Schoolgirl on wounding charge

LUCEA, Hanover – A 16-year-old student of the Ruseas High School in Hanover was yesterday arrested and charged with unlawful wounding shortly after she allegedly stabbed her classmate with a knife during a dispute on the school compound.

The police said that during the dispute, the accused allegedly used a knife to inflict five stab wounds – two each on the head and left hand and the other in the chest – on her classmate.

The accused was taken into custody by the Lucea Police while the injured student was treated at the Noel Holmes Hospital and later released.

The accused is scheduled to appear in the Lucea Resident Magistrate’s Court next Tuesday.

Tyndall is new JUTC chairman

FORMER Financial Secretary, Shirley Tyndall, has been named chairperson of the new board of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), which was approved by the Cabinet, yesterday.

Tyndall, a career public officer, has served on the boards of Cable & Wireless, the Bank of Jamaica, and FINSAC in the past and currently chairs the National Contracts Commission (NCC). A member of the outgoing JUTC board, she replaces Norton Hinds, who now heads the Transport Authority of Jamaica.

New board members are Ray Barrett, head of the National Health Fund; the Rev Courtney Golding; KSAC Councillor Basil Gordon (Whitfield Town); Sylvester Anderson, chairman of the newly formed National Parent Teachers Association; and Dr Judith Robinson.

Previous members who have been reassigned to the board are Robert Gregory, executive director of the HEART Trust/NTA, Sterling Soares, a former president of the JUTC, Hugh Graham, Senior Superintendent Elan Powell, attorney-at-law Valerie Neita Robertson and Dr Leary Myers, UWI lecturer.Police find body of missing Portland woman

ELGIN TOWN, Hanover – The search for a missing Hanover woman yesterday afternoon, has led to the discovery of the body of a missing Portland woman whom the police believe may have been strangled and abandoned in the deep hilly terrain of this community by her attacker.

The dead woman has been identified as Patrice Clarke, a 25-year-old babysitter of Windsor in Portland.

The police theorise that the Clarke and her suspected killer may have met in a cellular phone chat room.

Meanwhile, the police, with assistance of community members are continuing their search for Dionne Jackson, 27, of Santoy, Hanover who went missing last Friday.