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November 14, 2026
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PORT ANTONIO, Portland – Saying a disgruntled Portland resident held a machete to the head of a public health inspector on vector control duties, the parish’s Chief Environmental Health Officer Lorenzo Hume has appealed to councillors to educate residents in their divisions on the role of public health employees.
“He was physically injured and traumatised,” Hume told Thursday’s monthly meeting of the Portland Municipal Corporation, adding that two other public health inspectors who witnessed the incident were also traumatised.
“We had to send them home and we are still monitoring them,” said Hume.
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