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Members of a team from RWSL touring the Jacks Hill Primary Schoo. RWSL has adopted the school for its Labour Day 2014 Project and will be carrying out extensive work at the school plant on Labour Day.
Members of a team from RWSL touring the Jacks Hill Primary Schoo. RWSL has adopted the school for its Labour Day 2014 Project and will be carrying out extensive work at the school plant on Labour Day.

Water Supply Agency Takes on Jacks Hill Primary for Labour Day

Jacks Hill Primary school in rural St. Andrew has been adopted by the Rural Water Supply Limited (RWSL) as its 2014 Labour Day project. The school will benefit from significant improvement works to its plant on Friday, May 23. Managing...
Group Chief Human Resource Officer at GraceKennedy Limited, Dr. Cassida Jones presents, top awardee, Jaffet McDonald, formerly of Guys Hill High School with a plaque. Jaffet was one of the 22 students from non-traditional high schools across the island who were recognised for their outstanding academic achievement at the National Child Month Committee Youth Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held recently at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. Looking on (centre) is Director of Children and Family Programmes at the Child Development Agency, Audrey Budhi.
Group Chief Human Resource Officer at GraceKennedy Limited, Dr. Cassida Jones presents, top awardee, Jaffet McDonald, formerly of Guys Hill High School with a plaque. Jaffet was one of the 22 students from non-traditional high schools across the island who were recognised for their outstanding academic achievement at the National Child Month Committee Youth Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held recently at the Knutsford Court Hotel in Kingston. Looking on (centre) is Director of Children and Family Programmes at the Child Development Agency, Audrey Budhi.

Child Month Committee Awards High Achievers
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), is greeted by Chairman of Kingston Bookshop, Hon. Steadman Fuller, who is also Custos of Kingston. Occasion was a teachers’ luncheon and awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 6, at the Terra Nova Hotel, where Mrs. Gordon Harrison was the keynote speaker.
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), is greeted by Chairman of Kingston Bookshop, Hon. Steadman Fuller, who is also Custos of Kingston. Occasion was a teachers’ luncheon and awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 6, at the Terra Nova Hotel, where Mrs. Gordon Harrison was the keynote speaker.

Children’s Advocate Cautions Schools Against Protecting Sexual Predators
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), is greeted by Chairman of Kingston Bookshop, Hon. Steadman Fuller, who is also Custos of Kingston. Occasion was a teachers’ luncheon and awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 6, at the Terra Nova Hotel, where Mrs. Gordon Harrison was the keynote speaker.
Children’s Advocate, Diahann Gordon Harrison (left), is greeted by Chairman of Kingston Bookshop, Hon. Steadman Fuller, who is also Custos of Kingston. Occasion was a teachers’ luncheon and awards ceremony held on Tuesday, May 6, at the Terra Nova Hotel, where Mrs. Gordon Harrison was the keynote speaker.

Teachers Encouraged to Foster Positive Environment for Children
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott (right), converses with Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre), and Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, at the launch of Workers’ Week, and Labour Day, at Jamaica House, on Wednesday, May 7.
Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott (right), converses with Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre), and Minister of Labour and Social Security, Hon. Derrick Kellier, at the launch of Workers’ Week, and Labour Day, at Jamaica House, on Wednesday, May 7.

Jamaicans Urged to Beautify the Land This Labour Day

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Labour Day Focus on Portmore Climate Change Park

A beautification and upgrading exercise will begin at the Climate Change Park in Portmore on Labour Day, May 23. The park, situated in front of the Portmore Mall, has been selected as the National Labour Day Project. This year Labour Day is being celebrated under the theme, “Take a Stand…Beautify our Land”. Work at the park will involve the bushing...
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HUSH Symposium to Focus on Children with Disabilities

The Institute of Jamaica (IOJ) will host its fourth HUSH Children’s Symposium on Wednesday, May 14 at the Rex Nettleford Hall Auditorium at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. The symposium themed: ‘Disability, Equality and Accessibility’ will focus on: learning disabilities, mental health, visual impairment and deaf culture. The forum, which is an annual event, is part of...
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Ulster Spring Library To Be Repaired Labour Day

Residents of Ulster Spring and adjacent communities in Trelawny will soon have access to an improved library, following rehabilitation works at the facility this Labour Day. Falmouth’s Mayor, Councillor Garth Wilkinson told JIS News that approximately $100,000 has been allocated to carry out repairs at the library. The Mayor noted that the Ulster Spring Branch Library, which is the parish...
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Students Urged to Help Highlight and Preserve Culture

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says Jamaica should preserve its culture as this is one of the areas that can help to grow the economy. “We have to take advantage of our culture …we have to make a deliberate effort to make it a part of the economic growth, because we have a competitive advantage,” Ms. Hanna...
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Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)
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Jamaica Stands with the Families of Abducted Nigerian Girls

New York: Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, MP has expressed Jamaica’s concern over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria two weeks ago. Addressing the United Nations Thematic Debate on Culture and Sustainable Development in the Post-2015 Development Agenda on Monday, May 5, in New York, Minister Hanna called for the international community to...
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Youth and Culture, Minister Hon. Lisa Hanna (left), and Registrar, Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith (right), present Child Ambassadors appointed for 2013/14 during a ceremony at the Spanish Court Hotel, New Kingston.
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New Child Ambassadors to be Appointed

New Child Ambassadors will be appointed during May by the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), an agency of the Ministry of Youth and Culture. The engagement, which forms part of the OCR’s activities commemorating May as Child Month, will see the Ambassadors receiving their instruments of appointment on May 22. The ambassadorial designations entail one young person being selected...
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Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (left), presents a trophy to the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2013, Krystal Tomlinson, at the coronation ceremony, held last year at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, in Kingston.
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JCDC Festival Queen Competition Kicks Off Saturday

Plans are in high gear for the parish coronations of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Miss Festival Queen Competition, which is this year being held under the theme, ‘Jamaican Women…Shaping our Culture and our Nation.’ Winners in the 13 parish competitions, who are crowned Parish Queens will compete at the national show scheduled for Saturday, July 19 at the...
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