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December 9, 2025

Loaded M16 rifle seized in Portsmouth in Portmore, man on the run

Lawmen assigned to the St Catherine South Police Division on Monday seized an M16 rifle with a magazine containing seven 5.56 rounds of ammunition during an operation on Western Parade in the…
Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Audrey Deer-Williams.
December 9, 2025

16,000 Jamaicans now registered under govt’s Social Pension Programme

A total of 16,000 persons are currently registered under the Government’s Social Pension Programme. Chief Technical Director in the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Audrey Deer-Williams, made…
December 9, 2025

'Badda Don' gunned down in Old Harbour

Forty-three-year-old Orace Frankson, otherwise called 'Badda Don', was gunned down while walking along a road in Old Harbour, St Catherine last night. The police are searching for his…
Mangled vehicles from a crash in Old Harbour Road, St Catherine. - File photo.
December 9, 2025

Jamaica so far records 29 days with triple road deaths, analysis reveals

Jamaica recorded three road deaths in a single day 29 times this year up to September 6, an analysis of police data has revealed. The figures are for separate fatal crashes and not single events with…
Executive Director of Jamaicans for Justice, Mickel Jackson.
December 9, 2025

JFJ reiterates call for police body cameras amid Cherry Tree Lane fatal shooting

Human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) is reiterating its call for the mandatory use of body cameras, particularly in planned operations, by the police amid the fatal shooting of a man…
His court date is being finalised.
December 9, 2025

Trelawny taxi operator caught on video attacking woman with machete charged

A Trelawny taxi operator who was captured on video attacking a woman with a machete has been charged with unlawful wounding. He is 42-year-old Cleon Buckle, a resident of Freeman's Hall district…
Hamish Campbell. - File photo.
December 9, 2025

INDECOM: 23 officers but no body cams in Clarendon fatal raid, deceased not named on warrant

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says none of the 23 officers on a Clarendon raid in which 22-year-old Jahmar Farquharson was killed wore body cameras. It also revealed that…
This courtroom sketch shows US District Judge Aileen Cannon listening as prosecutor Christopher speaks during the trial of Ryan Routh, at left, who is charged with attempting to assassinate Donald Trump last year at a golf course in South Florida, Tuesday,
December 9, 2025

Man who represented himself found guilty of trying to assassinate Donald Trump at Florida golf course

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — A man accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump last year at his Florida golf course was found guilty on Tuesday. The jury of five men and seven women found Ryan Routh…
File photo.
December 9, 2025

Driver killed, another injured in two-vehicle Sligoville crash

Two drivers were injured, one fatally, in a two-vehicle crash along the main road in Sligoville, St Catherine on Monday. Killed was 39-year-old Alecia Waisome of a Linstead address. Reports are that…