Gangs elude cops
HIGHLY MOBILE and well-organised criminal gangs are punching major holes in the Government's latest offensive on criminal activities in the country.
Killings plague MoBay
WESTERN BUREAU: THE POLITICAL and business leadership in St. James are not seeing eye-to-eye with the police on how to stem the growing crime wave which has left 54 persons dead in the parish since January.
Police grounded
TARDINESS ON the part of the Government in providing the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) with a $40 million grant to improve its mobility is having a negative impact on the Force.
Police give cash towards inner-city school repairs
POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes yesterday announced that the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) will be dedicating a portion of a $5 million grant from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund to repairing several basic schools...
Surge in crime angers Portmore Pines residents
FED UP with an escalating crime rate, including two recent rapes, residents of the Portmore Pines community in Greater Portmore, St. Catherine, yesterday voiced their disgust through protest action at the National Housing Trust's (NHT)...
Court fines Sean Paul
WESTERN BUREAU: INTERNATIONAL ARTISTE Sean Paul was yesterday fined $2,000 after he pleaded guilty in the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court to the charge of using profanity at the recently-concluded Reggae Sumfest at Catherine Hall, St. James.
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