THE GLEANER MINUTE: CAPRI upsets Church...residents taunt hurt boy...Leslie Laing dies
Feb 8th, 2021 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:50FEBRUARY 08, 2021: Religious interest group Jamaica CAUSE has described as atrocious, disgraceful and alarming, a proposal that minors should be allowed to terminate pregnancies without parental consent…A boy who was chopped multiple times and whose penis was dismembered in August 2019 is allegedly being taunted by residents of his St Thomas Community…High-school principals are insisting on a revision of the face-to-face policy as the health authorities deal with a record-breaking surge in corona virus cases in the island…Meanwhile, Jamaica confirmed 1,048 corona virus cases between February 4 and February 7, representing six per cent of the 17,298 cases on record for the island so far…IN SPORTS: Leslie Laing, who was part of the record-breaking Jamaican team to win
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