Over 60 students from Corporate Area high schools will benefit from a heritage project being undertaken by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s (JCDC) 2015 Festival Queen for Kingston and St. Andrew, Michelle Thomas. Dubbed ‘#TOURSBJCM,’ the project focuses on creating awareness and appreciation of Jamaica’s first World Heritage Site, the Blue and John Crow Mountains, through educational tours. The students,...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture has partnered with the St Thomas 150th Planning Committee to host the 150th Anniversary of the Morant Bay Uprising, this Sunday, October 11, 2015. Hundreds of residents from communities in St Thomas are expected to participate in the Paul Bogle and Martyrs March from Stony Gut, birth place of National Hero, the Right Excellent...

The Child Development Agency (CDA) has initiated discussions with several stakeholders in the child protection sector, to develop a system to deal with the issue of bullying in schools. Following a report released by the CDA in August of this year titled, ‘Investigating the Prevalence and Impact of Peer Abuse (Bullying)’, the agency has assembled a working group to design...

The Government of Japan is providing $57 million in grant funding to Jamaica for improvements at the Institute of Jamaica (IOJ), including the procurement of audiovisual equipment and upgrading of exhibitions. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, and her Japanese counterpart, His Excellency Mr. Shinzo Abe, signed the funding agreement on Wednesday (September 30) at Jamaica House following...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says no one will be allowed to put up any building in the Blue and John Crow Mountains, which has been designated Jamaica’s first World Heritage Site and the Caribbean’s first World Heritage Mixed (cultural and natural value) Site. Speaking at a JIS ‘Think Tank’ on September  29,  the Minister made it...

A public awareness campaign, aimed at explaining the significance of  world heritage sites and their protection,  has been launched by the Ministry of Youth and Culture. The campaign is part of activities to celebrate Heritage Month 2015 (October),  being celebrated under the theme: ‘Jamaican heritage: Impacting the World’. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service ‘Think Tank’,  held today (September 29)...

In 2011, Javan Blake, who lives in Montego Bay, St. James, and describes himself as an ‘unattached youth’ with little family support,  discovered that he was heading towards a life of crime. Desperate to prevent this from happening, Mr. Blake seized the opportunity to become part of the A Ganar Alliance, a programme led by the international support agency, Partners...