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Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)
Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)

Hanna Directs CDA to Intensify Community Interventions

The Ministry of Youth and Culture is reporting that the Office of the Children’s Registry receives approximately two hundred and twenty reports of child abuse per week; 11, 440 per year. The parishes accounting for the majority of the abuses...
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, adds her contribution to a public mural set up at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s JCDC) visual arts exhibition, which opened on Sunday (March 15) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. The exhibition, which features award winning pieces from the JCDC’s 2014 Visual Arts Competition, will run until March 29.
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, adds her contribution to a public mural set up at the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission’s JCDC) visual arts exhibition, which opened on Sunday (March 15) at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. The exhibition, which features award winning pieces from the JCDC’s 2014 Visual Arts Competition, will run until March 29.

Next Generation of Artists: Step Forward – Hanna
Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)
Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)

Youth Minister Warns Child Abusers of Harsh Penalties
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (2nd left); Board Member of the Maxfield Park Children’s Home, Karol Fernandez (2nd right); and Manager of the home, Winston Bowen (right), examine an electric guitar, which was among several musical instruments donated to the facility by the Ministry in collaboration with the Culture Health Arts Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund. The items were officially handed over to the home, located on Maxfield Avenue in Kingston on Wednesday (March 10). Looking on is Manager of Public Relations and Administration at the CHASE Fund, Hilary Coulton.
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (2nd left); Board Member of the Maxfield Park Children’s Home, Karol Fernandez (2nd right); and Manager of the home, Winston Bowen (right), examine an electric guitar, which was among several musical instruments donated to the facility by the Ministry in collaboration with the Culture Health Arts Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund. The items were officially handed over to the home, located on Maxfield Avenue in Kingston on Wednesday (March 10). Looking on is Manager of Public Relations and Administration at the CHASE Fund, Hilary Coulton.

Government Provides Musical Instruments to Maxfield Park Children’s Home
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (at head table) and members of the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Children, discuss issues pertaining to corporal punishment at a meeting held on March 6 at the Youth Ministry’s head office, in Kingston.
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (at head table) and members of the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on Children, discuss issues pertaining to corporal punishment at a meeting held on March 6 at the Youth Ministry’s head office, in Kingston.

National Dialogue on Corporal Punishment

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Jamaican Representative of Embracing Orphans, Rev. Patrick Smith (right) and his wife, Kadeon Smith (left), playing with the children of Glenhope Nursery in the donated playground, today (March 5) at the nursery on Maxfield Avenue, in Kingston.
Culture

US$50,000 Playground Installed at Glenhope Nursery

The Glenhope Nursery in Kingston has received a playground valued at US$50,000 for the children of the State-run facility. Through the collaborative effort of the Child Development Agency (CDA) and the United States based volunteer organizations, Embracing Orphans and Kids Around the World as well as Food for the Poor, the playground was installed at the facility by the volunteers...
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Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)
Culture

Minister Hanna Condemns Brutal Attack on St Thomas Teen

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Honourable Lisa Hanna condemns the brutal slaying of 14 year-old Kayalicia Simpson, a student of the Donald Quarrie High School who was chopped to death this morning at her home in Newlands, St Thomas. The Youth Minister notes that attacks of such nature have no place in our society and is calling on...
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Young People With Disabilities Gain Job Skills

More than 20 young people from St. James, with mild intellectual disabilities, have benefitted from employment training at a three week non-residential camp organised by the National Youth Service (NYS). The camp, held at the St. John’s Methodist Church Hall in Montego Bay from February 2 to 23, represents the first phase of the NYS’ Empowerment Programme, which is being...
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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey, addresses an appreciation and handing over ceremony for outgoing, and incoming members of the Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP), held on Friday (February 20), at the Pollyanna Restaurant in Kingston.
Culture

New Children’s Advisory Panel Urged to Continue Advocacy

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey, has charged the new members of the Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP) to carry on the excellent work of their predecessors in advocating on behalf of the nation’s children. She issued the charge at a function held yesterday (Feb. 20) to welcome the new panel and express appreciation to...
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Culture

Ministry of Youth and Culture Pays Tribute to Dr. Clover Thompson Gordon

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Honourable Lisa Hanna is expressing sadness at the passing of former Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Dr. Clover Thompson Gordon, OD, JP. In a statement the Minister described Dr. Thompson Gordon as a master educator and an astute leader who contributed enormously to the socio-cultural development of the Jamaican...
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Culture

Deadline for Festival Song Competition Is February 27

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is reminding songwriters and performers to submit their entries for the 2015 Festival Song Competition by the deadline of Friday, February 27. Entry forms and guidelines are available on the JCDC website, www.jcdc.gov.jm; its head office at 3-5 Phoenix Avenue, Kingston 10; and all JCDC parish offices island-wide. “We encourage all the producers, singers,...
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