Overharvesting and Poaching Devastate Jamaica's Fisheries
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
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27 JUL 2022
Jamaican fishers, largely ungoverned, are taking what they can from the country’s waters, while foreign vessels poach lobster and conch.
All About Jamaica
INVESTIGATIONS
ARGENTINA
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5 JUL 2022
Why did drug trafficking enjoy such a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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28 JUN 2022
In its latest bid to curb the flow of illegal firearms and ensuing violence, Jamaica has turned to the United Nations for help.
CARIBBEAN
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13 MAY 2022
Jamaica's government has signaled plans to incorporate some new tricks to raise the cost of engaging in lottery scamming, having thus far struggled to curb one of the island's top…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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10 FEB 2022
Jamaica's country's prime minister has promised to stem the violence by clamping down on illegal firearms.
ARGENTINA
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1 FEB 2022
In 2021, most countries in Latin America and the Caribbean experienced a marked increase in murders. Resurgent violence was to be expected after some of the world’s strictest COVID-19 lockdowns…
CARIBBEAN
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16 NOV 2021
Rival factions, secret burial sites, homicidal bosses – the ongoing trial of dozens of members of the Klansman gang in Jamaica is shedding light on how criminal groups function on…
JAMAICA
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19 MAY 2021
Street lamps are being pilfered rapidly in Jamaica, hampering government efforts to illuminate crime-ridden areas.
JAMAICA
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1 APR 2021
After recording the highest murder rate in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020, Jamaica is already seeing an uptick in violence this year, with an average of more than…
CARIBBEAN
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9 MAR 2021
A new investigative report shows Ponzi and pyramid schemes have proliferated across Caribbean countries during the pandemic, and authorities have been unable to keep up.
ARGENTINA
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29 JAN 2021
While unrest gripped much of Latin America in 2019, it was the coronavirus that took center stage and ripped through the region in 2020, upending everything from commercial trade to…
CARIBBEAN
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10 SEP 2020
Drug mules in Jamaica made a habit of exploiting weak controls on commercial flights to move cocaine into the United Kingdom before a law enforcement crackdown significantly deterred such criminal…
ARMS TRAFFICKING
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23 JUN 2020
Criminal gangs in Jamaica and Haiti are engaged in a deadly trade: the exchange of marijuana for guns.
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