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Trinidad: Complaints Authority Urges Quicker Probes of Fatal Police Shootings
Above: Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff There must be a quicker response time with respect to investigations of fatal police shootings, according to Gillian Lucky, director of Trinidad’s Police Complaints Authority. Both Lucky and Acting Commissioner of […]
Jurists from Jamaica, Trinidad to Probe Shootings in Guyana’s Linden
Above: Jamaican attorney KD Knight By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana has named a list of three international members of a commission of inquiry that will investigate the shootings of three people in the area of Linden in July, according […]
Jamaica Adopting New Procedures in Bid to Decrease Shootings by Police
Above: Police Commissioner Owen Ellington (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said the police would be adopting several new strategies involving the use of force by police during operations. The police are looking to reduce […]
Jamaica Reports Drop in Major Crimes
Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Major crimes are down in Jamaica by double figures, according to National Security Minister Peter Bunting. The Minister reported this week that the country is seeing major drops in a number […]
Major Crimes Drop in Jamaica
Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The number of serious and violent crimes in Jamaica fell by 11 percent in the first six months of 2013, according to data released by the government. The murder rate was […]
Murders in Jamaica Reach Nine-Year Low, Remain “Unacceptably High”
Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Murders in Jamaica reached a nine-year low in 2012 as part of a “significant reduction” in criminal activity, according to Jamaica National Security Minister Peter Bunting. But the 1,087 murders in […]
US Virgin Islands Police Arrest Three Suspects in Shooting of St Croix Chief
By the Caribbean Journal staff Police in St Croix have arrested three persons in connection with the shooting of St Croix Police Chief Christopher Howell and Police Officer Elsworth Jones. Detectives of the Virgin Islands’ Criminal Investigation Bureau have arrested […]
United Kingdom to Contribute Funding for Citizen Security in Jamaica
By the Caribbean Journal staff A citizen security programme aimed at reducing crime and violence in Jamaica’s high-risk cities will receive a $11.2 million from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. Jamaica, which has the highest homicide rate in […]
Op-Ed: The Death Penalty in Jamaica
By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Jamaica currently has one of the highest murder rates in the world. More people are killed proportionally in Jamaica monthly than are recorded killed in Afghanistan and Iraq in the same period. The country remains […]
Murder Rate Falls in Jamaica: Report
Above, from left: Assistant Commissioner of Police Elan Powell and Commissioner Owen Ellington during a press conference held at the Police Officers’ Club in Kingston Wednesday (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The number of murders in Jamaica fell […]
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