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KINGSTON — The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will maintain maximum deployment of all its officers to ensure an atmosphere of peace and safety, as Jamaicans go to the polls tomorrow (December 29), the Police High Command has said. Deputy Commissioner of Police, Operations, Glenmore Hinds, said the police are prepared for tomorrow’s General Elections, noting that all personnel will be...

The first round of voting in the 2011 General Election gets under way this morning, at polling stations in all 63 constituencies. Polling will take place between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. for 25,396 Election Day workers, 8,211 police and 2,098 soldiers, who are eligible to vote. Under the Representation of the People Act (ROPA), special provisions are made for...

KINGSTON — An agreement was signed on December 19, 2011 by various stakeholders for the provision of intervention programmes for boys at the Metcalfe Street Secure Juvenile Centre, in Kingston. The agreement was signed by the Ministry of National Security, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), during a press briefing, held at...

MONTEGO BAY &mdash Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) head, Terrence Williams, has described working relationships with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Commissioner of Police as very cordial. “As regards the Commissioner of Police (Owen Ellington), I can say the cooperation has been 100 percent. We have a very good relationship, we have agreed principles...

The Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has called on the society to be more vigilant of the care and protection of children and to report cases of abuse including neglect to the Office of the Children’s Registry.  The Minister’s latest appeal comes in light of a recent report that a teenager who had been ill...

KINGSTON — The deployment of a United States (US) surveillance aircraft over Jamaica during the security operations in Tivoli Gardens last year constituted part of  normal agreements that Jamaica enjoys with the US and other governments, which  supply equipment to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). This was stated by Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Antony Anderson, at a press...

KINGSTON — Cabinet has given approval for Jamaica to enter into an agreement with the Organization of American States (OAS) for the provision of machines to provide traceable markings on firearms. The Dot peen marking machines will impose markings that are not easily erased. The technology is to be used for weapons both privately owned and in the custody of...

KINGSTON — The Government is refuting recent media reports in the United States (US) that Jamaica received assistance from that country in carrying out the security operations in West Kingston in May 2010. "The United States Government did not at any time participate in the operations in Tivoli Gardens…in fact, the (former) Prime Minister (the Hon. Bruce Golding) made a...

MONTEGO BAY — Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says his Ministry has embarked on a 'crusade' to empower Justices of the Peace (JPs) to play a greater role in restorative justice and conflict resolution in communities. Addressing another in the series of Restorative Justice National Stakeholders Sensitization meetings, at the Sean Lavery Faith Hall Catholic Church, Savanna-La-Mar, Westmoreland on...

KINGSTON — The operations of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) have been boosted with the handing over of several vehicles to the entity by the Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, on November 29, 2011. Presented during a ceremony at the JDF's Up Park Camp headquarters, the 25 trucks with a net worth of approximately $63 million,...

Today, as we commemorate International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, let us renew our commitment to end all forms of violence against our women and girls, men and boys. This year’s theme “Unite to End Violence Against Women: Peace in the Home and in the Society” is particularly timely insofar as it reminds us that violence against...

KINGSTON — Minister of National Security, Hon Dwight Nelson, says that he expects that at least $500 million of the over $2 billion in unpaid traffic tickets the Government hopes to recover from an amnesty, will be used to repair police vehicles. Speaking at the handing over of 86 vehicles to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), at the Police Commissioner’s...