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Dwayne Jones was a Jamaican 16-year-old boy who was killed by a violent mob in Montego Bay in 2013, after he attended a dance party dressed in women's clothing. [a] The incident attracted national and international media attention and brought increased scrutiny to the status of LGBT rights in Jamaica.
When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. [4] In 2022, Jamaica had 1,508 murders, for a murder rate of 53.34 per 100,000 people, [5] the highest murder rate in the world.
The years prior to the Coral Gardens incident saw the building of tensions between the Rastafarian community and the British colonial government in Jamaica.In 1958, British police engaged in several arrests and evictions of Rastafarians, often bringing to bear charges for the possession of cannabis, which is used as a Rastafarian religious sacrament.
Chilling video shows a wealthy California businesswoman being chased around her car and then gunned down in a parking lot — in what cops call a “murder-for-hire scheme” orchestrated by her ...
Four people are dead and at least 17 others injured after gunmen fired over 100 shots in a mass shooting in Birmingham late Saturday night that police believe was a “targeted attack.”. The ...
Biden remembers Monterey Park, Half Moon Bay shooting victims one year later. Emi Tuyetnhi Tran. January 22, 2024 at 9:33 AM. ... In an interview with NBC News, ...
Edgerton Roland Clarke, 95, Jamaican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Montego Bay (1967–1994) and archbishop of Kingston in Jamaica (1994–2004). [261] Bernard Saladin D'Anglure, 88, Canadian anthropologist and ethnographer. [262] János Dunai, 87, Hungarian football player (Pécsi Dózsa, national team) and manager . [263]
More than 700 people have been killed and 2,800 injured in just five days since fighting escalated in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) between January 26-30, UN Secretary-General ...