The Justice Training Institute is to train and sensitise more than 1,500 justices of the peace (JPs) this year, focusing on mediation techniques and restorative justice. This was disclosed by...

Retired judge of the Court of Canadian Citizenship, Dr. Pamela Appelt, has lauded efforts to sensitise young Jamaicans to the work and legacy of Jamaica’s late cultural icon, the Hon....

The Mobile Justice Unit of the Legal Aid Council will this month be making two stops in Mount Salem, St. James, where the Government has declared the first Zone of...

Jamaica is being touted as a regional leader in its operation of drug treatment courts (DTCs) and a model for other countries implementing them. Representative of the Organization of American...

One hundred and fifty-two Justices of the Peace (JP) across six parishes have received training in mediation techniques since the start of the year. The parishes are St. Catherine, Kingston,...

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says the Government is looking at expanding its treatment services to offenders with substance-abuse problems, by establishing drug treatment courts in all parishes. The...

Jamaica is among six countries that will benefit from an additional CAN$833,000 in financial support from the Government of Canada for the monitoring and evaluation of drug treatment courts. The...

Participants in two pilot household energy-conservation and -efficiency workshops in Waterhouse and Greater Brown’s Town in Kingston are hailing the initiative as an effective undertaking, and have expressed the hope...