Top investigators in Clarendon threw the book at the husband of Jaeda Pauline Whitehead, the Canadian woman who died while visiting Jamaica earlier this month.

The police charged the accused, Rory Palmer, age 28, a fisherman from Shearers Heights in Portland Cottage, Clarendon, with causing grievous bodily harm with intent.
Palmer will appear in the Clarendon Parish Court in May Pen on Thursday, June 1.

The deceased, a 28-year-old school board employee from Toronto, Ontario, died on May 13, 2023, after she reportedly visited Palmer in the Shearers Heights community to celebrate their wedding anniversary.

The autopsy result indicated that Whitehead died from blunt force trauma to the head.

According to Superintendent Carlos Russell, head of the Clarendon division, the police are waiting for the toxicology results to determine if the police will charge Palmer with homicide.

Whitehead reportedly arrived on the island two weeks before her death.

And on the day before she died, she and her husband had a physical dispute, during which the accused threw a fan at his wife and slammed her head into a wall.

Whitehead reportedly left the home and went to stay at her friends’ house in the community.

While there, her friends reportedly advised her to visit the hospital. However, Whitehead declined.

Police said while at the house, Whitehead went to sleep sometime after 3 pm, and her friends observed that her head was swollen and tried to convince her to visit the doctor, but she refused.

Further reports indicate that around 5:30 pm, the friends returned home and discovered Whitehead lying in the same position they left her. They realized she was not moving and reported the matter to the Lionel Town Police Station.

The police charged Imario McKenzie, o/c ‘Six,’ with a July 2022 St Ann murder.

ST ANN, Jamaica – Twenty-one-year-old Imaro McKenzie, o/c ‘Six,’ of Dam Head, Steer Town in St Ann, was slapped with several charges, including murder, for an incident dating back to July 2022.

In addition to the murder charge, McKenzie is also facing possession of a prohibited weapon charge and unauthorized possession of ammunition following the shooting death of 29-year-old Chevaughn Jones, otherwise called ‘Ziggy,’ of Greenwich Acres, Mammee Bay, St Ann on July 1, 2022.

According to the St. Ann’s Bay police are that at about 9:30 pm on Friday, July 1, 2022, Jones was at a shop in the area when he was pounced upon by McKenzie, who opened gunfire, hitting him in the upper body. The police were alerted and assisted Jones to the St Ann’s Bay hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

The police took McKenzie into custody and charged him after they conducted a question-and-answer interview in the presence of his attorney on May 17, 2023. 

The police are yet to decide on a court date for McKenzie.