lovers of their own selves false accusers earthquake in different places pestilence signs in the weather in the sun the moon distress of nations what in that you all dont understand it is right there in matt 24.mark 13 luke. 21 so we all need to surrender our lives to Jesus Christ while there is time it is going to get worst so Jesue said he will shorten the days for the elect sake stop blaming the pm and pray 😮❤❤❤❤❤
Not rescued…delivered is more likly
Ban Pillion riders !!
Corruption corruption and more corruption a Andrew friends and associates
Ban corporal punishment, this country is no good again, and dem ya pickney ya a go get worsterer
Lord, have mercy on this island, Jamaica
HOW DO U DO THAT ? PRAYERS DON'T WORK , CAPITAL PUNISHMENT WORK , HOW LONG U GONNA PRAY AND NOTHING GOOD HAPPENS ,TRY ANOTHER METHOD ⛓🇯🇲👍🏻🙏🏻
Rev. Morrison said it perfectly! Every sector and everyone in Ja. needs help. The society is a hot mess!!!
Rescue from Andrew no joke
The PM needs to talk about widespread Corruption by Politicians and stealing by the financial services, 😎
it is a Long time, pillion riders must be Banned
My friend omg!!!!!! 😢 she is coming to the london UK 🇬🇧🏴
Nonsense, you are talking Mr Prime Minister! Corporal punishment,is totally different from child abuse. That woman kicking her child is engaged in corporal punishment.. that is clearly abuse. You yourself Mr Prime Minister..had your fair share of discipline by the belt…as do a lot of us. And as a result,it has done us well.. you included! Where do you get talking banning spanking the child! Jamaica is a Christian society! As the wise man said: you cannot spare rod and spoil the child! Why don't you ban the violent video games and violent movies? Certainly these have much more negative impact on our youths. What's wrong with you people¿
Jesus why
Can’t trust no friends anymore
The MOH can't barely even breath and speak at the same time with the mask ,😷
Andrew's tail of corruption extends into the KSAMC. It stinks
The rod has been spared and Parents hands are being tied. Children know rights but no responsibility.
That is not corporal punishment prime minister, that is child abuse , two different thing
It's infuriating to witness the lack of civilized coexistence in Jamaica. The island's residents must realize the consequences of their actions – once you eliminate everyone, what's the plan for the aftermath? The politicians and law enforcement need to shift their focus from exploiting citizens to cleaning up the mess that has befallen the island. The incompetence of Jamaican leadership is staggering – they struggle to address the rampant violence and fail to remove dangerous individuals from the streets. In 2024, the ongoing issues persist, casting a shadow of shame over Jamaica's inability to rectify its situation.