O-Wrap: Man nabbed with ganja in cheese tins… Bolt earns ‘indefinite’ football tryout… Ray Ray Market razed by fire again
In case you missed it, here are OBSERVER ONLINE’s top 10 stories for today:
1. Man attempts to smuggle ganja in cheese tins
Police have reported that a St Catherine man has been charged with breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act after he attempted to smuggle 61 pounds of ganja in cheese tins through the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston on Saturday.
2. ‘Check your facts,’ JUTC tells Mikael Phillips
The Jamaican Urban Transit Company (JUTC), in a statement issued today, urged Opposition People’s National Party spokesman on transport Mikael Phillips to “check the source of his information and to refrain from making public pronouncements on matters which may result in additional and unnecessary stress on staff and members of the public”.
3. JamaicaEye not infringing on privacy rights, says security ministry officials
The Ministry of National Security is assuring citizens that its national closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance programme — Jamaica Eye — is not infringing on their right to privacy.
4. Ray Ray Market razed by fire… again
The downtown Kingston market commonly known as Ray Ray Market has been razed by fire again.
5. Firearms, ammunition found buried in St James
Two firearms, along with several assorted rounds of ammunition were found buried by lawmen in an unfinished house in Norwood, St James this morning.
6. $1 billion loss because of climate change — Shaw
Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw is informing that adverse weather conditions have led to $1 billion in losses in the agricultural sector over the past two years.
7. Riverton Dump smoke halts operations at Kingston Freeport
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation Karl Samuda says operations at the Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited have been disrupted as a result of smoke from the Riverton Landfill in St Andrew.
8. Drones to monitor activity at disposal sites — NSWMA
The National Solid Waste Management Authority says it will be thoroughly investigating recent fires that occurred at the Riverton garbage disposal site and 10 other fires at disposal sites across the island over the past two months.
9. Bolt to train with Australia’s Central Coast Mariners football club
Eight-time Olympic champion Usain Bolt will join Australia’s Central Coast Mariners for what the football club described as an “indefinite training period”.
10. Higher fines for illegal dumping coming soon — McKenzie
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, says the new Anti-Litter Act to be tabled in Parliament by year’s end will impose stronger penalties, including higher fines for illegal dumping.
