The Miami-based Shower posse, considered the largest, most violent and powerful of all the Jamaican gangs, was named for its reputation of “showering” its enemies with machine-gun fire.

MIAMI — It was 1988 and Lester Lloyd Coke's Shower Posse -- a notorious Jamaican drug gang -- was deep into gun and drug running. He was wanted in a South Florida courtroom to answer to murder ...

Haiti’s armed gangs are once more on the attack, this time turning their focus to piracy and taking the violence to the country’s high seas and main seaport.

The Organisation of American States (OAS) has called for more money and international support to alleviate the grinding ...