February 2018 - Jamaica Beacon

LLUIDAS VALE: Man with disability dies after being shot in Top Hill

Horace MillsFeb 23, 2018November 10, 20180

Omar Newton, who could neither hear nor speak since birth, died at the University Hospital of the West Indies this morning (February 23) - more than a month after gunmen shot him in the face during a robbery at Cock Crow in Top Hill district, Lluidas Vale, St Catherine. The…

‘I cannot see colour anymore’

Horace MillsFeb 1, 2018February 16, 20190

Coretta Bodden-Dunne now feels like black royalty because she knows what it felt like to have been tortured with deep-cutting slurs especially throughout her childhood years. Her only crime, in the eyes of a predominantly black society, is that she wears a darker shade than many. “Being classified as the…