Jamaica News

A cop in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, keeping an eye on traffic last week. The traffic situation has been blamed for providing an easy escape for bike-riding robbers in the town.
A cop in Santa Cruz, St Elizabeth, keeping an eye on traffic last week. The traffic situation has been blamed for providing an easy escape for bike-riding robbers in the town.

In Jamaica: Cops helpless as armed bikers use Santa Cruz traffic to rob businesses

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Santa Cruz police are lamenting that constant gridlock in the St Elizabeth town’s streets is hampering their efforts to maintain law and order, as it facilitates an easy escape for hoodlums on motorcycles fleeing crime scenes.

Jamaica: Seven cops in traffic accidents in five days

(Jamaica Gleaner) The strength and commitment of an injured unnamed policeman who was hurt in a two-vehicle smash-up at the intersection of Harbour and Pechon streets yesterday afternoon was the talking point among workers from a nearby furniture store, some of whom witnessed the crash and helped in the rescue effort of the six victims.

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