The family of 27-year-old Oshine Lawrence hosted a candlelight vigil on Sunday, claiming that she is the person whose bullet-riddled body was found in a soldier’s car just over a week ago. Lawrence’s mother, Margaret Brown, said her daughter is from Old Harbour in St Catherine and was a sex worker in Kingston. The St…
A member of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Javaugnie Lewis, died today after he suffered serious head injuries when the service vehicle in which he was travelling slammed into a utility pole at Grange Hill, Westmoreland. The accident, which claimed the life of the St Ann native, unfolded shortly after 9 o’clock last evening, February…
A Jamaica Defence Force lieutenant is in police custody following the stabbing death of his wife, 34-year-old attorney-at-law Nordraka Williams-Burnett. The incident happened at the couple’s home in West Kirkland Heights, Kingston 19, shortly before daybreak today, December 13, said the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). It further explained: “Reports from the Red Hills Police are…
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has disclosed that the men suspected of murdering a soldier from the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) at Bambury in Linstead, St Catherine, have been arrested. The 30-year-old military man, David ‘Speedy’ Howard, was shot dead in a confrontation with three gunmen during a robbery shortly before 9pm on July 10. He…
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has described as heart-wrenching, the story about Jamaica Defence Force soldier David ‘Speedy’ Howard, who was gunned down at Bambury in Linstead, St Catherine, shortly before 9pm on July 10. The 30-year-old soldier was off duty at the time he was murdered during a robbery that transpired when he stopped to…
A soldier from the Jamaica Defence Force was shot dead during a confrontation with three gunmen at Banbury district in Linstead, St Catherine, shortly before 9 o’ clock last evening, July 10. He is 30-year-old David Howard, otherwise called Speedy, from Kingston 11. The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) told Jamaica Beacon that the soldier was…
