St. James murder suspect held in Manchester as police probe Spanish Town gully death

Police say a St. James man wanted for murder was taken into custody in Manchester on Sunday after a fugitive team stopped a Toyota Coaster bus in Greenville, Mandeville. Richard Morgan, 25, otherwise called Country, of Spot Valley in the Rose Hall area, was arrested about 6:25 p.m. by the Area 3 Fugitive Apprehension Team. Investigators said the probe remains active.

In St. Catherine, the Spanish Town CIB is investigating the death of 36-year-old Orin Goldburn, a labourer of Tawes Pen, Spanish Town. Reports say passers-by found Goldburn in a gully in his community about 4 a.m. Saturday with an injury to the back of his head. He was taken to Spanish Town Hospital, where he died about 10 p.m. Sunday while receiving treatment.

Opposition spokesperson on national security Fitz Jackson said the suspension of an officer linked to Sunday’s fatal shooting in Granville, St. James, does not go far enough. The People’s National Party expressed outrage and sadness over the killing of Latoya Bulgin, while Jackson called for a quick, transparent and independent INDECOM investigation, saying Granville had suffered two fatal police shootings in a week.

In the St. Catherine Parish Court, 57-year-old minister of religion Shaun Green appeared on fraudulent conversion and non-delivery of service charges. A judge questioned why police granted him $300,000 station bail despite claims he had been elusive before arrest. Police said bail was approved on humanitarian grounds because of illness. The court added a stop order and fingerprint order, and extended bail to June 16. The case concerns an alleged US$12,132 payment in January for a 2010 Isuzu truck that was reportedly due on November 25, 2025, but not delivered.

Finance Minister Fayval Williams said the Government has absorbed almost $4 billion under its fuel price cap, after global oil prices rose amid the US-Israel war in Iran. She said Jamaica imports all its fuel and the administration chose not to pass the full increase to consumers. Williams spoke Monday at the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre.

Prime Minister Andrew Holness also met Jamaican police personnel in the Turks and Caicos Islands, where officials credited their deployment with major crime reductions, including one murder since September 2025 and sharp declines in shootings, robberies and other major crimes.