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Peruvian President Dina Boluarte speaks to the press during a visit by Venezuela's opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia at the government palace in Lima, Peru, January 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)
December 9, 2025

Peru’s Congress removes President Dina Boluarte as crime wave grips country

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru’s Congress voted early Friday to remove deeply unpopular President Dina Boluarte from office as a crime wave grips the South American nation and quickly replaced her with…
JLP councillor Rohan Hall (left) and PNP activist Bentley Davis.
December 9, 2025

JLP councillor and PNP activist in online spat over Integrity Commission ruling

A war of words emerged in an online spat between a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Councillor and a People’s National Party activist over a charge being recommended against the local government…
Commander Paul Smith (left), Royal Canadian Navy, and Chris Campbell who was honoured at a retirement brunch on September 21.
December 9, 2025 by Neil Armstrong

Jamaica-born trade unionist celebrated in Canada

When Chris Campbell arrived in Canada from Jamaica with just $20 in his pocket, he could not have imagined the impact he would have on the North American country’s skilled trades industry. After 35…
December 9, 2025

INDECOM warns police against tampering with CCTV systems

The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) has raised concerns over reports that some members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are removing, destroying, or tampering with private…
Hamish Campbell, assistant commissioner of INDECOM Jamaica, revealling the findings of the oversight body’s ‘Special Investigative Report on Planned Police Operations’ during a press conference at its New Kingston offices on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Corey Robinson

FATAL RED FLAG

In one of every five planned police operations in which a civilian is killed at home, a female occupant of the premises is either removed or barred from the ill-fated area moments before the cops…
Dr Christopher Tufton
December 9, 2025 by Kimone Francis

Dawes demands probe into health ministry

Opposition Spokesman on Health Dr Alfred Dawes says operations at the Ministry of Health and Wellness must be investigated following the tabling of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on the…
Residents of Gallery Apartments on Oxford Road in New Kingston looking at the burnt section of the complex, where 70-year-old Bill Barnes lost his life in an early morning fire on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Sashana Small

70-y-o dies in fire at apartment complex

An early morning fire at Gallery Apartments on Oxford Road in New Kingston on Thursday claimed the life of a 70-year-old resident, leaving the community shaken and mourning the loss. The charred…
Police personnel at the scene of a reported shoot-out in Grange Lane, St Catherine, where one alleged guman was killed on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 by Ruddy Mathison

Two dead in ops to collar mass shooting perps

Investigators have made significant progress in the probe into Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in the Commodore district of St Catherine, which claimed five lives, including four-year-old Shannon…
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December 9, 2025 by Tanesha Mundle

Human blood found on drapes in Maitland’s apartment

A government forensic analyst on Thursday confirmed the presence of human blood on drapes recovered from the New Kingston apartment of police constable Noel Maitland. Testifying as the murder trial…