PORTLAND, Jamaica: A man who used a wheelchair was killed on Monday evening, April 17, 2023, when a Toyota Axio motorcar collided with him along the Orange Bay main road in Portland.
The police identified the deceased as Michael Cargill of Orange Bay, Portland.
According to reports, at about 6:15 pm, Monday, April 17, Cargill was at his gate in his wheelchair when a white Toyota Axio motorcar that was traveling east along the Orange Bay Main road lost control and collided with a grey Toyota Ipsum parked on the left side of the roadway and then hit and killed Cargill on the spot.
Residents summoned the police, who removed the body to the morgue.
St Catherine Selector killed in a road collision.
On Tuesday evening, April 18, 2023, a music selector lost his life while riding a motorcycle along St John’s Road in St Catherine.
The police have identified the deceased by his alias ‘Smokey,’ reportedly from a Spanish Town address.
According to reports, at about 6 pm, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, ‘Smokey’ was driving his motorcycle along the St John’s roadway when he lost control of the motorbike and slammed into a truck and a motorcar.
The impact separated him from the motorbike. He died from the multiple injuries he received.
Cops search for two shooters following a deadly attack in Clarendon.
The May Pen police are on the hunt for two armed thugs following a brutal attack that left one man in the morgue and another injured. The incident happened in May Pen Monday night, April 17, 2023.
The police identified the deceased as Lucien Beckford, a 25-year-old laborer of Evans Street in Denbigh, Clarendon.
According to reports, On Monday, April 17, 2023, at about 8:15 pm, four people were hanging out at an establishment located on Evans Street in May Pen when two armed men entered the premises and opened fire, sending patrons scampering for cover. The men then escaped on foot.
After the shooting, patrons found Beckford’s lifeless body with what appeared to be gunshot wounds. They summoned the police and took the injured man to the hospital, where he was admitted.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness slow walking Auditor General since 2018.
This is in the face of the failure of the Ministry of Health and Wellness to submit financial statements for nine years, accounting for $560 billion in expenditure.
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Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis addressed a committee of Parliament Tuesday, April 18, 2023. And she expressed concerns about the lengthy time it takes to get financial statements from the various ministries and departments of Government.
She specifically mentioned the Ministry of Health, where $560 billion in expenditure could not be accounted for.
Monroe Ellis pointed out that the health ministry has promised to present the appropriation accounts since 2018. “[The years 2018, 2019] passed, no appropriation account. [The year] 2020 passed, no appropriation account. In 2021 the ministry provided an additional reason in the form of the challenges with the finman (financial management) system…well in 2022, we received the same promise. We are talking about $560 billion for which the ministry has not fulfilled its fiduciary responsibility to provide a report on,” she said.
Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis