The Ministry of Youth will be introducing, for the first time, an industry specific skills Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development programme to engage 40 youth in animation, graphic design and videography training. “We have also built in exposure/internship opportunities into the programme to ensure that our young people will develop their technical expertise and be ready to start their...

The National Youth Service (NYS) will be introducing an Empowerment Programme, especially for youth with disabilities, at a cost of $15 million. Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, said the programme will target 100 young people with intellectual disabilities and assist them with personal and professional development skills. The Minister was speaking in the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, has announced a shift in the timing of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Festival of the Arts programme in schools. Ms. Hanna said the programme will be shifted from the last term of the school year, April to June, when students should be focusing on exams, to the first term, September...

Work is continuing on the revision of the National Youth Policy and development of the mechanisms to support its implementation. This was disclosed by Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, during her contribution to the 2014/15 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 20. “I am not pleased that we have taken this long for the...

The Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) is to open an Artiste Management Division this year. Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, said the Finance Ministry has approved the $14 million budget to fund the staff for the Division, whose terms of reference will be to identify markets for performers, while acting as the central database for all talent...

The Office of the Children’s Registry, OCR, is saddened at news confirming that twin brothers Brandon and Brayden Jones were found dead after being washed away in a gully in St. James yesterday. Reports from the media are that the boys were returning from school at the Green Pond Primary School yesterday afternoon when they fell into the North Gully...

Jacks Hill Primary and Infant School will be one of many institutions that are playing an integral role in the lead up to Labour Day 2014, by sensitising students about the positive environmental theme for the day, and the benefits of this focus. Principal of Jacks Hill Primary and Infant School, Beverly Jones, told JIS News that teachers have been...