Infant allegedly bites baby to death

THE Spanish Town police were yesterday investigating the death of a two-month-old baby who was allegedly bitten to death by a four-year-old girl in Irish Pen, St Catherine earlier this week.

While the details surrounding the baby’s death were unclear, police sources said that the child died on Sunday after receiving several bite wounds from the four- year-old.

It was also reported yesterday that the four-year-old child who allegedly committed the murder had allegedly carried out similar attacks in the past.

Family loses AIDS blood case

THE family of Richard Facey, the 13-year-old boy who contracted the deadly AIDS virus while in a government hospital, has lost the $29-million lawsuit it had brought against several government entities.

The Supreme Court threw out the lawsuit against the Ministry of Health, the National Blood Transfusion Centre (Blood Bank) and the Bustamante Hospital for Children, which they claimed was responsible for the boy contracting the virus.

The family had filed a $29-million suit against the Ministry of Health, the Blood Bank and the Bustamante Hospital for Children in Kingston, after the 13-year-old haemophiliac contracted the virus from a blood transfusion at the children’s hospital where he was a patient in 1997.

Air J to seek partner

NEWLY appointed board chairman of Air Jamaica and former opposition spokesperson on commerce, Shirley Williams, says the board’s first order of business will be to identify a partner for the national carrier in order to ease the government of its liabilities.

“As the board we are working with a mandate from the government which says they would like us to find a suitable partner because as you know Air Jamaica is a liability to the government,” Williams told the Observer last night.

Yesterday, Transport Minister Mike Henry confirmed that Williams would head up the airline which has been operating at a loss for some time now.

The other board members are Noel Hylton, Rex Nettleford, Kingsley Cooper, Ian Kerr, Tony Lindo, Marcia Forbes, Carolyn Hayles, Ian Moore, John Lynch, Kevin Lue and Millicent Hughes.