Grafton and fashion brown with the midday news a special welcome if you're
watching on one spot mediacom we begin this afternoon with news that a
firefighter became the first road fatality for 2020 following a four
vehicle collision on the old Harbor Maine wardens and Catherine Wednesday
night he's been identified as Sheldon Henry who was assigned to the old Harbor
fire station five people including another firefighter and a policeman were
also injured reports are that mr. Henry left work and was heading towards
Spanish town about 11:30 it's alleged that he overtook a line of traffic and
crashed head-on into a truck close to McCook span mr. Henry was the sole
occupant in his Mitsubishi Lancer the driver of the truck lost control of the
vehicle and crashed into two motor cars we understand that at least two other
persons were also injured we'll have more on this developing story
in primetime news at 7 the supermarket supervisor accused of fatally shooting
his coworker at their workplace in Mandeville Manchester on New Year's Eve
is said to be cooperating with investigators the suspect who is a
licensed firearm holder surrendered to the Manchester Police about four o'clock
Wednesday morning he's implicated in the murder of 24 year old inventor Clark
Chantal white in an update to a new center last night head of the Manchester
Police Superintendent Garry Francis said investigators are close to charging the
suspect well we'll continue our investigation and we expect to lead
charges against him before the end of this week the investigation is
progressing well so far he is someone cooperating with a resolution about 6
o'clock Tuesday evening miss white and her supervisor who are involved in a
relationship were in the lunchroom when an argument developed between them he
allegedly shot her several times stop doing gun salutes that appeal from the
father of the 15 year old girl was shot on the church compound of Emanuel
chaplains and James following New Year's Eve service Wednesday morning the teen
was reportedly in the church yard watching fireworks from the nearby Monty
be beasts pr1 with friends her father passed the Marconi explain have been
prevented Authority has in recent weeks and days had been issuing out those
pleas for persons whether your allies and farmer or whatever it is to not do
these kinds of things because we must be cognizant of the fact that what goes up
must come down and it could have been totally different
today his daughter remains in the intensive care unit at the Falmouth
hospital in neighboring Trelawney meanwhile this and James cost us the
bishop Conrad Pitkin who also chairs the Jamaica umbrella of churches the Jamaica
umbrella group of churches says the authorities need to repeat it to the
operations of the states of emergency in their evaluation they need to tighten I
know that there's a call about taking away people's right but we must be
willing to give up some of our rights if we want freedom in the meantime with
over 1,300 murders committed in Jamaica in 2019 Bishop Pitkin is urging the
police to work more closely with citizens to tackle crime speaking at the
JC F's annual general devotion at the police commissioner's office this
morning he said the police should plan more community meetings and fora to
educate people about the role they can play in solving problems in their
communities you know many of the murders could be prevented because they're not
crying there's a domestic challenger conflicts that we have and you know the
statistics more than I do let us join educating others without the
government agencies NGOs civil society about the role of problem solving
and the establishment of formal structure for smooth cooperation in the
meantime jesse of chaplain pastor dr. gary voodoo Fletcher says the force lost
14 men to suicides within the last decade he notes that 2019 ended without
a single suicide we praise and thank God for this but this did not come about by
coinsidence is every call for help coming from our members was treated with
the greatest level of priority whether my or police peer counselors or
assistant chaplains and my office and income in collaboration with or
psychiatrists and I see dr. George leverage here counseling and clinical
psychologists and social workers from the medical services branch we continue
that work with even greater intensity and effectiveness in 2020 and it's now
time for a break but stay with us more stories right after these messages
thank you so much for staying with us continuing the news no the Police
Federation will today contact its medical services branch to conduct tests
following reports that three officers contracted tuberculosis while on duty
it's suspected that they were infected while tending to a prisoner at the
Supreme Court holding area chairman of the Police Federation sergeant Potrero
told our NewsCenter that one of the policemen has been hospitalized
please Federation will contact it and to us some aplomb and it'll affect a
massage to a particular location in Kingston I've been diagnosed with two
neurologists one have enough hospitalized we have to remember to dr.
