Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declared a State of Public Emergency (SOE) in the parishes of Clarendon, St Catherine and sections of Kingston and St Andrew.
Read more: PM declares States of Emergency in several parishes
Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson has urged persons to take advantage of the pending gun amnesty before warning that "at the end of the amnesty there is no excuse" for individuals who are caught with an illegal gun.
Two separate shooting incidents in Clarendon have left four persons dead and one hospitalised.
Read more: Four dead, one injured in multiple Clarendon shootings
Rushane Patterson, the person of interest in the murder of social media influencer Aneka 'Slickianna' Townsend, is now in police custody, law enforcement sources have disclosed.
Read more: Person of interest in Slickiana murder nabbed at guest house
A judge in the Hanover Parish Court in Sandy Bay today ordered the return of the passport of an American woman charged with manslaughter arising from a fatal crash.
Read more: American woman on murder charge allowed to return home before case completed