Category: Crime and National Security

Chang: Rate of fatal shootings reflects increased confrontations

Posted by Chevon Campbell | 6 Oct, 2026

Minister of National Security, Dr. Horace Chang has defended the rate of fatal shootings by the...

Wanted man fatally shot by police in Christiana

Posted by Nationwide Newsnet | 5 Oct, 2026

A man the police say was wanted for murder was fatally shot on Wildman Street in Christiana,...

Murders down 23%

Posted by Abigail Bartley | 5 Oct, 2026

Jamaica has recorded a 23 percent decline in murders since the start of the year. That’s the...

St Andrew South on track to record fewer than 50 murders by year-end

Posted by Colliecia Wright | 5 Oct, 2026

The St Andrew South Police Division is on track to finish the year with fewer than fifty murders,...

Holness calls out “hypocrisy” over push to revise Firearms Act

Posted by Shaloy Smikle | 2 Oct, 2026

Prime Minister, Dr. Andrew Holness says there’s a hypocrisy in the country over crime, as...

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