THE GLEANER MINUTE: Wards abused | Ruel Reid-CMU case | Canadian extradition | Pension for elderly
Feb 4th, 2021 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:50FEBRUARY 04, 2021: The Independent Commission of Investigations has flagged the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre for subjecting wards to human-rights abuse for trifling misdemeanors…Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks has ruled that former Education Minister Ruel Reid, Caribbean Maritime University President Professor Fritz Pinnock, and their three co-accused have a fraud case to answer and the matter is to proceed to trial… A 52-year-old Canadian man who was extradited from Jamaica to the United States has been charged for being involved in a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme…Senior citizens aged 75 years and older who are not currently benefitting from a pension or any other retirement income, old age or disability payment scheme will now be eligible to receive $3,400 monthly…IN SPORTS:
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