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Acting Executive Director of the National Youth Service (NYS), Anthony Woodburn, just recently received the baton, but he is intent on winning the race to save Jamaica's approximately 60,000 unattached youths from a life of crime. "It's the race between the NYS and the prisons, in order to capture that 60,000. I am not going to lose that race, I'm...

For the 19th year in a row, the City of Toronto observed Bob Marley Day on February 6 with the occasion used to support earthquake ravaged Haiti through a 'One Love for Haiti' fundraising concert. At the Bob Marley Day Awards presentation held at City Hall on Friday (February 5), Toronto's Mayor, His Worship David Miller, read the Bob Marley...

The heart has been ripped out of Jamaican nationalist culture, but the soul remains. His is an incredible legacy of providing us practitioners with a range of strategies for self-definition in both the personal sense and in

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Honourable Olivia Grange, MP has announced that the late cultural icon and educator Professor, the Honourable Rex Nettleford, OM will be accorded an official funeral. Minister Grange made the announcement today (Monday) at a news conference at the University of the West Indies. The UWI is collaborating with the Government of Jamaica, the...

Jamaicans in the Diaspora continue to celebrate the life and work of the Hon. Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou), as tributes were paid to the cultural icon at the third annual Louise Bennett-Coverley Reading Festival on Saturday (January 30) in Florida. The event, held at the Broward County South Regional Library in Pembroke Pines, was used to launch this year's Black...

St. Mary High School were winners of the Northern Regional Finals of the Bob Marley Debating Competition, sponsored by the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Portland, on Wednesday (February 4). The other finalist was Marymount High School, which is also from St. Mary, the proposer in the keenly contested event for...

The third annual Louise Bennett-Coverley (Miss Lou) Reading Festival takes place next Saturday (January 30) at 2:00 p.m., at the Broward County South Regional Library, in Pembroke Pines, Florida. This event marks the launch of activities at that Library celebrating February as Black History Month. This year's celebration is titled, 'Miss Lou and wi kulcha (culture)' and will include a...

Kingston, January 28, 2010 - The Honourable Olivia Grange, MP, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture has expressed her concern upon learning that Professor Rex Nettleford had fallen ill in the United States. Minister Grange told Professor Nettleford's family that she was "hoping for his speedy recovery to full health. I will keep him in my prayers." Professor Nettleford is...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has congratulated the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) on its latest advertising campaign featuring international sprinter, Ambassador Usain Bolt. In his address at the launch yesterday (January 25) at the Devonshire, Devon House in Kingston, the Prime Minister said that promoting the people of the country was the best way to promote the destination. "Marcus...

Young people from Mandeville in Manchester supported the Jamaica Information Service's (JIS) Haiti relief effort on Saturday (January 23), staging a 'One Million Can Walk for Haiti' fundraising drive in the Manchester capital. The youngsters were drawn from Young Women with a Purpose (Y-WoP) founded by Manchester Festival Queen 2009, Lanisia Rhoden, and A Brighter Day Foundation, a non-profit organisation...

Over 30 dignitaries, officials and delegates from 14 regional countries are currently in Jamaica participating in the inaugural Forum of Ministers with responsibility for Social and Sustainable Development in the Caribbean, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston, between January 24 and 26. The forum, being held under the theme: 'Social Development Strategies for the Caribbean Youth in the context...

All is in place for the 14th staging of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival from January 28 to 30, which, for the first time this year, will be held at the Greenfield Stadium in Trelawny. Executive Producer of the festival, Walter Elmore, told JIS News that with the start of the festival just days away, preparations are well advanced....