Acting Commissioner of Police, Novelette Grant, is encouraging employers to get involved in schools in order to instil in students at an early age, the values that are needed for the workforce and the wider society. “You have something to offer to these young people who are in our schools. Be a key partner in building safe schools… spaces where...

The Department of Correctional Services has received $202 million to purchase vehicles and improve adult institutions in the next fiscal year. Of the figure, $180 million will go towards renovation and rehabilitation at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston, while the remainder will be used to purchase vehicles for the Department. This is outlined in the 2017-18 Estimates...

The Government is to strengthen the policy, legislative and institutional framework that guides the management and treatment of involuntary returned migrants (deportees) to the island. Some $13.8 million has been set aside in the 2017-18 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, for the activities under the Reintegration and Rehabilitation of Involuntary Returned Migrants in Jamaica. To be...

With the maintenance of law and order high on the agenda of the Government, a total of $567 million has been budgeted to carry out activities to support this during the 2017-18 fiscal year. The money has been set aside in the 2017-18 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. Of the sum, $367 million will go towards...

Acting Commissioner of Police (ACP), Novelette Grant, is imploring Jamaicans to begin building safer and healthier relationships, starting with that between parent and child. She stressed that this initial interaction is of utmost importance, as the relationship between parents and children “basically sets the foundation for the family life, community life, and the life that we want as a nation.”...

The Private Security Regulations Authority (PSRA) is urging security guards to sign up for the self-contributory health insurance scheme that is provided through Guardian Life. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ yesterday (February 14), Executive Director of the PSRA, Rosalyn Campbell, said health insurance is one of the most basic rights that all employees should have, including security guards. Mrs....

A new school building, valued at approximately J$3.19 million (US$25,000), is being built at the Tamarind Farm Adult Correctional Centre in St. Catherine by Food for the Poor. The facility, which will be used to deliver the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) educational and vocational programme for inmates incarcerated at the institution, will comprise three classrooms, an office and sanitation...