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Jamaica's crime plan monitoring group is welcoming the achievement of key targets such as the upgrade of police stations while insisting that more work is needed to deal with at-risk youth and parents.
While arrangements governing the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) are still being reviewed and a new agreement not yet reached, Jamaicans at the start of 2024 have been left to absorb murder statistics of 1,393 people killed last year....
Chairman of the Crime Monitoring Oversight Committee (CMOC) Lloyd Distant says consensus is lacking on several issues, including legislation and accountability, that may be hindering any significant reduction in lawlessness in Jamaica. Distant’s...
Consumer and business confidence indices inched up marginally in the third quarter of 2023 but crime continues to weigh on the growth of the indices. Consumer and business confidence hit 161.1 points and 144.7 points, respectively. Both indices...
You knew I’d soon be returning to my pet peeve namely the national sham(e) called Constitutional Reform. The seed for this farce was planted in 2021 as Jamaica was politically embarrassed when Barbados booted the English Monarch and established...