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Jamaica hunkers down as Melissa approaches
Hurricane Melissa, a powerful Category Five system, approached Jamaica on Monday in what could be the worst hurricane in the island’s recorded history. Compass TV spoke with several Jamaican residents ahead of the storm’s landfall.
Christopher Issa, a business owner with close ties to Cayman, described the calm before the storm as a light breeze but said Jamaicans are bracing for Melissa’s full impact.
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Fentanyl smuggling couple jailed for over 9 years
A couple who imported the drug fentanyl have been jailed for nine years and six months.
Justice Emma Peters told the Grand Court that Renae Hamilton – who Peters said was the “brains of the operation” – and Dorman Salmon had imported the drug to Cayman knowing the grim toll of lives it had claimed in the US and Canada.
She said the pair had “amassed criminal property which they then money laundered by sending it overseas, usually to America or Jamaica” and that some of the cash was moved by unwitting third parties.
Hamilton and Salmon were sentenced after they were found guilty by a jury on two charges – importation of 51 fentanyl tablets, weighing 5.2 grams, and money laundering of $70,000.
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