One was fatally shot and five guns were recovered by a joint police/military team that is carrying out an operation in sections of Portmore, St Catherine.
Details into the operation are still sketchy but reports are that members of the island security forces are also carrying out several searches on Dyke Road. Other officers are…

  Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that the Government will be moving ahead with phase two of the controversial National Housing Trust (NHT) Ruthven Towers apartment complex in New Kingston.  In fact, Holness, in recognising that the decision could risk his own popularity, has asserted that persons from “all walks of life” and income…

  Two members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) were on Tuesday placed before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court, to answer to a murder charge and other related offences. “These charges were a result of an investigation by the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM), with support from the JCF, and a ruling by…

Members of the public are being advised that the Police 119 emergency number is currently out of service. A release from the Corporate Communication Unit (CCU), reported that a technical team—from their telecommunications provider is currently working to resolve the issue. Police high command has since apologized for any inconvenience this may cause.

  The number of illegal firearms seized by the St James police since the start of the year his inching closer to the 100 mark following Saturday’s seizure of a gun in the parish. A man, identified by the police as Keno Gayle of a West Village, Granville address, has since been charged following the…

Overseer of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has raised worries about Jamaican Trap specialists praising defrauding in their tunes. On Thursday, during her feature address at an enemy of extortion workshop in Kingston, Llewellyn clarified that the verses which give pride of spot to the crook plans, definitely stand out, particularly as they were impacting…

  now you can now listen to Loop News articles! Overseer of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, has depicted the 2018 assault, buggery and murder of a nine-year-old young lady by a then 13-year-old kid in Westmoreland as “an extremely horrendous snapshot of energetic extravagance”. The kid, presently 17, was seen as at real fault for each…

A sum of 24,000 passings was kept in 2021 contrasted with 18,100 kept in 2020. The 32.6 percent increment in passings last year is being ascribed, to some degree, to the Covid pandemic and related sicknesses. The figures are illustrated in the 2021 version of the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica, delivered a week ago….

 NEW You can now listen to Loop News articles! The activities of the four judges of the harmony (JPs) who were found in a now popular video recording of a clinical assessment of mass homicide denounced, Rushane Barnett, have been censured by the parent body for JPs, the Lay Magistrates’ Association of Jamaica (LMAJ). Barnett…