“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 – 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 – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 slums across Jamaica, but particularly in West Kingston, the aerosol artistry starkly highlights the influence of drug-and-extortion gangs that have long driven Jamaica's eye-popping violent ...

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 when ...