#LatestNews: Police say they may have cracked open a stolen car ring with reach across the island after a raid in Spanish Town on Friday turned up a dismantled Toyota Axio and signs of a thriving chop shop operation. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251212/st-catherine-raid-exposes-suspected-islandwide-car-theft-ring | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Police say they may have cracked open a stolen car ring with reach across the island after a raid in Spanish Town on Friday turned up a dismantled Toyota Axio and signs of a thriving chop shop operation. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251212/st-catherine-raid-exposes-suspected-islandwide-car-theft-ring | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The police are probing a daring early-morning shooting and robbery attempt this morning along Oxford Road in New Kingston. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251203/police-probing-shooting-and-failed-robbery-along-oxford-road | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The police are probing a daring early-morning shooting and robbery attempt this morning along Oxford Road in New Kingston. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251203/police-probing-shooting-and-failed-robbery-along-oxford-road | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Debris from the sea is strewn across the Long Bay main road, and intense winds signal the early impact of Hurricane Melissa on Portland. The slow-moving but powerful Category 4 hurricane is expected to make landfall along the south coast Monday or Tuesday. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Debris from the sea is strewn across the Long Bay main road, and intense winds signal the early impact of Hurricane Melissa on Portland. The slow-moving but powerful Category 4 hurricane is expected to make landfall along the south coast Monday or Tuesday. | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: For three hours on Wednesday, traffic in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, did not move. Fallen light poles, tangled wires and uprooted trees covered the roadway as rescue crews, police and soldiers struggled to clear a path towards Black River. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251031/hurricane-panic-separates-mother-son#slideshow-1 | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: For three hours on Wednesday, traffic in Lacovia, St Elizabeth, did not move. Fallen light poles, tangled wires and uprooted trees covered the roadway as rescue crews, police and soldiers struggled to clear a path towards Black River. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251031/hurricane-panic-separates-mother-son#slideshow-1 | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Angry residents of 41 Boulevard in Rose Heights blocked the main road leading into their community this morning in protest over the lack of water in the area. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251224/angry-residents-block-road-over-lack-water-rose-heights | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Angry residents of 41 Boulevard in Rose Heights blocked the main road leading into their community this morning in protest over the lack of water in the area. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251224/angry-residents-block-road-over-lack-water-rose-heights | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Three people have died and 13 others injured while preparing for Hurricane Melissa, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton confirmed Monday evening. The deaths occurred in Hanover, St Catherine, and St Elizabeth, where a healthcare worker was killed after a tree fell on him. “We understand the need to prepare but we urge extreme caution in that preparation. If you need help, call for help,” Tufton said. Most injuries were linked to persons falling from ladders or rooftops while makin
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#LatestNews: Three people have died and 13 others injured while preparing for Hurricane Melissa, Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton confirmed Monday evening. The deaths occurred in Hanover, St Catherine, and St Elizabeth, where a healthcare worker was killed after a tree fell on him. “We understand the need to prepare but we urge extreme caution in that preparation. If you need help, call for help,” Tufton said. Most injuries were linked to persons falling from ladders or rooftops while makin
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#LatestNews: Almost 2,000 students currently holding Students’ Loan Bureau loans and attending schools in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, St Elizabeth and Trelawny will each receive a $60,000 grant under a new post-Hurricane Melissa support programme. SLB Executive Director Nickeisha Walsh also announced that loan recipients living in the five parishes will not be required to make any payments for three months, beginning November. And the Finance Minister Fayval Williams also confirmed the impl
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#LatestNews: Almost 2,000 students currently holding Students’ Loan Bureau loans and attending schools in Westmoreland, St James, Hanover, St Elizabeth and Trelawny will each receive a $60,000 grant under a new post-Hurricane Melissa support programme. SLB Executive Director Nickeisha Walsh also announced that loan recipients living in the five parishes will not be required to make any payments for three months, beginning November. And the Finance Minister Fayval Williams also confirmed the impl
