good afternoon i'm Vashon brown with the midday news a special welcome if you're
watching on one spot Mediacom the police are this afternoon appealing for
eyewitnesses to come forward as they try to stop the latest absurd of violence
involving men linked to rival gangs in Mountain View sedan drew the police say
there are no concerned that the conflict in the error may be escalating there was
a meeting last night out of the Jake's Road community center with the residence
officials of the Jamaica Labour Party the People's National Party as well as
the security forces to discuss ways to stop of the bloodletting police and
soldiers maintaining a presence in Mountain View sent Andrew this is
moments after a meeting in the community with various stakeholders on Sunday
evening head of the Kingston Eastern Police division superintendent Victor
Hamilton says people living in the Jakes Road garage lane and back Bush areas
have been killed in the ongoing conflict process have been killed out of the
Mountain View Spears at least four maybe five but they are from both communities
and it is believed that it is a result of this conflict why they were killed
right so we when they were killed in honest pieces we have
concerns we have concerns that it is an escalation in deviation of the conflict
as they try to stop the killings the police say they want witnesses to come
forward a lot of persons were killed in broad daylight where this is concerned
but no one has come forward we canvassed the communities we canvassed the areas
in which persons working then we say what did you see to process nobody has
seen anything even when there is an enclosure persons are sitting in the
space as you have heard it nobody is willing to say I saw somebody
I saw this I saw that one resident who spoke during the meeting said she's lost
her common-law husband in the meantime counselor for the vineyard town division
Andres wavey says last night's meeting was the first of three in the community
elicitation I would have wanted all members of our three communities
one location before destroyed that would start one of the assurance I got today
from the police was that they provide maximum patrol and Mountain View Avenue
because all we know is school is open tomorrow and I would want to assure the
residents that the police will be provided security the persons were being
affected no are not what you might call the combatants you have innocent people
who are going about their law-abiding business and they are being targeted
simply because they come from a particular area and we can we can have a
country that operates this way and I will work with the residents of the
communities of which I am MP to get them to rise up and tell what they know
that's the only way still on a crime three persons have been shot and killed
between yesterday and this morning in two separate incidents in Clarendon
yesterday evening a motorcycle mechanic was shot dead in his he's the fan of
Frank otherwise called yellow about 7:15 mr. Frank was at his work site when
explosions were heard he was pronounced dead at hospital and this morning two
men were shot and killed on a national housing trust site in Chateau the
deceased our liaison officer Craig Smith and labor of Benito Williams both said
to be in their forties the incident happened about 5:15 it supported that
the men were at a cook shop which mr. Smith operated on the site when a car
drove up two men alighted and shot mr. Smith mr. Williams tried to escape
through a window but was also shot two other persons escaped injury now four
people have been murdered in the parish since the start of the year on to other
news now the Jamaica Environment trust jet is urging the government to ensure
that imported alternatives the styrofoam do not contain plastic according to
chief executive office of the with cinco Group and Roma food the company's search
for alternatives has revealed that some alternatives are made from recycled
recycled material but non biodegradable and contain a compound called
polypropylene polypropylene is a compound
a plastic used in a variety of applications such as packaging for
consumer products and plastic parts for various sectors including the automotive
industry while speaking on TV J's smell Jamaica program this morning project
coordinator at jet Lauren Kerry raised the concern that these alternatives will
enter the country to be used in the food industry being made from recycled
material would have had to go through certification and a rigorous process for
it to be approved for use in the food industry so I don't think that it's too
much of a concern but there is a concern that people will be bringing in these
single-use plastic items that are not styrofoam and not polystyrene so that is
something that we hope the government will be able to address because that
isn't a viable alternative to the styrofoam in the meantime miss query
said a jet will be carrying out its own public education campaign on the
styrofoam ban starting this month we are starting our road tour at the end of
this month and it just focuses on restaurants in Kingston and Montego Bay
so that's where we are starting our efforts but we really want to keep up
keep up the messaging and I'm kind of sustained the public education and
increased awareness and it's not time for a break but stay with us more
stories right after these messages
welcome back thank you so much for staying with us continuing the news now
former chief medical officer dr. Winston Delahaye is said to represent the
People's National Party in the constituency of st. Catherine east
central in the next general election the seat is currently held by the Jamaica
Labour Party's alanda Tara long when contacted by her News Center last night
doctor Delahaye confirmed that he will be on the PNP list of candidates
syamantaka Canada representing the CNT East Central and Catherine making money
entry into dr. della he said he has already started campaigning
