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08/11/2022

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01/11/2022

💔 Woman Decapitated By Her Only Child In St. James 💔

A mother of one was decapitated by her only son in Retirement District, St. James yesterday. The son who is believed to be mentally ill is in police custody.

The deceased has been identified as Fifty-three-year-old Michelle Gayle-Brown.

According to reports, suspicions were aroused yesterday when Gayle-Brown never showed up for work over by Freeport. Her coworker contacted the police and asked that they conduct a check at her home.
Upon the arrival of the police in the evening, Gayle-Brown's headless body was discovered inside the house and her head was later found underneath the bed. Visible defensive wounds could be seen on her.

Her son emerged on the crime scene with his two hands in the air while surrendering to the police.

30/10/2022

The Police are investigating a case of suspected su***de after a member of the Jamaica Defence Force was found dead last night.

He's 26-year-old Anthony Willocks.

Willocks was found sometime after 9:00 last night in Somerton District St James.

Nationwide understands his body was found in an abandoned building.

It's understood the soldier had sent pictures to his partner indicating his intentions to harm himself.

The pictures were sent to relatives who were able to identify the building.

On their arrival to the location, the lifeless body of Willocks was found.

More details to come.

23/10/2022

Two men who attempted to rob passengers in a taxi was shot and killed in Greenwood, St James last night. Both was shot and killed by a licensed firearm holder who was also a passenger in the vehicle. It’s understood one gun was recovered from the scene. Neither the driver or other passengers were hurt.

21/10/2022

💔 Police Corporal Killed In Shootout 💔

A police corporal was among two killed during a shootout last night between gunmen in Trench Town, Western Kingston.

The corporal has been identified as Mr. Mullings. The other deceased is a gunman whose identity is yet to be released.

The Corporal killed on duty is a well-loved policeman, loved not only by his colleagues but by many citizens who got the chance to meet him.
R.I.P Squaddie

📸 Mr. Mullings

17/10/2022

St Ann police probing alleged sexual assault of visitor at hotel
Published:Monday | October 17, 2022 | 11:27 AM

An intensive investigation has commenced into the matter.

The police in St Ann are probing the alleged sexual assault of a female visitor at a hotel in the parish.

A search is on to locate her alleged attacker.

It is reported that the woman and the man, said to be a photographer, became acquaintances subsequent to her arrival in Jamaica from the United Kingdom on October 5.

It is being alleged that on Sunday afternoon the woman went to a restroom at the property and while there she was reportedly lured into a cubicle by the man and was assaulted.

She reportedly then revealed the incident to a relative and a report was subsequently made to the hotel.

She was later taken to the St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital.

An intensive investigation has commenced into the matter.

The alleged perpetrator is being sought by the police.

06/10/2022

Rudolph 'Boxer' Shaw, once St Catherine's most wanted man who was nabbed in the Cayman Islands in July, has escaped custody at the Kingston Central police, Supt Berrisford Williams confirms. He fled the lock-up overnight. Shaw is facing two murder charges.

06/10/2022

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06/10/2022

Wish this beautiful queen Happy birthday

06/10/2022

ST James most wanted killed in shoot out with Police 🌽 him up

30/09/2022

Allegedly a picture of the girl who stabbed and k!lled another at Kingston Technical high school today!
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29/09/2022

💔 Daddy's Fatal Mistake 💔

Residents of Hellshire were left shocked, and a father left heartbroken after he accidentally shot his 15-y-o son after he mistook him for an intruder.

In the wee hours of the morning of Wednesday September 28, three loud explosions were heard in Cave Drive, Hellshire, Portmore, St Catherine. After the explosions came loud screams..

Upon investigations, it was discovered that those three gunshots came from a father's licensed firearm, and they went into the body of his own son..

At approximately 3:15am, the victim, 15-year-old Raheem Shaw , was thought to be an intruder after his mother and father heard the grille at home being opened. His father went to the front door and fired three rounds through the glass door hitting the shadow figure that he saw through it at the time.. After going outside to check, he discovered that it was his own son..

Neighbors later heard the loud screams by both parents and saw when the broken hearted father took him up and placed him inside his vehicle to bring him to hospital. The teen was pronounced dead at hospital.

Shaw is a 5th form student of Wolmer's High School and isn't known by the parents to be going out and coming in those hours.

