WESTERN BUREAU: Although the authorities have been making inroads in breaking the dominance of lottery scamming in western Jamaica, the illicit trade still has its tentacles firmly hooked in various sectors since it first emerged almost 20 years.
Last year, a few days before Christmas, our WhatsApp community notice board sent out an urgent message that read, “All residents of Oracabessa, Stewart Town and ALL the other areas, lock your vehicle and house doors. Reports are that six dangerous.
Tomorrow is next year and in a wink 2023 is gone, like a $100 bill in a wholesale. As we did a month ago, we can dust off and reuse our last year’s New Year’s resolution as if they were Christmas decorations. As usual, we say that we are going to.
Cops leaving the police force routinely flout a policy that requires them to return issued uniforms and equipment, and very often without any consequences, multiple ex-lawmen have disclosed. A recent incident involving criminals dressed as police.
A senior crime-fighter is among a number of Jamaicans who have had their SIM cards repossessed and reassigned by telecommunications providers. However, in his case, sensitive information from informants has now ended up in the hands of a stranger..