Jamaica’s generally low incarceration rate is in part responsible, for the country’s high murder rate, according to lead researcher at the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), Dian Thorburn.

Sepulvado was sentenced to die for the 1992 murder of his 6-year-old stepson, Wesley Allen Mercer, whom authorities said was ...

These verdicts have come in a social climate where, according to recent surveys by various NGOs, a woman and a child is raped every two hours – while the rate of conviction for sexual crimes stands at ...