BUSINESSWOMAN Audrey Hinchcliffe, president of the Jamaica Employers’ Federation (JEF), has received another death threat, this time warning her that a hit man has been paid US$9,285 to kill her.

Last week Wednesday Hinchcliffe went public that since August 4 she had received four threatening letters from someone claiming to be a senior nurse, with the second letter containing a bullet and threats to kill her children.

The letters accused Hinchcliffe, who heads the janitorial company Manpower and Maintenance Services, of receiving political favours from the former People’s National Party administration in the tendering for janitorial services at hospitals.

Hinchcliffe told the Observer last Friday that she had also received an anonymous telephone call, telling her to “purchase her coffin”.

This latest letter, dated November 10, questioned Hinchcliffe’s reason for going public and warned that a contract for US$9,285 was placed on her life.

The letter also cautioned Hinchcliffe against going public again. “We sat and wondered what exactly is your motive and what is it that you are hoping to achieve (going public),” said the letter to Hinchcliffe, a copy of which was obtained by the Observer.

“.Your days are numbered.,” said the letter writer, adding that someone close to her was providing information about her activities.

“I shouldn’t even be putting you on your guard since you have gone public and the hit man who got all the money has to be changing his plan, and as such is demanding more money,” said the letter writer who signed as ‘concerned nurse’.

The letters have been passed on to the police who have been conducting an investigation.

Hinchcliffe, a registered nurse, was nominated one of the 50 most influential Jamaican women by Observer’s all woman magazine on Monday.