Manchester double murder, Portmore police shooting and FSC finances lead Jamaica news

Police in Manchester are investigating the shooting deaths of a father and son found inside a New Forest home early Friday, June 5, 2026. Residents reportedly heard explosions about 12:15 a.m. and called the police. Officers found both men with apparent gunshot injuries and their hands bound. They were pronounced dead at the scene. The son was described as an aspiring recording artiste known as “Feed,” but the men’s given names had not been confirmed up to news time.

The deaths come amid concern over murders in the Manchester Police Division. Police figures show 14 killings were being investigated up to May 31, compared with eight for the same period last year, a 75 per cent rise.

In St. Catherine, the Independent Commission of Investigations has opened a probe into Thursday night’s fatal police shooting of a man in Portmore. Police said members of the St. Catherine South Quick Response Unit were patrolling Gilbert Avenue in Dunbeholden about 8:45 p.m. when they saw a man with what appeared to be a firearm in his waistband. Officers said they later entered premises, came under gunfire, and returned fire. One man reportedly escaped, while the armed man was pursued into a kitchen, where police said another exchange occurred. He was taken to Spanish Town Hospital and pronounced dead. Police reported recovering a pistol with a magazine holding eight rounds.

A separate Manchester incident left 60-year-old Roberto Doors, of Georgia district in Mandeville, dead after lengths of steel fell from a delivery truck at Balvin Heights on Thursday morning. Police said he had been sitting under a tree about 10:30 a.m. when the material struck him. He later died at hospital.

Also in Mandeville, six vendors were charged and five others warned during a Thursday operation targeting vending along the Winston Jones Highway near the Williamsfield and New Green roundabouts. Police said vendors were obstructing traffic and urged them to use the Mandeville market. The operation involved the Manchester Municipal Police, Area 3 Agricultural Protection Branch and Manchester Police.

At Parliament, Financial Services Commission executive director Lieutenant Colonel Karan Burell told a Senate Regulations Committee sitting that the FSC sent $500 million from its reserves to government on a Ministry of Finance directive. He said the transfer, higher staff costs and spending after a 2023 cyberattack contributed to financial strain. FSC administrator Da Fuller Barrett said the payment was requested as a financial distribution under public-body rules and could not be refused.