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January 14, 2026 by Andre Williams

INDECOM recommends charges for 26 state agents during 6 months in 2025

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has revealed that 26 recommendations for criminal charges and 23 for disciplinary actions, were made against state agents for the six-month…
Investigators combing a crime scene following a double murder and shooting in Barbican, St Andrew, in April 2025.
January 13, 2026 by Andre Williams

‘Tide shift’

The bloodiest week of 2025 came just days into the new year. Between January 4 and January 11, at least 29 people were murdered across Jamaica, a violent upsurge that reignited fears that the country…
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December 30, 2025 by Andre Williams

Jamaica nears year-end with lowest murder toll since 1994

Jamaica is closing out the year with a dramatic fall in murders, recording a 42 per cent fall in murders at the end of 52 weeks with 666 killings, the lowest number recorded since 1994. That year some…
Police personnel escort the suspect in yesterday’s triple murder in Clarendon to a service vehicle.
December 20, 2025 by Andre Williams

Bloodline bloodshed

Concerns are being raised today for the well-being of children who witnessed the bludgeoning of a family member and had to run for their lives from the killer- another of their relatives who had…
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December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Bank systems take spotlight in Sagicor fraud case

There were several tense moments during Thursday’s sitting of the Sagicor fraud trial as defence attorneys aggressively questioned a former banker who returned to the stand for cross-examination. The…
An INDECOM investigator at a shooting scene.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Police record 20+ fatal shootings for 12 straight months

For 12 consecutive months, from December 2024 to November 2025, the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says Jamaica recorded 20 or more police fatal shootings, with December 2025…
Park Lane, off Red Hills Road in St Andrew, was the scene of another murder on Sunday.
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Park Lane on edge after 50-y-o woman gunned down

Fifty-year-old Janet Baker was shot and killed in a drive-by attack on Park Lane, off Red Hills Road in St Andrew, late Sunday, sending fresh shock waves through a community long battle-scarred by…
December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Police kill one per day in November

Marlie Acres in Old Harbour and Gutterhead in Yallahs are the latest communities where families are refuting claims that their loved ones died while in confrontations with the security forces after…
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December 9, 2025 by Andre Williams

Cops kill 8 men in 100 hours

An operation targeting a suspected cop killer ended in the fatal shooting of three men during what investigators describe as an armed, daylight confrontation along the westbound lane of the Nelson…