Empty Five Miles greets pastors one week after deadly firefight

A ghost town would be an appropriate description of Five Miles, in Mount Morland, Sligoville, St Catherine on Thursday, almost one week after two members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and three alleged gunmen were killed during a firefight.

With no residents in sight, a mission by pastors of the 10,000 Men and Families Movement and the Spanish Town Minister’s Fraternal fell flat as their hops of meeting and praying with people who were affected emotionally by the traumatic event at a house in the community fizzled.

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That did not stop Bishop Rowan Edwards, founder of the 10,000 Men and Families Movement, and Pastor Dalbert Simmonds, chairman of the Spanish Town Ministers’ Fraternal from offering up prayers.