Beginning October 1, 2015, the Jamaica Customs Agency (JCA) will be expanding the use of its Automated System for Customs Data (ASYCUDA), a web-based application that allows clients to undertake e-transactions. Commissioner of the JCA, Major Richard Reese, says the expanded use will include the processing of Transit, Transshipment, Private and Public Bonded Warehousing declarations for commercial and non-commercial imports...

Corporate Jamaica is being urged to partner with the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) to create employment and learning opportunities for at-risk youth. The social intervention programme has joined forces with the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS) and Jamaica Public Service (JPS), through Memoranda of Understanding, to create such opportunities for youngsters that would not be otherwise possible. “It...

A 25 year-old beneficiary of a social intervention programme, aimed at reducing serious crimes and violence, has been awarded a Chevening scholarship. A resident of Parade Gardens, Jerome Cowans, is an active community participant who has benefitted tremendously from the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), which has transformed him into an ambassador and inspiration for other youngsters. At the...

The Ministry of National Security has partnered with the Shipping Association of Jamaica (SAJ) to create training opportunities in stevedoring for 30 at-risk youth in the Corporate Area. The initiative is estimated to cost just over $10 million, and will benefit young men drawn from Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) participating communities. They will be involved in an Integrated...

Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams, is assuring residents of West Kingston that crime in under control in their communities. The Commissioner informed that heavy police deployment has had a calming effect on the troubled communities, which have been plagued recently by violence. Dr. Williams was speaking at a press conference to update the country on police initiatives and tactical operations,...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be strengthening collaboration with the police in Haiti in order to disrupt and shrink the illicit drugs for guns trade between the two countries. “Arrangements are in place, as we speak, to dispatch police officers to Haiti to consult with the Haitian police,” said Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams. He was addressing a press...

National Security Minister, Hon. Peter Bunting, has called on churches in western Jamaica to take a stand against lottery scamming. “In western Jamaica we have one of the most corrosive of activities… and that is lottery scamming. This is not something we think the church has taken on frontally. One pastor told me recently that he preached against lottery scamming...