Partygoers are being implored to exercise caution when attending events over the festive season. Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Head of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Corporate Communications Unit, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Stephanie Lindsay, said that “If you know that there is gang conflict and other things happening in [a] space and you see an event...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has announced a $50 million incentive fund to offer rewards for information leading to the arrest of persons planning organised crime and gang violence, particularly over the Christmas holiday season. Speaking during a ceremony on Monday (December 19) to handover two units in Seville Heights, St. Ann, under the New Social Housing Programme...

The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Welfare Unit has been fulfilling the needs of its members since being established in 2018, according to Police Commissioner, Major General Antony Anderson. “Some of them who have been injured on the job for years, we have gotten the necessary medical attention for them, for those who can, to be back on the road to...

Jamaicans living in and near Atlanta, Georgia in the United States are set to benefit from a suite of services offered by the Passport, Immigration and Citizenship Agency (PICA) through its ‘Access Jamaica’ initiative. PICA representatives and key partners, including the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), will be at the Exchange Park Recreation Centre located at 2771 Columbia Drive, Decatur, Georgia,...

Jamaicans are being encouraged to report corrupt public officials and high-level criminals by utilising the new tip line established by the Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) in partnership with Crime Stop. The country’s first anti-corruption tip line, 888-MOCA TIP, was officially launched during a press conference at MOCA’s Oxford Road headquarters in Kingston on Friday (December 9) to...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has called on the assistance of the United States (US) in identifying and prosecuting individuals who fund criminal operations in Jamaica. “We intend to use the relationship to try and tackle a part of the problem for which we have no reach, and that is the Jamaicans who have migrated to the United...

The States of Public Emergency (SOE) have been hailed as an effective crime-fighting tool by Commissioner of Police, Major General Antony Anderson. He noted that the enhanced security measures have an immediate impact on the reduction of homicides. The Police Commissioner said that the seven parishes across the island, where SOEs were in effect from November 15 to 29, recorded...