THE GLEANER MINUTE: Decline in births at Victoria Jubilee | New Pope named | 50 rounds of ammo found
May 8th, 2025 | Category: The Gleaner Minute | 1:42#JamaicaGleaner #BirthRate #NewPope #Pope #LeoXIV #Catholic #Cricket MAY 8, 2025: The Victoria Jubilee Hospital, Jamaica’s largest maternity facility, is seeing what is being called a significant decline in live births, moving from over 500 deliveries per month to just over 300… Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was on Thursday elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church… Corporal Elaine Stewart, one of the three cops charged in relation to the 2014 death of Mario Deane, on Thursday gave an unsworn statement declaring her innocence… A police operation in the Kingston West Police Division on Wednesday night led to the
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