'Target senior corrupt cops' - Opposition spokesman wants strong action to fight corruption in JCF
Derrick Smith, Opposition Spokesman on National Security, responding to startling revelations of corrupt deeds practised by a member of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) who confessed in an article published in The Sunday Gleaner...
Rights groups rap police abuse
Human rights lobbyists are again chiding the police for their brutal use of force against civilians. According to lobby group, Jamaicans For Justice (JFJ), up to November 30, some 207 people had been killed...
Lawyer offers to represent Lyn suspects
Two men held in connection with the disappearance of elderly Mandeville couple, Richard and Julia Lyn, are to be approached by a Mandeville attorney today. The men, Lennox Swaby and Kevin Powell, who were held by the police...
Reactions to corrupt cop's confession
On Christmas Eve, The Sunday Gleaner published the true, mind-boggling
and stomach-churning confession of a rogue cop attached to the Jamaica Constabulary Force. His shocking, real descriptions of the level of corruption...
Children in custody
crowd holding centres
A 74 per cent increase in the number of children in custody for serious crimes has forced the Department of Correctional Services to house some of these juveniles at the Horizon Remand Centre in Kingston and the Fort Augusta Correctional Centre...
'Sav' fire consumes $25m in property
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland: Fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed Liu's Super Service and Wholesale along Great George Street in Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, leaving the owners to count over $25 million in losses.
Gunmen claim two at Christmas party
SPANISH TOWN, St. Catherine: While hundreds of Jamaicans were celebrating Christmas at various social events and planned parties islandwide on Monday, it was a bloody affair for residents of Gordon Pen in Spanish Town, St. Catherine.
'Hasten Lucea housing project'
LUCEA, Hanover: Civic leaders in Hanover are urging the National Housing Trust (NHT) to fast-track the proposed 2000-unit housing scheme to be built at Point Estate in Lucea. According to Theo Chambers, chairman of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce...
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