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#LatestNews: The majority of Jamaicans are going into Tuesday night without electricity amid widespread flooding, downed utility poles, and blocked roads caused by Hurricane Melissa. Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie said at a Tuesday evening news conference that up to 4 p.m., more than 530,000 customers - about 77 per cent of the Jamaica Public Service customer base — were without power. He said restoration work is under way, with priority being given to hospitals and water pumping sta
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#StarNews: Greenwich Town, St Andrew, resident Jeffery Walker says he had many sleepless nights, after his 12-year-old son Javoy ran away from home, leaving him in tears. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251027/dad-wants-counselling-runaway-child | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A hurricane warning remains in effect for Jamaica as catastrophic Category 3 Hurricane Melissa drifts toward eastern Cuba. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251028/hurricane-warning-remains-effect-jamaica | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Jamaicans are being urged to brace for possible tropical storm conditions later this week as the Meteorological Service has issued a Severe Weather Alert, effective until 6:oo a.m. on Wednesday. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251021/met-service-issues-severe-weather-alert | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The Government says the millions of dollars donated through Hurricane Melissa relief accounts controlled by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) will be used to purchase building materials to rebuild homes. At a news conference on Tuesday, Information Minister Dr Dana Morris-Dixon said a group of engineers from Guyana and the Jamaica Defence Force will spearhead the rebuilding programme. She said most of the houses under the programme will be built in
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#LatestNews: "Mi nearly turn fish." That shocking declaration from Jahazeil Myrie, son of reggae icon Buju Banton, has sent social media into a frenzy just 19 hours after his interview on Sheena Power Talk was uploaded to YouTube. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20260302/‘mi-nearly-turn-fish’-buju-banton’s-son-says-singing-dad’s-song-pushed-him | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: On Thursday, when the news team reached out to the Westmoreland native, he said that he was still homeless, but his voice was filled with hope, after receiving assistance from a fisherman in Antigua and Barbuda. If you’d like to support Esroy Holness the fisherman, you can reach him at 876-566-7508. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A cordon has been mounted along Grange Lane in Portmore, St Catherine following a fatal police shoot-out this afternoon. The STAR was informed by the police that a chase with men aboard a Toyota Axio motor car started in Spanish Town and ended along Grange Lane. The occupants reportedly opened fire at the police, who returned fire. At least one fatality has been reported by the police. The STAR was informed that the occupants ran from the car. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Hurricane Melissa has again strengthened, with maximum sustained winds now at 145 miles per hour (230 km/h), up from 140 mph earlier Sunday, as Jamaica braces for a potentially catastrophic landfall within 48 hours. In its 5 p,m. bulletin on Sunday, the Meteorological Service of Jamaica said the Category 4 hurricane is located about 185 kilometres (115 miles) south-southwest of Kingston and is moving slowly westward at 5 miles per hour (7 km/h). | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: When Category 5 Hurricane Melissa unleashed chaos across Jamaica, 40-year-old American businesswoman Jetia Miller discovered something entirely unexpected — love. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A determined smile never left Pamaline Baggo's face as she sifted through the rubble of her seaside eatery in St Ann Bay on Wednesday. For the second time in a year, Miss Pam's Fish Joint lay in splintered wood and twisted zinc, flattened by Hurricane Melissa. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251030/hurricane-melissa-destroys-st-ann-restaurant-owner-stays-positive | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Tropical Storm Melissa continues to pose a threat to Jamaica as both a tropical storm warning and hurricane watch remain in effect, even as the system drifts east-southeast over the Caribbean Sea. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251024/jamaica-braces-ts-melissa-storm-strengthens-caribbean | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: An additional 100 line workers are to arrive in Jamaica by the end of the week to help speed up the restoration of electricity across the island, the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) says. JPS’ president and CEO, Hugh Grant, says the company is also bringing in additional equipment, including more than 50 bucket trucks to bolster the resources here. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The Government is reporting that the death toll from Hurricane Melissa has risen to 28. The update was provided on Saturday. The Category 5 storm made landfall on Tuesday, causing widespread devastation in western parishes. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Heavy rains lashed sections of Westmoreland on Tuesday night, following Hurricane Melissa, leaving parts of Bay Road under several inches of water and residents counting their losses. Water gushed across the main road, having nowhere to go as the culvert, which runs beneath the road, remains partially blocked and too narrow to mange the rush of the water. Each time there is heavy rain, Bay Road and McNeils Land residents brace themselves for the same outcome. The blocked culvert has
