The emphatic drubbing of Jamaica’s governing party in fiercely contested national elections even astonished the triumphant opposition side, the campaign manager for the winning faction said.

Police have arrested three suspects over the murders of a mother and daughter beheaded during a home invasion.

Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into Jamaica's most violent slums today, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the US, leaving at least 30 people dead.

A WOULD-BE hijacker surrendered to the authorities yesterday after releasing the last of more than 180 hostages he seized hours earlier aboard a Canadian charter jet in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has replaced three officials in a cabinet reshuffle, which included appointing the violence-wracked country’s third national security minister in less than two years.