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Senior Superintendent of Police Wayne Cameron.
January 29, 2026

SSP Cameron granted $500,000 bail and taken off frontline duty after criminal charges in POA money probe

Chairman of the Police Officers Association, Senior Superintendent Wayne Cameron, has been removed from frontline duties and granted $500,000 bail after being charged over allegations of financial…
He is to go to court in June.
January 29, 2026

Security guard charged for allegedly stealing $460,000 while on the job

A Spanish Town, St Catherine security guard has been charged for allegedly cutting open a money bag he received while on the job and stealing cash amounting to $460,000. Thirty-eight-year-old Ricardo…
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January 29, 2026

Turks and Caicos to enforce visa bonds against sponsors of visitors who overstay

COCKBURN TOWN, Turks and Caicos Islands, CMC – The Government of the Turks and Caicos Islands is moving to actively enforce visa bonds, warning that sponsors could face financial penalties and…
A grieving man reacts as relatives gather around the bodies of victims of a house collapse during a funeral procession in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Thursday, January 29, 2026.
January 29, 2026

Heavy rain in Afghanistan collapses a house, killing mother and her six children

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A mother and her six children have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after heavy rain caused their home to collapse while they were sleeping at night, authorities said…
His court date is being finalised.
January 29, 2026

18-y-o charged for shooting man attending St Andrew wake

Eighteen-year-old St Andrew resident Roy Dallas, otherwise called ‘Royo’, has been charged for shooting a man who was attending a wake. Dallas is charged with wounding with intent, possession of a…
“Property markets depend on trust in the rule of law. If you’re building a house, buying land or financing a development, you need courts that are stable and predictable. That matters far more than constitutional symbolism.”: Dean Jones, founder of J
January 29, 2026

Housing discrimination abroad raises questions for Jamaica’s rental market

Recent findings from France showing that nearly half of real estate agencies enabled racial discrimination in housing access have sparked predictable outrage. In France, such practices are illegal,…
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January 29, 2026

Decomposing body found in abandoned car in St Elizabeth

The St Elizabeth police are seeking to ascertain the identity of a man whose decomposing body was found inside an abandoned motor car along Redding Road in Lacovia on Wednesday. The police said that…
Kijana Johnson, People's National Party Councillor for the Race Course Division in Clarendon South Western
January 29, 2026

Kijana Johnson | One Road Authority must be rejected

The Government of Jamaica has announced plans to create a One Road Authority, a centralised mega agency that would absorb the National Works Agency (NWA) and the parochial road units within Municipal…
Hurricane Melissa damage to a classroom at a school.
January 29, 2026

$29.8 million in Hurricane Melissa clean-up grants for early childhood institutions

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) is reporting that the Ministry of Education is to provide approximately $29.8 million in clean-up grants for early childhood institutions amid the impact of…