Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, is calling for strengthening of Jamaica’s commitment to the United Nations (UN) Palermo Protocol, which urges signatories to prevent and suppress the incidence of human trafficking. She said Government agencies must avoid complacency and redouble their efforts, in keeping with the Protocol’s requirements, to ensure Jamaica achieves Tier 1 classification in...

Justice Minister Hon. Delroy Chuck, is urging all law abiding Jamaicans to join with the Government in the fight against crime and violence. “With every breath in me, I am going to make sure that Jamaica becomes a safe place once again. We deserve it and we must and will have it,” Mr. Chuck stated. He was speaking at a...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, is urging Jamaicans to break the culture of silence, which will assist the police to reduce criminal activities. Addressing Justices of the Peace (JPs) in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, on June 15, the Minister said that Jamaica is at a very critical and challenging time, not just because of the level of crime but...

Custos Rotulorum for the parish of St. Andrew, Hon. Dr. Patricia Dunwell, is urging the new Justices of the Peace (JPs) for the parish to help to prevent child abuse by becoming mentors for vulnerable children in their communities. She argued that through these mentoring relationships, children are more likely to report cases of abuse or neglect so that corrective...

The justice sector should see significant improvement in its processing of court cases, having implemented a Court Information Statistical System (CISS) in parish courts islandwide. The system allows for the tracking of matters as they move through the court system from initiation to disposition, which will result in faster determination of when a case falls into backlog. Statistics and Data...

Press Release- The Chief Justice and other members of the Judiciary have taken note of the recent statements by the Commissioner of Police regarding the vast number of persons arrested and the likely length of time it will take for these matters to be tried. We in the judiciary are just as concerned especially as these new matters are adding...

The process by which the country’s laws are drafted is to be significantly improved with the introduction of the Legislative Production Management System and Legislative Drafting Manual. Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, launched the software system and manual at his Constant Spring Road offices in St. Andrew on June 8. They were developed under the Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation...