CHEF de Cabinet for the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Secretariat Dr Tres Ann Kremer has emphasised the need for, and importance of, the Office of the Political Ombudsman (OPO), pointing out that .
More than 20 restorative justice officers have taken part in capacity-building workshops on handling complex and sensitive cases under a programme supporting Jamaica’s efforts to strengthen its criminal justice system.
The first person to feel the fangs of the Corrections (Amendment) Act, 2021 is a 37-year-old inmate at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre.
The prisoner, a labourer of Salt Spring, Green Island.
University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor, Anthony Harriott, is indicating that studies have shown that Jamaicans’ hypersensitivity to insults is one of the main factors that are helping to drive Jamaica’s spiralling crime rate.
According