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O-WRAP:  Another ‘One Voice’ gangster killed…  Foetus found… Akon lights up Africa
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Times New Roman;">Senegalese-American rapper Akon </span>(Photo: AFP)
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March 5, 2017

O-WRAP: Another ‘One Voice’ gangster killed… Foetus found… Akon lights up Africa

In case you missed it, here are OBSERVER ONLINE’s top 10 stories for today.1. Another member of ‘One Voice’ gang killed — policeFull story here2. Court refuses recording in ‘police death squad’ trialFull story here

Lawmen on Saturday night killed another man who they claim is associated with the ‘One Voice’ gang operating in Hanover.

The prosecution in the ‘police death squad’ trial suffered a blow today after Justice Jennifer Straw refused to admit a recording, which the prosecution argued contained one of the accused officers talking about the squad.

3. Flash flood watch in effect for eastern parishesFull story hereFull story here5. Rapper Akon lights up two more African nationsFull story here6. ONLINE POLL RESULTS: JLP did well during year-one in officeFull story here7. Trump travel order to apply to those seeking new visasFull story here8. Heavy waves force closure of Orange Bay to Windsor Castle road in PortlandFull story here9. Machete-wielding men chase patient at St Lucia hospitalFull story here10. Pension plan for tourism workers in September — BartlettFull story here

A Flash Flood Watch remains in effect for low-lying and flood-prone areas of St Mary, Portland and St Thomas due to a cold front west of Jamaica.

4. Foetus found in Denham Town

A foetus was this morning found abandoned on Nelson Street in the West Kingston community of Denham Town.

American artiste Akon over the weekend added The Gambia and Cape Verde to his Akon Lighting Africa initiative, a fund that already helps populations who struggle to connect to limited or absent national grids in 25 African countries.

Seventy-three per cent of the 2,952 respondents to the latest OBSERVER ONLINE poll said that the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) did well during their first year in office.

President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban will temporarily halt entry to the United States for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas, allowing those with current visas to travel freely, according to AP.

The National Works Agency (NWA) today closed the Orange Bay to Windsor Castle main road, in the vicinity of the tax office in Buff Bay, Portland due to significant erosion caused by the inclement weather.

The St Lucia government on Monday “strongly condemned” an incident at the island’s main hospital over the weekend where men armed with cutlasses forced hospital staff to seek cover as they pursued a patient who had earlier been brought to the facility for treatment.

Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett says that a pension plan for tourism workers will come on stream in September of this year.

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