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MONTEGO BAY – The Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, says that construction of the new Falmouth Police Station will recommence next month with the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), through its Engineering Corps, in charge of the project. Mr. Golding noted that the project, which started in 2005 and should have taken one year to be completed, “started, stopped and...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said that serious crime this year is down by 42% over the comparable period last year. “The intensified effort being conducted by the security forces since May of last year have produced remarkable results. I do get weekly updates as to the level of crime that has taken place and the most recent update I got yesterday, which...

KINGSTON – Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson has reiterated the Government's commitment to weed out corruption, to continue implementation of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's  (JCF) anti-corruption strategy, and to heighten focus on wrongdoers within the Force. “Corruption is a major hindrance to sustainable development with a disproportionate impact on the poor and dispossessed. In developing countries...

KINGSTON – There was a 27 per cent drop in citizens reporting that they had been asked for bribes by public officials, or in the workplace, a 2010 Latin American Public Opinion Project Americas Barometer poll has revealed. This was down from 2006, when data showed that some 35 per cent of Jamaicans had been asked for bribes by public...

Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer says funds have been diverted from certain projects for which implementation will be delayed to put in place additional security measures at the Spanish Town Hospital in St. Catherine which was the scene of an invasion by gunmen recently. Minister Spencer was addressing a meeting yesterday morning (Wednesday, March 16, 2011) involving members of...

KINGSTON – The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) held its inaugural National Poster Competition award ceremony last week with top honours going to Yanque Yip of Knox College High School in Clarendon. Yip, who was also adjudged as having the best illustration, was among eight students from schools across the island, who were presented with trophies and certificates of participation at...

KINGSTON – In its effort to rid its ranks of corruption, the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) has barred 137 members from re-enlisting. This was stated in the 2010 performance report of the JCF’s Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), presented at a press conference at the Commissioner’s Office, Kingston, on Monday March 14. Deputy Head of the ACB, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP)...

WASHINGTON, D.C – Five members of  the Security Forces participated in a civil disturbance training course from March 7-10 in Washington, United States (US), organised by the US Department of Defence.  The course dealt primarily with techniques to handle civil disturbances as well as how to handle and diffuse explosive devices.  The five-man Jamaican delegation comprised two persons  from the...

KINGSTON – Law enforcement professionals, ministerial policy makers, civil society members, advocacy groups and academia are to converge in Kingston between March 22 and 23 for the inaugural staging of the Regional Law Enforcement Anti-Corruption Conference. The conference, which will be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in Kingston,  is being hosted by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), in collaboration...

KINGSTON - The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) central armoury has been rehabilitated and restructured with a more rigid system of arms accountability put in place to mitigate against losses.  The move became necessary following the theft of weapons and ammunition from the facility in February last year, which were recovered on premises on Munster Road in St. Andrew.  The armoury...

Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has stressed the importance of social intervention, combined with hard policing tactics, in stamping out crime. “We have to have a mixture of tough love and programmes, which express and expose care and nurturing and guidance, because that is the only way we can break the back of this monster…I talk...

Sanitary conveniences at the Whitfield Town All-Age School in Kingston have been significantly improved with the refurbishing of the boys’ bathroom block. The block, which was in a deplorable condition, has been refurbished by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), at a cost of approximately US$10,000 ($850,000). The works were carried out over...