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On Monday during CMR’s Cold Hard Truth with Sandy Hill, the host received a call from a man claiming that he is Shavan Claude Brown who the police have listed as wanted in connection with last week’s discovery and seizure of a boat loaded with narcotics on Cayman Brac.

He has been identified as Dwayne McDaniel otherwise called ‘Maddu’ or ‘Corey’ from the same enclave.

Based on preliminary police details, about 1:15 am residents heard several gunshots rang out after which the body of the 37-year-old labourer was found with bullet wounds to the head.

The scene was processed and the body removed to the hospital where it was officially pronounced deceased by a doctor on staff and subsequently taken to the morgue where a mandatory postmortem will be done.

Jamaicans in the eastern belt of the island could start experiencing unstable weather conditions as early as Tuesday night going into Wednesday morning with increasing rainfall intensifying throughout the day.

The condition is likely to cause major flooding in particularly in low-lying areas.

“It is going to bring us some potential of flooding… it is an elongated system that stretches all the way down to basically South America,” says Brian Shields in his latest weather report.

Ottey, who is better known as ‘Nadine’, has not been her usual jovial self for days now as the uncertainty of the situation wreaks havoc on her mental state.

“Me nah cope too well. Yesterday me drop down and haffi go a doctor go get medication,” she tells Old Harbour News. “It rough pon me.”

Ottey , a resident of Narine Lane in the fishing community, recalls  the last time she saw her daughter on the Tuesday morning, she was wearing a white merino t-shirt, leopard skin shorts and a plastic push-toe slippers.

When contacted a police officer from the St Catherine North traffic department revealed the deceased men as 40-year-old Nicholas Creary, otherwise called ‘Nick’ of Federal Avenue, Sydenham and James ‘Limbo’ Morgan, said to be in his 30s, of a Gutters, Old Harbour address.

According to police information collated from the main eyewitness, about 9:20 pm Morgan and Creary were both travelling in a Nissan motor car heading towards Old Harbour.

The Beryl Cash Assistance Programme targets 11,500 people whose homes were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Beryl in early July. The programme will provide USD$ 1.4 million (JMD$ 220 million) in relief and support to families in their recovery, ensuring access to food, water and other essential needs. Families with children, elderly people and persons with disabilities will be prioritized.

In an Old Harbour News follow-up with the Jamaica Fire Brigade, the investigation concluded that a lit candle was the cause of the blaze that partially destroyed a section of the four-bedroom dwelling on Mahoe Drive.

On July 6, 2024, three days after the passage of Hurricane Beryl which left most of the country without electricity and water, firefighters were called about 10:00 pm to the location by residents.

Church service begins 10:00 am while internment is at Thetford Park Cemetery.

Around 8: 45 pm, Bailey, 50, was shot dead by unknown assailants in front of his residence in Pointy Heights, Bannister on July 12 of this year.

This transformative effort aims to empower young women in Jamaica, between ages 17 to 23, to embark on rewarding careers in software development.

Applications are open now through October 25, 2024.

Selected participants will be announced in December and the programme will commence on February 1, 2025, running through November 2025. A similar programme targeting young men and women is planned for 2025.

Sheena Price, a 33-year-old businesswoman, was offered $100,000 bail, while her co-accused 27-year-old fisherman Kemar Bent, was released on condition after the judge offered a $150,000 bond.