: Very tragic incident.. Based on the level of crimes happening, the father took the wrong approach by shooting first then asking questions after. Being unable to identify the person that opened the grille, and swearing that it could never be his son, he rushed to the conclusion that it must be an intruder..

28/09/2022

News | Jamaica Media
21 DEADLY VODKA SHOTS - Woman who went on drinking spree found dead as friends poured birthday flour on her
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September 26, 2022
Housemates of Shanoya Brown, the St Catherine woman who died after drinking a quart of vodka -- taking 21 gulps -- to mark her 21st birthday, woke up last Friday morning and tossed flour on her as she laid in bed. It was their way of saying 'Happy Birthday, Shanoya'.

When Shanoya did not move, they splashed water on her. But yet again, there was no reaction.

The young woman had died in her sleep, having returned home from an event held in Old Works, Watermount, St Catherine, about midnight.

"We got up about 9 a.m., saying that we were going to flour her because that's a tradition in our house, so I went for the flour in the kitchen. We sprinkled the flour on her from her head straight down to her ankles but we realised that she wasn't moving or anything so we started to shake her. I went as far to get a bottle of water to wet her with it but still there was no response," one of Shanoya's housemates told THE STAR.

Still unresponsive, they decided to turn the usually full of life Shanoya -- who was lying face down -- on her back "to see if she was breathing". They were in for a shocker.

"There was a lot of mucus and a lot of vomit on her face. I put my hand under her nose and she wasn't breathing. We called her mother and told her that Shanoya is not responding, then we called 119," the shaken-up young woman related to THE STAR.

The conversation with the 119 dispatcher confirmed their worst fear. A mirror they were told to hold in front Shanoya's mouth and nose did not smear. She was not breathing.

Some eight hours earlier, Shanoya was doing the unthinkable -- downing 21 gulps of raw vodka ahead of her 21st birthday the next day. The housemate with whom THE STAR spoke said that she was awake when her cousin and the now deceased woman returned home. They are among four people who live in a three-bedroom dwelling. Shanoya, the only non-blood relative in the household, joined them in March after they became friends.

"They came in around 12 [midnight] in a car. My cousin knocked on the door and said she needed help to take her out of the vehicle because she was drunk. There were two males in the vehicle and one of the young men helped to carry her out the vehicle to inside. We put her on the bed and we saw that she was vomiting, so we set her in a position that she could vomit and then when she finished we set her on the bed so that she could sleep," the woman said.

The last thing she expected was that Shanoya, who moved to Macca Tree six months ago, would not wake up.

According to the housemate, while Shanoya was always the life of the party, she has never seen her drunk, except "normal tipsy, where she would have a hangover the next morning".

"She is not an irresponsible person. In fact, she is the opposite of that, although she may be stubborn at times, she is the sweetest and kindest person you could have in your corner," the housemate said.

"She was just happy to be celebrating her birthday and wanted to take 21 shots to mark her age."

28/09/2022

28/09/2022

Lionel Messi scored two goals and was twice accosted by fans running on the field as Argentina extended its unbeaten streak to 35 matches over three years by beating Jamaica 3-0 on Tuesday night in its next-to-last World Cup warmup match.

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latest-news/messi-2-goals-accosted-twice-argentina-tops-jamaica-3-0/

28/09/2022

JPS work crew rescued after being stuck in St Catherine floodwaters
Published:Tuesday | September 27, 2022 | 6:26 PM

It is reported that while traversing floodwaters the JPS truck stalled and the workers were unable to restart it. Firefighters from the St Catherine Fire Department were called to the scene and the workers were rescued. - Rasbert Turner photo.

Firefighters on Monday night rescued two workers of the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) after the truck they were travelling in became stuck in floodwaters in Lluidasvale, St Catherine.

The technicians were on a power restoration operation when the incident happened, which occurred around 8:20.

It is reported that while traversing floodwaters the JPS truck stalled and the workers were unable to restart it.

While stuck, the force of the floodwaters caused the truck to be swept away, prompting the JPS workers to abandon their seats and climb atop the vehicle to seek safety.

Firefighters from the St Catherine Fire Department were called to the scene and the workers were rescued.

28/09/2022

Happy 52nd Birthday to Malinda Williams.

Born September 24, 1970, She is an actress and producer, who began her career on television, before appearing in films A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996), High School High (1996), and The Wood (1999).

