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Weekly Round-up: Vybz Kartel moved… West Kingston violence intensifies… JLP’s mosquito moment
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November 19, 2016

Weekly Round-up: Vybz Kartel moved… West Kingston violence intensifies… JLP’s mosquito moment

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Imprisoned deejay Vybz Kartel was transferred from the Horizon Adult Remand Centre on Spanish Town Road and placed at the maximum security Tower Street Adult Correctional Facility in Kingston, it was revealed Wednesday.

Despite his incarceration, it is said that Kartel still records music, an allegation that producers have denied. Speculations are that the move is to counter the recordings.

A Jamaican man is to be extradited to Canada where he is wanted on 12 counts of aggravated sexual assault.? The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions on Thursday said that George Flowers has been accused of having unprotected sex with four women knowing that he was HIV-positive and without informing them of his status.

Police on Wednesday warned the public to avoid the West Kingston section of the city after the lawmen came under heavy gunfire. The police later reported the arrest of two men following a gun find that same evening.

There is a recent flare-up of violence in the area resulting in several murders. This week, a vendor was killed in the Coronation Market, leaving other vendors in fear. The police were quick in apprehending a suspect in the Tuesday morning murder.

Despite several issues such as street lighting and the functioning of parish councils being highlighted in Wednesday’s local government debate, an appeal by the Jamaica Labour Party’s Kenisha Allen to vote against the PNP dominated post-debate talks.

In sport, World Championships 4x400m relay gold medallist Christine Day and Commonwealth Games 400m hurdles gold medallist Kaliese Spencer have reportedly joined World Championships and Olympic Games champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce at the Reynaldo Walcott-led track and field training camp in St Elizabeth.? And, Wolmer’s Boys were on Saturday triumphant in the ISSA/ Flow Super Cup football final, beating Cornwall College 1-0 to claim its first hold on the trophy and the $1 million prize money.

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