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Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (right), (from left): Acting Chief Executive Officer, Child Development Agency, Rosalee Gage-Grey; and Children’s Adviser in the Ministry, Sadie Keating. FILE

Minister Hanna Co-hosting International Strategy Meeting on Protecting Children from Violence

Delegates from across the world will be meeting in Jamaica next week to develop strategies to eliminate violence against children. The two-day United Nations Cross-Regional meeting, which begins on Monday (30 June 2014), is being jointly hosted by the Minister...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (right) and Chief Executive Officer of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Mrs. Rosalee Gage-Grey address journalists at a recent press conference. (FILE)

CDA Report says Children’s Homes had No Authority to Allow JFJ’s Sexual Education Programme

Registrar of the Office of the Children’s Registry, Greig Smith addressing a recent JIS Think Tank.

OCR Congratulates GSAT Awardees

The group, ‘Servants’ with lead singer, Rohan Walcott, (left) at the recent launch of the Jamaica Gospel Song Competition 2014 held at the Webster Memorial United Church in Kingston.

Gospel Singers Battling for JCDC Top Prize

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (right), addresses journalists during a press briefing held at her New Kingston offices on Wednesday, January 15. Also pictured (from left) are: Acting Chief Executive Officer, Child Development Agency, Rosalee Gage-Grey; and Children’s Adviser in the Ministry, Sadie Keating. (FILE)

Minister Hanna Refers JFJ Manual to Attorney General and Children’s Advocate

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Jamaican Reps Consider World Heritage Inscriptions

For the first time, Jamaica is among the nations that are deliberating over nominations to Unesco’s World Heritage List. This week in Qatar, the 38th session of the World Heritage Committee will meet to consider the inscription of 40 sites to the World Heritage List. Among the delegates are Dr. Janice Lindsay, Director for the Centre of the Arts at...

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

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Minister Hanna requests report from CDA

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, has demanded explanations from the Child Development Agency (CDA) in light of reports surrounding the unauthorised sexual education programme being implemented by Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) in six privately-operated children’s homes. The CDA, which has responsibility for the regulation of children’s homes and places of safety, reported last week that...

Ralisa Dawkins (right) accepts her award from Marketing Manager, Continental Baking Company, Mrs. Ann-Marie Walter-Allen, at the National Child Month Committee’s inaugural National Academic Achievement Award ceremony held at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston.

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Non-Traditional High School Students Beating the Odds

The 24 recipients of the National Child Month Committee’s (NCMC) inaugural National Academic Achievement Award, say they are happy to have helped paved the way to hopefully dispel the negative notion that non-traditional high schools are for under achievers. The students are the proof of the falsehood of this sentiment, as they all attended non-traditional high schools, and have done...

Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Delroy Gordon (right), admires the cover of the 2014 Jamaica Gospel Song Competition album, after it was unveiled at a Press Launch on June 11, at the Webster Memorial United Church, on Half Way Tree Road, Kingston 10. The ceremony was also held to introduce the top 10 finalists of this year’s competition, under the theme, ‘Moving Forward’. Others (from left) are: Chief Executive Officer, Almond Productions Limited, Jon Williams and Programmes Management Director, JCDC, Dorrett Thaxter.

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JCDC Launches 10-Track Gospel Album

A 10-track gospel album, containing songs by the finalists of the Jamaica Gospel Song Competition 2014, was launched on Wednesday, June 11, at the Webster Memorial United Church, 53 Half Way Tree Road, Kingston 10. The 10 finalists, including a four-member group, were also revealed. They are Adrian Dell, Anishca Sinclair, Orville Sutherland, Stacy Ann Brooks-Kristos, Travis Gordon, Aneisha Walker,...

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CDA to Get Child Case Management System

A three-year contract valued at $53 million has been awarded to TP Systems Ltd. for the provision of a Child Case Management System (CCMS) for the Child Development Agency (CDA). The software is being introduced to allow the CDA to better manage data pertaining to children and families who interface with, or come into the child protection system. Details of...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre, back row); Children’s Registrar, Greig Smith (right, back row); and LIME’s Corporate Communications Manager, Elon Parkinson (left, back row), with the new Child Ambassadors, during an awards ceremony at the Spanish Court Hotel in Kingston on June 10. The new Ambassadors are to assist the Office of the Children’s Registry to raise awareness of issues relating to child abuse and missing children.

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OCR to Launch ‘Pon the Corner Reasoning’

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) will, this summer, launch a new project to reach parents, called ‘Pon the Corner Reasoning’. “The OCR team will go into communities, identified from data we collect, to have street corner reasoning sessions with our parents, with a view to change the way we treat our children during the summer and in preparation...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre, seated); Children’s Registrar, Greig Smith (left); and Acting Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Karen Barton (right), sign Memorandum of Understanding between the Office of the Children’s Registry and the JLS for the installation of six computers and printers in libraries across select parishes to print and disseminate information regarding missing children, on June 10 at the Spanish Court Hotel, Kingston. Looking on (back row, from left) are: are United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative to Jamaica, Mark Connolly; Executive Director, National Parenting Support Commission, Patrece Charles Freeman; and Chief Executive Officer, Child Development Agency, Rosalee Gage Grey.

12 years ago Culture

OCR and JLS Sign Missing Children MoU

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) and the Jamaica Library Service (JLS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), that will see them cooperating in the dissemination of information on missing children. Children’s Registrar, Greig Smith, says the MoU will facilitate the installation of six computers and printers in libraries across select parishes for the printing of information regarding...