SPALDINGS, Clarendon:

A schoolteacher and a student drowned in separate incidents on the weekend.

In the first incident, 25-year-old Junior Reid of Christiana, Man-chester, drowned early Saturday morning while swimming at the Silver Creek Hotel in St. Ann.

It is suspected that he experienced muscle problems and drowned before help could reach him.

He and other teachers of the Christiana Leased Primary School in Manchester were at the hotel for a meeting.

Mr. Reid is a graduate of Bethlehem Moravian College in St. Elizabeth.

He worked at the Knox Junior School in Clarendon in the kindergarten section and the Kendal Primary School in Manchester, before taking up a post at Christiana Leased Primary.

In the other incident, Michael Sang, a 16-year-old student of St. Elizabeth Technical High School, drowned in the Hope River in the parish.

The police say Sang, who lived in Burnt Savannah, was among a group of six boys who went for a swim in the river shortly after 1:00 p.m. on Saturday.

It is alleged that the teenager got into difficulties and drowned.

A post-mortem is scheduled for this week.

- G.H.