Murdered woman to be buried today

Quamina, who was employed as a supervisor at the Jamaica Money Market Brokers (JMMB), was murdered while staying at a friend’s home at Edinburgh South, Chaguanas.

Reports said Quamina was doing laundry when a man wearing a mask stormed into the house. Quamina, her co-worker, Josanne Allen and her (Allen’s) boyfriend, Christopher Heerah, were at the home when the intruder entered. The man struck Heerah with his gun and ordered that he tie Quamina and Allen with duct tape. The man, according to reports, then asked Allen for her brother but she refused to answer. The man, Allen said, proceeded to beat her boyfriend until he collapsed in an unconscious state.

It was only when the gunman left the house, Quamina’s body was found in the bedroom.

An autopsy at the Forensic Science Centre revealed that Quamina died as a result of chop wounds to her neck.

Days before she was murdered, Quamina had sent a text message to her sister Abigail, 31, via her cellular phone, informing her that she wanted to meet with the family to discuss “something important”.

Relatives believe that Quamina was in trouble and wanted to reach out to them for help but was killed before she could do so. Yesterday a close family friend told Newsday that the relatives were struggling to come to terms with the young woman’s death. “When everyone would be celebrating Independence, we would be burying Apphia.

The police are questioning people and all we are asking is that justice be served. She did not deserve to die like this,” he said.