“Jamaica recorded 673 murders in 2025, the lowest number since 1993 and a 40 percent drop from the year before. The country’s national security minister credits the decline partly to an increase in tips to police, which have risen nearly tenfold over the past decade,” reports The Doomslayer.
However, “even after a strong decrease in 2025, Jamaica’s homicide rate remained one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean that year,” notes Statista. Only four countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have a higher homicide rate than Jamaica.
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