The procurement of 600 body cameras over the next two months is expected to bolster the police force’s evidence-gathering capacity and help challenge dubious claims of innocence from motorists ticketed for traffic violations.
Read more: More body cameras to help police in traffic management
Leaders of two major business lobbies have expressed optimism about the sharp decline in murders and other serious crimes in 2023 and hope maintenance of that trajectory will boost the economy.
Read more: Private sector bodies pleased with January reduction in murders
The driver of the garbage truck that overturned, killing Clan Carthy Primary School student Benjamin Bair four years ago, was sentenced to one year and seven months for manslaughter.
Alten Brooks was arrested and charged in 2019 after the seven-year-old boy was crushed to death on October 28 on the school grounds.
Reports are that about 4:30 pm, Benjamin was at school when the garbage truck that had been picking up trash hit a taxi and then overturned on the boy.
It was reported that at the time of the incident, the truck was left unmanned and that it slid down a slope.
The driver initially fled the scene.
JAMAICAN track and field icon Usain Bolt pumped US$6.5 million into the investment firm Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) between 2012 and 2017 but almost as soon as the money was deposited it was moved out without his knowledge.
Read more: Gone with the wind - Bolt's money merely passed through SSL
More questions have arisen about the quality of oversight state regulator, the Financial Services Commission (FSC), gave to the now-fraud-hit Stocks and Securities Limited (SSL) as a 2019 assessment revealed that a string of violations flagged more than two years earlier continued to dog the institution.
Read more: Clarke labelled derelict by Opposition over handling of FSC report