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Murders Up 1,100% - Hanover Homicides Skyrocket In First 21 Days Of 2017; Western Jamaica Records Almost 50% Of Killings Overall


Published:Wednesday | January 25, 2017 | 12:26 AMArthur Hall

Rudolph Brown
Up to 500 members of the Jamaica Defence Force will now be stationed in Montego Bay, St James.


Having ended 2016 with the worst per-capita murder rate in Jamaica, the parishes of Hanover, St James and Westmoreland have started 2017 in the same vein, accounting for 43 per cent of the 82 murders committed across the island in the first 21 days of this year.

Last year, the three parishes (along with St Elizabeth), the epicentre of the deadly lottery scam, recorded a little more than 450 murders at well above the national average of 50 murders for every 100,000 people.

[Shola]

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