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Broadleaf Church of God’s Bishop Calbert Spence says gang warfare and weekend curfews from 6pm have stopped his church holding night services since March, as police list Manchester communities still under curfew.
A dedicated police branch recovered $17.6 million in stolen crops and livestock this year. Farm theft still costs Jamaica up to $6 billion annually, a number decades of prior crackdowns havent moved.
The Government has awarded nearly $790 million in JamaicaEye contracts, including $439.4 million to install 300 CCTV cameras in Portmore, St Catherine.
Scammers are renting Airbnb properties legitimately, then secretly re-listing them online without the owner’s knowledge. One of four distinct property fraud schemes RAJ has had to warn Jamaicans about in 2026 alone.
Praedial larceny costs Jamaica an estimated $14 billion a year. A new police unit, real arrest numbers, and why farm theft is organised crime, not petty pilfering.
Praedial larceny costs Jamaica an estimated $14 billion a year. A new police unit, real arrest numbers, and why farm theft is organised crime, not petty pilfering.
Praedial larceny costs Jamaica an estimated $14 billion a year. A new police unit, real arrest numbers, and why farm theft is organised crime, not petty pilfering.
A retired contractor is accused of holding three properties worth $250 million on behalf of her convicted drug-trafficker nephew, a case built around real estate as the laundering mechanism itself rather than fraud against a victim.
Hanover police say all four of the parish’s identified gangs have been neutralised, echoing the sustained crime turnaround language this publication has documented in neighbouring St James.
Jamaica is reportedly in discussions with the United States regarding a Third Country Nationals agreement that could see non-Jamaican deportees transferred to…
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