Since the declaration of Mount Salem as a Zone of Special Operations on September 1, 2017, the Social Intervention Committee has coordinated the delivery of critical social interventions by over 20 government agencies with support from the private sector.  The intervention are guided by the Social Intervention framework, which identified seven priority development areas which include improving the physical infrastructure,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is reassuring that activities, particularly social interventions, which are conducted in communities adversely impacted by crime and violence and are declared Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs), will be maintained until normality is restored in those areas. “We will stay with the communities for as long as it takes for them to be normalised....

A new 45-day amnesty for persons with outstanding traffic tickets gets underway on Monday (Nov. 27). Motorists with tickets issued from September 1, 2010 to October 31, 2017 can pay them without repercussion up to January 13, 2018. On Friday (November 24), the Senate approved the Road Traffic (Temporary Ticket Amnesty Number 2) Act 2017, which facilitates the new period...

National Security Minister, Hon. Robert Montague, says the Ministry plans to erect a special monument to honour the memory of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s (JCF) members who die in the line of duty. Speaking at the Ministry’s inaugural awards ceremony for members of the JCF at Hope Gardens in St. Andrew on Thursday, November 23, Mr. Montague said funds have...

A violence interruption and prevention initiative geared at promoting kindness to combat destructive thoughts, words and actions has been developed by Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Novelette Grant. The project, which is dubbed Acts of Random Kindness (ARK), builds on the Youth Empowerment and Mentorship (YEM) Programme, which has among its core values, kindness. The YEM Programme, which encouraged positive...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Robert Montague, says a large portion of the funds collected under the traffic ticket amnesty will be used to purchase vehicles and equipment for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) as well as effect improvements to traffic offices across the island. He made the announcement during Tuesday’s (November 14) sitting of the House of Representatives as...

The Government is now better equipped to develop road-safety policies and programmes utilising traffic data, following the launch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Road Safety Hub. Constructed at a cost of $8.2 million, the state-of-the-art road-safety-management facility, which is located at the JCF’s Traffic and Highway Division in downtown Kingston, will provide real time road crash and network data...