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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
December 29 03:15 PM
KINSTON, Jamaica — Style, colour and confidence were on full display as patrons turned out in their numbers for the Pic-Nic Festival, held on Saturday...
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
December 29 02:51 PM
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump said Monday the United States had hit and destroyed a docking area for all...
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
December 29 02:37 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President, Garnett Reid, is appealing to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) a...
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
December 29 02:33 PM
ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — After witnessing Hurricane Melissa destroy her home, leaving her family homeless for weeks, single mother Novia Russell receiv...
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Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
December 29 02:28 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Ricardo Motley, a father of two from McIntyre Villa in Kingston, watched from the sidelines as his 10-year-old son performed in the...
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
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Racing United seek to extend lead in JPL
December 29 02:25 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Leaders Racing United will be going after a second win this season over former champions Arnett Gardens when they meet at the Anth...
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
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TCL donates 100 televisions to communities in western Jamaica
December 29 02:21 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica—In response to the widespread devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa, global technology brand TCL has donated 100 "43” televisions ...
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Police shoot patient after stabbing incident at Kingston Public Hospital
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Police shoot patient after stabbing incident at Kingston Public Hospital
December 29 02:05 PM
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A male patient was shot and injured by police on Monday at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) after he allegedly attacked cops who...
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Haiti’s PM reiterates no negotiations with criminal gangs
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Haiti’s PM reiterates no negotiations with criminal gangs
December 29, 2025
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Prime Minister of Haiti Alix Didier Fils-Aimé says the country will not negotiate with criminal gangs that are seeking t...
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US revokes visa of Haitian official accused of backing gangs
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US revokes visa of Haitian official accused of backing gangs
November 25, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US State Department announced sanctions against a Haitian government official accused of supporting gangs and hi...
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UN urges international community to support establishment of new office in Haiti
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UN urges international community to support establishment of new office in Haiti
October 1, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday urged the international community to fund a new UN Support Office in Haiti, less than 24 h...
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Holness calls for global war on gangs
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Holness calls for global war on gangs
September 26, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (CMC)-Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Friday said that the crisis in Haiti has "laid bare a wider truth in transnational criminal netw...
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Over 50 killed in Haiti gang attacks, bodies ‘devoured by dogs’ — rights group
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Over 50 killed in Haiti gang attacks, bodies ‘devoured by dogs’ — rights group
September 15, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Over 50 people were killed in a series of Haitian gang attacks last week, a local human rights NGO reported Monday, in t...
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UN Security Council renews Haiti mission amid spiralling crisis
July 15, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (CMC) — The United Nations (UN) Security Council has unanimously extended the mandate of the UN’s political mission in Haiti until the ...
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‘We cannot leave Haiti to the mercy of gangs’ — Holness
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‘We cannot leave Haiti to the mercy of gangs’ — Holness
BY ANTHONY LEWIS Observer writer 
July 7, 2025
ST JAMES, Jamaica — Caribbean Community (Caricom) Chair, Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has made it clear that while international momentum to suppo...
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Gangs now control 90% of Haitian capital — UN
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Gangs now control 90% of Haitian capital — UN
July 2, 2025
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Armed gangs have tightened their grip on Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, United Nations (UN) officials warned We...
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Haiti’s gangs better armed and more ruthless — UN
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Haiti’s gangs better armed and more ruthless — UN
June 24, 2025
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Powerful gangs that control much of Haiti are increasingly ruthless and better armed despite a weapons embargo, ...
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US charges 27 alleged Venezuelan gang members
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US charges 27 alleged Venezuelan gang members
April 22, 2025
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States (US) Justice Department on Monday announced it was charging 27 people accused of being connected t...
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Gang-ravaged Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’, UN warns
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Gang-ravaged Haiti nearing ‘point of no return’, UN warns
April 21, 2025
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — Haiti, where rampant gang violence has surged in recent weeks, is approaching a "point of no return" leading to ...
