High-tech cop squad - CARICOM police team to tackle regional crime
JAMAICA has agreed to partner with other CARICOM nations in the development of a team of homicide investigators specially trained and equipped in high-tech crime management. The decision was taken at a forum of the region's security ministers at the 13th special meeting of the Caribbean Community...
Zoning saves Jamaica from islandwide blackout - minister
A zonal strategy saved Jamaica from another islandwide power outage yesterday morning, as customers in sections of the Corporate Area were left without electricity for close to four hours, the energy minister said. Clive Mullings told The Gleaner yesterday that the outage...
Not 'Meating' Standards - Call for food safety policy in Jamaica - Unsanitary abattoirs put nation's health at risk, say experts
Noted food and nutrition consultant, Dr Heather Little-White, is calling on Government to implement a national food and nutrition policy to address the unsanitary manner in which meat is being prepared at slaughterhouses. "There needs to be a national food and nutrition policy...
Main suspect charged with murder of British woman
OMAR REID, a 30-year-old labourer from Somerton district in Hanover, was charged on Saturday with the murder of British national Barbara Scott-Jones.Constabulary Communication Network spokesman Troy Anderson told The Gleaner that Reid was charged late...
Hanover cop held for bribery
WESTERN BUREAU: Two policemen have become the latest victims of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's drive to rid the organisation of corruption.One of the policemen has already been arrested while the other has not been seen since the alleged incident....
Chase ends in brutal murder
WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman was gunned down execution-style in a neighbour's kitchen where she ran for refuge yesterday morning.Police reports are that the incident happened about 6:30 a.m., while Julian Harvey, 29, was in her room. She was attacked by four armed men...
Golding calls for study of Jamaica, T&T crime wave
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC):Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he favours a "serious study" of the causes of crime in his country as well as Trinidad and Tobago, the two Caribbean Community (CARI-COM) states with the highest number of murders in the region....
Mottley urges Caribbean to talk some more
MIA MOTTLEY, Barbados' opposition leader, has called for transnational dialogue to be part of the Caribbean's strategy to fight crime and violence. "There must be a conversation that has to take place throughout the region and the conversation must take place community by community...
CARICOM conference security decisions
Illegal firearms(i) Enforce existing regulations that pertain to the use and storage of firearms and ammunition;(ii) Develop a regional database of firearms which is accessible by all regional law enforcement agencies;(iii) Increase the capacity of...
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