WESTERN BUREAU: SHARING THAT he took a leave of absence from his studies to focus on next week’s local government election, People’s National Party (PNP) councillor candidate Ronaldo Jackson is confident that he will be the change needed in the.
Staff Reporter
Twenty-eight-year-old sales expert, Lamoye Stoddart of Sunvalley Road, Glendevon, Montego Bay, has long harboured thoughts of becoming a physical education teacher and a football coach, but the cruel hands of fate intervened and cut short those dreams when he lost his life in a motor vehicle crash in the vicinity of the Fisherman’s beach along the Howard Cooke Boulevard in Montego Bay on Sunday.
The Montego Bay police reports that shortly after 7p.m. Stoddart was travelling in his white 2010 Honda Stream motor car along the Howard Cooke Boulevard when, he reportedly lost control of the vehicle, which crashed into a tree and burst into flames upon impact.
A gunman was shot and killed by an off-duty policeman in a foiled robbery attempt and a firearm seized along the Sunvalley main road in Glendevon on Friday.
The dead man has been identified as Marvan Bowman, otherwise called ‘Chin Mix’ of Bottom Pen, Glendevon, Montego Bay, St. James.
The Montego Hills Police, who are investigating, report that about 8:45 p.m. on Friday, an off-duty police officer was among passengers travelling in a taxi which plies the Downtown Montego Bay to Sunvalley route, when on reaching a section of Sunvalley Road, the car ran out of petrol.
The driver is alleged to have apologized to the passengers, grabbed a gallon jug and went to the nearby gas station to purchase petrol.