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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.

Four men, including the church’s security guard, were detained after speakers and lights worth $660,000 were stolen from Spalding New Testament Church in Clarendon, a warning on church equipment security.

An MP alleged $8 billion went unaccounted for under Operation Pride, a decades-old housing programme. Government’s response was to suggest police or the Integrity Commission investigate, leaving the money’s fate formally unresolved.

Hundreds of settlers were evicted from Garden Hills in Port Moresby, land owned by the Assembly of God church that they had occupied for more than 30 years, after a promised relocation never happened.

A suspected arson attack damaged sections of Sts Peter and Paul Church in Kingston in September 2017, destroying furniture and appliances, before the fire brigade and security personnel put the blaze out. Police were investigating.

For its 125th anniversary the Seventh-day Adventist Church planned to refurbish Jamaica’s 173 police stations and 11 posts through its 730-plus congregations, after a $125,000 trial job on cells, barracks, plumbing and wiring at Islington, St Mary.

The Contractor General raided NHT’s headquarters unannounced with police in tow, probing suspected contractor registration fraud. The Trust’s own director publicly welcomed the six-hour search, calling the agency an open book.