“If the government can’t provide basic service for the poor, if they can’t alleviate the poverty in Jamaica’s slums, the violence will never end,” said Monsignor Richard Albert, a Roman ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican authorities say they have imposed a temporary curfew in troubled slums of the capital as security forces continue to hunt for a reputed ...

But efforts to pacify the slums – a source of the violence that has damaged Jamaica’s reputation and economy – are being undermined by anger. Probes into 37 alleged police killings during ...

The sound of gunfire echoed across the slums on Jamaica's south coast, far from the tourist meccas of the north shore. Schools and businesses were closed across the capital and the government ...

KINGSTON, JamaicaKINGSTON, Jamaica — Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital’s most violent downtown slums on Tuesday, scouring buildings for ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Black-clad police toting submachine guns entered the slum of narrow streets lined with wooden shacks and crumbling concrete buildings in Jamaica’s capital. As usual ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Residents of a battle-scarred slum once controlled by Jamaica's biggest underworld boss rallied Wednesday to demand accountability and justice for a deadly 2010 raid into ...

At least 26 people were said to be dead after a third day of violence in Kingston, Jamaica, as security forces assaulted the slum stronghold of armed groups believed to be defending accused ...

As optimism in the wake of Jamaica's independence from Britain turned ... position to give voice to the frustrations of the Kingston slums. His first hit in Britain, "007 (Shantytown)", which ...

In the gritty slums of Jamaica, doctors say the skin lightening phenomenon has reached dangerous proportions. “I know of one woman who started to bleach her baby. She got very annoyed with me ...