Weekly Round-up: Bolt loses medal… Pastor convicted … 13-y-o executed
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Usain Bolt lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals Wednesday when the International Olympic Committee stripped Jamaica of their 4x100m relay win at the 2008 Beijing Games after teammate Nesta Carter tested positive for the the prohibited substance methylhexaneamine.
The International Association of Athletics Federations says it will retest samples held in storage from other events for Carter, who is expected to file an appeal within the 21-day period allotted to him.
Meanwhile, the body of a 13-year-old Denham Town High School student was found on Thursday in the vicinity of the National Heroes Circle.
The hands of the teen were bound and the face covered with a shirt. The Kingston Central police are appealing to the public for information to assist in their investigations into the brutal slaying of the 13-year-old, Roshane Smith.
In other news, Paul Hanniford, a pastor of the Pentecostal City Mission Church, was on Tuesday convicted for having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl.
Watch as OBSERVER ONLINE wraps the week for you.
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Bolt loses 2008 Olympic relay gold in Carter’s doping case
Boy, 13, found with hands bound, bullet wounds to head
Pentecostal pastor convicted for having sex with 13-y-o
University status approved for Caribbean Maritime Institute
Sandals to begin Dragon Bay reconstruction this year
Tufton to mull WHO call for higher tobacco taxes
More devaluation for the Jamaican dollar ahead under Trump?
Court rejects Caricel’s injunction application
Elderly man dies after car goes over Flat Bridge
Driver dies, passenger hospitalised after vehicle plunges into sea
Mona High student collapses in HWT, dies
Cops charge brothers in sexual assault of 5-y-o
Former Moravian president and VP arrested in sex scandal
JDF private killed in Clarendon
St Thomas woman stabbed to death
Jamaica women’s bobsled team cop bronze in North American Cup