28/09/2022

Lil U*i Vert's Artist Lotta Cash Desto Killed During Houston Drive-By Shooting

Hours after it was reported that Dallas rapper FBG Straap was killed in a local shooting earlier this week, another artist has been shot and killed in a Texas drive-by incident, according to SNBC13.

The recently deceased is Lil U*i Vert's artist, Lotta Cash Desto, who was riding around in an SUV with others in west Houston early on Saturday (September 24) morning. Police say that the driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at the scene of the crime, while two others (reported to be men) were injured.

Around 2:40 AM, the Houston Police Department responded to a shooting reported near 5500 Richmond Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located a solver Porsche SUV facing in the direction of westbound traffic on Richmond, just before the Chimney Rocks area.

Those who were discovered inside the vehicle suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and though the driver couldn't be saved, the passenger was transported to the hospital for treatment. A man who was also suffering from gunshot wounds was discovered nearby and brought to the hospital in a private vehicle.

At this time, HPD suspects there was more than one gunman due to the position of the bullet fragments inside the Porsche.

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27/09/2022

💔 Female Found With Her Throat Slashed In Bamboo, Free Hill, St. Ann 💔

The deceased has been identified as 24-y-o Aniesha Rose. She's a Rubis Gas Station cashier..

The police theorized that she was murdered sometime yesterday . She had her hands bound and throat slashed.

26/09/2022

KUNTA KINTE: 20 years old in 1977 &
65 years old in 2022.

Kunta Kinte is a brave character in the 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by American author Alex Haley. According to Haley, Kunta Kinte is based on a true life story of one of his ancestors: a Gambian man born in 1750, enslaved and taken to America and d.ied in 1822.

26/09/2022

Court jails man who murdered woman thinking she had infected him with HIV/AIDS
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Sep 26, 2022 5:35 pm
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KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – A High Court judge in St Vincent sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than 17 years in jail after he was found guilty of murdering a woman he wrongly thought had infected him with the HIV/AIDS virus.

Justice Brian Cottle sentenced Desron Roberts, who had been on remand for nearly four years awaiting trail, to a further 17 years, five months and 11 days in prison.

On June 27, 2022, Robert pleaded not guilty to the charge that between October 24 and 27, 2018 he murdered Rhodesia Rochelle Bailey.

The court heard that Roberts, who was then 22, had a sexual relationship with Bailey, 30, whose house he frequented. On July 16, 2018, Bailey told Roberts that she was HIV positive and two days later, he went to see a doctor, who advised him to take a post-exposure treatment for HIV and to get tested.

Roberts began the course of medication, but did not adhere to the prescription fully as he felt that some of the side effects of the medication were too harsh. It is alleged that he had bouts of depression and contemplated su***de but was afraid to speak to anyone about his problem for fear of the reaction that he would face.

Nonetheless, he continued the sexual relationship with Bailey and in October 2018, decided that he would kill her, wrongly thinking that she had infected him with HIV. On October 25, 2018, he took a knife with him to Bailey’s house. As she was lying wearing only her underwear, Roberts told her that he had come to kill her.

It is reported that Bailey told Roberts that she was not afraid to die and he put the knife down and began to strangle her. Bailey attempted to reach for the knife but was unsuccessful and Robert continued to try to strangle her.

Unsatisfied with his attempts to end Bailey’s life that way, Robert took up the knife and began to stab Bailey, who held on to him begging for her life. Roberts stabbed her multiple times before releasing her. Bailey ran from the house but collapsed nearby.

Robert then allegedly returned to his home. A passing villager found Bailey’s body early the following morning.

A post mortem found that she died of multiple stab wounds.

Following his arrest, Roberts confessed to murdering Bailey .

In sentencing Roberts, Justice Cottle said he had no need to depart from the guidelines regarding the aims of criminal punishment, namely retribution, deterrence, prevention, rehabilitation, and that the court must follow the sentencing guidelines, unless they lead to injustice in a particular case.

Justice Cottle said further that the court can impose on an adult convicted of murder, a sentence of death, a whole life sentence or a determinate sentence.

He said there was a significant degree of premeditation involved in the killing, noting that Roberts took the knife with him to the scene and told the victim that he had come to kill her.

26/09/2022

This Picture says everything

His mother funded his education by selling on streets.

