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August Town curfew monitors awarded

Nineteen ‘curfew monitors’ from the August Town community in St Andrew were awarded with certificates on Friday afternoon in a graduation ceremony. In efforts to combat the recent upsurge of violent crimes in the community, the curfew-monitoring...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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