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#LatestNews: Tension flared in Jones Town, St Andrew, as residents took to the streets to protest the fatal police shooting of 55-year-old Lucien Anderson on Sunday morning. | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: Though Hurricane Melissa hit the western end of the island hardest, some people in the eastern parishes were also affected. In Enfield, St. Mary, Natalie Bryce lost her home during the hurricane, but she still keeps a smile on her face. SEE MORE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_34KCIYmV6A | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A fire overnight damaged part of the newly renovated Court of Appeal building in downtown Kingston, disrupting operations for stakeholders. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20250730/overnight-fire-damages-court-appeal-building-kingston | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A motor vehicle collision involving a taxi and a motorist occurred earlier today along Orange Street in Kingston. Injuries have been reported. Police and firefighters responded to the scene. Motorists are advised to expect delays as emergency crews work to clear the area and conduct investigations. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A mid-morning attempted robbery along Grove Road in St Andrew on Wednesday ended with gunfire and a trip to hospital for a would-be robber. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20260121/thief-shot-trying-steal-motorcycle-st-andrew | The Jamaica Star
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#StarSports: Steve McClaren has resigned as head coach of the Reggae Boyz, following tonight’s scoreless draw between Jamaica and Curacao at the National Stadium. With the result, Jamaica missed out on automatic qualification to the 2026 FIFA World Cup. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: According to reports, a 74-year-old man died Thursday morning in a fire at the Gallery Apartment in New Kingston. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251009/74-y-o-man-killed-new-kingston-apartment-blaze | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Over 60 taxi operators who traverse the Guys Hill, Linstead, and Redwood routes withdrew their services this morning in protest against deplorable road conditions. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/pf1ozz | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Police are probing a fatal shooting in Papine, St Andrew, this morning, where a dispute between neighbours ended with one in custody and another shot multiple times, including in his head. READ MORE: https://tinyurl.com/2yh4rdcv | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: As Tropical Storm Rafael moves close to the southern coastline of Jamaica and strengthens, the Tropical Storm Warning remains in effect for the island. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Residents have created a fiery blockade in protest over the police killing of Jadean Gooden on Grants Pen Dive, St Andrew this morning. Motorists are advised to use alternate routes. Up to May 20, the police were involved in 131 fatal shootings. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A group of protesters have gathered outside the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre in St Andrew for a demonstration led by the human rights group Jamaicans for Justice, in response to the recent rise in police-related killings. | The Jamaica Star
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#StarEntertainment: In the second edition of the 'Party on Wheels' feature, THE WEEKEND STAR journeyed to St Elizabeth to capture the story of mobile sound owner/operator, Janavia 'Tata' Williams, who said his mobile services have boosted the entertainment landscape in the Junction area, which is now dubbed the parish's new 'party hub'. SEE MORE: http://tiny.cc/vo82001 | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews : A Wisynco delivery truck crashed into the wetlands along the Hellshire main road in St Catherine on Tuesday afternoon, the police say. The driver was rushed to hospital. The cause of the crash is not immediately clear. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A trailer truck this afternoon crashed along Harbour Street in downtown Kingston, causing minor damage to a building. A light pole and a bike were also hit. The truck’s brakes reportedly failed, causing the driver to take evasive action. No injuries were reported. Firefighters responded to the incident. The crash has resulted in a major traffic pile-up. | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: Six people were shot last night on 77 Lane in Waltham Park Road, St Andrew, sending shock waves through the already troubled inner-city community. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/gkgxzz | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews:The National Works Agency reports that sections of Ocho Rios, St Ann are experiencing flooding due to heavy rainfall earlier today. Motorists are advised to proceed with caution on the roadways. The rain is expected to continue affecting the parish throughout the day. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: December 31, 2024 has been confirmed as the date for dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel’s ‘Freedom Concert' following his release from prison at the end of July. “This New Year’s Eve countdown gonna be one for the books,” Cordel ‘Skatta’ Burrell, a member of the Downsound Entertainment management team, wrote under an Instagram post showing Kartel signing papers with Downsound Records CEO Joe Bogdanovich. