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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.
In 2005, there were a record breaking 26 storms recorded that caused 26 events of bleaching in 16 of Jamaica's coral reef sites. [17] The hurricanes affected 68 percent of Jamaica's coral reefs and 38 percent of those corals later died. [17] In September 2005, up to 95 percent of Jamaica's corals had bleached, but only 50 percent recovered ...
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. [2] [6] Jamaica recorded 1,680 murders in 2009. [7] In 2010, there were 1,428, in 2011, 1,125.
Two people suspected of squatting were killed in a raging Queens garage fire Saturday morning, officials said. The fire erupted around 6:30 a.m. at 172-27th Ave. in Jamaica, an FDNY spokesman said.
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.
Monterey Park gunman is oldest mass shooting suspect for five decades. US begins 2023 with grim wave of mass killings. 03:00, Oliver O'Connell. Eleven people killed as they welcomed the Lunar New ...
Three mass shootings have been carried out in one week in California, in Goshen, Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay. California reeling from back-to-back shootings that killed 24: 'Too much bloodshed ...
On the Ground News Reports (OGNR, stylised OG.NR) is a citizen journalism news platform that collects, validates and distributes user-generated news in short form (250 words or less) from Jamaica and around the world. Citizen Reporters, along with professional editors provide regular reports from the ground.