The Legal Aid Council has embarked on a duty counsel sensitisation programme, which is aimed at ensuring that the rights of citizens, who are detained or arrested, are fully observed,...

The members of the Manchester Lay Magistrates Association have been commended for their contribution to the administration of justice in the parish. "This chapter has been exemplary and within the...

Medical Practitioner, Dr. David Stair, is to be installed as Custos of Hanover on March 5, 2009. He succeeds the Hon. Mavis Whitter-King CD, who demitted office in 2006 for...

Senior Director in the Ministry of Justice, Marcia Beverley, has underscored the provisions and benefits to be derived under the Justice Transformation Agenda Programme, which the administration is pursuing for...

Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Senator A.J. Nicholson, has said that Jamaica must address the scourge of human trafficking, if the country was to achieve true development. If we...

Amendments to the Offences Against the Person Act, to cover any murder committed during a housebreaking, will be tabled in the Houses of Parliament before the end of the legislative...

The Government of Jamaica is undertaking a comprehensive review of the island's justice system and will, within the next two months, engage an expert in justice sector reform to lead...

Efforts are being made by the Community Relations Department of the Clarendon Police Division to reactivate several neighbourhood watch groups in the parish and strengthen those that are active. Speaking...

Some seven persons have been sentenced to prison as the Ministry of Labour and Social Security continues to clamp down on employment agencies in breach of the terms and conditions...

Absentee landowners or persons conducting property transactions need not worry that their interests will be abused or otherwise affected by their absence from the country, as they can appoint someone...

Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas, has assured Jamaicans living in Canada that the police are committed to winning the war on crime. Addressing more than 300 Jamaicans at the Jamaican...