THE GLEANER MINUTE: Gang leader captured | NWC workers stage sickout | Christopher Taylor is back
Apr 22nd, 2025 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:57#JamaicaGleaner APRIL 22, 2025: A reputed Corporate Area gang leader, who was wanted by the police in connection with a triple murder, was arrested on Monday during an operation at a primary school in St Andrew, where an event was scheduled to take place… Seventy-one-year-old Ikodel Wright, a janitor of Berwick Road in St Andrew, succumbed to injuries she sustained after being struck by a minibus in Cross Roads on Monday… The Health Ministry says just around 10 per cent of the approximately 200 facilities being operated across Jamaica as nursing homes are formally registered… Dozens of workers of the National Water Commission have been staging a sickout since Monday over wage-related issues, disrupting the supply of water to several communities…
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