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The Government is pumping resources into efforts to strengthen the police's forensic investigation capabilities as the country attempts to find a solution to the spiralling crime problem. The aim is to improve the police's ability to gather and provide scientific evidence, which can be presented in a court, to increase apprehensions. The move comes from a 2006 review, which recommended...

The Negril Police Station, Westmoreland, will get a face-lift on Labour Day, Monday (May 25), as members of the Jamaica Ex-Police Association, Florida Chapter, continue their annual refurbishing project in Jamaica. Twenty volunteers of the Chapter will team up with members of the local Chapter to assist in the annual all-day exercise, which includes painting, plumbing, masonry, carpentry and installation...

The Canadian Government has pledged C$18 million (J$1.2 billion) to Jamaica's Justice Undertakings for Social Transformation (JUST) Programme, which was formally launched at Jamaica House today (April 21). Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, and his Canadian counterpart, the Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which will see the funds being channelled into Jamaica's justice system...

Assistant Commissioner of Police, Novelette Grant, is seeking the help of the media and other influential groups to build police-citizen rapport and dispel the perception that most members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are corrupt. She said the perception that the Police are corrupt is being fuelled by the media and other sources, rather than personal experiences of corruption...

Jamaicans living in Canada are praising the Jamaican security forces for the positive outcome to the hostage incident, at the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay, St. James, today (April 20). "I am proud as a Jamaican that we were able to get out of this without anyone getting hurt," said Director of Programme and Community Initiative, at Four Villages...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has ordered an immediate investigation into the breach of security that took place at the Sangster International Airport, in Montego Bay, St. James, that resulted in a hostage incident involving a Canjet aircraft on April 19. A successful rescue and release operation by the Jamaican Security Forces, on April 20, resulted in the man...

The hostage incident at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James Jamaica involving a young man armed with a gun who forced his way through security check points and onto a CANJET chartered aircraft has been resolved, without any harm to the 159 passengers on board and the eight crew members. At approximately 6:40 am (Monday, April 20)...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding says that he is encouraged by the commitment of the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, to give more assistance to the Caribbean and Latin America to reduce piracy and gun and drug running through the region's waters. Speaking following a Plenary session during the 5th Summit of the Americas in...

Jamaica's Ambassador to Washington, Anthony Johnson, has called on the American government to put strong legislation in place to stem the trafficking of small arms to Jamaica and other Caribbean territories. The Ambassador, who is Jamaica's Permanent Representative to the Organisation of American States (OAS), was speaking to JIS News yesterday (April 16), prior to his departure for Trinidad and...

In an effort to combat crime and violence in Cedar Grove, Manchester, members of the community, in collaboration with the Mandeville Ministers Fraternal and Northern Caribbean University (NCU), staged a stakeholders forum on April 16, at the Cedar Grove Seventh Day Adventist Church. Residents identified several areas for intervention, which could result in the reduction of crime and violence and...

Locked away in the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston, a maximum security prison, for the past four years, Seth Rogers*, is not daunted by his imprisonment, but has been occupying his time productively by teaching his fellow inmates computer skills, and is also integrally involved in the prison's radio station. Mr. Rogers is President of the Students Expressing...

The Ministry of National Security's efforts to transform poor communities affected by violent crime, will be boosted this year with a budget allocation of $211.5 million to strengthen community-based organizations(CBOs) and support community policing. The funds, provided by the United States' Agency for International Development(USAID), will be used to, "help transform poor underserved communities beset with violent crime, and to...