The plan by some units of the police to wear body cameras during operations is a good one. But Peter Bunting, the national security minister, must avoid the wont of Jamaican...
The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) notes the debate generated following the publication of its study titled 'Education and Crime: Evidence from Prison Inmates in Jamaica'.
It hardly requires a formal study, flawed or otherwise, to draw a correlation between inmates in Jamaican prisons and the schools most of them are likely to have attended.
THE EDITOR, Sir:Your editorial of Sunday, January 26, does an effective job of summarising all the salient points that came out of the police survey among a very significant number of prison inmates, which indicated their socio-economic backgrounds,...
This article is contributed by the Caribbean Leadership Re-Imagination Initiative at the University of the West Indies.The recently released data from the prison study has evoked a wide array of public responses and triggered a conversation...
These are the highly anticipated Local Domino Awards. Buckle up. These awards are intended to be humorous. If you've no sense of humour, or its condition precedent, sense, avert your eyes. What follows may shock or offend you...
THE EDITOR, Sir:With all the talk these days about the logistics hub and its potential to positively help the economy, there is a development in the United States that I believe also has the potential to help the local economy.At this year's North...
A lay magistrate is someone with limited judicial authority. A lay preacher is not an ordained minister but is a member of a church chosen to lead services...
I love Jamaica and desire to see its people reach their full potential, individually and nationally. Jamaica possesses all the resources to take our nation out of its current economic situation...
Owen Ellington's declared willingness to allow an investigation into allegations, reported by this newspaper, that death squad(s) operate within the police force is welcome. Indeed, for the police chief to have done otherwise would have been to invite...
THE EDITOR, Sir: I have followed with great interest the debate around foreign-language skills that unfolded in your newspaper last week.Let me start by saying how positive it is, in my view, that this important issue reaches the media.
Excerpts of a ministry paper, 'A preventative initiative in schools to ameliorate Jamaica's crime problem', presented by Minister of Education, Ronald Thwaites, in Parliament last week....
We are surprised at the defensiveness, hostility even, with which many in the education and political establishments have greeted the findings of a survey by the police that attempted to determine the social backgrounds of prison inmates, including their educational attainment and the schools they attended.
Rob Ford, the rogue mayor of Toronto, seems to be blighted. He definitely needs a bath of the St Thomas kind. His latest antic is getting caught on camera swearing in Jamaican.
Roger Clarke and the jolly band he leads at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries would do well to grasp this simple concept and ensure their brains are working properly before putting their mouths in gear.
Jamaica has to make choices between competing alternatives in similar manner as individuals are obliged to do in their daily lives. Failure to do the analysis, introspection or due diligence leads to the wrong road taken.
The buzz being created around the proposed $10-billion logistics hub is getting louder, and with it, hopes that thousands of unemployed Jamaicans will find work in a dynamic business environment where manufacturers, suppliers and distributors come together to conduct international trade.
This newspaper is encouraged by the tone and posture of ownership of Jamaica's economic policy that is increasingly being adopted by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in the face of pushback by critics, who, if allowed their way, would undermine ...
In many ways, there is a lot of similarity between football and netball in the country at the moment. For one, both sports are struggling to move to the next level...
THE EDITOR, Sir:We at Norman Manley High School were very disturbed, distraught, and disgruntled when we read your headline 'Prison schools' in The Gleaner of Wednesday, January 22, 2014.
Would you like to live in a country where senior police officers send out squads to kill citizens without due process? Well, if you live in Jamaica, maybe you already do...
Well over a decade ago, the matter of a shortage of psychiatrists in Jamaica's prisons and how this contributed to people being lost in the system was being hotly debated.The Government of the day, which happened to have been formed by the People's...
