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Lead Stories PSOJ weighs in THE ISLAND'S top private sector leaders have stepped in to mediate discussions to find solutions to the violence gripping parts of the city which has claimed the lives of at least 25 persons since Saturday.
The stench of rotting bodies demoralises you as you enter the door of Madden's chapel on the ground floor of its funeral parlour at the corner of North Street and Rose Lane, right next to the Kingston Public Hospital.
SOLDIERS, NOW have the right to search, detain and hold cordons under a new directive issued by Cabinet yesterday. The directive came in light of the flare-up of violence and the mounting of roadblocks in the Corporate Area yesterday.
THE ALREADY strained Corporate Area health services were put under even more pressure over the weekend and yesterday as gunfire continued in sections of the city.
HUNDREDS OF motorists had to retreat hastily after confronting several roadblocks mounted by angry residents who ensured they stayed mounted yesterday. |
