The St Catherine South police were yesterday maintaining a presence in the Caymanas Bay area of St Catherine following the murder of two residents, one of whom was a student at Jose Marti High School.

Those killed are 52-year-old Ernest Jones and his neighbour, 15-year-old Tanesha Salmon. They were killed minutes apart.

Detective Inspector Leighton Blackstock of the St Catherine South Homicide Unit said the police were seeking any information that might assist in bringing the guilty to book.

"The police will be in the area for a while until normality is returned and the tension is lessened in the community," said Blackstock.

He said that, about 5:20 a.m. Sunday, residents of the community heard explosions and called the police.

Jones, who operated a shop in the area, was found with gunshot wounds.

Salmon, who appeared to have attempted to escape, was also shot dead by her attackers.

Investigators told The Gleaner that further checks were being conducted to determine the motive for the killings.

Police capture St James' most wanted

The St James police captured another of the parish's most wanted men early yesterday morning.

In police custody is 31-year-old Joseph McTee, aka 'Mack-10', of York Bush in the parish. He was captured by the police following a search at a house in Mt Carey, shortly before 6 o'clock in the morning.

According to the St James police, McTee has been linked to five murders within the Anchovy and Rose Heights police areas.

He has been on the list of most wanted men since 2006 and is the third fugitive to be captured in the parish over the last six days.

More aid for deportees

Approximately $225 million has been set aside in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure to fund a programme to rehabilitate and reintegrate local offenders and deported persons.

The programme aims to significantly improve the reintegration of nationals who have been deported from the United Kingdom after completing prison sentences back into Jamaican society.

It is also aimed at building the capacity of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS).

Physical targets for this fiscal year include designing and implementing a Change Management Programme for the DCS, improved supervision of offenders and greater use of community service orders.

The project will also seek to improve supervision of offenders and use of community service orders.

It also seeks to improve the DCS's custodial and non-custodial facilities for rehabilitation this year.

Started in November 2008, the project will run until March 2011 and is being financed by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.