Commanding Officer of the St. James Police, Superintendent Vernon Ellis, says 30 resource officers have been selected for high schools in the parish, as the police anticipate a smooth start to the new academic year on September 2. Speaking with JIS News during a School Resource Officers’ Seminar at the Freeport Police Station in Montego Bay on Wednesday (August 28),...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, is encouraging wards at juvenile correctional centres to regard themselves as “winners,” while they go through various stages of rehabilitation. Speaking to scores of youth at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in Spanish Town, St. Catherine, today (August 20), at the 2019 staging of the ‘We Transform’...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has emphasised that solving crime is not just the duty of the Ministry and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), but also the responsibility of  communities, working in partnership with the Police. Addressing the quarterly luncheon of the Jamaica All Island Chambers of Commerce, in Clarendon, on August 17, the Minister said with...

The curtains came down on the four-week children’s summer camp in Salt Spring, St. James, on August 16, with 120 children from the area benefiting from the initiative. There are plans by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to replicate the camp in other volatile communities in the parish. The camp began on Monday, July 22 at the Salt Spring Primary...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says great things are happening in  inner-city communities, where many young people have been making their mark in a positive way. Dr. Chang, who was addressing the St. James North Western Constituency Development Fund (CDF) Education Grant award ceremony, at the University of the West Indies Western Campus, in Montego Bay, on...

Residents of surrounding communities in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, are to benefit from the upgrading of their health and security facilities, as well as the rehabilitation of a road, at a cost of $88 million. Over the next six months, the Bog Walk Health Centre will be expanded, and a dental unit constructed, at a cost of $31.7 million; the...

The Government is to spend over $5 billion to improve the condition of facilities of the Jamaica Constabulary Force. National Security Minister, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang made the announcement at the ceremonial opening of the Shady Grove Police Station in Lluidas Vale, St. Catherine on August 9. Under a new initiative called ‘Rebuild, Overhaul, and Construct’ (R.O.C), over 200 police...