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'Every Commissioner left office with that crime record'
POLICE COMMISSIONER Francis Forbes says he's not to be blamed for the record number of murders and the unacceptable crimes committed under his watch, as these trends have dogged past Commissioners over the past 30...
Poll finds Forbes wanting
GALLOPING CRIME statistics are now kicking against the seat of Police Commissioner Francis Forbes as some 72 per cent of Jamaicans want him booted, says a Gleaner Online poll. The poll which attracted votes from ...
When the 'stats' just don't add up
EVEN AS the police boast that major crimes outside of murder are trending downwards, the number of victims of such crimes turning up at local hospitals remain worrying. Statistics are never wrong, many people argue, but this seem to depend on who is...
Local training facilities are severely lacking
FIFTY-SIX years after Arthur Wint won Jamaica's first gold medal at the Olympic Games in London, England, sprinter Veronica Campbell made a golden run in the 200 metres in Athens, Greece. It was Jamaica's fourth individual gold medal at...
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