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The lives of boys of the Goodwin Park Hostel, in Kingston, are expected to be enriched through their participation in income generating projects, facilitated by the European Union (EU). This forms part of an overall $7.89 million rehabilitation project being implemented under the EU’s Poverty Reduction Programme II (PRP II), by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The project will...

Two childcare facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy last year will benefit from approximately $9.9 million in donations from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF). Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance and Planning, Devon Rowe, and Chief Executive Officer of the CCRIF, Isaac Anthony, signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the disbursement of the funds, on Friday, April 12,...

The Government has allocated some $105.6 million more in grants to private children’s homes, and $47 million more in grants to both Government and privately operated places of safety for children. This was disclosed by Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, as she addressed the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives on April 10. She also...

Students who took part in the John Rollins Success Primary School Reading Marathon 2013, on April 10, were commended for their performances by wife of the Governor-General, Her Excellency the Most Hon. Lady Allen. She said they have given her hope that Jamaica “is going to be the place to live, work, raise our families and do business.” Lady Allen...

Motivated by Christ’s famous miracle, in which he used five loaves and two fish to feed 5,000 people, 18-year old Jordan Bennett is aiming to feed a similar number of homeless Jamaicans. In carrying out the ambitious mission, he has started a non-profit organisation called: ‘Feeding of the 5000’ with the tagline ‘Young Jamaicans helping Jamaicans’. Already, some 1,500 people...

The National Youth Service (NYS) will be implementing new strategies and programmes in the 2013/2014 financial year, to effectively meet the needs of the targeted cohort. Speaking at the launch of the NYS Summer Programme, in Kingston, on Wednesday, April 3, Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, said greater emphasis will be placed on the promotion of social...

Some 3,750 spaces are available for secondary and tertiary students between 17 and 24 years of age to participate in the National Youth Service (NYS) Summer Programme 2013. The programme was officially launched by Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, at a press briefing on Wednesday, April 3, at the NYS offices on Collins Green Avenue, in Kingston....

Peace Corps Jamaica held a ‘Language and Cross Culture Day’ recently at the Colin Powell Plaza in Manor Park for its most recent group of trainees who arrived in the island earlier this month.Training Director at the Peace Corps, Sandra Anderson McClymont, told JIS News how the idea of a Cross Culture Day came about. “We came up with the...

This year’s successful stagings of the Prime Minister’s Youth Awards for Excellence and Jamaican Youth in Concert event are being attributed to the hard, collaboration and dedication of the hundreds of talented young people, and other stakeholders, who were involved. Producer of the Awards, Gregory Simms, says he is satisfied with the opportunity afforded him to work with a number...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the young Jamaicans selected for the Prime Minister’s Youth Awards represent the best of Jamaica. “What you are witnessing is the excellence of the next generation that will herald a new time for courage, passion, resilience and fortitude for Jamaica to remain the best cultural capital and country in the world,”...

The Office of the Children’s Advocate (OCA) has submitted a report to the Houses of Parliament outlining a list of recommendations on how to care for children, who are deemed “uncontrollable”. The report entitled: ‘Focusing on the Uncontrollable Child: Recommendations to the Houses of Parliament’, was tabled in the Senate on Friday, March 15. In its foreword, Children’s Advocate, Diahann...

A cheque valued at $407,000 was handed over to the Child Development Agency (CDA) on Tuesday, March 12, to assist with ongoing repair work being carried out at the Muirton Boys’ Home, in Portland. The money, which was collected at this year’s staging of the National Leadership Prayer Breakfast, was handed over by the Prayer Breakfast Committee, in partnership with...