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Ministry moves to clear case backlog
published: Thursday | June 12, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner
The Ministry of Justice will be accelerating planned strategies to reduce the case pile up in the criminal division of the Supreme Court, a statement issued Tuesday read.
Cabinet, at its recent sitting, gave approval to several wide-ranging proposals to clear the growing list of cases, including the provision of additional courtrooms and the appointment of additional court staff.
PM rallies Jamaica to combat crime
published: Thursday | June 12, 2008
Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
Jamaica Gleaner
Bartlett Cites Crime as Major Problem for Tourist Industry
MONTEGO BAY (JIS):
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett has said that crime is having an adverse effect on the nation's tourist industry.
"Crime, in my mind is the single most debilitating factor, the one area that is worrying to me beyond anything else, and I must tell you that the fuel crisis is not as worrying to me as crime. The turmoil in the aviation industry is not as worrying to me as crime," the Minister said.
PM Heads List of Speakers for Jamaican Diaspora Conference
KINGSTON (JIS):
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to head an impressive line-up of speakers with the keynote address at the 2008 Third Biennial Jamaican Diaspora Conference, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston from June 16-17.
Inmates Receive Counselling and Healthcare from Christian Light Foundation
KINGSTON (JIS):
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Not just another plan
MacMillan says gov't adamant it will implement review team recommendations
BY ERICA VIRTUE Sunday Observer writer virtuee@jamaicaobserver.com
Sunday, June 08, 2008
THE government, held to ransom by the recent upsurge in murders and criminal activities, is insisting that the recommendations put forward by the Herbert Thompson-led Strategic Review team will not go the way of similar reports.
Collusion of the corrupt - Economic forum highlights tax policy differences
published: Friday | June 6, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner
PM Calls on Church for Support to Get Back to Core Values
Monday, June 16, 2008
Jamaica Infromation Service
Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called on the church to help the country get back to its core values where there was an emphasis on the family, positive values and attitudes, and a sense of right and wrong.
He expressed concern that so much of the nation's conscience has been damaged and that the society has become so hard that there is a numbness among people in terms of how they live.
'We cannot retreat!'
PM, police hierarchy call for country to support police in fighting crime
BY COREY ROBINSON Observer staff reporter robinsonc@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, June 16, 2008
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding joined members of the police top brass yesterday in calling on members of the public to help the police to fight crime, and rid the country of the scourge that is taking the lives of those who have pledged to protect Jamaicans.
Crime a major worry for tourism officials
Posted: 2008-06-07, Written by: Mark Thompson
Sunday Herald
Montego Bay:
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett has identified Jamaica’s burgeoning crime problem as the single most debilitating factor assailing the nation’s tourism industry.
Scrap Metal Exports Suspended
KINGSTON(JIS):
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Karl Samuda, has signed a Ministerial Order prohibiting the export of scrap metal until further notice.
The Minister, in a statement to the House of Representatives yesterday (June 10), said that this action had become necessary as a result of "illegal activities that now pose a major threat to the economic development of the country and the disruption of essential services."
CF to Get Motor Vehicles
KINGSTON(JIS):
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Cabinet has approved the award of a $65.1 million contract to Toyota Jamaica Limited for the purchase of motor vehicles for the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).
The vehicles to be supplied include 34 double cab pick-ups and five, three-tonne troupe-carrying trucks.
Gov't. & Opposition Pleased with Vale Royal Talks
KINGSTON(JIS):
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Prime Minister Bruce Golding said the government had a good discussion with the Opposition during talks at Vale Royal today (June 11) and that much of the meeting centred on crime. Mr. Golding was speaking this afternoon following the talks which started shortly after 10:00 a.m. and ended at approximately 2:30 p.m.
Government & Opposition Committed to Strengthening crime Fighting Measures
KINGSTON(JIS):
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The issue of crime, particularly as it relates to the witness protection programme, was the main focus of today's Vale Royal talks between the Government and the Opposition.
Global food crisis could benefit local farmers, says Tufton
PATRICK FOSTER, Observer writer fosterp@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, June 12, 2008
MINISTER of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton says Jamaica's farmers, who have been positioned against their counterparts in other parts of the world because of liberalisation, could benefit from the global food crisis.
Police will take back areas controlled by criminals, vows prime minister
BALFORD HENRY, Observer writer balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
PRIME Minister Bruce Golding says communities where the security forces had lost control to criminal gangs will have to be retaken in the current anti-crime fight.
"There are communities where there are others who are in control, and the security forces are going to have to take back control, and demonstrate that they have that control," Golding told Parliament in a 'surprise contribution' to the current sectoral debate.
DIASPORA FOCUS - Golding vows to curb crime in politics
published: Tuesday | June 17, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner
DIASPORA FOCUS - Staunch flow of guns, says MacMillan
published: Tuesday | June 17, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner
Minister of National Security Colonel Trevor MacMillan has issued a call for members of the diaspora, particularly those residing in the United States, to lobby their governments to suppress the flow of guns from those borders into Jamaica.
A new kind of terrorism - Golding
published: Wednesday | June 18, 2008
Jamaica Gleaner Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
JAMAICA, scarred by more than 760 murders since the start of the year, may be facing "terrorism of a different kind," Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in Parliament yesterday.
Diaspora Members Encouraged to Give Practical Support
KINGSTON (JIS):
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Minister of National Security, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, has said that the Jamaican Diaspora has a very important role to play in the development of the country, and encouraged members to provide practical assistance.
