The Victim Services Branch (VSB) is encouraging parents to be vigilant with their children, to minimise trauma resulting from crime and violence. Director of the VSB in the Social Justice...

The Victim Services Branch (VSB) of the Justice Ministry’s Social Justice Division is encouraging men who have been victims of crime to access its free counselling services. With more than...

A child-friendly space has been established at the Victim Services Branch (VSB) office in Mandeville, Manchester under the United States (U.S.)- Jamaica Child Protection Compact Partnership. A child-friendly space is...

The New Social Justice Division within the Justice Ministry has been working to deliver healing and create a culture of peace by increasing access to Alternative Justice Services (AJS). The...

Cabinet has approved an annual subvention to Justice of the Peace (JP) Associations. This is intended to better coordinate the organisations’ assistance to the Ministry of Justice in delivering client...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday (July 25), approved amendments to the Child Care and Protection (Amendment) Act, to bring an end to locking up children who have not committed...

The amendment to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) will create a “kinder and gentler environment” for Jamaican children, says Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams. Among...

Jamaicans are being urged to make a will to prevent family members from fighting over ‘dead leff,’ and to ease the burden on the Administrator General's Department (AGD).  Minister of...