Illegal firearms(i) Enforce existing regulations that pertain to the use and storage of firearms and ammunition;(ii) Develop a regional database of firearms which is accessible by all regional law enforcement agencies;(iii) Increase the capacity of...

MIA MOTTLEY, Barbados' opposition leader, has called for transnational dialogue to be part of the Caribbean's strategy to fight crime and violence. "There must be a conversation that has to take place throughout the region and the conversation must take

WESTERN BUREAU: A Hanover woman was gunned down execution-style in a neighbour's kitchen where she ran for refuge yesterday morning.Police reports are that the incident happened about 6:30 a.m., while Julian Harvey, 29, was in her room. She was attacked

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC):Jamaica's Prime Minister Bruce Golding says he favours a "serious study" of the causes of crime in his country as well as Trinidad and Tobago, the two Caribbean Community (CARI-COM) states with the highest number of murders in

WESTERN BUREAU: Two policemen have become the latest victims of the Jamaica Constabulary Force's drive to rid the organisation of corruption.One of the policemen has already been arrested while the other has not been seen since the alleged incident....

A zonal strategy saved Jamaica from another islandwide power outage yesterday morning, as customers in sections of the Corporate Area were left without electricity for close to four hours, the energy minister said. Clive Mullings told The Gleaner yesterday that

JAMAICA has agreed to partner with other CARICOM nations in the development of a team of homicide investigators specially trained and equipped in high-tech crime management. The decision was taken at a forum of the region's security ministers at the

Noted food and nutrition consultant, Dr Heather Little-White, is calling on Government to implement a national food and nutrition policy to address the unsanitary manner in which meat is being prepared at slaughterhouses. "There needs to be a national food

OMAR REID, a 30-year-old labourer from Somerton district in Hanover, was charged on Saturday with the murder of British national Barbara Scott-Jones.Constabulary Communication Network spokesman Troy Anderson told The Gleaner that Reid was charged late...