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Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, is commending the police force for achieving a significant reduction in all categories of crimes in 2012, including murders. He said 1,087 murders were recorded last year, and while the numbers are still “unacceptably high,” they were the lowest in nine years. In an open letter to Police Commissioner, Owen Ellington on Tuesday...

The police is assuring Jamaicans that it continues to maintain a strong presence to enforce law and order during the festive period. Speaking with JIS News on Friday (December 28), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) in charge of operations, Glenmore Hinds, said there has been an increase in the number of law officers on the streets, in shopping areas and...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is urging citizens to be extra vigilant as they go about their various activities during the festive season. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) at the Community Safety and Security Branch, Stephanie Lindsay, said that there is usually an increase in robberies, assaults, road crashes, fraudulent activities and house breakings during this period and so it...

Scores of Corporate Area residents, particularly students, were sensitized about the scourge of human trafficking when the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons kicked off its renewed public education programme on December 7, at the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre in St. Andrew. Under the chairmanship of the Ministries of National Security and Justice, the task force has embarked on the...

The Government has enlisted the assistance of the Jamaica Defence Force's (JDF) engineering unit to expedite the construction of some 500 houses for residents, whose homes were destroyed during the passage of Hurricane Sandy, by Christmas Day (December 25). Speaking at the weekly Jamaica House press briefing on Thursday (December 6), Minister with responsibility for  Housing, Hon. Dr. Morais Guy,...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (STEM), Hon. Julian Robinson, says increased efforts will be made to speed up Parliamentary deliberations on the Cybercrimes Act. The State Minister told JIS News that a proposal will be made to House Leader, Hon. Phillip Paulwell and his Opposition counterpart,  Delroy Chuck, for the establishment of a...

The operational capabilities of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has been enhanced with the employment of advanced stealth communications equipment, and the establishment of a language training centre, courtesy of the British Government. Consisting of over 100 Personal Role Radio (PRR) sets, with spares, and a Fixed Base Force Protection System (mobile re-broadcast equipment), the communications equipment isexpected to significantly improve...

The Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)-World Customs Organisation (WCO) Container Control Programme that is expected to result in improved security at the nation’s ports. "This MoU establishes and recognises that a funded and enhanced partnership now exists between the Government of Jamaica, through the Ministries of Finance,...

The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) is to receive advanced stealth communications equipment and a language laboratory from the British Government. British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Howard Drake, will make the presentation to National Security Minister, Hon. Peter Bunting and Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Antony Anderson, at a handing over ceremony on November 27, at the British...

Minister of Justice, Senator the Hon. Mark Golding, has informed that the first draft of a Bill dealing with the lottery scam should be ready by the end of November. "I have been told by the persons working on that draft that I will have a first draft by the end of November. That would be a major achievement if...

Some $1 billion was spent under the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) last year on interventions to benefit young people in volatile communities across the island. Minister of National Security, Hon. Peter Bunting, made the disclosure, as he addressed a scholarship award ceremony held recently in Mount Salem, St. James. He commended the CSJP for the role it has...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is reporting a 9.56 per cent decline in major crimes between January and September this year, relative to the corresponding period last year. Speaking at the Institute’s quarterly media briefing at its New Kingston offices on Tuesday (Nov. 20), Programme Director for the PIOJ’s Plan Development Unit, Richard Lumsden, disclosed that some 276 major...