THE GLEANER MINUTE: Schools get security scare | Ja-born British man found dead | $342m Super Lotto winner
Nov 9th, 2023 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:56#JamaicaGleaner NOVEMBER 9, 2023: The Police responded to several schools across Jamaica after hundreds of students were sent home over a security concern… Sixty-year-old Robert Dyer, the Jamaica-born British man who went missing on Sunday after going for a "nature walk" in the hilly Ballards Valley area of St Elizabeth, was found dead on Thursday… Taxi operator, Andre Johnson was shot in his leg by a policeman in New Kingston… A player from Hanover struck luck this week, winning the $342-million-dollar Super Lotto Jackpot… IN SPORTS: Young Jamaican sensation and Chelsea-bound forward Dujuan ‘Whisper’ Richards was withdrawn from the Reggae Boyz Squad to face Guatemala in an international friendly in the USA.
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