Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Novelette Grant, is urging citizens to provide the security forces with information that will assist them in crime fighting efforts. The ACP says the information will help the police to nab criminals and prevent them from committing other crimes. She was speaking on June 12, in Grant’s Pen, St. Andrew. Recalling the front page story...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, will lead a two-member delegation to participate in the 4th Biennial Jamaican Diaspora UK National Conference in Birmingham, from June 13 to 15. Mr. Bunting and his delegation will also participate in bilateral meetings in London with government ministers and security officials. Minister with responsibility for Information, Senator the Hon. Sandrea Falconer, made...

The Peace Management Initiative (PMI) in St. James is using music as a part of its social intervention programmes for at-risk youth across the parish. Administrator, Garfield McGhie, told JIS News that to date 20 marching bands have been established across the parish, involving more than 400 youth. According to Mr. McGhie, “we are of the view that music and...

Twenty-six youngsters from juvenile correctional centres across the island are now sitting Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) examinations, as the Government improves the educational programmes of these institutions. Commissioner of Corrections, Jevene Bent, who made the disclosure, said several improvements have been made to enhance the quality of education offered within the island’s four juvenile institutions. She was responding to questions...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the Social Development Commission (SDC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) formalising an initiative under which 40 communities have had the opportunity to assess the level of service delivered by the police. The partnership began in June 2013, and will continue for another 11 months. The assessment process involved some communities in Kingston...

The Ministry of National Security is working closely with several agencies and Ministries to design a new Traffic Ticketing System. The new system, which will build on the gains of the system that was introduced in September 2010, will reduce the loopholes in the current system that allow for motorists with unpaid tickets to continue doing business with the Government....

The Cabinet submission for the formal merger of the Forensic Science Laboratory with the Legal Medicine Unit (LMU) is to be tabled in the first quarter of the 2014/15 fiscal year. This is contained in a Ministry Paper tabled by Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, during the sitting of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, May 13. It is proposed...