St. Elizabeth machete killing, court rulings, and Chang rejects mass US deportee reports

A 19-year-old from Stevenson Town, St. Elizabeth, has been charged with murder after allegedly using a machete to kill his 21-year-old brother, Travis Williams, and injure his 43-year-old mother and 14-year-old brother during a dispute at home early Saturday.

Police said the incident unfolded around 12:30 a.m. while family members were at the residence. Lorenzo Williams is accused of inflicting multiple chop wounds on Travis Williams, who was pronounced dead at hospital. His mother and younger brother were also wounded. Citizens reportedly restrained Williams at the scene and handed him over to officers.

The Department of Correctional Services has suspended visitor food deliveries to inmates at the South Camp Adult Correctional Centre, effective immediately. In a Tuesday statement, the agency said the measure would remain until further notice without giving a reason, and promised further updates.

District Constable Shamar Williams was granted $300,000 bail in the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Court on Monday on charges of ganja possession, ganja dealing, and introducing prohibited items into a correctional facility. Attorney Lord Dana Hugh Martin applied before Parish Court Judge Peter Wilson. Williams is due back on October 9, 2026. Police allege that on June 8, he was searched at Horizon Correctional Centre and a quantity of ganja was found on him.

St. Catherine resident Dean Dawson was found guilty Tuesday of harbouring fugitive Glendon Bull Amos, who was wanted for murder and shootings in the parish. Senior Parish Court Judge Desiree Alen sentenced Dawson to 18 months but declared the term served after he spent the same period in custody since his January 29, 2025 arrest. Dawson, who described himself as a security guard and private taxi operator, was arrested after police pursued his Toyota Isis along the St. Catherine leg of Highway 2000 to Manchester, where Amos was found in the vehicle.

A fatal hit-and-run case involving 11-year-old Duran McKenzie of Ferry District, St. Catherine, was postponed in parish court Tuesday after police said two witnesses could not be located. Conroy Cole, charged with vehicular manslaughter over the June 10, 2025 death on Mandela Highway, returns on July 29. McKenzie, a student of Jones Avenue Primary and Infant School, was allegedly struck by a transit truck Cole was driving after stepping off a bus in Ferry.

National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang told the 11th BNL Jamaica Diaspora Conference in Montego Bay on Tuesday that reports Jamaica might accept up to 10,000 deportees from the United States were false. He said talks concern a third-country nationals arrangement, with no more than 25 such individuals in Jamaica at any one time and fewer than 50 per fortnight, coordinated with the United Nations International Organization for Migration. Participants would be sent on to their home countries. Chang said Jamaica retains discretion under a memorandum of understanding, criminals would not be accepted, and the United States would cover costs.