For 72-year-old Carmel Heaven, things are a far cry from the days when Jermaine Spence, her customs broker son, was completing a construction project at her home in Zambia, St Catherine, with the promise of a better future.
Zambia is located on the outskirts of the gritty hillside community of Windsor Heights in Central Village.
Employed as a day’s worker, Heaven had managed to raise two sons – the other a taxi driver – and was enjoying some level of comfort when she lost both in less than a year.
“Gunmen kill me two boys,” she said on Saturday after receiving a care package from the PSOJ Jamaica COVID-19 Response Fund. “I raise up two boys and gunmen shot them eight months apart, 11 years ago.”
Her customs broker son was on his way home with a million dollars in cash when he was shot dead by gunmen. Read more
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