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Opposition Member of Parliament for South West St Andrew, Dr Angela Brown-Burke is encouraging women and girls to research how to make their own mace as a way to defend themselves from attacks.
Brown-Burke’s suggestion came as Members of Parliament recently used the House of Representatives to voice their disgust at the recent spate of murders of women and girls. They were particularly outraged at the murder of 20-year-old accounting clerk Khanice Jackson, whose partially decomposed body was found near the fishing village along the Dyke Road in Portmore, St Catherine. She was strangled to death.
A 50-year-old mechanic, Robert Fowler, otherwise called ‘Backra of Portmore, has since been charged with her murder. The police are awaiting the results of an autopsy to decide whether additional charges will be brought against Fowler.