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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…