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Nuns killed in Haiti during gang attack earlier this week
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Nuns killed in Haiti during gang attack earlier this week
April 4, 2025
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Two nuns were among several people killed when an armed gang ran riot near the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Monday,...
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Former Jamaican PM warns Haiti is ‘perilously close’ to being a failed state
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Former Jamaican PM warns Haiti is ‘perilously close’ to being a failed state
March 26, 2025
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) —  Former Jamaican prime minister Bruce Golding Wednesday warned that Haiti is “perilously close” to being a failed state a...
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Fritz Alphonse Jean becomes new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council
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Fritz Alphonse Jean becomes new president of Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council
March 8, 2025
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) — Fritz Alphonse Jean, representative of the Montana Accord, was officially sworn in as president of Haiti’s Transitional ...
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Jamaica’s young male gangsters are 158% more likely to be murdered – CAPRI
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Jamaica’s young male gangsters are 158% more likely to be murdered – CAPRI
February 23, 2025
If you are a young man caught up in gang activity in Jamaica you are 158 per cent more likely to be killed violently than any other member of the soci...
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PM Holness: ‘Gangs are not your friends’
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PM Holness: ‘Gangs are not your friends’
January 25, 2025
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica-Prime Minister Andrew Holness is appealing to law-abiding citizens in Spanish Town, St Catherine to not support gangs that have b...
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Criminal gangs moving to Tobago, recruiting young people – T&T police
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Criminal gangs moving to Tobago, recruiting young people – T&T police
January 10, 2025
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC)– Criminal gangs in Trinidad are moving to Tobago and recruiting young people, some as young as 12-years, to engage in c...
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Nine killed in Haiti in latest gang attack
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Nine killed in Haiti in latest gang attack
December 11, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Gunmen in Haiti killed nine people in the latest spasm of violence by the Caribbean nation's powerful gangs, a community...
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Haiti’s multinational security force denies reports officers not receiving salaries
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Haiti’s multinational security force denies reports officers not receiving salaries
December 9, 2024
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – The Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti (MSS) has denied international media reports that some of its office...
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World Council of Churches calls for prayer for Haitian people
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World Council of Churches calls for prayer for Haitian people
November 27, 2024
CYPRUS (CMC) — The executive committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has called on all member churches to pray and offer Christian solidarity...
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Children comprise up to 50% of armed gangsters in Haiti – UNICEF
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Children comprise up to 50% of armed gangsters in Haiti – UNICEF
November 25, 2024
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti (CMC) – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says the number of children being recruited into armed groups across Haiti h...
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Haitian gang leader ‘Barbecue’ escapes armed police confrontation
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Haitian gang leader ‘Barbecue’ escapes armed police confrontation
November 22, 2024
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — One of Haiti's most powerful gang leaders, best known by his nickname "Barbecue," fled a police operation in the capital...
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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Ladies shine at Pic-Nic Festival at UWI Mona Bowl
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KINSTON, Jamaica — Style, colour and confidence were on full display as patrons turned out in their numbers for the Pic-Nic Festival, held on Saturday...
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
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Trump says US hit docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — United States (US) President Donald Trump said Monday the United States had hit and destroyed a docking area for all...
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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Small Business Association calls for OUR and JPS to reconsider 7% bill increase
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KINGSTON, Jamaica — Small Businesses Association of Jamaica (SBAJ) President, Garnett Reid, is appealing to the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) a...
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
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St Bess family gets fresh start with new home just before Christmas
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ST ELIZABETH, Jamaica — After witnessing Hurricane Melissa destroy her home, leaving her family homeless for weeks, single mother Novia Russell receiv...
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Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
Child Resiliency Programme transforms students, strengthens families in Kingston
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KINGSTON, Jamaica- Ricardo Motley, a father of two from McIntyre Villa in Kingston, watched from the sidelines as his 10-year-old son performed in the...
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