Road Deaths

Yard Report — Saturday, April 11, 2026

Jamaica Brief

Good morning from Kingston, where the heat is already doing its best and the week’s news is already doing its worst.


SPANISH TOWN FIRE KILLS 14-YEAR-OLD GABRIELLA WRIGHT

A house fire in St John’s Garden, Spanish Town on Friday evening killed 14-year-old Gabriella Wright. Her brother ran through the flames and survived with critical injuries. Her mother, Suzette Campbell, was returning home when she saw the smoke — arrived to find her daughter gone, her son burning, her everything destroyed. The cause is still under investigation. The family has nothing. This is the kind of story that gets three paragraphs in the Observer and then disappears beneath the racing results.

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