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[Kiddo @OhSullyVan]

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[Jamaica Defence Force @JDFSoldier]

SERVICE AND DUTY

The Jamaica Defence Force was on full display at this morning’s Ceremony of Investiture and Presentation of National Honours and Awards at King’s House.

From the Guard of Honour, the Band, markers, and the orderlies, our servicemembers carried out their

[Jamaica Defence Force @JDFSoldier]

ceremonial duties with distinction and precision.

The ceremonial duties performed by the JDF provide the military pageantry that anchor the solemnity of the occasion.

Here are the highlights.

#Service
#HonoursandAwards
#NationalHeroesDay
#JDFForward

[Jamaica Customs Agency @jamaicacustoms]

The Jamaica Customs seized 1,457 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of J$1 billion, during a targeted enforcement operation at the Port of Kingston. The operation involved the work of the JCA’s Targeting Centre and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

[K U N L E Y 🔴⚪⚫ @KunleyDaKulprit]

Happy National Heroes Day, 🇯🇲

[Jamaica Defence Force @JDFSoldier]

HONOURING OUR HEROES, UPHOLDING THEIR LEGACY

On this National Heroes’ Day, the Jamaica Defence Force honours the vision, bravery and sacrifice of the men and women who helped shape our nation.

Their legacy reminds us that true heroism lives on through service, dedication and

[John Polack @JohnPolack4]

This must be investigated thoroughly. Who shoot the baby?

[Saggezza Eterna @FinalTelegraph]

Amazing true story:

On a pouring Sunday morning in Georgia in 2014, TunDe Hector hit rock bottom on the shoulder of a slick highway. Enduring a painful divorce and severe financial hardship, she watched helplessly as her fuel gauge dropped to empty and her car sputtered to a halt. She had a single $5 bill in her pocket, an empty gas can in her hand, and miles of cold rain between her and the nearest filling station.

Minutes later, Chris Wright drove past on his way to church with his family. Spotting the solitary woman trudging through the downpour with a gas can, he felt an unmistakable tug on his conscience. After dropping his wife and children off at the church doors, he looked at his wife, Carmen, and said, "I have to go back. I have to help her."

Chris turned his vehicle around, pulled onto the shoulder, and offered TunDe a dry seat. He drove her to the nearest gas station and paid to fill her container. As they pulled back up to her stranded car, Chris felt another quiet prompting inside his chest telling him to empty his wallet. He reached into his pocket, pulled out $40, every dollar he had on him, and pressed the folded bills into her hand. TunDe wept right there in the passenger seat, thanking a man whose name she did not even know before they parted ways.

Three years later, in the summer of 2017, tragedy struck the Wright family. Chris’s mother, Judy Wright, entered the final, devastating stages of Parkinson’s disease. Doctors informed the family that she had only weeks left to live and required immediate, round-the-clock hospice care at home. The family arranged for a private nursing aide, only for the scheduled caregiver to cancel at the very last minute.

In her place, the agency sent a replacement certified nursing assistant: TunDe Hector.

Neither TunDe nor the Wright family recognized one another when she walked through the front door. Over the following days, the family watched in awe as TunDe cared for their dying matriarch with extraordinary gentleness, dignity, and warmth. She spoke softly to Judy, prayed over her bed, and treated her with the devotion of a daughter. During quiet hours beside Judy’s bed, the family learned that TunDe dreamed of finishing nursing school, though she was currently locked out of registering for classes because she owed tuition money she could not afford.

One afternoon during a shift change, the conversation turned to how faith carries people through impossible seasons. TunDe began telling the family about the lowest day of her life three years prior, describing how she had run out of gas in the pouring rain with only five dollars to her name, and how a kind stranger had circled back from church, bought her fuel, and handed her every dollar in his wallet.

Across the room, Chris Wright froze. His jaw dropped, and tears immediately welled in his eyes.

"TunDe," Chris whispered, his voice breaking. "That was me."

They both removed their hats, looked closely at one another, and broke down crying in the middle of the living room. The woman Chris had rescued on the side of a lonely highway had been sent back into his life three years later to comfort his mother in her final days on earth.

Two weeks later, on July 9, Judy passed away peacefully. It happened to be TunDe’s birthday. Even though she was off duty and celebrating with her own loved ones, the second TunDe received the phone call, she left her birthday party and rushed straight to the Wright home to comfort Judy’s widowed husband and prepare her friend one last time with dignity.

Overwhelmed by her selflessness, the Wright family decided that simple thank-you notes were nowhere near enough. When they wrote Judy’s obituary, they included a special request: in lieu of funeral flowers, please donate toward TunDe Hector’s nursing school tuition.

They set up an online fundraiser hoping to gather $1,000 to clear her past-due class balance. Within 45 minutes of going live, the fund surpassed its goal. Within days, the story of their full-circle encounter spread across the country, and strangers donated over $34,000, enough to pay for TunDe’s entire nursing degree. A single forty-dollar bill given in the rain had returned years later as priceless grace when a family needed it most.

[Samaritan's Purse @SamaritansPurse]

"Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

Nobody grew up with the intention of being a cleaner, shelf packer, cashier, security guard, taxi driver, or car cleaner. They had big dreams, but life happened. Never disrespect a man because of the job he does .

[Dr. Proud Yardman @ChrisPinnock1]

A 19 year old died in service to country and country men.
#ultimatesacrifice
I will respectfully ask that we celebrate both Cpl. Shaw and Constable Rose. Give no oxygen to the detractors please. These two young men are examples of what our young ppl can be, what we want them

[BiggestBlackestBarry @BiggestBarry]

I think crime will drop in jamaica for the next 2 months.
Prolly through end of year.
Squadie dem ago wrath.

[Adekunle @Gotimehomie]

Whoever wrote this script is a GOAT. The actor delivered this perfectly. 🔥🎬

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[Jamaica Gleaner @JamaicaGleaner]

There is now a gun battle between members of the security forces and heavily armed gunmen in Sligoville, St Catherine.

Gleaner sources have reported that policemen are believed to have sustained life-threatening injuries during the exchange.

📸: Contributed

[Zyron @Zyron5m]

Usain Bolt's retirement account showed $12,758,181.74 at the end of October 2022. By January it held $12,000. In 2017 Jamaica's regulator had flagged the firm holding it for "a culture of non-compliance and mismanagement of client funds."

His company opened the account at Stocks and Securities Limited in 2012, the year he won his second Olympic 100 metres. It was meant for life after the track. Authorities later confirmed he put in $6.2 million.

A wealth adviser there, Jean-Ann Panton, confessed in January 2023 to taking money from 39 clients. Bolt's company was not on her list. She later told a court the founder had offered her a deal to confess. He denies it.

At a relay launch that month Bolt spoke for the first time. "I'm not broke, but it definitely put a damper on me, and it was for my future," he says. He has three kids and still supports his parents.

In December 2025 investigators took the founder, his daughter and the former CEO into custody. Panton's trial starts in February 2027. The victims' compensation fund has declared a 4.5% payout.

Two years later, on a podcast, he was asked what changed. Every movement in his accounts now needs his team's sign-off. The $12.7 million is still not back.

[Booksforaspirants @AspirantsBooks]

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[UNDRR @UNDRR]

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💬 What's one thing you'd never leave out of your household preparedness plan?

This #DRRDay, discover what it takes to make your household better prepared ➡️ https://t.co/YcPwVJ75Ms
#ResilienceStartsAtHome

[Knowledge Of Old📌 @KnowledgeOfOld]

This paragraph is an eye opener 📌