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anger and sadness over brutal murder of pregnant woman in Rhoden hall Clarendon out of vaccine
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i'm giovanni dennis and here are the details
we begin with an update out of Rhoden Hall, Kellits, Clarendon where a 21 year old pregnant
woman was murdered allegedly by her boyfriend the deceased tashika mckay was eight months pregnant
this afternoon there's anger and sadness in the relatively quiet rural farming community
our reporter dwayne anderson is in the area
thank you so much giovanni so i'm at a home where the grizzly murder took place yesterday
father's day a lot of relatives and friends have converged on the scene trying to make
sense of what really happened we spoke with some of them and they're understandably angry
with jumper from me and my sister with me jump afron
amigo enter my sister first thing could agree to
with a murder like this and a father is there when earth shall be celebrating
father's day you scoff the life out of a young 25 year old who is eight months pregnant now i also
spoke with tashika's mother she's inconsolable she wants swift justice i lock him up not even [ __ ]
my daughter just this time i want any system so corrupt i mean i'll get that further and fear
no doubt it will take some time for the family and indeed the wider farming
community here in rhoden hall in kellis clarendon to recover from this brutal
murder reporting for tvj news i'm dwayne anderson and it's back to you giovanni
thanks duane well in the meantime the main suspect in the murder of 21 year old tachika mckay
is in hospital head of the clarendon police superintendent christopher phillips
confirmed that the man was found hanging from a rope in his cell the man was taken
into custody sunday evening we'll have more on this developing story in subsequent newscasts
less than 24 hours after a zone of special operations was declared in norwood st
james the security forces have recovered two guns according to the security team the
guns a .38 pistol and a nine millimeter were found in an area of the community called texas
18 rounds of ammunition were also recovered in the operation no arrests have been made
and opposition leader mark golding has intensified his call for a sustainable
crime fighting measure to curtail the bloodletting across the island mr golding reiterated the call
during a tour of salt spring and mount salem in saint james prince moore reports
felicia nicholson and her children might have relocated from the community of salt spring
in saint james but the bullet-riddled furniture and buckets she saw when she visited her home on
friday gave her flashbacks she fought the tears as she explained what unfolded a few weeks ago
well i mean i shot me here me too liquid closing them outside a ball
and let me tell them once if you let me out and go attend to them but
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her children who were at home as the attack was being carried out hid under the bed and we're
told these bullet-riddled buckets were meters away opposition leader mark golding is saddened by the
incident and it seems that bullets were prevented from reaching them by the baskets full of clothes
because they can see their bullet holes in the in the baskets and another one was standing right
there but her boyfriend daniel was killed salt spring has been rocked by several incidents of
shootings and murders this year despite increased police presence i mean we're not we're not in a
zozo community here right but the strategy of having small little areas which have security
and others that don't this isn't working and even in the areas which have zozos there's
still killings going on in mount salem i mean murders in st james are up substantially this year
the situation is out of control up to yesterday 653 persons were killed in the country
this compared to 632 for the corresponding period in 2020 mr golding says the rising numbers are an
indication that the government must intervene you know this is a this is a problem that we
have to face i think we have to face it not only through effective law enforcement but we have to
have a way of reaching out to the young men who are involved in this kind of thing and trying to
change their you know change their mentality reach them um reach them in a way that they can see that
there's another path uh forward in life you know obviously those who have committed wrongs and
will have to be held accountable but there are many of them who perhaps haven't yet done that but
one day become another statistic if we don't get to them prince moore tvg news as crime
continues to spiral the government says it's not ruling out the use of a state of public emergency
but there are some legal issues which need to be ironed out specifically detentions the matter was
raised at sunday's emergency press briefing at the office of the prime minister hashem masters
reports still awaiting the court transcripts the declaration from attorney general marlene malahu
fort yesterday when asked about the way forward in detaining people under the state of public
emergency soe last year five men brought a case against the government for prolonged detention
under the soe without charge everton douglas was in custody for 177 days nicholas heath 361 days
courtney hall and courtney thompson 395 and a 365 days respectively and gavin noble was detained for
431 days without being charged responding to a question posed by the rgr cleaners dion jackson
miller attorney general marlene mallahu fort once again sought to clarify that the legislation
does not provide for indefinite detention for those who are saying repeatedly that
whether the soe or any other law in jamaica permits indefinite detention it is not so
in jamaica the executive is allowed to engage the right which guarantees liberty
the detention order that is issued by the minister of national security when a state of public
emergency is declared does not say indefinite detention mrs malahu ford says under the soe
there are mechanisms where persons can challenge the basis of their detention
those cases that the attorney general says will be heard by the emergency powers tribunal
which has to be set up as per the jamaican constitution at the maximum the detention
is to the duration of the state of public emergency an extremely important distinction
that persons should understand but that was not the case for the five men in handing down the
judgment on september 17 2020 justice bertrand morrison said there were 68 conflicts found in
the emergency pause regulation making it unlawful for the attorney general we are of the view that
exciting questions of constitutional law and procedural law and administrative law arise in
the cases that are now before the court i bemoan the fact that we are awaiting the transcript
even though we have signaled that we would like the matter to be considered expeditiously given
the criticality of the measure to the state and what is happening in jamaica but we look
forward to getting the guidance of the court we look forward to presenting our perspective of
the law in keeping with our understanding of the charter and of course the imperatives of
of the state and of governance ocean masters tvg news four of seven jamaicans arrested in the u.s
state of florida last thursday had a criminal past police commissioner major general anthony anderson
made the revelation at sunday's press briefing the jamaicans were among over 14 people arrested by
u.s authorities who entered the country illegally we've been working with our international partners
on this and have found criminal traces for four of them four of the seven so far
and only a couple of weeks before that we know that another person who was wanted in jamaica
was tried to enter the united states in a similar way but was found and sent back to us so we
constantly work with our partners on this and that is the update on those who were taken up there we
know who they are and as i said four so far have we have found criminal traces on our system for
them according to the us the u.s sun sentinel this time of year is busy for attempted migrant
crossings the most recent available data shows that interceptions at sea outpaced all of 2020
for people immigrating just from cuba over the past five years approximately 15 000 migrants have
been caught and stopped at sea by the coast guard district 7 group which covers the florida georgia
and the south carolina coastline as well as the caribbean basin puerto rico and the virgin islands
the body of a man was found in a canal in spanish townsend catherine on sunday
he has been identified as hussein howard of an old harbor
road address residents made the discovery around 11 30 a.m
every time we come out here remanded every year every month every week
i'm undead in a canal i don't know what problem that might have if him have stressed
but you can look across there you'll see a rope like a tarzan i don't know if him swing
on it are watts of you but every time man dead right off here so you hear some need to fix or
put a sign or a blockage that no man come across this mother here last month the man choked off
meanwhile the remains of another man were found in clarendon the unidentified man is believed to be
in his seventies residents who made the discovery in an area known as swamp in mitchelltown
say he's not from the area police investigated while police investigations are ongoing
and it's now time for a break here on the midday news but please stay
with us we'll have much more when we return