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...

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...

Twenty year-old Oshane Nevers, a participant in the National Youth Service (NYS) Empowerment Programme, is proof that suffering from mild intellectual disability is not a hindrance to accomplishing one’s dreams and aspirations. Oshane, who is unable to read at the level of the average individual, and also has some difficulty in expressing himself clearly, took part in personal development training...

The Institute of Jamaica expresses its deepest regret at the passing of noted Jamaican born novelist, Anthony C. Winkler, who was presented with his Musgrave Gold medal for distinguished eminence in the field of Literature in 2014, ten years after he won the Musgrave Silver Medal in the said category. The Executive Director of the Institute, Anne Marie Bonner said...