PM wants security forces to get tougher on criminals

PRIME Minister Dr Andrew Holness has urged the leadership of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) to intensify its efforts to go after criminal gangs and the people who support them.

Holness, who returned to the island on Saturday, was immediately briefed by Police Commissioner Dr Kevin Blake about the developments in the Five Miles area off the Sligoville main road in St Catherine which left five men — JCF members Corporal Trevoy Shaw, and Constable Devoney Rose; and civilians Errol Hussey, his son Malique Hussey, and nephew Javoun Cogle — dead, and a 10-year-old girl nursing a gunshot wound.

In his response Holness offered condolence to the families of the dead cops, the hope for the full recovery of the injured child, and expressed relief that other civilians who were in the house escaped unharmed.