NEWS BRIEFS
Face-lift for Hoolebury All-Age
THE Hoolebury All-age School in Scarlet Hall, St Ann is to receive a face-lift by members of the past students’ association. About $75,000 have been budgeted for the project.
President of the association, Linton Cooke, said the newly formed group, comprising 35 past students, had started to solicit assistance from persons in Scarlet Hall and the wider business community, so they can paint the institution by June.
“We see the need, and plan to make a contribution because this is a means of giving back something to the school, from which all of us have benefited,” Cooke said, adding that a number of letters had already been sent out seeking assistance.
JSIF rehabilitates Bogue road
THREE roads which serve the small farming community of Bogue in North East St Elizabeth have been rehabilitated by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF).
More than 1,000 persons who reside in the district are expected to benefit from the project.
The roads rehabilitated include Khus Khus (1.1 km), Pine Peace (1.8 km) and Long Common (1.6 km). The works carried out were reshaping, the laying of a new base, repairs to the sub-base, road surfacing and the installation of surface drains.
… Parochial roads in Sav repaired
THE National Works Agency (NWA) is carrying out major repairs on 15 kilometres of parochial roads in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, and surrounding communities.
Stephen Shaw, community relations officer of the NWA’s western region, said the road improvement works valued at $65 million are being done under the Flood Damage Programme and the Urban/Rural Rehabilitation and Maintenance Programme.
New executive for Jamaica Association of Evangelicals
THE new executive of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals was formally inducted Sunday at a service held at the Hope Gospel Assembly in Kingston.
Members of the new executive are:
President — Rev Rennard White
Vice-president — Rev Conrad Reid
Vice-president — Rev Peter Garth
Secretary — Claudia Ferguson
Treasurer — Karen Goslin
Rev Dr Oswald Baker
Rev Winston Smith
Clyde Edwards.
Cocaine smuggler gets 12 months
WESTERN BUREAU — A man who claimed to have purchased a pound of cocaine for export earlier this month will spend the next 12 months behind bars for the offence.
The man, Dwayne Jackson, is also liable to pay a $250,000-fine; and if the fine is not paid he will spend an additional 12 months in prison.
In the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday, he was unwilling to supply any details on the man from whom he purchased the substance.
Jackson told the court only that he had bought it from a man he knew only as “Waynie-Wayne” at a cost of $250,000. The purchase, he said, was made inside Ocho Rios.
Jackson was stopped at the security checkpoint at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay while on his way out of the island on March 3. He was on his way to Boston, USA at the time.
The St Mary resident was later taken to the Cornwall Regional Hospital where he excreted a pound of cocaine. He was subsequently arrested and charged for possession of, dealing in and attempting to export the illegal substance.
In court yesterday, he pleaded guilty to the charges against him and was sentenced by RM Paulette Williams.
For possession of the substance, he was fined $100,000 or six months. And for attempting to export it he was fined $150,000 or six months and sentenced to 12 months at hard labour.
The charge of dealing in the substance was dismissed.