Jamaica weather alert, NWA leadership search and crime updates lead CVM noon bulletin

Jamaica’s unsettled weather, a major leadership change at the National Works Agency and several crime and political developments led CVM News at Noon on Monday, June 8, 2026.

Meteorologist Jovoy Sawyers said the island’s heavy showers and thunderstorms were being driven by a moderate tropical wave interacting with a monsoon trough from the Panama region and an upper-level feature. He said the wave should move west of Jamaica by midweek into Thursday, with conditions expected to ease closer to the weekend. Sawyers warned that although El Nino may bring hotter, drier conditions and reduced hurricane activity later in the summer, Jamaicans should still prepare for tropical storms, hurricanes and severe weather during the June-to-November season.

The Government has begun recruiting a new chief executive officer for the National Works Agency, bringing Everton Hunter’s 14-year tenure near an end. A Sunday Gleaner advertisement from the Ministry of Economic Growth and Infrastructure Development listed the starting salary for the NWA CEO post at just over $17 million. Applications close on June 19, 2026.

The PNP Youth Organisation also demanded a public apology from Young Jamaica and the Jamaica Labour Party’s Communications Task Force over comments about Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s 2024 statutory declarations. PNPYO General Secretary Peter B. Ferguson said the declarations had already been certified by the Integrity Commission and published in the Jamaica Gazette on May 26, 2026.

In crime news, Jamaican-American Aldin Blake, 36, was charged with murder and breaching the Immigration Act after the alleged fatal stabbing of his wife, Kadian Bradshaw. Police say the couple had arrived in the country on October 5 and failed to leave by April 3. Blake is due in court on Friday, June 12.

Westmoreland police also charged 21-year-old Joshua Vaz, otherwise called Josh, of Num Num Pereal Road in Negril, over the May 22 killing of restaurant owner Nashan “Bubbanash” McGibbon at Flagship Restaurant, Cayon Beach. A 64-year-old medical doctor was wounded in the attack.

In Kingston, 60-year-old caterer Paula Ming appealed for help to fund knee replacement surgery costing more than $2 million. She said stage-four kidney disease, an autoimmune condition, recurring blood clots and severe knee pain have left her struggling to work.