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January 13 2026
‘Tide shift’
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Investigators combing a crime scene following a double murder and shooting in Barbican, St Andrew, in April 2025.
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A policeman stands guard at a crime scene on Jacks Hill Road in St Andrew in July last year.
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Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness (second right) in dialogue with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Dr Horace Chang (right), Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake (left) and Assistant Commissioner of Police for Area 5, Christopher Phillips, as they visited the Commodore area in Linstead, St Catherine, on October 6, 2025, where nine persons were shot by gunmen, five fatally, the previous day.
The bloodiest week of 2025 came just days into the new year. Between January 4 and January 11, at least 29 people were murdered across Jamaica, a violent upsurge that reignited fears that the country was headed for another year of unrelenting bloodshed. The killings were spread across several police divisions, leaving communities traumatised and reigniting public debate about the security forces’ ability to contain organised crime.
