Sixteen persons have been arrested for trying to smuggle guns and ammunition into the island since 2016, and of that number, only seven have been convicted as local law enforcement battles a deadly arms industry in Jamaica. The majority of the...
Highly placed executives within Miami’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the agency primarily responsible for border security in United States, say they are doing everything to stem illegal guns entering Jamaica from the US, but stopping the...
A slew of social challenges are being blamed for a breakdown of order in Clarendon, and according to many in the central parish, chief among them is poor parenting, which gives rise to criminal “monsters”. Superintendent Vendolyn Cameron Powell,...
Scores of elderly persons are being fleeced of funds by caregivers and their own family, prompting the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) to call for increased protection and empowerment of the vulnerable group. President of the CCRP,...
Cheap and underdesigned vehicles, primarily those favoured by taxi operators, are being blamed for many of the deaths from crashes on Jamaica’s roads, and traffic experts are urging the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) to implement stringent...
Warders at the relocated Fort Augusta Female Correctional Facility last week urged the Government to put more resources into fighting the scourge of domestic violence in Jamaica, hinting that it is often the root of many of the crimes for which...
Even as the Police High Command has signalled that it would be taking strong disciplinary action against policemen who moonlight at the expense of their legitimate obligation to the public, some cops last week maintain that they are forced to...
Members of Jamaica’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community say there still exist no-go zones within the Corporate Area where their lives are openly threatened because of their sexual orientation and where the police are often...
Bullying is one of the most worrying challenges for schools in Jamaica, and more so at institutions that cater to disabled students. However, administrators at the Randolph Lopez School of Hope in Mona, St Andrew, believe they have found a solution...
News last week that a 14-day state of emergency (SOE) would be imposed in the parishes of Westmoreland, Hanover and St James has received the unqualified backing of a senior security consultant, who said ordinary citizens will have to give up more...
While members of the private security industry are clamouring for the Government’s outsourcing of non-operational police duties, the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) has warned that it will be clamping down on rogue security companies that...
Mid-level hotels are among unscrupulous customers that the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) says it will be going after as the power provider moves to drive down electricity theft through its smart meter initiative. Last year, 89 persons were...
There are growing calls for more stringent screening of police officers and other licensed firearm holders, as accessibility to guns continues to be listed as a major catalyst for incidents of murder-suicide locally. At the same time, entrepreneurs...
Wards of the Jamaica National Children’s Home yesterday received a donation of 10 bicycles, helmets and other safety equipment, but there are concerns that lack of access to the rear of Hope Botanic Gardens in St Andrew could put a spoke in the...
Jamaicans are fast falling out of love with marriage, as weddings have plunged almost 23 per cent in the nine years up to 2018. That means that almost 10,000 fewer people are getting married here. The massive drop in unions has been attributed by...
The Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has historically been burned by harsh criticisms from customers dissatisfied with the service offered by the utility company, but top-level executives last week said that things are slowly changing. “When we...
Unscrupulous persons continue to put commuters’ and residents’ lives at risk by disabling and stealing streetlamps on major thoroughfares. Yet more than a year after criminals strategically stole more than 30 street lamps in one night on Mandela...
Sleuths from the Counter Terrorism and Organised Crime Branch (C-TOC) and the Financial Investigations Division yesterday turned up at a premises on College Green Avenue, St Andrew, in search of information crucial to their probe of sacked senator...
Only two reports against members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) were made to the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) last year, but JDF commanders say several other soldiers were disciplined or fired following altercations with...
For decades, persons in the charcoal industry have been illegally cutting down trees in Jamaica’s forests to supply growing market demands. This, however, is not sitting well with environment authorities, who have warned that such persons are...
The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has embarked on an ambitious 20-year strategy that has as its ultimate goal a significant drawdown of troops who engage in joint security operations with the police and an expansion of the Service Corps programme to...
As crime figures climb, the security of licensed firearms in households has come under scrutiny as more than 600 persons have applied to the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) for gun permits since January 1. Of that number, 24 applications have...
Mothers and newborns often suffer from the absence of fathers in the first weeks after childbirth, a problem that could be remedied by the adoption of paternity leave in Jamaica. Child development expert, Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan, made the...
Jamaica’s adoption laws should be overhauled because they prejudicially disenfranchise men and overwhelmingly favour would-be moms, a senior official overseeing state adoptions has charged. Maxine Bagalue, adoption coordinator at the Child...
Nestled beside the intimidating Tower Street Adult Correctional facility and several volatile communities in central Kingston, St Michael’s Primary School has for years been stigmatised as a failing institution. In the last five years, however,...
