Jamaica

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InSight Crime’s 2023 Homicide Round-Up

by Juliana Manjarrés and Christopher Newton 21 Feb 202422 Mar 2024

Organized Crime Blamed for Half of Latin America’s Homicides

by Dario Migliorini 22 Dec 202322 Dec 2023

Drug traffickers like Dudus Coke or Cesar Peralta made the Caribbean a cocaine hub.

A History of the Caribbean’s Most Powerful Drug Kingpins

by Douwe den Held and Gavin Voss 12 May 202313 Oct 2023

US Homeland Security Investigations displays a seizure of military style weapons on a table.

News

4 Takeaways From CARICOM Firearms Report

by Gavin Voss 4 May 202313 Oct 2023

Paraguayan authorities posing for a picture with men arrested for arms trafficking in an international Interpol-led operation.

News Arms Trafficking

Across the Americas, Governments Aim to Rein in Flow of Guns

by Henry Shuldiner and Anastasia Austin 24 Apr 202313 Oct 2023

Police stand outside Jamaican courts as members of the One Don gang are led inside.

Jamaica Success in Gang Case but Violence Continues

by Sean Doherty 10 Mar 202313 Oct 2023

Fifty packages of cocaine found by authorities in Jamaica's Port of Kingston

Jamaica Seizing Ever-Larger Cocaine Shipments from Colombia

by Gavin Voss 23 Jan 202313 Oct 2023

A Jamaican soldiers stands, rifle in hand, close to the camera while on patrol in Kingston, Jamaica

What Lies Behind Jamaica’s Perpetual Loop of States of Emergency?

by Chris Dalby 8 Dec 202213 Oct 2023

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Investigations Infographics

Overharvesting and Poaching Devastate Jamaica’s Fisheries

by Zadie Neufville 27 Jul 202219 Oct 2023

Plundered Oceans: IUU Fishing in Central American and Caribbean Waters

News Covid and Crime

Why Did Latin America’s Drug Trade Thrive During COVID-19?

by Alessandro Ford 5 Jul 202213 Oct 2023

Over 100 guns were caught in 2017 being smuggled from Trinidad to Jamaica.

Can United Nations Help Jamaica Finally Curb Gun Violence?

by Scott Mistler-Ferguson 28 Jun 202213 Oct 2023

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