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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle is parked outside the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building Wednesday, September 24, 2025, in Broadview, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
December 9, 2025

Florida officials announce more than 6,000 immigration arrests

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Over the last five months, Florida law enforcement officials have arrested more than 6,000 people suspected of being in the country illegally, a US Border Patrol official…
Director of the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Division, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Godphey Sterling.
December 9, 2025

Organisations urged to take immediate steps to strengthen cyber security defences

Director of the Cyber Incident Response Team (CIRT) Division, Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Godphey Sterling, is urging organisations across Jamaica to take immediate steps to strengthen their cyber…
Antigua's Foreign Affairs, E.P. Chet Greene (right) and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ghana, Samuel Ablawka, signing a visa waiver agreement.
December 9, 2025

Antigua and Barbuda signs visa waiver agreements with African countries

ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it has signed three separate visa waiver agreements with African countries amid efforts by the wider Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to…
Secretary, Board of Supervision, Treka Lewis.
December 9, 2025

Board of Supervision encourages Jamaicans to report cases of homelessness

The Ministry of Local Government and Community Development, through the Board of Supervision, is encouraging Jamaicans to report cases of homelessness. “If persons are aware of individuals who are on…
Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General  Assembly on September 26, 2025.
December 9, 2025

PM Holness calls for global war on gangs

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Dr Andrew Holness, on Friday said that the crisis in Haiti has laid bare the truth of transnational criminal networks and the trafficking arms and…
Sub-machine gun seized by police in St Ann on September 26.
December 9, 2025

Person of interest among several arrested in St Ann, sub-machine gun seized

The police are reporting that a person of interest in an ongoing murder investigation was among several persons arrested during operations in St Ann today. A man who was wanted on an outstanding…
Executive Director of Stand Up For Jamaica, Maria Carla Gullotta.
December 9, 2025

Stand Up For Jamaica alarmed by police fatal shootings, adds to calls for body cameras

Human rights group Stand Up For Jamaica says it is deeply alarmed at the sharp rise in police-involved fatalities and is adding its voice to calls for the use of body-worn cameras. The organisation…
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December 9, 2025

St Catherine man accused of land fraud granted $500,000 bail

A St Catherine man accused of selling land he does not own and collecting $1.5 million from a woman was today granted $500,000 bail with surety in the parish court. Dedrick Smith, 47, a driver of…
Lorenz Kraus, a 53-year-old man who was arrested for murder after telling a television news anchor that he killed his parents, is arraigned before Judge Joshua Farrell on Friday, September 26, 2025, at Albany City Court in Albany, N.Y. (Will Waldron/The Al
December 9, 2025

Man admits in TV interview to killing and burying his parents

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A man admitted during a television interview to killing his parents and burying them in the backyard of their upstate New York home eight years ago, then was arrested as he left…