welcome to ticket you know locally we recognize your work at the dawn of an
excellent team in place and we're completely not adding to that with a
person running all of this really came about already we're on the ground
dr. Delahaye is currently deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the
University of the West Indies Moana campus there's to be a renewed focus on
strengthening motorcycle regulations in Jamaica this as experts say
motorcyclists are the leading category of fatal road incidents the move comes
amid growing concerns about rising road fatalities TVJ is Giovanni Denis has
this report Young is synonymous with motorbikes in Jamaica they are cheap
easy to obtain and fashionable among young male writers but they are
presenting a monumental mayhem for road safety officials we need to get we need
to get them in wearing better gear we hear about motorcyclists who are falling
off their dice motorcyclists are been hit down and they're still wearing
sandals there were no sleeve shirts so you know there's a lot of damage in
addition to what may be spinal cord or head injury what is the skin abrasions
that happened when you the pavement also presents a lot of
challenges for the doctors and a lot of skin has the ricotta with 133 persons
died from bike crashes in 2019 that is almost one third of the total road
deaths 435 mrs. Fletcher is closed that a committee is in the process of
formulating regulations governing motorbikes we really have to drill down
into what's happening with motorcyclists which is where a committee was set up
some months ago and there is meaningful work that has actually taken place but
it's still going to take a level of investment to get it to a point where we
can get through to both the cyclists that they need to be trained they need
to be certified but she laments the island traffic authority still has work
to do to make itself already to certify all the rapidly growing number of
motorcyclists in Jamaica not quite because the Traffic Authority need still
have us one stronger capacity to Train motorcyclists to be honest it's
everybody all the unlicensed motorcyclist versus turn about the doors
of IT they would have a problem in terms of capacity to train just to certify a
stakeholders meeting is scheduled for Thursday January 9 officials from the
National Road Safety Council will meet with Prime Minister Andrew Holness and
various ministries to discuss a national response to rising related deaths 322
persons died in 2017 308 and 9 in 2018 and 435 in 2019 the highest since 1993
Giovanna Dennis TVJ news delays at Porsche Simpson Miller square in three
miles in tanjur are expected to ease early this week with the commissioning
of traffic signals this comes as motorists have been
complaining about the congestion in the area due to the lights not yet being
activated and the lack of road markings communications manager at the National
Works Agency NWA Stephen Shaw says the only thing left to do is for the vehicle
detectors to be installed which should be done before the middle of this week
we expect that this activity will be completed by sometime tomorrow no miss
will give us the opportunity therefore to commission the lights in the service
by the latest Tuesday of this week he says the road markings will also be
completed shortly the activities right have been outstanding for different
reasons to include wear defects had to be remedied before the match would have
been put on so you know the road accordingly news overseas know a five
point eight magnitude quake hit Porto Rico this morning unleashing small
landslides causing power outages and severely cracking some homes it was one
of the strongest quakes yet to hit the US territory that has been shaking for
the past week there were no immediate reports of casualties the US Geological
Survey the US Geological Service says the quake struck at 6:32 a.m. just south
of the island at a relatively shallow depth of 10 kilometers there was no
tsunami threat residents in southern coastal towns have posted pictures of
partially collapsed homes and large boulders blocking roads previous quakes
of lesser magnitudes in recent days have cracked homes and led to Goods falling
of supermarket shelves and a terminal for sports jamaica scorpions enter the
final few days of preparation for their opening regional four-day game on
Thursday now the team will be hoping their Cena players get them off to a
winning start against the Trinidad and Tobago red force here is Bernardo Brown
with the details with the team languishing at the foot of the sixteen
table for the past if you see since there is no pressure on senior
players to deliver one of those players his batsman German Blackwood was phone
runs hard to come by at the regional level in his past two seasons this year
is about fifty I didn't really you know put in a good performance but that
happened to every cricketer so I'm just focused in my 24 days the last couple
weeks have been good training so I'm feeling very confident right now and I'm
hitting the bar pretty good so so I can take that into the first game against
Trinidad because I'm looking to get somebody big squarely sir the team will
once again have pace a marquee Namid leave their ranks and he's expected to
form a bowling partnership with durval green who is considered a big part of
the team's bowling unit it's always a pleasure having mark in our own he's
that kind of person he's very energetic he has good skills and he's potential is
you know I mean unlimited so it's some obvious agree to have him back
you know the pride without basically thought that it's a loss for for them
not having him back with them because I mean he have he took maybe like about
20-something wickets last season so you know his his value and his capabilities
the scorpion squad will depart the island up for trinidad and tobago on
monday renard abroad for TVJ sports and that's the midday news and fashion Brown
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