O-WRAP: Gorge now open… UWI to unveil Garvey statue… Students to be trained as crash investigators
In case you missed it, here are OBSERVER ONLINE’s top 10 stories for today.
1. Bog Walk Gorge now openThe National Works Agency (NWA), today advised that the Bog Walk Gorge in St Catherine is open.
2. Double murder in May PenA bar operator was found slumped under the counter of a bar in Rectory Land, May Pen, Clarendon, and a male patron in close proximity to the establishment after residents heard explosions on Tuesday night.
3. High school students to be trained as crash investigatorsTransport and Mining Minister, Mike Henry has disclosed that starting this summer, through a pilot project, students of Denbigh High School in Clarendon will be trained by the Caribbean Maritime University to become traffic crash investigators and re-constructionists.
4. 8 arrested on suspicion of shooting, lottery scam; 3 held during gun findEleven people in St James were yesterday arrested over firearm seizures, shooting and lottery scamming in during joint police/military operations in the Rose Heights area.
5. LASCO invests over US$23m in expansion thrustThe LASCO affiliated companies invested over US$23 million on expansion efforts across LASCO Manufacturing Limited (LASM), LASCO Distributors Limited (LASD) and LASCO Financial Services Limited (LASF) in the past financial year.
6. No injuries in latest JUTC bus fireA Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus caught fire this morning on Dunrobin Avenue.
7. 1 dead, 19 injured in Times Square car crashA car slammed into a crowd of pedestrians in New York’s bustling Times Square on Thursday, leaving one person dead and at least 19 others injured in what officials said was an accident.
8. UWI to unveil Marcus Garvey statueThe University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus will be unveiling a statue of Marcus Garvey tomorrow.
9. Vendors displaced in Kingston Craft Market fire to get space in repaired facility – UDCGeneral Manager of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC) Dr Damian Graham says that all individuals who were displaced by a fire which razed some 18 shops at the Kingston Craft Market last month will be accommodated in retrofitted space within the current facility.
10. NWA clearing roads, doing damage assessmentsThe National Works Agency (NWA) is clearing roads and completing assessments following extensive damage to the infrastructure in several parishes as a result of the recent heavy rainfall.