26/09/2022

Jamaicans Trying to break the lock to access Bog Walk Gorge caught on Cctv

26/09/2022

Don't listen to Chang': Crawford warns cops they could face INDECOM alone
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Sep 26, 2022

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Opposition Senator Damion Crawford says members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) should ignore comments made by Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang, which seems to encourage them to ensure that criminals who fire their weapons at the police do not survive.

Chang, who is also the deputy prime minister, has received both support and criticism for the controversial statements he made recently in Westmoreland.

He said: “They [the police] not out there shooting down people like that. There are fatal shootings because man shoot gun after dem. I not telling police not to fire back, and a say it right here in Westmoreland, I not sending no ambulance out there either”.

Chang added that ““Any time a man takes up a gun after a police officer, I expect Commissioner [Antony Anderson] to train them [so that] when him fire, he must not miss”.

Continuing, he said: “I don’t want him to come give any trouble to the hospital. I am not in that business. You go to hospital, it cost us $10 million to save him life. I am not into that. When criminal see police come, he must surrender”.

Crawford weighed in on the ongoing discussion on Friday as the Senate debated and passed the Fi****ms (Prohibition, Restriction and Regulation) Act 2022.

“I agree (with Chang) that if it is in defence of your life, whether as a citizen or a police, you do have the right to take another life and I would say the police should take the life if there’s no other alternative,” said Crawford.

“What I would warn the police about however, is not to take on this instruction that it cost too much (to treat) the injured, or not to call ambulance or send ambulance, because when INDECOM (Independent Commission of Investigation) come this government is not going to hire your lawyer,” he added.

“So I’m saying to these policemen, be careful how you are encouraged to act in certain ways that you alone will have to answer when time has come”.

Meanwhile, Crawford said he was in agreement with a fellow senator that some criminals should be designated enemies of the state.

“The facilitators of criminal activities, the encouragers and organisers of our young people in selling murder and carrying out murderous activities, it is my dream that we will differentiate them and call them enemies of the state,” he said.

Crawford said his fear was that some persons who are not enemies of the state would be treated as such because of mandatory minimum sentences in the new Act. He suggested that before a person is labeled an enemy of the state, the police should “go before a panel of five judges and convince them that John Brown is an enemy of the state and then treat John Brown accordingly”.

The Opposition senator then went on to tell the story of a goat farmer who he said was shot and left for dead but recovered. After going back into goat farming he decided to arm himself with an unlicensed gun as a means of protection. Crawford said the farmer was held by the police and charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

He said the police knew of his circumstance that he was robbed, shot and left for dead and was seeking to protect himself and his property. He argued that not all Jamaicans would qualify for a licensed firearm, especially by income. While accepting that he had committed a crime, Crawford argued that under the new Fi****ms act, the goat farmer, who he said was not an enemy of the state, would be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 15 years for illegal possession of firearm.

Despite its concerns, the parliamentary Opposition supported the legislation which will take effect after it goes back to the House of Representatives where it was first passed on September 7 for the amendments to be approved. The Governor General will then give his assent after which it will be gazetted before taking effect.

26/09/2022

- A church on Church Road in Bog Walk, St Catherine, is among buildings flooded due to torrential rainfall associated with Hurricane Ian.

A house is also flooded in the area, which was toured today by Councillor for Bog Walk Division Peter Abrahams.

26/09/2022

A 15-year-old boy is scheduled to face the court to answer the charge of illegal possession of ammunition.

The police say the charge stemmed from a seizure at a high school in Portmore, St Catherine on Friday.

The Portmore police report that about 2:30 p.m., the teen, who is a student at the school, was searched and two rounds of ammunition—one 9mm cartridge and one 5.56mm cartridge— were found.

The police were summoned and the boy was handed over to them.

He was subsequently charged.

26/09/2022

The feeling of being safe and dry inside your home as the rain falls heavily and consistently all around you is unlike anything else, and for these blessings we give God thanks.

I know many Jamaicans are not in the most comfortable conditions and that is why we are working so hard through the New Social Housing Programme to deliver decent housing to more Jamaicans.

On Friday as soon as got off the plane, my first order of business was to hand over homes to residents in the community of Belrock in my constituency whose homes were destroyed by fire in 2018.

I know they were relieved to collect their keys just as the rains began.

