Two female employees of the Grand Bahia Principe Hotel died on Tuesday night, November 22 as a result of injuries caused from a fatal bus crash along the Dunn’s River main road in St Ann.
Dead are: 23-year-old Jodian Duncan, a waitress of Exchange, St Ann and 24-year-old Shanique Grey, a member of the kitchen staff, of Oracabessa, St Mary.
Preliminary reports indicate that at about 11:45 p.m., the women were passengers on board a 29 seater Grand Bahia Principe staff bus travelling east towards Ocho Rios.
The bus later collided into a truck, which was parked in the vicinity of the Pearly Beach property.
Duncan and Grey were pronounced dead at the hospital.
Eight other employees of the hotel are being treated at the hospital.
The police say preliminary investigations have suggested that speeding may have been a cause of the accident.
See The Times for more details next week