good afternoon and Vashon brown with the
midday news a special welcome if you're
watching on one spot Mediacom after
being closed for more than two months
Jamaica's borders officially reopened
today to all international tourists more
in this report Minister Edie Bartlett is
expressing optimism that the requisite
infrastructure is in place to deal with
the return of tourists to the island the
protocols contained an eight-pitch
document targets all segments of
industry including accommodation
attractions watersports crafts shops
shopping cruise ports airports transport
restaurants and bars speaking following
a tour of the Sangster International
Airport on Sunday mr. Bartlett said he
was positive that the measures
implemented will help to keep the rate
of covert a 19 down in the country the
elements of sanitization and the
infrastructure required to enable them
have also been installed Oracle
technology has been implemented for
photographic capture as well as
temperature capture the Ministry of
Health has worked overtime to the ball
to try to ensure that all the touch
points to ensure
the layer of head security that is
required to protect the destination and
the visible liners are in place
JHD a president omar Robinson says his
association is pleased with the
improvements at the airport mr. Robinson
accept returns we have a number of
hotels a handful of hotels reopening
over the next over the next day or two
and and you know most of the hotels will
reopen in July but they are in the
process of putting in all the safety
procedures implementing all the
protocols and training and sensitizing
their stuff what the industry is excited
we're ready to get that the workers back
we're ready to get tourism reopened in a
safe way
meanwhile medical officer of Health for
st. James dr. Tanika Bailey small says
there is need for improvement in the
processes
she says the inefficiencies were noted
over the past two weeks under the
government's controlled reentry program
dr. bailey says her team has addressed
some of those issues which should see
the return of tourists or a dander
through our airports being much smoother
machine masters TV t news and president
of the jamaica agriculture society len
worth fulton says the reopening of the
tourist industry will have a positive
spin off and the agricultural sector
he says the sector experience that
downturn due to the closure of hotels
despite of the dry spell wreaking havoc
on farming mr. fulton said farmers will
be able to meet the demands of the
tourist sector we have reshaped
agriculture you know and when you look
at the UH robust land reform I'll beat
it need much more to it and when you
look unless from a common end stream
like a leaching out of in the road
approximately three thousand acres when
you look on the gas on a van plan to go
big in sheer house and so on
so I when you look and propose a plan
for irrigation with the Essex Valley and
that plan to move the water from the
Black River into the plains of central
Isabel there is hope two persons are
dead and five others Hospital
including a three-year-old following a
motor vehicle accident on the bottom
main road in Manchester last night
one of the deceased has been identified
as 22-year old Akeem Powell an
accounting student of the University of
Technology the other a woman has only
been identified as Aniki it's understood
that about 10:30 a Nissan Sunny motor
car with seven persons aboard was
travelling along the bottom main road
when one of the tires blew out they were
traveling from Munro in st. Elizabeth
the driver lost control of the vehicle
which later skidded into a toyota
highest mini-boss that was traveling in
the opposite direction
no TVJ News has learned that the driver
of the car died on the spot
Akeem and the others were taken to
hospital where he was pronounced dead
the others including a three-year-old
child and the minimus and the minibus
driver were treated and released still
in Manchester the parish is reporting a
reduction in major crimes except murder
data from the Jamaica Constabulary force
show that the parish recorded an
increase of one murder for the pure
January 1 to June 6 head of the
Manchester Police Superintendent Garry
Francis says the main challenge being
experienced in the parishes conflict
resolution Oh dispute management skill
we seem to be somewhat not as developed
as we want it and a lot of those
disputes and the physical some of which
ended in murder Superintendent Francis
noted that the kovat 19 pandemic also
had an impact on the murder rate in
subdivisions that Koval will impact a
reduction because people are somewhat
under control
environment for us in Manchester when we
have people so close together because of
the number of conflict it means that we
would have an inverse relationship so
reminders are more of those conflicts
that end up sometimes with injury and in
murder
the Manchester Health Department is
worried that there is a widespread
