THE GLEANER MINUTE: Mother charged with cruelty to a child | Sagicor fraud case postponed to July 14
Apr 9th, 2025 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 2:11#JamaicaGleaner APRIL 9, 2025: A 24-year-old St Catherine mother has been charged with cruelty to a child after her four-year-old daughter sustained burns from falling into a lit coal stove while the woman was beating her… The St Thomas Police are investigating the sudden death of a colleague, Constable Jason Beckford, who collapsed while walking in the parish on Tuesday night… The trial of the four former employees in the Sagicor multimillion-dollar fraud case has been postponed to July 14 in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. It was scheduled to start on Monday… Trustee Caydion Campbell says US$550,000 or J$78 million is available in a compensation fund to pay victims of the alleged multibillion-dollar fraud at collapsed investment firm
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