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The Police Public Complaints Authority (PPCA), has established a contact point at 39 Main Street, Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. Making the disclosure at the recent monthly meeting of the St. Elizabeth Parish Council, Acting Director of Complaints and Investigations, Cleon Roberts, said the office is opened every second Thursday, from 10:00 a.m to 2:00 p.m. "It is there to serve,...

Education Minister, Andrew Holness, has said that schools, which are major agents of socialisation, could be used to break the cycle of violence and crime surrounding the country, by being transformed into violence-free zones. He was speaking at the opening of a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)-sponsored workshop yesterday (Feb. 16), at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios,...

Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Senator the Hon. Arthur Williams Jnr. will participate in this week's Ministerial Conference on Security, Drug Trafficking, Transnational Organized Crime and Terrorism as Challenges to Development in the Caribbean in the Dominican Republic. The conference which is organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNDOC) and the Government...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, has outlined airlift security strategies that will be pursued, to increase arrivals from existing and emerging markets. "Airlift security is the basis on which arrivals are predicated. People do not swim to Jamaica, you have to have airlifts to get people here and we decided to spend the resources to do just that, and have...

Commanding Officer of the Major Investigation Task Force (MIT), Superintendent Selvin Hay, says that the unit's approach to investigating gun-related murders should be replicated across the island.In an interview with JIS News, Superintendent Hay said that the expansion will start in St. Catherine and he is hoping that Clarendon and St. James will be next. "Our number one problem right...

Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke, in an impassioned and emotional plea this afternoon (Feb 13), called on members of the broadcast, music and entertainment business, to clean up the music business to allow children to enjoy their childhood and their innocence. Mrs. Clarke was addressing members of the music and entertainment industry, at a special meeting called by Prime Minister Bruce...

Jamaicans are being warned to guard against identity theft and identity fraud, which have become increasing rampant as the country moves towards developed country status. Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General's Department (RGD), Dr. Patricia Holness, addressing the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Providence at the Wexford Hotel in Montego Bay on Wednesday (Feb. 11), said that...

Coordinator of the Crime Stop 311 programme, Prudence Gentles, has reported that, for the last three years, there has been a 99 per cent confidence rate in Crime Stop. Speaking in an interview with JIS News Tuesday (February 10), Mrs. Gentles said that the public has been supportive of the initiative since its inception 20 years ago. "A couple of...

National Security Minister, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has said that the country is making breakthroughs in the 'Guns for Drugs' trade between Jamaica and Haiti. "We continue to believe that this is the source of much of the illegal arms in this country. We will, therefore, be maintaining our vigilance and are employing new strategies to break the back of...

The government will be taking a tough stance on lewd and violent music, and will put in place the resources needed to effect and enforce the necessary changes, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, has said. "We are going to find a way to deal with the nastiness that is out there. And if it is some law that needs to be...

Minister of National Security, Senator Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has called for greater co-operation between the police and citizens in reducing crime and violence in Jamaica. The minister said that no police jurisdiction can be successful and effective, without the support of the communities they cover. However, he said that co-operation was not something that could be demanded from the communities...

Individuals locked up in correctional facilities are often considered a drain on the state's resources, while seemingly oblivious to the challenges faced by taxpayers whose taxes maintain the institutions and sustain their welfare. However, the Department of Correctional Services' (DCS) Inmate Work Programme seeks to change this conception, by actively engaging inmates in activities which are beneficial to themselves and...