26/09/2022

A Det. Cons. Smith pulled up at his home and while removing items from his motorcar, he was pounced upon by two (2) men one (1) armed with a rifle and the other with a handgun. The men opened gun fire at Det. Cons. Smith who returned fire from his assigned G***k pistol serial number PUE 277 and thirty four (34) 9mm rounds. The men retreated and fled the scene on foot in the area.

On the arrival of the Police what appeared to be a shotgun, a red and white mask and what appeared to be blood was seen at the front of Det. Cons. Smith yard.

Blood trails led the Police to a house where the occupant gave information that the owner left with the injured man.

24/09/2022

He made the revelation during his recent contribution to the State of the Constituency Debate in the House of Representatives. He said this was unacceptable at a time when his constituents were struggling to find adequate sources of potable water.

“These wells at Red Berry in Porus need to be made available to the citizens of Porus,” Chin stated. He also told the House that of the 120 districts in the constituency, 80 are without piped water.

“Leaves us to wonder how people live,” Chin remarked before outlining several initiatives aimed at addressing the perennial problem. He said that among the challenges is the fact that there is a high level of leakage along several legs of pipeline from the Warwick pumping station to the Cross Keys booster station which is currently out of use. Chin informed that the project design has been completed for the tendering process and it will cost over $100 million to undertake the work. The aim, he said, is for the work to start in the current financial year.

Among other plans to address the chronic water shortage in the constituency are:

• Alligator Pond will be supplied with additional water from a new well drilled at the New Forest pumping station last year at a cost of approximately $33 million. The pump and electrical controls were procured and will be installed in the current financial year.

• Engineering design to upgrade the Porus water supply system will commence during the financial year. This is to be included in the 2023/2024 budget year.

• A submission will be made for an upgrade to the Coffee Grove water system for inclusion in the 2023/2024 budget.

Meanwhile, bauxite company Jamalco has provided a well that is located in Harmons Valley to provide domestic water to the residents of Harmons and its environs. Chin said that with a collaborative effort involving a number of stakeholders, the Harmons Domestic Water Supply project has now entered its second phase. The project proposal has been reviewed and endorsed and will be shared with the relevant persons/entities to ensure that the necessary funding is secured.

Regarding the Porus division, Chin said it has been recommended that the springs at St Toolies be dammed and the water treated and distributed to the residents in and around St Toolies. And, he said the National Irrigation Commission has wells that can be made functional so that farmers would have access to cheaper water.

“It is evident that we do not have a water problem, but rather we have a water management problem. Manchester Southern needs special attention to achieve rural development goals,” said Chin.

In the meantime, Chin said there were several parish tanks that can be rehabilitated so that drinking water can be accessed. “Additionally, there are catchment tanks that can be repaired to alleviate the water shortage being experienced by farmers during the dry seasons,” he said.

The first-term MP also shared that there was an abandoned well in Logwood Prospect and steps are being made to have it rehabilitated.

“When fully functional, this well will supply irrigation water from Prospect through Turner Top and into Blakes Pen,” he said.

21/09/2022

Motorcyclist dead, female injured as 'bike' crashes into parked truck

September 17, 2022 03:12 PM ET

Amotorcyclist is dead and his female pillion rider was admitted to hospital following a crash on Marcus Garvey Drive on Friday.

The deceased has been identified as 60-year-old Nicholas Golding, a morgue attendant of Hibiscus Avenue, Kingston 11.

Reports from the Newport West Police are that at about 7:40 pm, Golding was driving his motorcycle towards Portmore, St Catherine when on reaching a section of the roadway; he collided with an International motor truck, that was parked on the roadway.

The police were summoned and Golding along with his female pillion were transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The female was admitted in stable condition. Investigations continue.

20/09/2022

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20/09/2022

Uncle stabbed to death during dispute with nephew over radio
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Sep 20, 2022 5:56 pm
CLARENDON, Jamaica

A man is dead and another in hospital nursing stab wounds following an altercation that developed between the two on Tuesday morning. Both men, uncle and nephew, became embroiled in a feud after the uncle, now deceased, accused his nephew of stealing a radio from him.

The dead man has been identified as 63-year-old Morris ‘Fuzzy’ Swaby from Chatteau district in Clarendon.

