Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer, who founded The Wailers with his childhood friend Bob Marley, died today at Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 73, and had been hospitalized since July following a stroke. A cause of death has not been released, but his passing was confirmed by Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange. Born […]
Bunny Wailer, Co-Founder of Bob Marley s Wailers, Dies at 73
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Bunny Wailer, a founding member of Bob Marley’s Wailers and a legendary reggae singer whose career reached across seven decades, died early Tuesday, his manager confirmed to the Jamaica Observer; a rep for the Wailers’ longtime U.S. label did not immediately respond to
Variety‘s request for comment. He was 73.
“He died about 8:00 this morning. I’m still right here with him,” his manager, Maxine Stowe, told the Observer from the Medical Associates Hospital in Kingston. No cause of death was cited, but Wailer had been in poor health since suffering a second stroke last July.
In the latest stage of the vaccination programme, the NHS is now inviting all those aged 60 or over to get a life-saving COVID-19 vaccination.
This week, around two million people between the ages of 60 and 63 will be invited to book an appointment and receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Across England, there have now been 16.5 million people who have received their first jab - just over a third of the whole adult population.
Praising the ongoing vaccination programme, Professor Stephen Powis, the NHS’s national medical director, said: “The NHS vaccination programme, the biggest in the health service’s history and fastest in Europe, goes from strength to strength.
A Kingston man exposed himself to a woman and her young daughter in the parking lot of a grocery store over the weekend, Wilkes-Barre police said.
John Wynn Gittens, 62, is accused of exposing his genitals in the parking lot of Schielâs Family Market at 30 Hanover St. around 2:20 p.m. Saturday.
Police said the woman and her 7-year-old daughter were walking to their car when they saw Gittens sitting in his car.
Gittens exposed himself and pointed to his genitals while motioning for the victims to be quiet, police said.
The woman gave police Gittensâ license plate number and a description of his car, and she was able to identify Gittens in a photo lineup, police said.
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Police are responding to fatal crash at Avenue Range, South Australia
A man has died following a fatal crash at Avenue Range in the states South East in the early hours of this morning.
Just before midnight on Sunday 28 February police were called to Avenue Range Road following reports of a single car roll over.
The driver and sole occupant of the Holden Sedan, a 58-year-old man from Kingston sadly died at the scene.
Major Crash Investigators have flown to the scene from Adelaide to examine the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Avenue Range Road was currently closed for several hours while police examined the scene.