Over 400 graduate from Police Academy
SOME $40 million will be made available next month to address the shortage of motor vehicles within the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). This according to National Security Minister Dr. Peter Phillips, who was speaking yesterday at the graduation...
Cop convicted for assault on spring breaker
WESTERN BUREAU: A police corporal who was accused of assaulting a female spring breaker in Negril earlier this month, was convicted and fined a total of $70,000 in the Savanna-la-Mar Resident Magistrate's court yesterday.
New communication trend in public sector
THE MINISTRY of Health is claiming to have broken new grounds in communication with the access of its Video Conferencing System introduced last December. Lincoln Walters, director of the System Information Technology Unit (SITU) in the Ministry...
One killed, three injured in St James
WESTERN BUREAU: A SHOOTING in the Green Pond area of St. James on Thursday night left one man dead and three other persons injured, including two teenagers.
Man gets 25 years for shooting soldier
THE COURT of Appeal has ordered that Horace 'Mark' Berth, 27, block machine operator of 147 Bay Farm Road, Kingston 11, must serve 25 years in prison for shooting and robbing a soldier of his firearm. Berth was charged jointly with Christopher Edwards...
Cops search Lester Bird's home
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, CMC: FORMER PRIME Minister Lester Bird said yesterday a search carried out on his home by a 13-member police squad was part of a "witch hunt" by the ruling United Progressive Party (UPP).
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