ST CATHERINE, Jamaica: In St Catherine North, a police investigation is underway after the escape of a suspect detained for carrying an illegal weapon in Linstead on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Around 7:40 a.m., the Area Five Fugitive Apprehension Team confiscated a firearm in Riversdale, St Catherine, and apprehended five individuals.
The suspects were brought to the Linstead Police Station for processing. During this time, one individual reportedly fled through a side gate and climbed atop the building.
Alerted officers informed their colleagues, and it is believed the suspect leaped from the building and vanished into the adjacent neighborhood.
The police gave chase and encountered gunfire from other individuals believed to be linked to the suspect.
Then, the police encountered a group of men in the Vanity Fair locale near Linstead and identified the escapee among them.
It was reported that the suspect sustained injuries during the incident.
The injured suspect was then transported by the police to a hospital and is now under medical care with police supervision.
Temporary Halt of Elective Surgeries at Victoria Jubilee Hospital Due to Small Fire.
The Victoria Jubilee Hospital in Kingston has temporarily halted elective surgeries due to a “small fire” near an operating theatre early on Friday morning. Wentworth Charles, the chairman of the South East Regional Health Authority which manages the maternity hospital, confirmed that there were no casualties.
He reported that the fire broke out around 3 a.m. in a nurse’s room near the operating theatre on the building’s second floor.
The maintenance crew successfully contained the fire to the affected room.
Due to significant smoke, staff had to be relocated. The fire was extinguished, and the fire department conducted an inspection, Charles informed The Gleaner.
Elective surgeries were postponed for the day, with plans to resume normal operations by Saturday.
Charles noted that while emergency surgeries continued in a secondary operating theatre, some procedures were transferred to the Kingston Public Hospital, which shares the premises with Victoria Jubilee Hospital.
Fire authorities are investigating to find the cause of the blaze.
Victoria Jubilee Hospital stands as the largest maternal referral center in the English-speaking Caribbean.