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Fourth Floor | When the DPP gets a black eye

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Public perception of how the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) is functioning can have a significant impact on crime and the level of public support for law-enforcement efforts.The recent collapse of certain high-profile cases may...

Fourth Floor | More cash needed for crime fight

Published:Tuesday | July 18, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Resources, specifically equipment, money and people, are desperately needed to bolster the country's efforts to bring crime under control and administer justice fairly and effectively.As Fourth Floor participants...

The Fourth Floor | When criminal cases collapse

Published:Thursday | July 13, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

No one alive in Jamaica in September 2012 will easily forget the national outrage that greeted the rape of an eight-year-old girl and four others in Irwin Point, St James. Neither will one quickly forget the collective sigh of relief when it was...

Fourth Floor | Police Investigators must do better - attorneys

Published:Tuesday | July 11, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

The investigative capability of the police force came under scrutiny at the most recent gathering of Fourth Floor minds who were asked to undertake an assessment ofthe effectiveness of criminal...

PMI celebrating successful crime interventions

Published:Monday | April 24, 2017 | 1:29 PMWyvolyn Gager

Duhaney Park, Mountain View Avenue, August Town - these Kingston communities have one thing in common. They are former conflict hot spots that have been touched by the Peace Management Initiative (PMI).Having laboured in these tough neighbourhoods,...

The truth will set us free

Published:Tuesday | April 25, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Lasting peace will continue to elude Jamaica until there is a truth and reconciliation process. That’s the firm belief of Professor Wendel Abel, head of psychiatry at the University of the West Indies...

''This is too much for me' - Crime-battered society sees many children, adults with post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders

Published:Monday | April 24, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

More than 1,000 persons die violently in Jamaica each year. Their lives are snuffed out in various circumstances, including robbery, child abuse, reprisals, gang warfare, domestic violence and police killings.Death of a loved one can be frightening...

Fourth Floor | 'Shotta' students - Gangs now recruiting members straight from classrooms

Published:Sunday | April 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Gangs are menacing neighbourhoods all across Jamaica.Some gangs have targeted high schools to recruit the next generation of killers. This was revealed to a Fourth Floor panel, assembled to look at violence and its effects on society, particularly...

Fourth Floor | High-school dropouts turning child killers - Gayle

Published:Sunday | April 23, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle has been studying child killers for the past 22 years. "I am probably the only person in the Western Hemisphere who has studied 200 of them," he declared to a stunned Fourth Floor panel."When you ask them about their...

Missing in action - Trade unions failing in mandate to provide political leaders, says Taylor

Published:Thursday | February 16, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Sociologist Dr Orville Taylor has accused the trade union movement of betraying its legacy in failing to provide the country with the next tier of political leaders.Jamaican trade unions have strong historical links with politics and consistently...

Where are the women? - Few female leaders in labour movement despite dominating workforce

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Women dominate the Jamaican workforce and trade union membership. However, when one examines the top-tier leadership of labour unions, women are grossly underrepresented.The dearth of female leaders in labour unions was highlighted recently when an...

Decertify them! - Labour boss calls for stiff penalties for non-compliant trade unions

Published:Tuesday | February 14, 2017 | 12:00 AMWyvolyn Gager

Labour unions that have enjoyed many decades of lax oversight are being called out by one of their own.Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) president, Senator Kavan Gayle, is suggesting that unions that fail to comply with accountability...

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