Public Safety and Justice Centre launched
AS JAMAICA grapples with a high level of violent crimes, a Centre for Studies in Public Safety and Justice was launched last Thursday at the University of the West Indies (UWI), "to conduct ongoing research on crime, security and peace issues...
Bloody rampage - Nine shot, two killed in Spanish Town
A CURFEW was imposed last night in the Spanish Town community of Ellerslie Pen in the aftermath of the shooting of nine persons, two fatally, in a brazen attack by a group of gunmen, reportedly, dressed like the police on Sunday morning.
We have enough doctors, says Health Ministry
GRACE ALLEN-YOUNG, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Health (MoH), has denied there is a shortage of doctors in the public health system, as alleged by Generation 2000 (G2K), a group of young professionals affiliated to the Jamaica...
A legend speaks his mind Part 2 - Two Jamaicas at odds
THE ONLY test in their six years of primary education was the Common Entrance (now GSAT exam) at Grade 6, age 11 to enter the secondary system. That has now changed.
Phillips, Thomas off to Britain
DR. PETER Phillips, minister of national security yesterday, left the island for the United Kingdom with a 10-man delegation, including new Commissioner of Police, Lucius Thomas, to meet with Scotland Yard. Donovan Nelson, communications adviser to...
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