EARTH · VERIFIED CONFLICT RECORD
Conflict in Jamaica
This is a verified record, not a live feed. UCDP hand-codes every event from published sources, which takes weeks — the newest event here is from 2026-05-31. For what is happening right now, LEV’s Global Incidents layer carries the machine-coded newswire at about fifteen minutes’ delay.
Between 1 Jan 2024 and 22 May 2026, researchers at Uppsala University hand-coded 7 events of organised violence in Jamaica from published sources. Their best estimate is 55 people killed — and their own range runs 9–55, which is the honest width of what anyone actually knows.
What the record holds
UCDP range 9–55.
4 placed precisely enough to map; 3 counted but not pinned, because UCDP could place them no closer than a province.
Who was doing the killing
The conflicts behind the events
5–51 · 5 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
UCDP low and high agree · 1 ev
Where UCDP had not yet established an actor’s identity it records a placeholder rather than a name; those appear here as “unidentified actor”.
The deadliest single event on record
UCDP range 0–44. UCDP's own estimate spans 0 to 44; 44 is its best estimate, not a certainty.
King Valley Gang - Ants Posse Gang · non-state violence — two armed groups fight each other and neither is a government — militias, cartels, communal violence.
Jamaica, elsewhere on LiveEarthViewer
Source
Uppsala Conflict Data Program, Uppsala University — UCDP GED v26.1 + UCDP Candidate v26_0_1..v26_0_5, released under CC BY 4.0. Coverage ends 31 May 2026. UCDP records Jamaica under the name “Jamaica”. Every figure on this page is UCDP’s, aggregated and labelled — none is modelled or estimated by LEV.