Reagans intuitive the source of the of the disease and see if we can get
interventions internally to treat the DeMatha the matter is still very new to
us the information sources are there's something that is concerning sergeant
rose said the other policemen are receiving medical treatment medical
practitioner done with w with cuba colleges like illnesses and i on
medication for tuberculosis or TB is a disease caused by a bacteria which
usually attacks the lungs but can also cause damage to other parts of the body
now it's spread through the air when a person with the disease cough sneezes
or talks with over 100 workers losing jobs that we Cinco due to the ban on
styrofoam one trade unionist once of the company
to implement a skills bank where persons can be placed in future jobs chairman of
the way sinker group william of food says his company will no longer produce
food containers amid the ban the government ban on the local manufacture
distribution and use of expanded polystyrene foam products used in the
food and beverage industry took effect on New Year's Day
the skilled and low-skilled workers are represented by the National Workers
Union n W and W general secretary Granville Valentine says the workers
should be given first preference whenever future jobs are created he also
wants the government to urgently revisit aspects of the ban noting its
implementation could have been delayed so to speak
three to six months we should face in some of these things the parent person
mentally also could deal with a crisis situation such as this as losing their
jobs the government says it will use moral suasion to get compliance with a
ban on Styrofoam food containers which as I said earlier on took effect
yesterday Minister without portfolio in the minister of economic growth and job
creation Darryl Vaz says there will be public education and sensitization on
the ban he's hoping there will be a high level
of compliance reactions this afternoon to the opposition's demand that the
minimum wage be increased to twelve thousand five hundred dollars opposition
leader dr. Peter Phillips proposed the increase in his New Year's Day message
but as we hear in this report from TV J's Prince more at least one trade
unionist says the call is unrealistic and should not to be supported in his
New Year's message opposition leader dr. Peter Phillips said the current figure
of seven thousand dollars for a 40-hour work week is inadequate and a major
contributor to the 30 percent growth in urban poverty with the significant fall
in the value of the Jamaican dollar and the rise in the price of basic items the
low wages keep many workers poor as does the increasingly widespread practice of
treating many full-time workers as contract workers and thus deny them the
fair wages and benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled today I'm
giving notice that the opposition will be demanding and fighting for the
minimum wage to be increased to twelve thousand five
hundred dollars but for president general of the Bustamonte industrial
trade union and government senator Kevin Gale the proposed figure would result in
job losses and would also put employers of minimum wage earners in a precarious
position where because they depend on minimum wage earners in order to carry
out their functions because they are employed would also put pressure on
themselves while they agree that annually there needs to be a review of
the minimum wage to the extent where there are increases doubling the minimum
wage is unrealistic and I call that in the meantime a member of the national
minimum wage Commission says the body has not completed its deliberations on
the minimum wage the Commission completed a series of public
consultations in November and said it would focus on preparing its
recommendations for presentation this month head of the Jamaica employers
Federation David one who sits on the Commission says the information gathered
during the consultations is now being compiled as well as the inflation rates
we're going to depend a lot on that - from backing to put it all together to
come with a recommendation to go to the Minister of Labour which we have not
finished the consultation the national minimum wage was increased in August
last year when it moved from $6,200 per week to $7,000 Prince more TVJ news
sports now Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt has been named the male of the junket
for athletics by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in the United Kingdom the 33
year old who retired in 2017 won an incredible three gold medals in the 100
200 and four by 100 relays at the 2012 Olympics
Londyn then repeated the feat at the real games in 2016 Boult also won a
combined eight gold medals at the World Athletics Championships in 2011 2013 and
2015 The Telegraph credited bode for his
outstanding achievements on the track but also his presence of it calling him
the man who grew bigger than the sport the triple world record holder however
was beaten by basketball star LeBron James to the Associated Press male
athlete of the decade the votes which were done by AP sports editors and
writers placed both third behind James and a multiple time NFL champion Tom
Brady and that's the midday news I'm Vashon Brown don't forget to join us at
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teams have a good afternoon