KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, says she is saddened and in shock at the killing of athletics coach Nicholas Neufville and 19-year-old Raheima Edwards.

“Words cannot express how I feel at this moment,” said Grange after 

learning that the bodies of the coach and the young woman were discovered in Portmore, St Catherine on Monday.

Minister Grange has offered sincere condolences to their families and called on 

anyone with information to come forward.

The Minister said Neufville, who worked at Calabar High School and at 

Kensington Primary School, was “one of Jamaica’s most promising athletics coaches. He was a great supporter of the Institute of Sports Primary Schools Athletics Championships. We could always rely on his feedback on how to make Primary Champs better and more meaningful for the young athletes.

Grange commended Neufville for “assisting young people to develop their 

skills and techniques after completing his own career as a student athlete, having represented Calabar and Jamaica in the long and triple jumps.