JAMAICA NOW: Heavy rain across Jamaica | Harsher penalties for bomb threats | Murder convict says sorry
Nov 17th, 2023 | Category: Jamaica Now | 14:32#JamaicaGleaner #Rain #ODPEM #PhillipPaulwell #Westmoreland #NCB #NevilleGarrick #BobMarley NOVEMBER 17, 2023: Jamaica’s emergency agency, ODPEM, warns persons in flood-prone areas to be on the alert for flooding… The Government announced it will be reviewing laws to increase the penalties for persons who spread panic and disrupt public life through hoaxes like empty bomb threats… One of the men in the murder of MP Phillip Paulwell’s daughter and her mother hopes Jamaicans will one day forgive him… Government and Opposition lawmakers at odds over the non-sharing of an opinion on Integrity Commission Reports… The Police have charged the taxi operator, Delroy Rodney, over the deaths of five people following a collision on the Bluefields Main Road in Westmoreland on Monday… The multibillion-dollar
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