good afternoon I'm Ellison Walker with the media was a special welcome if you
are watching on one spot Mediacom a police officer in custody after
allegedly killing his wife in tow Alison mirror this morning the accused has been
identified as Kirk Lawrence his wife is also identified as Janet
Hardy Lawrence she's a businesswoman of st. Anne parish circumstances leading up
to the killing are unclear at this time but we'll have much more information on
this story in primetime news at 7 the counselor for the York tone division you
spell purcell is echoing the call for the government to establish a
crime-fighting strategy to resolve the country's crime problem
it's called follows a double murder in Yorktown clarendon last night of the
news time the identities of the persons were not released it's not clear how the
incident unfolded but TV G news understands that the two persons were
common-law partners from Yorktown they have been operating a shop out on the
main road and the common to their their resident know and build that liquor shop
and they start run it and you know just try to make life and that's what I'm
saying I don't know why they could have gone in and take all their lives like
that this brings the number of kill persons killed in Yorktown over the last
two weeks - three two weeks ago 13 annual Anthony Bernard was shot and
killed at a party in the area frustrated about the number of killings in
Clarendon councilor Purcell is now looking to the government for solutions
there is continue shooting in the communities and
I don't know when this is going to stop but I'm calling on the government to see
how best they can deal with the issue and I think clarendon more than ever
need some form of resolution in respect of dealing with the crime that is chaos
taking over all of Clarendon he's also urging residents to break their silence
and I'm begging the citizens of your town to speak to those who they might
know that are carrying the guns and aren't taking our people lives like this
- this is from doing so because it is very painful to lose a
mother and a father a young child who's a mother and a father it's not easy and
no one would like to lose their mother and father in this kind of way
sound begging and beseeching for it to stop business men and women in Santana
are being prodded by the finance minister to demand lower interest rates
Finance Minister dr. Nigel Clark raised the issue in a speech to the center and
chamber on the weekend dr. Clark also called for more people to build houses
given a more favorable environment to do so more in the support from TV J's away
or Shane masters finance minister dr. Nigel Clark on the weekend in st. Anne
urging businesses to press banks on interest rates when you go to see your
bank on Monday morning ask them so wait a minute the minister tell me that the
central bank reduced to rate 10 times in two years and it's no 0.75% just look at
em and say what about me it's the latest attempt to pressure banks to make
further cuts to interest rates unknowns to consumers and investors already
mortgage companies have been responding dr. Clark even pointing out that he has
seen rates fall below 7 percent with mortgage rates at that so know it opens
up new possibilities for the consumer for the individual for those in the
market to buy the home for the very first time and for the business he
pointed out that in the last three years the National
Housing Trust NHD financed or built more houses than in any three-year period for
the past 20 years but that he said did nothing to reduce pent up demand just
recently 1500 of those NHD homes came to market in Montego Bay and there were
over 10,000 applications so anybody who is thinking about the business to go in
the business of providing homes affordable homes for everyday
Jamaicans is an area of unbounded demand and that more so he says with affordable
financing now available for shade masters TVJ news the National Water
Commission the end of the sea is reporting a slight improvement in
inflows most of its supply system since last weekend's rains on Monday a new
center reported that water levels at the Moana reservoir and a hermitage dam had
increased marginally in an update last night the NWC said it was a similar
situation at other facilities however end of the seas corporate communications
manager Charles Buckhannon says the water was caused by the dry spell are
far from over
the National Water Commission has seen an increase in the influence into most
of our storage facilities and intakes across the country as a result of the
rains over the weekend unfortunately however the improvement has not been
significant you know as yet to lift us out of the low flow conditions that we
were experiencing but it is a good sign and were the rains to continue we expect
that we should see some improvement the sentiments are the same for the director
of the meteorological services division Evan Thompson he says that the island is
expected to get rain on till Wednesday and an editorial note in our newscast
yesterday reported that the Police Federation was upset that a business
man had to pay for the CT scan for one of the two policemen shot and injured
during Sunday's robbery in Clarendon over further checks by TVJ News have
revealed that this is not so the city cam was paid for by the police forces
welfare officer the full payment of all costs incurred for the treatment of the
law men were born by the Jamaica Constabulary force we apologize for the
in and it's time no for break more stories in our midday newscast right
