Jamaican PNP councilor Ainsley Parkins shot and killed

Jamaica’s councilor for the Southborough division in Portmore, St Catherine, Ainsley Parkins, was fatally shot on Thursday. 

He was a member of the Individuals’s Nationwide Occasion. 

In line with studies, the incident occurred inside Parkins’ division, after which he was taken to the Spanish City Hospital.

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It’s reported that he was sitting in his car on Newland Street when males got here from behind a wall and opened hearth, hitting him a number of instances within the head and higher physique.

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Jamaican Politician Lennox Hines Shot and Killed

This marks the second time a politician from the division has been killed.

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An identical tragedy happened in Might 2022, when Lennox Hines, a council member, and caretaker for the division representing the Jamaica Labour Occasion, was shot and killed on Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston.

It was reported that armed males opened hearth on Hines as he was in his sports activities utility car in visitors near the Tinson Pen Aerodrome.

Sources point out that Hines was ready in visitors when two males rode up on a motorcycle and opened hearth on him earlier than they fled the scene.

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