Reid condemns murder of Charlemont High School teacher
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator Ruel Reid has expressed “outrage” over the brutal killing of 35-year-old Tanijah Howell, a teacher at Charlemont High School in Linstead, St Catherine.
Howell’s body was found Saturday morning in bushes in Barrett Hall, St Ann.
Reid said the ministry has offered condolences to the family of Howell as well as his school family.
He urged “well thinking Jamaicans who have any knowledge of this brutal killing to report to the authorities as soon as possible”.
The education minister stressed that that “we have to work together to ensure that the scourge of crime and violence is removed from our country by saying what we know in order to make Jamaica a safer place”.
The teacher was allegedly killed while on a chartered transportation job in St Catherine, something he did in his spare time.