According to eyewitnesses, about 11:30 am, Swaby approached his nephew and began inflicting wounds with a knife. The 22-year-old nephew ran in a bid to escape the onslaught but his uncle gave chase with both a wrench and a knife.

The incident occurred along the Paisley main road in the parish.

“The man weh gi weh him three points, a just fi him time cause we a warn him from morning when him come say him ago kill di man say a foolishness dat, him fi low dat. Him go weh pan a truck and come back and just start put on stab pan di youth, di youth run him out and run inna di lane. Till it end up that the youth affi defend himself cause a fi him own tool kill him, a knife and a monkey wrench,” one eyewitness recounted.

“After him run down the youth, the youth have stone a ease him off but him a run in same way and him give the youth two more stab and then the youth hold him and dem start wrestle and dem drop a ground. When dem drop the youth take weh di wrench from him and di youth no badda ease up… the youth give him di wrench all though him a bleed,” related another eyewitness.

The police was summoned and upon their arrival, Swaby was seen on his back in a lane in a pool of blood. He was clad in a pair of black jeans pants, multi-coloured shirt, and a pair of black boots.

The scene was processed and a black handle knife, a red wrench and two stones were removed for processing. A monkey wrench was later found in a culvert along the Paisley main road, the police said.

The uncle was pronounced dead at hospital while the nephew was admitted in stable condition.

20/07/2022

20/07/2022

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14/03/2022

I Just Ordered Mines , I’m Officially Done With Ya HOES 🗣🤞🏽😔

13/02/2022

Two fi****ms and a quantity of ammunition have been *seized by a joint Police/Military team* during an operation in *Salt Spring, St. James* this morning. One man was fatally shot during the confrontation with the security forces.

02/11/2021

Jermaine Robinson, the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) member on trial for being part of the St Catherine-based Klansman gang, was agitated that the gang was losing ground after its alleged leader Andre “Blackman” Bryan was locked up, a prosecution witness testified yesterday.

Witness number 1, the second ex-member of the gang, said the army man was another member of Bryan's security detail. He told the court that Robinson had been introduced to him in 2017 by Bryan, who said, “A soldier this, ennuh.” He said he saw Robinson on several other occasions involving the gang and detailed one instance in which he said Robinson, who had injured one hand which had been placed in a cast, handled an AK 47 with the other hand.

He said Robinson was often where Bryan was.

According to the witness, the last time he saw the army man was at a checkpoint in Spanish Town.

“He told them not to search mi and just let mi through,” the witness said, and claimed Robinson, who was clad in the JDF garb, had said, 'Let him through, mi know him.' ”

He told the court that Robinson then pulled him aside and asked him if he hadn't heard from “the general” and asked for his (the witness's telephone number).

He further told the court that on the day of his visit to the Criminal Investigations Branch, where he gave the police information about the gang, Robinson called him while he was in the presence of the investigators. He said the army man “was asking about Blackman, if I don't hear from him because he want to talk to him because he want to tun up back di ting”.

According to the witness, Robinson said, “Di ting come in like a joke ting.” This, he said, meant that he “wanted more people to be dead and more killings in the Spanish Town area”.

The witness had last week told the court that, on that visit, which took place in 2018, Bryan, who was then incarcerated, had actually called him from a private number from the confines of the prison. He said investigators had disbelieved, up to that point, that he had been in dialogue with Bryan while he was in prison. He said, upon receiving the call, he put the phone on speaker so they could hear Bryan speaking to him for themselves, at which point they realised he had not lied.

Earlier in the trial, witness number two, who was the first gang member turned informant to take the stand after the September 20 start, had also said Robinson stood guard at his house at nights while Bryan was there. He said, during these times, Robinson had a gun in his possession. According to the witness, Robinson had told him that he was a soldier. He, however, admitted that he had never seen Robinson in uniform.

Last week, Roxine Smith, the attorney representing Robinson, in cross-examining witness number two stated that Robinson hardly had any time to commit crimes, having been stationed in Flanker in Montego Bay, St James, after graduating as a member of the JDF in 2016. She said her client was transferred to Kingston in 2017 and placed in a special course at Up Park Camp, where he was confined.

The witness, however, countered that, although Robinson hardly had time due to work, he still played a role in the gang.

A total of 33 people, accused of being members of the gang, are on trial before Chief Justice Bryan Sykes in the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston.