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Public opinion leaders and decision makers are discussing policies relating to the impact of violence on the country's children at a two-day workshop, which opened at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) in Kingston Wednesday (October 27). The workshop is aimed at influencing key stakeholders, to prioritise the strengthening of national systems for the protection and promotion of the rights...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force's (JCF) Organized Crime Investigation Division (OCID) has been making significant inroads into transnational criminal activities, since its inception in 1990. Transnational crimes are illicit activities occurring across national jurisdictional borders or when the attendant consequences, emanating from the country of origin, significantly impact another country. These activities include: human trafficking and people smuggling; trafficking/smuggling of goods,...

Four Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) soldiers have become part of history, as they are the last servicemen to graduate from an advanced aircraft maintenance technician course at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, in Canada. After a nearly 30-year-old relationship between the two countries, Corporal Calverton Blagrove, Corporal Tauwee McLean, Corporal Oraine Riley and Corporal Samando Scott of the JDF...

"Hanging around like the clock on the wall," is the analogy used by Pleasant Heights (Wareika Hill) resident, Randy Anderson, to describe the sense of inertia many inner city youth feel. However, the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) is helping to change this, going beyond just enabling persons to acquire skills, to assist inner city youth to enter professional...

Jamaicans will be sensitised about the host of services provided by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), when the department observes Correctional Services Week from October 24 to 31. Acting Commissioner of Corrections, Lt. Colonel Garfield Prendergast, speaking at a press conference at the Corporate Area Probation Office in Kingston yesterday (October 21), said this year's celebration will seek to...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has credited the Safe Schools Programme with the decrease in violence and serious crimes in the institutions. "In terms of the Ministry's perspective (and) surveillance there is a decline in serious crimes in schools," Mr. Holness told educators, parents, Jamaica Constabulary Force personnel and other stakeholders at the Schools' Security and Safety Conference at...

Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke, has called for speedier finalisation of the Evidence Amendment Bill, to allow video-recorded statements from victims, particularly in child sexual abuse cases, to be used as evidence in the courts. She contended that the procedures involved in these cases have to be made easier for child abuse victims, to ensure that they are not re-traumatised in...

Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Major General Antony Anderson, says he intends to build a force that is relevant and can respond to the threats facing Jamaica. Speaking at the Change of Command Parade on Saturday (October 9) at Up Park Camp, he assured the hundreds of Jamaicans, who braved heavy showers to witness the proceedings that...

The police are reporting that, for the first time since July 2002 when 72 murderers were recorded, the number of murders committed in a single month fell below 80, with the 77 recorded in September. Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) statistics, released Monday (October 11), showed that last month's figure was 55 less than for the same period last year, representing...

Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Novelette Grant, head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's Strategic Review Implementation Team (SRIT), wants civilians to pool their knowledge and resources with the Police to reduce criminal activities in their communities. "We cannot continue to sit back, as citizens, and believe that the problems of crime and disorder are the problems of those sworn in...

New Chief of Defence Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Brigadier Antony Anderson, has promised to uphold the high standard and professionalism of the nation's armed forces in the execution of his new role. Brigadier Anderson was sworn in on Thursday (October 7), by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, as the 10th Chief of Defence...

Contractor General, Greg Christie is proposing that an Independent National Anti-Corruption Agency be established, with powers to investigate and prosecute in a more cost-effective way. In the Office of the Contractor General's 23rd Annual Report, which was recently tabled in Parliament, Mr. Christie said he would formally propose this year, that the Parliamentary Integrity Commission, the Corruption Prevention Commission, and...