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Director, Marketing and Public Relations, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Stephen Davidson. (FILE)

Focus on Storytelling March 20

Students of St. Anne’s Infant and RJR Basic schools in Kingston will have stories read to them on World Storytelling Day, being celebrated on Thursday, March 20. The two events, which will begin at 10:00 a.m., are part of activities...

United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) representative to Jamaica, Mark Connolly, (third left) speaks with members of the Child Development Agency’s (CDA) Children Advisory Panel during a courtesy call paid by the Panel on the UNICEF’s representative at his office in Knutsford Boulevard, Kingston, on Friday, March 14. Seated (from left) are: Secretary, Policy Planning and Evaluation, CDA, Jodian Givons; Children Officer, CDA, Tahecia Salmon; Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF, Janet Cupidon-Quallo; Director, Policy Planning and Evaluation, CDA, Newton Douglas; Suzecka Swaby, Glenmuir High School, MayPen, Clarendon; Kinshasia Johnson, Merl Grove High School, Kingston; Meca-Gaye Francis, Campion College, Kingston; Shemar Millwood, Jamaica College, Kingston; Rushay Ximines, Meadowbrook High School, Kingston and Campion College student and Chairperson of CAP, Charles Young.

Child Advisory Panel Makes Recommendations to Improve Lives of Wards of the State

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, addressing the Marketing Seminar organised by final year students at the University of Technology School of Business Administration on February 26.

Youth Urged to Choose Career Paths Wisely

Youth Minister says Traditional ‘Job for Life’ is Gone

The Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna, pays tribute to the late Bunny Rugs, lead singer for Third World.

Minister Hanna hails Bunny Rugs’ contribution to Jamaica’s rich and evolving culture

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Children’s Advocate Group Holds Discussions with UNICEF Representative

A wide range of issues, including children in state care and matters pertaining to young people were discussed on Friday (March 14) when members of the Children Advisory Panel (CAP) paid a courtesy call on the United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF) representative to Jamaica, Mark Connolly. CAP, a child participation programme of the Child Development Agency (CDA) was established in...

12 years ago Culture

Security at Granville to be Increased

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, has said that security at the Granville Place of Safety in Trelawny will be increased following the absconding and subsequent tragic death of one of the wards last week. The Minister made the announcement during her visit to the place of safety on Sunday. Minister Hanna in offering condolences and words...

12 years ago Culture

Bustamante’s Birthday to be Commemorated at Blenheim

Plans are in high gear to commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of National Hero, Right Excellent Sir Alexander Bustamante, to be held on February 24, at his birthplace in Blenheim, Hanover. In an interview with JIS News, Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Regional Manager, Natalie Morris, informed that a Planning Committee, comprising civic, political and other representatives in...

Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.

12 years ago Culture

OCR Taking Message to Primary and High Schools

Primary and high school students are learning about child abuse and the process of reporting cases, through a series of consultations organized by the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR). Six schools have so far participated in the initiative, dubbed ‘School Tours’, which is funded by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The schools are Askenish All Age, Rhodes Hall...

Attorney-at-law, Tania Chambers (left); Chairman, Advisory Board, Child Development Agency (CDA), Maxine Henry Wilson (centre), and Head of the Caribbean Coalition for the Abolition of Corporal Punishment of Children, Hazel Thompson-Ahye, of Trinidad and Tobago, consult on a document during a national consultation on proposed changes to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA) and the CCPA Children’s Home Regulations, held in New Kingston on February 11.

12 years ago Culture

Stakeholders Discuss Changes to CCPA

Depriving children of their liberty should be seen as a last resort in the court system, especially for first time offenders and those committing non-violent offences. This is among a slew of recommendations in a draft policy outlining changes to the Child Care and Protection Act (CCPA), on which consultations are being held islandwide, before they are finalized for presentation...

12 years ago Culture

Minister Hanna Pays Tribute to Stuart Hall

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, MP has hailed the cultural theorist, sociologist and public intellectual, Stuart Hall, who died on Monday, February 10, at the age of 82. Hall, who was born on February 3, 1932 in Jamaica, had been living and working in the United Kingdom since 1951 when he won a Rhodes scholarship. Reacting...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (4th left), seems delighted as British High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency David Fitton (left), hands over cheque for $4 million to Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey (right), to assist girls at the Homestead Place of Safety, in Stony Hill, St. Andrew, on February 10. Others (from second left) are: Manager at the facility, Sophia Walters, and President of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew, Marie Powell.

12 years ago Culture

Lifeline for Girls in State Care

The Homestead Place of Safety, in Stony Hill, St. Andrew, has received $4 million from the British High Commission to support skills training and a facility to cater for the girls after they reach 18 years of age. The donation was handed over to Acting Chief Executive Officer, Child Development Agency, Mrs. Rosalee Gage-Grey, by the British High Commissioner to...