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October 26 2025
Police hunt driver in fatal Portmore hit-and-run
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December 9 2025
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The police had made a public appeal to Maine, a taxi operator, to report to the nearest police station.
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A motive has not been established.
The St Catherine South police are searching for the driver involved in a hit-and-run crash on Sunday that claimed the life of an 80-year-old man.
The deceased has been identified as Roy Pickersgill of Edgewater, Portmore.
Reports are that about 3:50 a.m., Pickersgill was riding a bicycle along George Lee Boulevard, near the Portmore Town Centre, when he was hit by a motor vehicle.
The driver did not stop.
Pickersgill was taken to the Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
- Rasbert Turner
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