THE GLEANER MINUTE: $18m gamble | Families left homeless | Victory for Fraser-Pryce, Jackson
Aug 8th, 2022 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 2:01AUGUST 8, 2022: It cost taxpayers $43 million to cover foreign minister Kamina Johnson Smith’s campaign for Commonwealth Secretary General and the country’s delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Rwanda in June … Several families from James Street and Smith Lane in central Kingston are homeless after fire destroyed their houses on Monday morning … A man described as the mastermind behind the illegal importation of 21 guns into the island in March this year was arrested in Ocho Rios, St. Ann, on August 7 … IN SPORTS: Jamaica’s Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ran 10.67s and Shericka Jackson 22.02s to win the 100m and 200m respectively at the penultimate World Athletics’ Continental Tour meet in Hungary on Monday.
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