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Senior Superintendent Hopeton Nicholson, head of the St Catherine North Police, retrieves a motor-vehicle bumper from bushes during a raid at a premises off St John's Road in Spanish Town on December 12, 2025. 
St Catherine raid exposes suspected islandwide car theft ring
Cops nab 23 Haitians in Harbour View raid
BLM exec accused of using movement money for Jamaica getaway with friends
This Jan. 10, 2023, photo provided by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows a Pacific pocket mouse named Sir Patrick Stewart. On Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023, Stewart received a Guinness World Records title for longevity for being the oldest living mouse in human care at the ripe age of 9 years and 209 days. (Ken Bohn/San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance via AP)
Reduction in leptospirosis
Firefighter at the scene of a house fire along Mountain View Avenue
Fire rips through Mountain View Avenue, 20 left homeless
Handcuffs of steel
Taxi man caught red handed allegedly stealing cable wires in Moneague
Dancehall selector arrested in major St Andrew police raid
A scene from the crash on December 11, 2025.
Deadly overtake on Queen’s Highway leaves one dead, two critical
Body-worn cameras on display at the Police Commissioner’s Office in St Andrew yesterday (File Photo)
Over 1,000 Body-worn cameras to be acquired for the JCF
Councillor Scean Barnswell (left) detains the man who allegedly abducted a six-year-old girl in Clarendon on December 9, 2025.
‘Swift, courageous, heroic’ - PNP hails councillor who saved abducted girl
His court date is being finalised.
Police charge Kingston man for entering motorist’s car and robbing him
Cops seize gun found in microwave, four men arrested
Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby speaking at the monthly meeting of the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation on May 13.
Kingston mayor rolls out discounts to help businesses and entertainment sector
Bahamas man jailed for raping roommate's girlfriend on his birthday
Maggotty High pulls out of Ben Francis, coaches apologise
Decomposed bodies of two senior citizens found in St Ann
Reggae legend to be laid to rest on December 17
Constable freed in case of UWI student pepper sprayed during COVID curfew
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, addresseing a special press briefing on Hurricane Melissa recovery at Jamaica House on November 26.
McKenzie mourns death of 9-year-old Amara Moore in Mandeville crash
Screen shot shows husband and wife being held by abductors armed with guns and a grenade and demanding US$2.5 million ransom
Abductors demand US$2.5 million for release of husband and wife in Trinidad
St Catherine man admits to stealing $750,000 worth of copper wire
The telecoms company technical teams are now working to assess the damage, make repairs, and restore connectivity.
Cable vandalism causes major service disruption for Flow customers in New Kingston
The Junction Traffic Department is conducting a probe into the matter. - File photo.
Child killed in crash involving NSWMA truck
The carcasses being destroyed by fire under the supervision of the Health Department.
Farmers held after killing cows without proper licence
Donaldson was last seen alive on July 11, 2022.
Lawyers push to drop murder charge in Donna-Lee Donaldson trial
Outbreak of the Chicken Pox disease reported at Hunts Bay Police Station in St Andrew
Hunts Bay Police Station hit by Chicken Pox
The Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse is leading the probe.
Man shot and injured in Mizpah, St Catherine
Ninja Man
Ninja Man murder case pushed to next year
Barber charged with stealing $14m worth of furniture
The company is before the court on breaches of the Wildlife Protection Act.
Psych test ordered for man accused of killing 80-y-o mother

Adrian Frater - STAR Writer

Adrian Frater - STAR Writer

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