A veteran Jamaican journalist is murdered, shocking the country and heightening security concerns

‘Living a fulfilling life for seventy-seven years [and] then somebody kills you in your home; tragic isn't the word, it's something else’

Originally published on Global Voices

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Seventy-seven-year-old Barbara Gayle lived in a quiet, pleasant gated community just outside of Kingston, where she was enjoying semi-retirement after a long career that spanned more than 50 years as a court reporter at the Jamaica Gleaner, widely considered the country's newspaper of record.