THE GLEANER MINUTE: JPS blackout on hold | COVID shopping rush | Driver sentenced | Dayton’s lawsuit?
Mar 25th, 2021 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:50March 25, 2021: The Jamaica Public Service Company has called off plans for a half-day power blackout in sections of St Andrew on Saturday… There were shopping long lines and thick traffic across the corporate area on Thursday as people begin preparing for the weekend lockdown. ..Leon Hines, the man who drove the getaway car in the killing of banker Andrea Lowe-Garwood has been sentenced to six years in prison for illegal possession of a firearm and one year for accessory after the fact to murder…Karen cross, the PNP supporter who wrote a scandalously damaging letter alleging criminal conduct by a senior PNP official is refusing to say whether she has made a report to the police or will withdraw
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: JA, Cuba medical arrangement ends | Jolyan Silvera sentencing | Oil price spike
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Leoda Bradshaw assault case postponed | Murder rate drop | 5-y-o drowns in pit
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Jolyan Silvera sentencing open to public | South Africa defeats WI at World Cup
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Two suspects named in fatal gun attack | PM ‘tone-deaf’ to accept pay increase
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: UWI open to med students in Cuba | Robbery at GraceKennedy | 2 murders in St Thomas
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Pembroke Hall High literacy improves | Patient dies on Bellevue compound
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: New taxes, economist disagrees | 3 minors charged for security threats | U17 Reggae Boyz World Cup bound
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Mother, daughter fatally shot | No change on Corruption Index | 5.6 magnitude earthquake
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THE GLEANER MINUTE: Chief Justice Sykes accepts Silvera’s guilty plea | Schools to allow jackets


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