Youth leaders tackled a number of topical issues during Monday’s (November 1) sitting of the 10th National Youth Parliament at Gordon House. The young people, representing youth groups from all across the island, engaged in spirited debate on the issue of abortion, youth participation in the political process, youth violence, and climate change, proffering a number of recommendations for the...

Chairman of the Youth Advisory Council of Jamaica (YACJ), Kai Bridgewater, is encouraging the nation’s young people to get involved in politics, and embrace it as a channel through which they can create the Jamaica they want. “Politics is the noblest form of service that one can give to one’s country. It is the most effective and efficient form of...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is attributing the fall in youth unemployment to critical empowerment programmes, which have been implemented by the Government for young people. “It is gratifying when you see the various statistics and metrics go in the right direction. One such metric would be the unemployment rate, and without question, we have increased employment in...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, opened the debate on amendments to the Human Employment and Resource Training Act (2019) in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (October 29). The legislation makes the necessary legal provision for the merger of the functions of the HEART Trust/NTA with the National Youth Service (NYS), the Apprenticeship Board and the Jamaican Foundation...

Some 215 roadways have been blocked or badly damaged by flood events since the start of the current fiscal year in April, resulting in a bill of some $640 million to reopen and reinstate those thoroughfares. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure during a statement to the House of Representatives on October 1. He noted that...

Operations at the Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO)/Alpart alumina refinery in Nain, St Elizabeth, are set to be suspended for up to two years to facilitate the plant’s modernisation and expansion. Speaking in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (September 10), Transport and Mining Minster, Hon. Robert Montague, said the Ministry’s technical team recommended several options to JISCO relating...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says there has been no report of deaths of Jamaicans, as a result of Category Five Hurricane Dorian’s impact on The Bahamas. He informed that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has been updated on the situation with Jamaicans in the most impacted areas in The Bahamas. “The latest information is...