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Jamaican senior citizens age 75 years and older received their first monthly payout of $3,400 under the new Social Pension Programme on July 22. Some $800 million has been allocated in this fiscal year to implement the programme, which targets...
Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced a Zone of Special Operation (ZOSO) in Greenwich Town, St Andrew.
In making the announcement a short while ago, Holness said the move is to improve safety and security in the area, which he noted is facing increasing gang-related violence.
Holness said despite a reduction in other crimes, the area is still plagued by murders and shootings.
Meanwhile, Police Commissioner Major General Antony Anderson disclosed that for the first six months of the year, there were seven murders in Greenwich Town including two double murders.
He said in Denham Town, for example, there have been a 30 per cent reduction in murders and a 60 per cent reduction in shootings.
A showdown also looms between Jamaica’s Office of the National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons and the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, which claims the former did not consult it on a report which paints a negative picture of a programme depended on by thousands of families.
The human-trafficking threat facing the approximately 16,000 Jamaicans who go overseas for between six and eight months per year on Government-sponsored programmes with the North American states was flagged as an “emerging challenge” in the April report by Diahann Gordon Harrison, the national rapporteur on trafficking in persons.
“It is imperative that the Government of Jamaica takes effective steps towards eliminating the barriers that contribute to injuries, death and the overall vulnerability of Jamaican farm workers to exploitation and human trafficking,” Harrison wrote in the report which covered April 2018 to March 2020.
The threat to Jamaican workers was reinforced in a 2018 report by Polaris Project, a US non-profit which manages that country’s human trafficking hotline.
It ranked Jamaica fifth among the top 10 nationalities identified as victims of human trafficking on the guest worker programme in the US.
The National Housing Trust’s (NHT) insistence on getting $5 billion it claims private security firms owe for their workers is being viewed as an existential threat to the multibillion-dollar industry. Granting security guards long-demanded benefits...
Residents of Harbour Heights in east Kingston are collectively breathing a sigh of relief that the torrential rains which battered the island for weeks, leaving in its wake a trail of disaster, have abated. They are demanding urgent attention to...
Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year sentence.
Nearly forty percent of those incarcerated in federal prisons are African American, many serving very long sentences for drug-related crimes.
But Manafort, citing “fear of coronavirus,” ended up serving less than a quarter of his sentence.
Manafort had a lot less to fear, at his minimum-security prison, than a Black inmate might.
Other countries have reacted to coronavirus crowding by releasing inmates in the tens of thousands.
Tracy Morgan surprised residents when he appeared at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new community center in Brooklyn. The event made the legendary comedian feel nostalgic about his own humble beginnings when he resided in the area as a child.
The topic of voting and politics can be divisive and, in some cases, incendiary.
In 2016, a study was published in the medical journal Pediatrics, which found that Black kids 5 to 12 years old were two times more likely to die by suicide compared to white youth in the same age group.
In the study that I mentioned, the researchers found that white and Black children who died by suicide had several things in common.
These young children who died by suicide were far more likely to be Black than white children.
However, it is in line with recent data finding a definite rise in the number of suicides in black children and a drop in white children.
Black children younger than 13 were twice as likely to die by suicide than white children.”
Prime Minister Andrew Holness paid the ultimate tribute to former minister and member of parliament (MP) for St Ann North East, Shahine Robinson, on Thursday by naming the new Ministry of Labour and Social Security (MLSS) parish office in St Ann’s...
