President of the Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO), Diane Edwards has lauded the efforts of The Business District in continuously facilitating business promotion and development in Jamaica. The facility, located at 22B Old Hope Road, is Jamaica’s only private serviced office complex and new-business incubator and has been the office home, start-up place and transition location for dozens of businesses since...

National Security Minister, Hon. Peter Bunting has attributed the 40 per cent drop in police fatal shootings to efforts by the authorities to regularly reiterate to Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) personnel, the importance of adhering to the use of force policy. He says public announcements cautioning persons with illegal guns to surrender when accosted by the police, have also contributed...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller convened a meeting on Wednesday, May 14, with officials from the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited, JPSCo, in the wake of the company’s decision to interrupt service to communities in which it is experiencing up to 70% theft of electricity. The meeting, held at Jamaica House, was attended by Government Ministers Omar...

Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, says there has been a gradual decrease in serious and violent crimes over the past five years, due to the tireless work of the security forces to maintain law and order. “We are actually maintaining a five-year downward trend in serious violent crimes, which means that Jamaica is getting safer year after year, based on...

Approximately 10,000 students have benefitted from non-traditional teaching methods, aimed at improving their learning patterns, under a $19.4 million initiative undertaken at the Hope Zoo in St. Andrew. The engagement, an education project tour, was jointly implemented by the Ministry of Education, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), and Hope Zoo Preservation Foundation, with financing from the Petro Caribe Development Fund....

Within the next few months, citizens with access to android smart phones will be able to download a special application (app), allowing them to report a crime or send information to the police, anonymously. The application, which is slated to be launched in the first quarter of this fiscal year, will also provide alerts from the police, similar to the...

The Ministry of National Security through the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) continues to support programmes targeting at-risk youth in eight parishes and in 50 communities. According to a Ministry Paper tabled by Portfolio Minister, Hon. Peter Bunting on Tuesday, May 13 in the House of Representatives, the CSJP has focused on the development of life skills, remedial education,...