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KINGSTON — The Jamaica Community Crime and Violence Prevention Programme, launched in June 2010, has been making strides in its efforts to reduce violence in high risk inner-city communities across the parishes of Kingston, St. Catherine, Clarendon and St. James. Project Manager for the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF)-implemented programme, Ayanna Demetrius, tells JIS News that already, the initiative has...

KINGSTON Non-violent offenders in local prisons who have shown signs of rehabilitation may soon enjoy the freedom of an electronic monitoring programme, Minister of National Security, Senator Hon. Dwight Nelson, said Tuesday July 5, 2011. The initiative, launched at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), Kingston, will facilitate early conditional release of low risk/non-violent offenders, who have completed at least...

We are approaching the start of the summer holidays. This is the time when most children and teenagers are either at home or are engaged in numerous activities which require them to be on the streets more often than they would be when in schools. Analysis over the years indicates that during the summer holidays, there is an increase in...

KINGSTON — Local ex-offenders and deportees in need of a second chance will benefit from the opening of the refurbished Salvation Army William Chamberlain Adult Rehabilitation Centre (ARC), at Lyndhurst Road, Kingston. The facility, renovated at a cost of some $13 million through a partnership between the governments of Jamaica, Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) and Scotia Bank Jamaica,...

Minister of National Security, Senator the Hon. Dwight Nelson has reiterated plans to disaggregate murder figures to reflect the number of homicides that result from criminal activity, and those which occur due to domestic incidents. “We churn out the figures…(for example), for the month of May, we have 100 murders, but we do not disaggregate the figures, so everybody accept...

OCHO RIOS — Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of National Security, Dianne McIntosh, is encouraging law enforcement officers to remain strong and, to carry out their duties professionally. She pointed out that the Ministry is working assiduously to assist them, as they seek to protect the nation. Speaking at the opening of the 27th Annual Joint Central Conference of the...

MONTEGO BAY — The United States (US) will be increasing its financial support to the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) with US$77 million in funding committed for fiscal year 2011/12. US Secretary of State, Hilary Rodham Clinton, made the announcement at a press conference held yesterday (June 22) at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Montego Bay following high-level talks with...

KINGSTON — Permanent Secretary, Ministry of National Security, Dianne McIntosh, says the Ministry is working assiduously to strengthen its intervention mechanisms that offer psychological and counselling support to police officers. One short term intervention, she informed, is a series of one-day workshops offering refresher courses in pastoral care and counselling for Police chaplains and pastors who counsel those who are...

KINGSTON — Minister of National Security, Senator, Hon. Dwight Nelson, is urging retired police officers to continue to share their years of experience with the force, noting that they still have a lot to contribute. “I want to ask that the tremendous aggregate of service and skills that you have among you not be lost in the passage of time,...

KINGSTON — Correctional Officers based at institutions across the island, have been presented with tertiary education grants totalling $2 million to assist with their tuition. Eighteen of a total of 20 persons received their cheques during a ceremony at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) Community and Institution office, Lockett Avenue, Kingston, on June 8. Guest speaker at the event,...

KINGSTON — In light of the increase in suicide cases in Jamaica between January and May, Director of Mental Health Services and Substance Abuse in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Maureen Irons-Morgan, wants persons with significant symptoms of depression, or other mental disorders, to seek medical help, immediately. Between January and May this year, there have been 24 reported cases...

MANDEVILLE — Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, has asked school administrators to move quickly, with the help of the police, whenever they detect the formation of gangs within their schools. “Any form of association, any form of grouping that has an anti-social effect, is to be treated as a gang in the school,” Mr. Holness told a memorial service...