May 8, 2025
MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Police are probing the circumstances surrounding the death of a 60-year-old man who reportedly fell from a coconut tree in Knockpatrick, Manchester on Thursday.
Police named the man as George Pearce, a farmer of Meadesfield in Knockpatrick.
A police report said about 3:00 pm Pearce had finished picking coconuts and while descending the tree a makeshift step broke and he fell to the ground.
He was rushed to the Mandeville Regional Hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.
His death has so far been classified as a death by misadventure pending a post mortem.
— Kasey Williams