Rep. Marcia Ranglin-Vassell, a native of Jamaica, decries the violence against women in her home country and is demanding action.
I am writing this as a matter of great public health concern. I am troubled and deeply concerned by the upsurge in the number and the egregious way women are murdered and victimized in Jamaica. Violence against women and girls is on the rise and this cannot be tolerated or normalized.
Gun violence is a public health issue in Jamaica with totally preventable deaths soaring every day. The number of women that have been murdered within the last months and years have been tragically heart-wrenching. Sadly, violence among women is not new in Jamaica. I recall being a 14-year-old when a local shopkeeper, a woman was violently shot and killed. That was 46 years ago.
Tamara Higgins
Detectives assigned to the St James Police Division are probing the murder of a female taxi operator who was gunned down on the job Tuesday evening.
The dead woman has been identified as Tamara Higgins, who was of a Spring Mount, St James address.
Reports are that shortly after 6pm, Higgins was plying the Montego Bay to Spring Mount route in the western Jamaica parish when she stopped to let off a passenger along the Tucker main road.
She was pounced upon and shot multiple times by a gunman who exited the vehicle.
She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead.
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