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: An employee of the RJRGLEANER Group was reportedly shot and injured at the intersection of Seashore Place and Norman Manley Boulevard in Kingston on Tuesday morning. Further details will be provided as they become available. | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: Chaos erupted in Spaldings, on the Manchester-Clarendon border yesterday when four men, allegedly part of a gang of robbers, found themselves cornered in the storeroom of a supermarket during a brazen heist. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/muh0001 | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Several taxi operators took to the streets of May Pen, Clarendon this morning in protest of alleged harassment from members of the Transport Authority. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/dkv8001 | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: There was a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of East and Port Royal streets in downtown Kingston this morning. Emergency services responded. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Multiple businesses at risk as fire at Azan Supercentre warehouse on Ashenheim Road, Kingston, continues to spread. Firefighters are trying to control the blaze. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Taxi operators and residents joined forces earlier today creating a road block on along Waltham Park Road in St Andrew to protest the deplorable state of the road. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/07r8001 | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews The police have recovered the body of 26-year-old Alric Moncrieffe, who was washed away by floodwaters in Havana, Arnett Gardens, St Andrew during the passage of Hurricane Beryl last week. READ MORE: http://tiny.cc/wcm3zz | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: With Jamaica now under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch, Manager of the Meteorological Service, Rohan Brown, is urging Jamaicans to be vigilant and carefully monitor updates on Tropical Storm Melissa. READ MORE: http://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251023/met-service-urges-jamaicans-stay-alert-melissa-speeds | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: Camille* is a mother of five. For the past three years, she has been living with the father of her two-year-old daughter. But now, a new baby and a tangled love affair have sparked serious drama about who is the father of her newborn. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY (@polygenics876 ) | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: At just 10 years old Kaillie Brown has learnt the power of patience, purpose and the dollar. Instead of a new gadget or an outfit to match the festivities of the Yuletide season, the 10-year-old Iris Gelly Primary School student has quietly been saving to complete something bigger - her room. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: Members of the Jamaica Fire Brigade and the Jamaica Constabulary Force are processing the scene of an explosion at the Burger King restaurant on Knutsford Boulevard in New Kingston. Preliminary reports suggest that two persons were rushed to hospital. | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The Meteorological Service of Jamaica to maintain both a Tropical Storm Warning and a Hurricane Watch for the island as Tropical Storm Melissa is slowly strengthening as it drifts north-northwest across the Caribbean Sea. READ MORE: https://jamaica-star.com/article/news/20251023/ts-melissa-could-become-major-hurricane-weekend-met-service | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: A man from St Catherine has been charged with malicious communication after he reportedly shared a video that contained explicit material about his ex-lover. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: The Government is exploring the prospect of using more than 1,000 containers currently sitting idle at the Port of Kingston as possible temporary housing solutions for persons affected by Hurricane Melissa. Read FULL STORY on our IG STORY | The Jamaica Star
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#LatestNews: This morning, a protest was staged at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) by staff and students over the death of fellow student Anisa Dilworth, whose skeletal remains they believe were found on Saturday. READ MORE: https://tinyurl.com/6htk6rak | The Jamaica Star
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#StarNews: Despite being more than 10 years apart in age, new 'viral couple on the block, Princess Diana and Bubi, say they are proof that true love still exists and that age is just a number. Princess Diana, given name Keisha Hammond, and Bubi (Devaney Bernett), are the talk of TikTok and have amassed more than 25,000 followers during their 18-month relationship. Read more: https://tinyurl.com/297nhrvs Watch more: https://tinyurl.com/2eyx2m6a 📹: Simone Morgan-Lindo, Taheem Thomas | The Jamaica
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#LatestNews: A driver and two passengers in a truck today escaped injuries after the vehicle they were travelling overturned in Devon Pen, Junction, St Mary. It is reported that the driver of the truck was trying to make way for a car while negotiating a corner when the incident occurred. | The Jamaica Star
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