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A total of $410.9 million has been allocated to the Youth Development Programme in the 2012/13 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The programme, which falls under the Ministry of Youth and Culture, seeks to facilitate the transition of unattached youth to adulthood and the world of work through training, on the job experience, information dissemination, labour...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the government has demonstrated its commitment to the nation’s children, increasing the allocation for children’s services in the 2012/2013 budget. The amount, she said, is a “major amendment in the re-current expenditure and certainly the allotted sum." Miss Hanna was speaking on May 14 at the opening ceremony of the Sub-regional...

Mayor of Portmore, George Lee has indicated that a special effort will be made to develop Legacy items and historical monuments in the Municipality as part of the activities to mark Jamaica’s golden jubilee. Speaking with JIS News Mayor Lee said a special Jamaica 50 commemoration committee had been established for Portmore, headed by President of Portmore Community College, Karen...

Some 83 unattached youths have completed a year-long vocational skills training programme under the Citizen Security and Justice Programme II (CSJPII), in collaboration with the HEART Trust/NTA. The participants, who were trained from February 2011 to February 2012, now have Level Three certification in the areas of food preparation, AC refrigeration, welding and electrical installation/maintenance. A graduation exercise was held...

Residents of communities surrounding National Heroes Park will be coming out in their numbers on Labour Day, May 23, to participate in the cleaning and beautification of the historic site. The park, the final resting place of many of Jamaica'snational heroes, prime ministers, and cultural leaders, is the national project for Labour Day 2012. Education Minister and Member of Parliament...

Jamaicans are being asked to shower attention on the nation’s children and focus on the role they play in the development of the country on National Children’s Day, May 18. “We are asking all parents, caregivers, principals, teachers and citizens of Jamaica to honour, esteem, show appreciation and love to our children through recognition, treats, tokens, hugs and kisses and words of encouragement”, ...

The Government, through the Ministry of Youth and Culture, has embarked on its latest job creation initiative, Digital Jam 2.0. The initiative, being undertaken in collaboration with the World Bank and other major partners, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and communication firms, Flow and LIME, comprises a programme of events, competitions and other activities, to be...

It was a day of celebration, history and cultural extravagance at the Clan Carthy Primary School in Kingston, on Tuesday (May 8), as the institution hosted its Caribbean Cultural Exposition, aptly dubbed ‘Caribbean Explosion’. The Deanery Road School was alive with excitement and energy, as the students and teachers showcased aspects of the Caribbean’s cultural legacy through dance, music and...

The Caribbean Employers' Confederation (CEC) is recommending that regional governments implement emergency employment and apprenticeship programmes as short-term measures to ameliorate the crisis in youth unemployment across the region. The recommendations were among the measures coming out of the organisation's annual general meeting held on May 3 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort in Ocho Rios, St. Ann. The meeting...

Cleaning and beautifying Jamaica’s heritage centrepiece, the National Heroes Park, in Kingston, is this year’s designated national project for Labour Day, to be observed on May 23. This will be complemented by various parish projects, which will also be earmarked for general cleaning up and beautification on that day, under the theme for Labour Day and Workers’ Week (May 20...

A national exposition and career fair, which will focus on the empowerment of women, will be held at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston this weekend. The two-day event, from May 5 to 6, is being organised by the Bureau of Women’s Affairs (BWA) in collaboration with the Dispute Resolution Foundation, with support from the United Nations Entity for...

The cleaning of the Lucea cemetery is the parish project for Hanover for Labour Day 2012 on May 23. The project was chosen at a multi-sectoral meeting held in the parish council chambers on May 2, which was chaired jointly by council chairman and Mayor of Lucea, Shernett Haughton, and Custos of the parish, Dr. David Stair. The representatives at...