The Ministry of Justice will be increasing the number of restorative justice centres in operation across the island. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, said the objective is to expand and strengthen the programme of intervention, mediation and resolution in volatile communities in order to “ease some of the conflicts that emerge”. He was speaking at a justice services sensitisation session...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, has called on pastors and teachers, as well as other persons of integrity, to make themselves available to serve their country through the office of Justice of the Peace (JP). Addressing a sensitisation session on justice services held yesterday (September 23) at Sandals Whitehouse Hotel in Westmoreland, Mr. Chuck pointed to a shortage of...

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer, says legislation is coming to punish Justices of the Peace (JPs) who breach the code of conduct governing the office. Speaking at a town hall meeting at the Seventh-day Adventist conference centre in Mount Salem, St. James on Thursday (September 22), Ms. Palmer said the Ministry continues to receive reports that...

Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says that the number of criminal courts at the Supreme Court, downtown Kingston, will be increased from four to seven. He made the disclosure at a sensitisation session on justice services held on September 20 at the Ministry’s Constant Spring Road offices in St. Andrew. “We are retrofitting three courts in the Supreme Court to...

The employment prospects for more than 50 Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) interns have been increased following their participation in a recent Jamaica Defence Force (JDF)-organised Career Day exposition at Up Park Camp in Kingston. The event was aimed at, among other things, exposing them to and linking them with potential employers from the private sector. Persons from at-risk...

Seven judges were sworn into higher office on September 13 during a ceremony at King’s House. Taking the oath of office were the Hon. Justice Paulette A. Williams who has been appointed as Judge of Appeal; the Hon. Justice Carol C. Edwards who has been appointed to act as Judge of Appeal; Her Hon. Carolyn Tie, Her Hon. Stephanie A. Jackson...

Her Honour Judith A. Pusey has been sworn in as the country’s first Chief Judge of the Parish Courts. She was appointed under the Judicature (Resident Magistrates) (Amendment and Change of Name) Act 2015 and on the advice of the Judicial Services Commission. The legislation, among other things, changes the name of the Resident Magistrate’s courts to Parish Courts. It...