The Star (Jamaica)

Policeman shot and killed

Kingston Tech marches for AIDS awareness

- ALICIA BARRETT STAR Writer

Teachers and students of the Kingston Technical High School took to the streets yesterday to help raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.

Students were heard remixing the songs of Vybz Kartel’s Mhm Hm as they chanted “safe sex or no sex.”

“Today (yesterday) is World AIDS Day, and as a part of our community initiative, we are walking through

The body of a police detective sergeant was found with bullet wounds in a car in the community of Bowden Hill, Stony Hill, St Andrew, yesterday morning.

He has been identified as 60-year-old Trevor Williams who was attached to the Flying Squad.

Head of the Corporate Communicat­ions Unit of the Jamaica Constabula­ry Force, Superinten­dent Stephanie Lindsay, said that the car in which Williams’s body was found was not registered to him.

Williams’s, licensed firearm is also said to be missing.

The lawman would have turned 61 on Christmas Day. the community, and the teachers are distributi­ng condoms, and the students are holding up banners and distributi­ng brochures, and we are promoting safe sex or no sex,” said science teacher Tenesha Brown

ABSTINENCE

The school’s guidance department is responsibl­e for the yearly event. Guidance counsellor Doran Williamson told THE STAR that they had an extensive devotion on Friday, where they brought some awareness to the school’s population about safe sex and abstinence.

“We went on Sutton Street, we went on East Street ... North Street and we will be going further into downtown Kingston,” Brown said.

Teachers were also educating people on condom use.

Williamson said that the school promotes abstinence and used the fourth- and fifth-form students to help with their awareness campaign.

 ?? OMARIE MORGAN ?? Teachers and and students of Kingston Technical High School raise AIDS awareness on North Street, yesterday.
OMARIE MORGAN Teachers and and students of Kingston Technical High School raise AIDS awareness on North Street, yesterday.
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