THE GLEANER MINUTE: British man fined $750K for cocaine | JDF soldier arrested in NCB phishing scam
Nov 27th, 2024 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 2:00#JamaicaGleaner NOVEMBER 27, 2024: Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon says initiatives such as the water bill debt forgiveness and electricity tax cut announced Sunday are to ease cost of living pressures and not to secure votes ahead of next year’s general election… Glenn Mason, a British man who was held with one and a half pounds of cocaine hidden inside two pairs of slippers at Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport in September has been ordered to pay a total fine of $750,000… Law enforcers on Tuesday arrested a Jamaica Defence Force soldier in a fraud probe involving the National Commercial Bank and over $47 million dollars… New York-based Trinidadian Soca artiste Yankey Boy has gone on a hunger strike as
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