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The members of the Manchester Lay Magistrates Association have been commended for their contribution to the administration of justice in the parish. "This chapter has been exemplary and within the past 10 years, you have had no fewer than five recipients of the Golden Scale award, which is the highest award from the national body to Justices of the Peace...

Medical Practitioner, Dr. David Stair, is to be installed as Custos of Hanover on March 5, 2009. He succeeds the Hon. Mavis Whitter-King CD, who demitted office in 2006 for health reasons. Dr. Stair was appointed Custos Rotulorum of the parish by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Professor Sir Kenneth Hall, in September of last year on the advice...

Senior Director in the Ministry of Justice, Marcia Beverley, has underscored the provisions and benefits to be derived under the Justice Transformation Agenda Programme, which the administration is pursuing for implementation. Addressing the half yearly meeting of the Manchester Lay Magistrates Association at the Golf View Hotel in Mandeville on January 15, Mrs. Beverley said the initiative aims to improve...

Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, has said that Jamaica must address the scourge of human trafficking, if the country was to achieve true development. If we are not able to stem this scourge of human trafficking, if we are not able to get this out of our societal arrangement, the decay is going to set in...

Amendments to the Offences Against the Person Act, to cover any murder committed during a housebreaking, will be tabled in the Houses of Parliament before the end of the legislative year. Information Minister Senator Burchell Whiteman, who made the announcement at today's (Feb. 28) post Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, informed that Cabinet gave approval for the tabling of...

The Government of Jamaica is undertaking a comprehensive review of the island's justice system and will, within the next two months, engage an expert in justice sector reform to lead the process. Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Senator A.J. Nicholson, who made the announcement in his contribution to the State of the Nation debate in the Senate on Friday...

Efforts are being made by the Community Relations Department of the Clarendon Police Division to reactivate several neighbourhood watch groups in the parish and strengthen those that are active. Speaking at a special meeting of the neigbourhood watch groups, held at the St. James Methodist Church Hall on January 25 in May Pen, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Marlene Wilson Christie,...

Some seven persons have been sentenced to prison as the Ministry of Labour and Social Security continues to clamp down on employment agencies in breach of the terms and conditions of the Employment Agency Regulation Act. Director of the Manpower Services Division in the Ministry, Barrington Bailey, told JIS News that more agencies were under investigation. "There are four others...

Absentee landowners or persons conducting property transactions need not worry that their interests will be abused or otherwise affected by their absence from the country, as they can appoint someone to legally act on their behalf. This procedure is known as administering the terms of a Power of Attorney, explained Joan Walker, Legal Officer in the Land Titles Division of...

Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas, has assured Jamaicans living in Canada that the police are committed to winning the war on crime. Addressing more than 300 Jamaicans at the Jamaican Canadian Association (JCA) Centre in Toronto, Canada, on January 20, Commissioner Thomas said that despite the high number of homicides in 2005, the police force did record a number of...

The government is seeking to establish a National Intelligence Agency (NIA), which would provide intelligence to inform state decision-making on strategic or policy issues that go beyond supporting planned operations. As proposed, the NIA will be an independent civilian state agency mandated to gather strategic information, process it into strategic intelligence and provide the government with timely advice on matters...

More than 200 students participated in a presentation on Restorative Justice, yesterday (January 23), at the Holy Trinity High School in Kingston. The event was staged as part of the initiative by the Ministry of Justice to educate students about the principles of restorative justice. The Ministry is employing a strategy of zoning high schools, which are in close proximity...