Eight-year low for murders

[Hortical]

Eight-year low for murders

Published: Tuesday | January 17, 2012



Glenroy Sinclair, Assignment Coordinator
For the first time in eight years Jamaica's recorded murder rate has dipped below the 1,200 mark, with 1,124 people killed last year.
However things got off to a rocky start for the police in 2012, with 51 murders recorded in the 17 days since the start of the new year.
"At the beginning of the year we were about five murders per day. Now we are down to two murders per day," a senior investigator told The Gleaner yesterday.


http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead6.html


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Lets aim for 1,000 people killed/year

[Bricktop]

1124 murders a year is 3.08 murders per day...51 murders in 17 days is 3 murders per day...how dat equal "rocky start"?

[Hortical]

See your point, but the sheer number of 51 murders nuh look good.

[Reggaedoc]

For a country with a population of under 3 M that is not a rocky start?.

[HL]

Let's aim for ZERO, Nought, 0, NIx.....

"Aim for the heavens...and you'll reach the stars"!!

[Gamma]

is amazing how the population keeps growing wid dem kinda numbas deh!!!

[Bricktop]

Read carefully:

For the first time in eight years Jamaica's recorded murder rate has dipped below the 1,200 mark, with 1,124 people killed last year. However things got off to a rocky start for the police in 2012...

[Willi]

the year has started better than the average rate for 2011, a record low rate for 8 years...

[Islandman]

I suppose the "rocky start" was referring to the initial trend of 5 murders a day for the first few days.

[Muadib]

di shooting and stabbing incidents still occur far more frequently in di bedroom.. every man born wid dem weapon deh.. only a minority tek tuh di gun and knife...

[MdmeX]

Murders low, but the carnage on the roads continue. St. Catherine alone have about 8 since the year start, which includes a family of 4.

[Skeng DX]

Murder rates since 2003


2011 - 1,124

2010 - 1,442

2009 - 1,683

2008 - 1,618

2007 - 1,583

2006 - 1,340

2005 - 1,674

2004 - 1,471

2003 - 975

[Reggaedoc]

Yep. Always the same process. A knucklehead trying to overtake a line of traffic and runs into an oncoming truck.

I always heard that Jamaicans are the best drivers in the world. I guess another in the long line of ego stroking first, biggest, longest etc etc.

Jamaican drivers cant even come close to the drivers that I have seen in Matropolitaln Manila. In terms of level of skill. They drive faster, on narrower roads, and have much more traffic and far fewer fatalities. Its amazing.

[MdmeX]

Look at this - you mean the driver can't see

a parked vehicle with a man changing tyres

Highway deaths

Published: Sunday | January 15, 2012 Comments 0



Davian Catterwood, the driver of this Caribbean Broilers truck, died when his vehicle crashed into a University of the West Indies (UWI) truck near the Vineyards Toll Plaza on Highway 2000 in St Catherine yesterday. The driver of the UWI truck was Beresford Morgan, who was also killed while he was changing a tyre by the roadside. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

A vehicular accident along the Highway 2000 toll road in St Catherine has resulted in the death of two persons, identified as Beresford Morgan and Davian Catterwood.
Reports are that about 1:15 p.m., an Isuzu truck was travelling westerly along the corridor. Upon reaching a section near the Vineyards Toll Plaza, Catterwood reportedly lost control of the truck and crashed into Morgan’s truck (also an Isuzu) which was parked on the soft shoulder.

Police reports are that Morgan was in the process of changing a punctured tyre when he was hit.

While both drivers died on the spot, three injured passengers were taken to the Spanish Town Hospital where they have been admitted.


The deaths have taken the St Catherine North Division road fatalities to six since the start of the year. Investigations are being undertaken by the St Catherine North Traffic Department.

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[Mosiah]

Thank God for Hero Peter!