Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Several youths in May Pen, Clarendon, whose future has been blighted by their criminal antecedents, are begging the authorities to look into laws governing the expungement of criminal records, as they are being denied crucial opportunities.Otis...
Published:Saturday | March 24, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Mark Golding, member of parliament (MP) for South St Andrew, yesterday decried a history of killings in his constituency after police sleuths were left baffled by the pre-dawn murder of a man on Pole Vault Pathway in Arnett Gardens.Official police...
Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Residents within the zones of special operations (ZOSO) in Denham Town, Kingston, and Mount Salem, St James, are being asked to "keep the peace" and allow the social-intervention programmes to flow without any hindrance, as the operation enters its...
Published:Friday | March 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Special provisions had to be made for them, including fitting an oxygen machine inside their exam room, but five students who last week completed their Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) while hospitalised at the Bustamante Hospital for Children in...
Published:Saturday | March 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The police have seized more than 1,000 illegal guns since last year, and that, they say, is a sign that they are making slow but steady progress in getting the guns out of the hands ofcriminals.Data provided by the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF)...
Published:Thursday | March 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
They adhere to different religious teachings, but participants in last week's interfaith conference put on by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Jamaica in Old Harbour, St Catherine, agreed that Jamaica needs to fix its broken families if the country is...
Published:Friday | March 16, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has reported a reduction in the number of corruption files it received against members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) last year.But there are concerns from local human rights groups...
Published:Friday | March 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
His full-time job is chasing criminals and protecting residents of Guanaboa Vale and surrounding communities in St Catherine, but Constable Shanan Callom has taken on an additional unpaid role, teaching mathematics at a primary school in the...
Published:Saturday | March 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Less than 200 metres from where dozens of police and soldiers are stationed in the zone of special operations (ZOSO) in Denham Town, West Kingston, gunmen have residents cowering in fear, after murdering two people last week.The last victim was 56-...
Published:Thursday | March 1, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The number of cases of rape reported to the police has been declining steadily over the last five years, but women's advocate are concerned that the official figures do not reflect the reality on the ground.The Ministry of National Security's...
Published:Friday | March 2, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
With concerns mounting about the number of women being abducted and raped by criminals posing as cab drivers, licensed taxi companies are adding to the disorder on the nation's streets by allowing operators of private motor cars to register with...
Published:Friday | February 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The shortage of trained teachers continues to hurt local early childhood institutions (ECIs) despite major strides in the sector last year.Only 32 per cent of teachers operating in Jamaica's basic schools, nurseries, infant schools and other ECIs...
Published:Friday | February 23, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Assistant Commissioner of Police Assan Thompson, who heads the branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) mandated to investigate internal disciplinary matters, wants more authority to move after corrupt cops.Thompson last week argued that the...
Published:Saturday | February 17, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Jewel Walters, widow of Winston 'Corey' Walters, the taxi operator who was shot and killed along with businesswoman Simone Campbell-Collymore in Red Hills, St Andrew, last month, is a broken woman.Weeks after the gun attack that ended her husband's...
Published:Thursday | February 15, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
England-born criminologist Craig Pinkney is adamant that while Jamaica has its unique problems, the island's crime problem is not beyond solutions that have worked in some of the hardest communities in the United Kingdom and the United States.But...
Published:Friday | February 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
With more than 200 gangs said to be operating in Jamaica, British-based criminologist Craig Pinkney is arguing that it is pointless for the security forces to try to disrupt them as they will inevitably replenish themselves over time.Pinkney, youth...
Published:Friday | February 9, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Ricardo Wittingham was all smiles last Thursday as his yard was among the latest to be fenced under the Zinc Fence Removal Project, part of social-intervention initiatives earmarked by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) in the Denham Town...
Published:Saturday | February 10, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Poor informal communities across Jamaica tend to feature heavily as crime hotspots, but the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ) says it has been doing its part to make some of these areas safer.Managing director of the HAJ, Gary Howell, named the...
Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It appears that a concern about possible links between radical preachers and terrorism was among the reasons United States-based 'hate preacher' Steven Anderson was prevented from entering Jamaica.While the Ministry of National Security is yet to...
Published:Saturday | February 3, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Relatives of Randy 'Al' Evans, one of two men whose funeral received special attention from the police in August Town, St Andrew, last Sunday, have rejected claims that he was a known gang member.The relatives have also denied that he was killed for...
Published:Friday | January 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
Stunned by the disclosure of Education Minister Ruel Reid that their school was one of the four selected to be outfitted with hand-held and walk-through metal detectors to stem violent incidents, two grade nine students of Brown's Town High...
Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
The police have promised to be out in their numbers in August Town, St Andrew, today with the funerals of two prominent community members scheduled to take place.Yesterday, residents in the community spoke in whispers following a quadruple murder...
Published:Friday | January 26, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
After recording a slight uptick in murders last year and three killings so far this year, with reports of migrant criminals roaming the parish, some residents of Manchester have started to express concern about crime in what were once peaceful...
Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
There are more concerns emerging that adult gangsters have embarked on a recruiting drive for children, mainly boys, to become members of their gangs and introducing them to a life of crime from an early age.Dr Elizabeth Ward, medical epidemiologist...
Published:Saturday | January 27, 2018 | 12:00 AMCorey Robinson
It was heart-wrenching and painful as residents reacted with shock and disbelief as they looked at what was left of a house on Booby Drive in Cockburn Gardens, St Andrew, where three children lost their lives last Friday night.Grieving relatives...