breeding of the anopheles mosquito which
transmits malaria the Health Department
says that surveillance teams have found
the mosquitoes in rare places such as
concrete
thanks they're usually found in swampy
areas chief public health inspector for
Manchester Charmaine Palmer cross
outlined the measures being taken to
control the increase she says
interventions have been carried out we
have done one ill I think it's on bottom
sent to lists we did one in Robyn's Hall
but Robin Robins hall was really
excessive breathing so what we did we
actually go into these communities and
were distributing fish are placing fish
into some of these breathing containers
and we will continue to do that until we
are satisfied or entire shop garages and
so forth we continue to monitor those
the measures to deal with a mosquito
remains the same as for the eight is
Egypt I which we are more accustomed to
that causes dengue Zika chickpea yellow
fever so we we use the fish because in
the company technically the country
tonight is the best means of dealing
with the mosquito in the concrete tank
what would also don't our fucking
operations as well they were both
speaking at the recent monthly meeting
of the Manchester Municipal Corporation
and we now take a break on midday news
but we'll be right back please stay with
welcome back continuing the news now the
police say the main suspect in Friday's
a deadly gun attack on police officers
in Horizon parks and Catherine had good
knowledge of weapons and was known to
the police it's supportive that Damien
Hamilton shot and killed two officers
and injured two others in an operation
speaking on TV J's smell Jamaica program
this morning head of the Constabulary
communications unit Sina Superintendent
Stephanie Lindsay says Hamilton was the
target of the operation the police team
which included eleven members was shot
at with an m16 on automatic fire hours
after the incident Hamilton was shot
dead in kohrville Gardens and Andrew as
SP lenses as investigators are still not
clear if there were other shooters he
was supposed to be the only target but
however based on what we saw at the
crime scene it is possible that there
could be other persons the fact that we
don't know who this person are so we
don't have an identity we're an identity
for him was very clear because he was
already a target know I'm they're gonna
have to look at the ballistic fence
casing and everything but if this will
help us to determine the caliber of
weapons fired and given an estimation as
to how many persons may have been firing
at the police at the time so I know they
are working quickly to get those answers
so hopefully we will know sooner than
later ssp Lindsay says superintendent
Leon Clunes who was among the two
officers injured is still in serious
condition but steadily improving the
other policeman who was injured was
released on the weekend the opposition
is taking aim at the economic
performance of the government speaking
at a PNP conference on Sunday PNP
president dr. Peter Phillips argued that
even before the covert 19 pandemic the
government was not meeting its own
growth targets
have been missed
for good since 26 big part of finding 4
is of thunder and don't forget even
before the pandemic came the result of
economic upturn for the first quarter
and the match was won the kunafa sports
attorney at law dr. Amir crown who has
previously represented Jamaican athletes
in their anti-doping cases says the
matter of fairness is behind his
decision to take on the anti-doping
disciplinary case involving reigning
400-meter women's 400-meter world
champion swalla Eden Aesir Crone and the
fellow Trinidadian attorney Matthew
Gayle have been retained by the Nigerian
born Bahraini athlete was been charged
by the Athletics Integrity Unit a iu4
whereabouts violation after allegedly
missing 3 doping tests in a 12-month
period the aiu also said the violations
were being investigated before nasira's
World Athletics Championships win in
Doha Qatar in October
it is also alleged that Nasir missed a
fourth test in January of this year this
case and similar cases in the past that
is I'm a big believer in the athlete
being hooded and to the extent that I've
reviewed this case so like I say past
cases and if I believe there's merit to
the athletes claim or merit to the
situation then I'm more than happy to
take on the case I'm more than happy to
do it pro bono if the athlete can't
otherwise afford legal representation
but like I say I'm a big believer in
athletes being heard and in athletes
quote unquote having their day in court
dr. Crone who most recently represented
Jamaican sprinter Brianna Williams in
her anti-doping Disciplinary case in
2019 declined to comment on a recent
Instagram live video in which Salwa said
missing three drug tests
was normal he has also represented quota
mallas Ryker Hilton and Dominic Blake in
similar cases in the past and that's the
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