Civic and parish leaders in St. James paid homage to National Hero, The Right Excellent Samuel Sharpe, with a floral tribute at Sam Sharpe Square, in Montego Bay, today (May 23). The event commemorated the 189th anniversary of the death of the National Hero, who was hanged in the town square for his part in the 1831/32 Christmas slave rebellion,...

Kingston’s Mayor, Senator Councillor Delroy Williams (right), and Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC) Youth Councillor Representative for the Springfield Division, Reajean Bennett, lay a wreath at the Secret Gardens Monument in downtown Kingston, during a ceremony on Sunday (May 2) in memory of the nation’s children who have died under violent/tragic circumstances. The ceremony formed part of the...

Head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Charmaine Shand, is calling on parents and guardians to be more vigilant in monitoring their children’s use of the online space in order to prevent them from falling victim to predators. SSP Shand, who was addressing the virtual launch of the...

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has launched its Community Renewal Index (CRI 2020), which aims to improve access to empirical data to inform decision-making for community development. The Index is an initiative under the entity’s Community Renewal Programme, which benefits from capacity development support from the European Union (EU). Speaking at the launch on Tuesday (March 30), during the...

Patients at the Bellevue Hospital in Kingston are to benefit from an initiative by the institution to further improve their mental well-being, through a reading project on every ward. “You know how hospitals are and you have some patients who are here for a long period of time. I think something like this could benefit them to keep their minds...

Reporter, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Ainsworth Morris (left), observes as Medical Social Worker, Patricia Wilson (second left); Chief Executive Officer, Bellevue Hospital, Marcia Mullings-Thompson (third left), and Medical Social Worker, Annette Francis, display the cultural items that are produced by the JIS, and donated to the hospital for their new Book Corner Project. The items were handed over at the...

Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney, has praised community groups for playing an integral role in generating the achievements recorded under the Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) islandwide. Mr. Sweeney, who also serves as deputy chairman of the ZOSO social intervention committee, told JIS News that dormant community groups that were reactivated and those that...