ST ANN, Jamaica – A domestic dispute between two siblings ended on a tragic note when a brother allegedly stabbed and killed his sister, on Saturday, August 12, 2023, in Thicketts District, Discovery Bay, St Ann.

The police identified the dead woman as Linette Brady, age 59, of Thicketts District in St Ann.

According to the police, at about 5:30 pm, on Saturday, August 12, 2023, Brady’s brother attacked her and allegedly stabbed her several times.

According to reporting, when the news of the fatal stabbing spread among residents in the community, an angry mob took the law into its hands. It inflicted several wounds on the suspect’s body.

Concerned residents alerted the police. The police rescued the brother from the mob and transported Brady to the hospital, where she died.

Hospital authorities admitted the suspect under police guard.

The police did not establish a motive for the killing. The investigation is ongoing.

An 80-year-old returning resident stabbed to death in her Hanover home.

 HANOVER, Jamaica – Residents of Top Kendal, Hanover, mourn the death of an 80-year-old returning resident after relatives found her dead body with multiple stab wounds Saturday night, August 12, 2023.

Law enforcement officers identified the dead body as that of Patsy Allen, age 80, a retired nurse of the Top Kendal Community.

According to reporting, relatives found the deceased body lying in a passageway in her house with multiple stab wounds and alerted the police.

Upon arrival, the police transported Allen to the hospital, where authorities pronounced her dead—and transferred her to the morgue pending a post-mortem examination.

The police did not identify a suspect or establish a motive for the killing. 

The investigation is ongoing.

$5.4m worth of unclaimed monies in NCB banks will default to the Government soon.

Approximately $5.4 million in unclaimed bank balances will default to the Nation’s consolidated fund from the National Commercial Bank (NCB) come the end of this year.

That’s according to information published by the Ministry of Finance.

“Section 126 of the Banking Services Act requires the publication of the data in a newspaper at least two (2) times over a one (1) year period.” This will give persons the opportunity to claim these monies. If these monies remain unclaimed at the end of the year, they will become a part of the revenues of the Jamaican Government.

The list of unclaimed balances was published on the ministry’s website during the week ending August 12, 2023, covering up to March 2023. It comprises relatively small balances ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands of dollars. 

Many of the balances go back as far as two decades.

The publication gives account holders or next of kin for deceased account holders an opportunity to claim the funds from NCB before the bank handed them over to the Government.