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Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the Government is willing to partner with private sector interests and stakeholders in youth development on programmes and initiatives aimed at the economic empowerment of young people. She issued the invitation while addressing the second Social Development Commission (SDC) Parish/Town Hall Meeting in May Pen, Clarendon, on Wednesday (October  31). At the...

Youth Month activities for this year are focused on empowerment as a tool for development of the nation's youth. The activities, which are being co-ordinated by the Youth and Culture Ministry through its various agencies as well as private sector entities, are recognised as part of Jamaica 50 celebrations and will seek to promote the participation of young people as...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna is encouraging children to report cases of abuse and neglect, reminding that neglect is also classified as a form of child abuse. "If you have a parent or guardian who is neglecting you, they can be reported because at this stage of your life, your physical and emotional well-being is important and...

Hundreds of young people are to be trained and provided with job opportunities over the next four months, Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna has announced. Like Our Facebook Page "We have trained and will continue to train over 800 people and place them in job opportunities over the course of the next three to four months," Miss Hanna...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, is reminding Jamaicans that abuse is not limited to sexual exploitation, noting that neglect by a parent or guardian is also considered as abuse. She was speaking on Friday at the annual Youth Forum at the St. Andrew Parish Church Hall, where she continued to urge young people to report all cases...

It was a day of celebration and learning at the Our Lady of the Angels Preparatory School in St. Andrew on Friday, as the institution hosted its United Nations (UN)/Jamaica Day celebrations. The Molynes Road School was alive with excitement and energy, as the students and teachers showcased aspects of Jamaica’s cultural legacy, as well as the history and functions...

Students of the Half-Way-Tree Primary School, in Kingston, brought the curtains down on the Heritage Month outreach activities of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) on Monday, October 29, when they, along with their visitors from the Ocklynge Junior School in England, toured the agency. The students, who were also presented with heritage packages produced by the agency, were among hundreds...

The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) will be facilitating a month long training programme for participants from 20 Caribbean countries on how to safeguard their Underwater Cultural Heritage from new and emerging threats. The programme, sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), will start on Monday, November 5, in Port Royal, Jamaica’s best known underwater archaeological...

Scores of students are expected to participate in the annual Youth Forum, scheduled for Friday (November 2) at the St. Andrew Parish Church Hall, 16 Ellesmere Road.                 The event, organised by the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), will get underway at 9:00 a.m. To be held under theme: ‘Jamaica 50: Let’s Celebrate Our Children,’ the forum will include presentations from...

A benefit concert to raise funds for the rehabilitation of the Ward Theatre is slated for the Institute of Jamaica, East Street, downtown Kingston, on Sunday, November 18, beginning at 11:15 a.m. The concert, which forms part of a broader fund raising effort for the historic land, situated at North Parade, downtown Kingston, is being organised by the Ward Theatre...

LONDON — Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has credited Bob Marley's song 'Three Little Birds' for helping him to cope with the pressures surrounding the staging of the London Olympics. The Mayor was speaking at a reception he hosted on Monday (October 29) at City Hall to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. In the...

Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Verene Shepherd, has endorsed a new book on the Accompong Maroons, in St. Elizabeth, describing it as a correction of historical myths. Speaking at the Maroon Resource Centre, in St. Elizabeth, at the book’s launch, ‘My Father Said’, an account of the...