THE GLEANER MINUTE: Island wide floods...Search for Andre Burnett...54 year old to serve 18 years
Oct 26th, 2020 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:45OCTOBER 26, 2020: Many streets in Jamaica became rivers, dozens of communities marooned and property destroyed as weekend rains associated with tropical storm Zeta flooded parts of the country... And a search is now underway at Frenchman Beach in St Elizabeth for the body of popular entrepreneur Andre Burnett who is believed to have drowned... There are concerns that the decision of a judge to give a man with a criminal history a suspended prison sentence for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl may have enabled him to return to his old ways... Jamaica recorded 35 coronavirus cases on Sunday, one of its lowest COVID-19 daily counts in weeks as the death toll inches closer to 200...IN SPORTS: Manchester
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