after these messages
welcome back continuing the news two sets of investors are seeking to
purchase that on the pressure airline flight Jamaica owned off the airline
captain Ronald Rees confirmed the information during a brief interview
with our new center sources told our NewsCenter that flight Jamaica has been
in talks with one group for almost a year that group said to be out of France
as ordered as offered to by the airline make redundancy payments and clear other
debts owed by flight Jamaica over captain Reece told her new center that
years unable to comment any further as talks are ongoing TVJ News has learned
that the airline currently owns several airports various fees news of the talks
with investors come weeks after tbj news reported that more uncertainty is
looming surrounding the future of flight Jamaica it comes following confirmation
that you make a civil aviation authority JCA a suspended the airlines air
operating certificate director-general of the JC AAA nari Williams saying an
interview with her new center recently so the action was taken as flight
Jamaica had not been operating for some time it closed operations in March and
May the positions of its workers redundant the airline has been
struggling since one of its planes crashed landed at the Cheddi Jagan
International Airport in Guyana last event ba parents and teachers of the
Clonmel primary and junior high school in sent me this morning staged the
protest to voice their concerns about the school's principal the placard
bearing contesters demanded that a principal be removed immediately the
protesters who put pad lock the gates insisted that the school will remain
closed until the principal is removed I
am sorry that it has to be at this cost to our students and also to the teachers
who are here this morning but we need this principal to go
in the meantime TVJ News understands that the meeting will be held this
afternoon between the Board Chairman and the teachers parent passions of the Y
Alice health centers and Thomas are expressing concern about the non
function of the clinic recently the patients say they have showed up for
their appointments only to be sent home due to a lack of water at a health
I suppose figure to be a future under Carlo documents where there is no water
they say the main reason for the lack of water is a pump that has been poorly
maintained over the years to an ongoing challenge to store water no efforts were
made recently to repair the pump at the clinic but without success seven
passengers including the driver of a Toyota which motor car were rushed to
the Saint Ann's Bay Regional Hospital this morning after the vehicle crashed
into a wall along the Discovery Bay main road reports indicate I have a drive of
the car which was traveling from Discovery Bay towards Trelawny overtook
a line of traffic when another vehicle was spotted making a right about turn
the car swerved to avoid a head-on collision and crashed into a wall
located at the niranda bauxite pier at least three persons
received serious injuries in news overseas at least 12 people have been
killed in severe storms which have affected three states in the United
States there seems to be no break for millions of people the details from the
CNN a massive ef-1 twister caught on camera
tearing through Charles City Iowa damaging 11 structures just one of
dozens reported across several states over the holiday weekend in a relentless
and deadly tornado outbreak that is showing no signs of letting up more than
170 tornadoes reported in just the last week it's just unbelievable how violent
and you just can't imagine anybody being able to survive so I know we've got
people that are fighting for their lives and hope you medical center right now a
state of emergency for the entire state of Oklahoma that's been hit extremely
hard in the past several days people that were on the top floor of that hotel
wiped out we saw the trailers they're just completely demolished one had the
floor there this mass devastation in El Reno caused by an ef3 tornado got water
still rising in the east so we're not out of the woods yet it still could get
worse widespread floods have swallowed entire
communities forcing more than a thousand people from their homes in Tulsa there's
no proper reaction to this and you feel everything
you feel sad you feel angry in sports the West Indies were a Bordeaux for 421
runs in forty nine point two overs against New Zealand in their final
warm-up game in Bristol ahead of the World Cup shy hope
top scored for the Caribbean side with 101 while Evan Lewis an on Jay Russell
added half centuries Trent Boult took for 450 for the Kiwis at sports time the
New Zealanders were 222 for five of 33.4 overs the Kiwis need another 200 rounds
of 99 volts to secure a victory Sheldon Cottrell or Shane Thomason
Ashleigh nurse and kemar have taken a wicket each the West Indies first game
of the World Cup is on Friday against Pakistan the reggae girls will be
looking to extend their unbeaten run to eight games as they face Scotland at
Hampden Park this afternoon this would be Jamaica's final warm-up game prior to
the World Cup in France Scotland were also making their debut at the World Cup
next month are ranked 20th in the world Jamaica is ranked at number 53 kickoff
is at 135 Jamaica timer will have the result of that match in prime time
sports and at midday news I'm Milton Walker join us at 7:00 for primetime
news on behalf of the new sports and production team good afternoon