-A High Alert has been activated for 11-year-old Dwayne Patterson, of Cluney Road, White Hall District, Seaforth, St. Thomas who has been missing since Sunday, April 04. He is of dark complexion, slim build and about 139 centimetres (4 feet 7 inches) tall. Reports from the Seaforth Police are that about 8:00p.m., Dwayne left home informing his grandfather that he...

A High Alert has been activated for seven-year-old Shavaughn Ebanks otherwise called ‘Titi man’ of Reid’s Mountain, Spanish Town in St. Catherine who has been missing since Monday, January 25. He is of brown complexion, slim build and about 91 centimetres (3 feet) tall. Reports from the Spanish Town Police are that Shavaughn was last seen at home sometime after...

Starting Monday (May 1) Ananda Alerts will be delivered to Facebook users in Jamaica. This is under a partnership between the Ananda Alert Secretariat in the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) and the online social media and social networking service for the recovery of the island’s missing children. Ananda Alerts will be delivered to Facebook users’ newsfeeds in targeted...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information will be partnering with social media giant, Facebook, to broadcast Ananda Alerts. In his contribution to the 2017/18 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on April 5, State Minister in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green noted that a Facebook team will be visiting Jamaica in May for the official launch of the partnership....

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) says there has been a four per cent decline in the number of children reported missing for January to July 2015, compared with the similar period in 2014. This is based on preliminary statistics from the Missing Person Monitoring Unit (MPMU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, which indicate that there were 1,224 missing...

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) and Westmoreland-based cable provider, Cabletron Network Systems Limited, today (April 30) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the airing of Ananda Alerts on the local cable channel. The signing, which took place at the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD) in Savanna-la-Mar, represents the first such partnership between the OCR and a...

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) is reporting a drop in the number of children reported missing in 2014. Registrar of the OCR, Greig Smith, tells JIS News that there has been a 10 per cent decline in the number of children reported missing for the period January to December 2014 when compared to the corresponding period in 2013....