THE GLEANER MINUTE: Six firefighters electrocuted | Policeman killed in St Ann | CXC leak verdict
Apr 16th, 2024 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 2:04#JamaicaGleaner APRIL 16, 2024: Six firefighters received an electric shock while working at the scene of a house fire in Greenwich Farm, St Andrew early Tuesday morning. Three of them are hospitalised… A policeman, Constable Ricardo Fairclough, was fatally shot in St Ann on Monday night… Former Parliamentary Clerk Valrie Curtis says she will accept nothing less than a public withdrawal by House Speaker Juliet Holness of a letter in which she was accused of gross dereliction of duty weeks before retirement… Three teachers at Steer Town Academy in St Ann, including Principal Sharn Mangol, are to know their fates Tuesday afternoon following a disciplinary hearing arising from a probe into an alleged massive Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Examination fraud at
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