Ja­maica is ex­pe­ri­enc­ing a sus­tained pe­ri­od of re­duced vi­o­lence, with week­ly mur­der counts re­main­ing be­low 15 for 14 con­sec­u­tive weeks since March 2025, the longest such stretch in 25 years.

Ac­cord­ing to Deputy Prime Min­is­ter and Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Dr. Ho­race Chang, the cur­rent quar­ter – span­ning April to June 2025 – is pro­ject­ed to record the low­est num­ber of mur­ders since the Ja­maica Con­stab­u­lary Force (JCF) be­gan col­lect­ing struc­tured, dis­ag­gre­gat­ed da­ta near­ly 25 years ago.

“Based on cur­rent pro­jec­tions, Ja­maica is ex­pect­ed to close this year with a mur­der rate of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 24 per 100,000 pop­u­la­tion. This would rep­re­sent the low­est rate since 1991. To put this in per­spec­tive, it means that more than half of our pop­u­la­tion – that is per­sons, 34 years old and younger – is now liv­ing in a Ja­maica that is safer than at any oth­er time in their life­time.”