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JAM | May 9, 2025

PM announces $2M reward for information on Terona Thomas’ killers

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Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness, addressing the commissioning ceremony for the Olympic Way JamaicaEye Monitoring Centre at the Olympic Gardens Police Station in St Andrew on May 6, 2025. (Photo: JIS/Donald De La Haye)

Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has announced a $2-million reward for information leading to the arrest of persons responsible for killing 14-year-old Terona Thomas.

Holness made the announcement during the commissioning ceremony for the Olympic Way JamaicaEye Monitoring Centre at the Olympic Gardens Police Station in St Andrew on May 6.

The former Pembroke Hall High School student was among three people shot by gunmen along Hill Avenue off Olympic Way, in St Andrew West Central on April 17.

She died while being treated at hospital.

The prime minister said he would be asking the Minister of National Security Dr Horace Chang to top up the fund “so that there is a greater incentive [for persons to come forward] because somebody knows”.

“It is time that Jamaica stands up and be definitive. We must stand up and protest for the victims. That 14-year-old girl, shot in her head, was innocent,” he said. “It could have been your daughter, walking to the shop but as I stand here today, we are going to find you.”

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