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.

Jamaica opened a new cannabis regulator headquarters as a milestone moment. A farmer group used the same ceremony to say police raids on legally registered growers haven’t stopped.

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.

Scammers are posting fake rental listings targeting Jamaicans displaced by Hurricane Melissa, collecting deposits before disappearing. The JCF is investigating; heres how the fraud works and how to spot it.

Police charged a 40-year-old Port Antonio man with arson after Allan Avenue residents saw flames at a church’s front door at dawn. Officers said he was throwing papers inside to spread the fire, which caused an estimated $250,000 in damage.

A Belize City pastor paid $13,100 towards a $23,000 plot, received a document bearing his name, then learned from the Lands Department that the land was registered to someone else. Police are investigating the seller.

A Westmoreland teacher says a church that moved on to land it bought across from her Savanna-la-Mar home has kept her family awake with services running to 2 a.m., and that repeated police reports brought only brief relief.

Kenyan police found 15 starving followers on the property of Good News International Church pastor Paul Makenzi, four of whom died, and searched his land for a possible mass grave as residents said they had warned of cultism.