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Director of Safety and Security at the Ministry of Education, Sergeant Coolridge Minto, giving details of the Ministry’s new security and safety measures, which will be implemented at the start of the new academic year in September, at a recent function in Montego Bay.

Security to Be Improved In Schools

Director of Security and Safety at the Ministry of Education, Sergeant Coolridge Minto, says several security and safety measures are being finalized for the education sector, which will be rolled out at the start of the 2014/15 academic year. Speaking...

Fourth Form student at the Herbert Morrison Technical High School, Shevani Smith (left); accepts a scholarship letter from President of the South Florida chapter of the Jamaican Ex-Police Officers Association, Roy Bennett. The scholarship is valued at J$40,000. Sharing the occasion at centre is Assistant Commissioner of Police in Charge of Area One, Warren Clarke.

Jamaica Ex-Police Officers Association Gives Back to St. James

Director for Safety and Security in Schools, Ministry of Education, Sergeant Coleridge Minto (left), listens to a question posed at the launch of the CARICOM - Spain Citizen Security project, at the Ministry of Education Region 4 offices in Montego Bay, on May 29. The project is aimed at reducing youth-on-youth violence in schools and communities in Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. Others (from second left) are: Deputy Ambassador at the Spanish Embassy, Ms Victoria Tur; Programmes Manager for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ms Beverley Reynolds, and Senior Education Officer for Guidance and Counselling, Mrs. Lisetha Adams.

Multi-Partnership Approach to Tackle Violence in Schools

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, speaking at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) mini exposition, at the Horizon Remand Centre in Kingston, on Wednesday, May 28.

Security Ministry to Relocate Female Wards to Child-Friendly Facility

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting (left), cuts the ribbon to officially open the police post at a complex in Lakes Pen, which also houses sporting facilities and a community centre, built at a cost of over $26 million, on Thursday, May 29. Also pictured are Commissioner of Police, Mr. Owen Ellington (centre), and Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Hon. Arnaldo Brown, who is also Member of Parliament for East Central St. Catherine.

Police Post Set Up At Lakes Pen in St. Catherine

12 years ago National Security

Talk to the Police – ACP Grant Urges

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...

12 years ago National Security

Security Minister for Diaspora Conference in the UK

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...

12 years ago National Security

St. James PMI Successfully Using Music to Engage At-Risk Youth

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...

12 years ago EducationNational Security

Juvenile Remandees Receiving Better Access to Education

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...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting (right), listens as Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, highlights a point regarding crime statistics for the last five years, while addressing journalists at a post-Sectoral Debate presentation press conference hosted by the Minister at Jamaica House, on Wednesday, May 14. (FILE)

12 years ago National Security

Merger of ISCF and JCF Enabling Stronger Law Enforcement

Police Commissioner, Owen Ellington, says the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) now has more resources and manpower to boost its various operations, following the merger with the Island Special Constabulary (ISCF). “We can now eliminate quite a number of duplicated administrative support functions, which were necessary as we maintained two structures. By eliminating those duplicated functions, we have additional resources which...

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Glenmore Hines (3rd left), and Executive Director at the Social Development Commission (SDC), Dr. Dwayne Vernon (right), sign a Memorandum of Understanding, which provide a formal mechanism for residents of targeted communities to record the level of service they receive from the police. Under the MoU, the police also evaluate their own performance. Also pictured from left are: Director of Research at the SDC, Juanita Reid and Head of Governance and Security and the United Kingdom Department for International Development Representative in Jamaica, Dr. Daniel Arghiros. The signing was held at the Police Officers’ Club in Kingston on Wednesday, May 14.

12 years ago National Security

JCF and SDC Sign MOU for Community Policing Rating Initiative

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...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, makes a point during his presentation in the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 13.

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New Traffic Ticketing System Soon

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....