The youngster from Bannister District, Old Harbour recently emerged as the top boy for Davis Primary School much to the delight of his family who lauded him for his tenacity and dedication to working hard for what he wanted.

Banner, who goes off to Kingston College in September, is the youngest of four children. His mother Andrea states that Devontae is a special kind of child who knows his capabilities and uses it to his advantage.

“He uses music to study. He will study by himself. Music he says makes him focus more,” she says.

The flooding is as a result of a Tropical Wave on the tail end of Hurricane Beryl, a massive category four storm that left death and destruction in her wake last Wednesday.

Weather experts had warned that with the earth already saturated flooding was highly probably in particularly for flood-prone areas. And so it proved last night for many residents here in southwestern region of St Catherine and other southern parishes.

Senior medical officer at the Spanish Town Hospital Dr. Jacqueline Wright-James says the management team has taken decisive action to ensure emergency services continue.

“We have moved to ensure that A&E services continue uninterrupted,” she said in a release from the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA). “This essential service has been preserved by relocation to the Physiotherapy Department and reverting Hospital operations to emergency mode until further notice.”

Briefing journalists in Geneva, UN World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that according to the enclave’s health authorities, 34 people have died of malnutrition and dehydration amid ongoing Israeli bombardment, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on 7 October.

“In [northern Gaza’s] Kamal Adwan hospital alone, 60 cases of severe acute malnutrition were detected last week,” the WHO spokesperson told journalists.

According to his plea agreement, in the summer of 2022, Zaheri began a sexual relationship, with a minor student at the high school where he was employed as a teacher. 

The relationship continued through the school year and included Zaheri engaging in sexual acts with the victim during school hours. 

Zaheri admitted that, during the course of the relationship, he produced sexually explicit images and videos of the minor victim using his cell phone.

According to court documents, beginning on or about July 17, 2023, NEALON met law enforcement personnel operating in an undercover capacity posing as a fifteen-year-old female (FM1) on Instagram. 

Over the next several months, NEALON engaged FM1 in overtly sexual conversations and, on multiple occasions, transmitted images and videos depicting what he claimed to be his erect penis. 

More than 30 individuals, said to be involved in the scheme at various levels, have been arrested and are currently being held in police detention, Cuban authorities announced in a national televised broadcast Monday night.

Officials from the offices of Cuba’s Interior Ministry and Attorney General informed the Cuban people that it has in custody Ardenys García, a Cuban national living in the US since 2014 and who illegally entered the Caribbean island last November on a jet ski with guns and ammunition.

Instead the Russian envoy claimed that it was Ukraine’s air defense missile that had hit the hospital where two people died while as many as 300 have been reportedly injured.

Speaking to the UN Security Council on today, Dr. Vladimir Zhovnir, the director of Kiev’s Okhmatdyt children’s hospital, accused Russia of committing a “war crime”.

In a three-page missive dated July 6, 2024, a copy of which Old Harbour News has seen, the retired FBI Special Agent, alluded to recent comments made by the Jamaica Prime Minister and one of his “fervent” supporters of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government.

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Dead is 50-year-old Oneil Bailey, otherwise called ‘Red Man’ of Pointy Heights Lane, Bannister in northern Old Harbour.

Old Harbour News is yet to receive a formal comment from the police, but understands that about 8:45 pm residents heard several gunshots following which the body of Bailey was observed in the road in front of his gate.

One source says the body had at least four gunshot wounds.

The police were summoned and the scene processed where blood samples and spent casings were collected for forensic analysis.