it is supplemented by the Jamaica Defense Force. Special police units have occasionally been formed in attempts to reduce corruption and to controlorganized crime. The Jamaican police have been criticized for a high rate of extrajudicial killings. Jamaica has adeath penalty, but no hangings have ...
Montego Bay, the parish’s capital, which is also Jamaica’s tourism capital, accounts for most of these murders, including brazen acts of daylight killings in the heart of the western city, even the historic Sam Sharpe Square has not been left unscathed. As a result of this ongoing scourge...
Areas in Jamaica on State Department's Do Not Travel list St. Ann’s Parish, St. Catherine’s Parish, Clarendon Parish -- except if passing through Clarendon Parish using the T1 and A2 highways -- St. Elizabeth’s Parish, Hanover Parish, St. James Parish and Montego Bay, Kingston and...
Areas in Jamaica on State Department's Do Not Travel list St. Ann’s Parish, St. Catherine’s Parish, Clarendon Parish -- except if passing through Clarendon Parish using the T1 and A2 highways -- St. Elizabeth’s Parish, Hanover Parish, St. James Parish and Montego Bay, Kingston ...