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The Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT) is encouraging members of the public to share their views on the proposed amendments to the JNHT Act at consultation meetings. The appeal was made by Legal Officer of the JNHT, Lisa Grant, while addressing a JIS Think Tank session at the Agency's head office, Tuesday (February 9). Public consultations have already been held...

In keeping with this year's theme for Safer Sex Week, "Smart Women always Buy, Carry and use Condoms", Director of the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD), Roberta Brown-Ellis, wants young people, especially women, to behave more sexually responsible. Approximately 456, 303 young people, aged 15-24 years, live in Jamaica, of which 228, 345 are females. In spite of extensive...

The Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture will be hosting a traditional nine night at the Ranny Williams Centre tomorrow (February 11), in honour of the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Rex Nettleford. Principal Director of Culture in the Ministry, Sydney Bartley, told JIS News that the event, which is free of...

Hampton and Christiana High Schools were winners in the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Central Region's Bob Marley Secondary Schools Debate and Song Arrangement competitions, respectively, which were held on February 5, at St. Mathew's Anglican Church, in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth. Debating the moot: 'Bob Marley's Messages Are More Than Social Commentaries, But Revolutionary', Hampton School which had opposed,...

Black history campaigner in the United Kingdom (UK) Councillor Patrick Vernon is advocating for a Windrush Day to commemorate and celebrate the contributions of Black, Asian and other minority communities to British society. June 22, 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the ship, the Empire Windrush, which signalled the start of mass migration from the...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, the Honourable Olivia Grange, MP has said that HIV/AIDS is a gender issue. Speaking in Parliament during the debate on the National HIV/AIDS Workplace policy, Minister Grange said: "It (HIV/AIDS) affects our women and our men, our young and our old; in essence it affects the very fabric of our family structure. In this...

The Government has accorded an official funeral to the late Vice Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor the Hon Rex Nettleford O.M., at the University Chapel, Mona Campus, next Tuesday (February 16) starting at 10 a.m. Professor Nettleford, who also founded the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died on February 2 at the George Washington...

Senator Norman Grant has criticized, what he describes as, the "very limited youth involvement" in the regional agricultural sector. "Surveys among farmers' organizations across the region indicate that the average age of farmers is increasing and, in most cases, is above 45 years old; the majority being over 60 years old," Senator Grant said. The Opposition Senator was speaking to...

A total of 75 young people from Clarendon graduated from the National Youth Services' Education Corps last Tuesday (February 2), after successfully completing four weeks of intense training in the early childhood and primary education curricula. Once they have completed their final assessment the graduates will receive level II certification from the National Council on Technical Vocational Education and Training...

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