Youth spend the year on the elderly - Guns for drugs trade takes a hit
Published: Wednesday | March 25, 2009
PORT MORANT, ST THOMAS:
As the security forces continue to make major strides against the Guns for Drugs Trade between Jamaica and Haiti, a joint task force comprising members of the St Thomas police, Operation Kingfish, and the Organised Crime Unit, undertook an operation on the weekend in Morant Point, where a quantity of contraband were recovered and one man shot and killed.
According to chief Constabulary Communications Network spokesman, Sergeant Hubert Llewellyn, reported that among the items seized were a 55-horsepower Yamaha engine, six 45-gallon drums of petrol and a quantity of ganja.
Llewellyn also reported that when the police arrived on the scene they were fired on, they returned the fire and a man, yet to be identified, was found dead.
Police sources are of the opinion that the group they encountered in St Thomas were members of the same syndicate who engaged them in Clarendon last month.
The police said their operation was curtailed by darkness and that they were continuing the search for more items and suspects.
- Arthur Green
SPANISH TOWN, St Catherine:
The St Catherine Junior Council is undertaking a yearlong project to beautify and improve conditions at the parish's infirmary.
Activities got under way on Saturday with the painting of 10 bathrooms at the facility.
The 20 young people, who are fifth- and sixth-form students of schools in St Catherine, were fulfilling a promise made to Prime Minister Bruce Golding and state minister with responsibility for Local Government, Robert Mon-tague, at their installation ceremony last November.
Youth Mayor Shamar Harrison said, "We plan on going through the year and we'll be trying to get assistance from various companies and organisations in terms of donations in any way that they can."
He urged those organisations and persons able to help to "call the parish council and indicate your willingness to help with the Youth Council's project and we can take it from there."
In the meantime, Shamar is encouraging more young people to volunteer their time and effort in service to the elderly.
"Once you can help out, help, because sometimes we think the little we do is insignificant, but sometimes that's the thing that really matters," he said.
He also said Jamaican youths had good intentions and the potential to achieve goals in line with their ideas. "It's just for them to realise it," he said
Deputy Youth Mayor Verlando Small said that the project was a good one and the Junior Council was glad "to do something positive for the nation's elders."
One hundred and forty-nine persons call the infirmary home.
- JIS
