Jamaica's Deadliest Year And the Minister Blocking Body Cameras

Jamaica is recording its deadliest numbers in years — and the man responsible for fixing it is standing in the way of the one reform that could save lives. St. James Parish has seen a 47.8% rise in murders year-to-date. Nationally, police killings have spiked 65% in a single year — the highest rate since 2010. Yet National Security Minister Horace Chang, whose own constituency sits inside St. James, is on record opposing body-worn cameras for the very officers carrying out those killings. Accompong News investigates the numbers, the politics, and the question no mainstream outlet is asking: who does this policy protect? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 CHAPTERS 00:00 — Introduction: Jamaica's Crisis by the Numbers 01:20 — St. James: Ground Zero for the Murder Surge 03:05 — The 65% Spike in Police Killings 05:10 — Minister Chang's Body Camera Opposition 07:40 — What Accountability Looks Like Elsewhere 09:15 — The Accompong Perspective: Sovereignty and Safety 11:00 — Final Word from the Anchor Desk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔎 SOURCES & REFERENCES Jamaica Constabulary Force crime statistics (2024–2025) Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) annual reports Minister Chang's parliamentary statements on body cameras Caribbean Human Rights Network ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accompong News reporting on Accompong current affairs, Maroon sovereignty, Jamaican national security, and Caribbean geopolitics. We report what others won't. 📧 Tips & press contact: [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #JamaicaNews #HoraceChang #BodyCameras #StJamaica #JamaicaCrime #MaroonNews #AccompongNews #JamaicanPolitics #INDECOM #JCF #CaribbeanNews #HumanRights #PoliceAccountability #NationalSecurity #MOSS Connect with Accompong News: Website: https://www.accompong.news Instagram:   / accompongnews   Facebook:   / accompongnews   #AccompongNews