THE Major Investigation Taskforce (MIT) said it has made little progress in its probe of the murder of 53-year-old Heart Trust NTA lecturer Clive Grossette.

“We have nothing right now; no leads or anything. Up until yesterday (Friday) we were still collecting statements. I don’t know if anything has changed today,” head of the MIT Superintendent Errol Green told the Observer on Saturday.

Grossette, who was also lieutenant governor for a division of the Kiwanis Club International, was discovered dead in an office last Tuesday at the Heart Trust’s Vocational Training Institute campus on Gordon Town Road, St Andrew, by a co-worker who called the police.

The body had multiple gunshot wounds.

Police theorised that the weapon used by his attacker may have been equipped with a silencer as no member of staff reported hearing explosions.

Grossette’s killing shocked members of the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston, who spent much of their weekly meeting at the Hilton Kingston Hotel last Wednesday reflecting on his life. Many persons fought back tears as they read tributes to him.

“He was such a gentle spirit, a talented gentleman, a beautiful soul, and a man of his word; If he said he was going to do something that you asked him to do, it would be done,” said Winsome Levy, lieutenant governor of excellence of the New Kingston club.

“He is really going to be missed, and his family is going to be devastated by this, so we Kiwanians will have to rally around them with our prayers through it,” she continued.

President of the Kiwanis Club of New Kingston Valerie Crawford was equal in her praise, highlighting Grossette’s love for children.

“The library in Stony Hill was refurbished under President Clive’s year, he used trailers to take books to children in schools in that area, and was very close to the Homestead Place of Safety for Boys,” Crawford said, listing some of Grossette’s achievements.

“We will surely miss him, but we have to be strong and carry on the good work that he did,” she continued.

Assistant Police Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, who was special guest speaker at the meeting, while offering his condolences to the bereaved family, reiterated calls for corporate Jamaica to sever their ties with organised criminal enterprises.

“I cannot understand how corporate Jamaica can be so complicit in financing criminal gangs,” he said. “We have reached a stage where we need to step back and look at how we have contributed to gangs and stop it.”

“Some of us put up with extortion not knowing that it is the criminals’ single most important way of controlling us… We must all work together or we will be hung separately,” he said.