Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced a massive national firearm recovery reward programme as well as a five-day grace period for illegal weapons found on premises in the Mount Salem community, which was last Friday declared Jamaica's first zone of special operations (ZOSO).
"This is being done to encourage the citizens to work with the security forces and tell them where the guns are," said Holness, who toured Mount Salem before hosting a press conference at which he spoke on a range of ZOSO-related matters.
Of the moratorium, he said, "After the
