Record breaking Triple Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt was involved in a motor vehicle accident a short while ago. Gosavlamar.com understands that the motor vehicle he was driving ran off the road into a ditch and overturned along Highway 2000 in the vicinity of Vineyard Toll Plaza.

He was rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital, however I don’t think his condition is serious.

His next meet is scheduled for the Jamaica International Invitational Meet in Kingston this weekend.

Wishing all the best for a speedy recovery for Usain Bolt

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A 23-year-old higgler of Waterworks district, Westmoreland was on Wednesday, April 22, arrested for breaching the Firearms Act after the police found two rounds of ammunition in her possession. Charged with illegal possession of ammunition is Shadona Campbell, otherwise called ‘Duggie’.

Reports from the Constabulary Communication Network CCN’s Laison Officer for Westmoreland are that about 6.45 a.m., the police carried out an operation at Waterworks. During the exercise, a premises occupied by Campbell was searched.

A purse she was carrying was searched and two rounds of ammunition; a 9mm and a .38 were found. She was subsequently arrested and charge and is booked to appear in the Western Regional Gun Court. The Savanna-La-mar CIB is investigating.

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Three people are now dead while another battles for life following a horrendous accident along the Farm Pen main road in Westmoreland early Sunday morning.

The dead have been identified as 19 year-old Kemeisha Anderson, Kedon Kedoo 25, and the car owner 24 year-old Donavan John also known as “DJ”, all of Three Miles River in the parish. While still in hospital is 15 year-old Tressone Rattery. About 2:30 a.m., all four were travelling in John’s black 1995 Honda Civic motocar bearing registration plates 7920FC. The four were heading northward towards their home in Three Miles River, when on reaching a section of the roadway in the vicinity of the Norduth housing development, John attempted to evade a pool of water that had settled on the roadway.

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Rivoli United rallied from a goal down to sink Reno of Westmoreland 2-1 in Sunday’s third round Digicel Premier League match at the Frome Sports Complex, thanks to a Devon Hodges 90th minute stunner, to break the hearts of Reno fans who were praying for a win.

The loss was a hard pill to swallow as Reno dominated play for the majority of the match behind a series of well thought-out plays in midfield from Kenroy Hutchinson and company.

But when Fidel Anderson’s powerful 25 yard pile driver from a free kick sailed into the back of the net, Reno’s hope of finally pulling off a victory began to evaporate, much like their intent in the last five minutes of the game.

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History was created last night in Jamaica when Stephen Fray, a gunman in his twenties from Montego Bay who is said to be of unsound mind hijacked a Canadian chartered flight, which was preparing for takeoff at the Sangster’s International Airport.

At about 11:00pm the gunman boarded the CANJET with 169 passengers and 8 crew members on board and held them in a hostage situation until 6:40am today when members of the Jamaica Defense Force Counter Terrorism Operations Group entered the cabin of the aircraft and effected a tactical resolution authorized by the incident commando and in the process disarmed and arrested him, while rescuing the other hostages on board.

It was reported that Fray used the staff entrance to the airport posing as a member of the airport’s security team using fake identification cards to breach the system. The gunman proceeded to rob the passengers for about half an hour before some of them were released.

Speculations are that sources at the airport stated that Fray appeared to be of Latin American descent and was requesting to be taken to Cuba.

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A startling occurrence has left property owner, Radcliff Barrett, wondering if he has discovered the precious commodity of oil on his property in Ramble, Hanover.

In speaking to the Western Mirror, Mr. Barrett said sometime in the last week of March, he was clearing a section of his property and was burning some bush close to where a pond was once situated as it had dried up leaving just dirt.

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The family of Shanna Kay Legister and Sheneka Shakes, the little girls who were brutally raped and killed in 2005, have welcomed a renewed probe by retired detectives by the state to investigate cold case files.

However, the Westmoreland crime chief, Acting Deputy Superintendent Paul Simms says ongoing investigations have been severely handicapped by the absence of witnesses. He further explained that the cops had to rely on ‘scientific evidence’, but so far there has been no DNA match for the 15 suspects held over the past four years.

The victims, aged eight and nine respectively, attended the Town Head Primary School in the parish prior to the incident.

They were found in a canefield a day after they went missing.

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The Savanna-la-Mar Police are seeking the public’s assistance in finding Delroy Earle, a 36 year-old man who they think can be of vital help in their investigation into the murder of a twenty-five year-old man in the town on Thursday.

Dead is Sediek Blythe, a factory worker at Grace Food processor and who lived at 30 Seaton Crescent. Blythe was killed at about 10 a.m., when he was attacked by a machete weilding man as he walked along Seaton Crescent.

According to a report from the Savanna-la-Mar CIB, Blythe was chopped several times all over his body including his head, chest, neck and hands by the man. He then struggled to make it back home where he collapsed at the back door of his house and had to b assisted by the Emergency Response Unit from the fire department. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

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The ninth staging of the Westmoreland Curry Festival will be held this year on the 26th April, at the Mannings School in Savanna-la-Mar. The festival is the brain child of the committee that organized the Manning’s School Agriculture Show some years ago and has been doing well since the inception.

Curry is a spice that is mostly used by persons of Indian decent and the parish of Westmoreland is very populated by Indians. Most Westmorelites regardless of their decent are curry lovers and as such this festival seek to display the various dishes, juices and punch that can be made using curry.

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Sixteen-year-old Jevaughine ‘Trooper’ Irving is on the list of the 10 most wanted persons by the Westmoreland police.

According to information on the list which was released earlier this week, the youth is wanted in connection with the February 2, 2009 shooting death of 42-year-old mechanic, Rohan ‘Japanese’ Fletcher, of Darling Street, Savanna-La-Mar.

Reports are that on Monday, February 2, at about 7:50 pm, Fletcher was standing at a shop located along Darling Street, Savanna-La-Mar, when explosions were heard. Fletcher was later discovered lying on the ground in a pool of blood with gunshot wounds to his left side and shoulder. He was taken to the Savanna-la-mar Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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