The Police are confirming that one of its members, a Constable, was shot and injured during a robbery in Scott's Pass, Clarendon last night. Reports are that about 11pm, the Constable, whose name has not been released, was on his way home with a relative from the...
Human rights lobby group, Jamaicans for Justice, JFJ, is expressing skepticism about a meeting Police Commissioner, Dr. Carl Williams wants to have with local human rights representatives. This, in the wake of the death of 29-year-old Marlon Cherrington, a suspect in...
A Trafficking in Persons curriculum is to be implemented in schools this September. That's according to Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Carol Palmer. Ms. Palmer is also the Chairman of the National Task Force Against Trafficking in Persons. The...
Director of Public Prosecutions, Paula Llewellyn, is commending a Joint Select Committee of Parliament for accepting the recommendation to provide additional oversight for INDECOM. The establishment of an INDECOM oversight body was first suggested by Mrs. Llewelyn and...
Vendors at the Coronation Market in downtown Kingston, are calling on the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, KSAC and the West Kingston Police to improve security at the facility. This following the stabbing death of a 60 year old vendor last evening. The police...
The Statistical Institute of Jamaica, STATIN, says the country's unemployment rate has declined marginally. STATIN says that at the end of April this year, the unemployment rate was at 13.2 percent. This, compared to 13.6 percent in April last year. STATIN says in the...
The Justice Ministry is challenging a claim by the US State Department that Jamaican police personnel may be complicit in the recruitment of children and adults into the illicit sex trade. The claim is made in the US State Department's 2015 Trafficking in Persons...
The Police, in tandem with personnel from the Customs Agency, yesterday made a cocaine bust at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston. They seized approximately 22 pounds of the drug, worth $12.5-million. Reports are that about 3:15 yesterday afternoon,...
The Police have identified three suspects believed to be involved in the killing of Constable Lynden Barrett. That's according to Senior Superintendent, Dean Taylor, who's leading a Special Taskforce investigating last Tuesday's killing of the policeman. SSP Taylor...
The Foreign Affairs Ministry is this afternoon denying reports that there was a breakdown in relations between Minister AJ Nicholson and Jamaica's former Ambassador to Washington, Stephen Vascianne. Professor Vascianne has chosen not to renew his contract as Jamaica's...