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Youth Parliamentarian, Sherika Cheeke-Perkins, emphasises a point while speaking during Monday’s (November 28) sitting of the National Youth Parliament of Jamaica at Gordon House in downtown Kingston.

Robust Discussion by Youth Parliamentarians

Approximately 70 young people participated in Monday’s (November 28) sitting of the National Youth Parliament at Gordon House, which was held in the face-to-face format for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica in 2020....

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (second right), with executives of the National Youth Council of Jamaica (from left) President, Leon Malcom; Public Relations Officer, Nicardo Miller and Chairman, Chevaughn Brown. They were at the Council’s annual general meeting at the Portmore HEART/NSTA Trust Academy in St. Catherine, on November 19

PHOTOS: Minister Williams Attends National Youth Council of Jamaica Annual General Meeting

Acting Director, Safety and Security in Schools Unit, Ministry of Education and Youth, Richard Troupe (second right), addressing Wednesday’s (November 16) semi-virtual Anti-Gang Week Townhall meeting at the Office of the Police Commissioner in Kingston. Others (from left) are Deputy Superintendent of Police and Researcher, Joanna Callen; Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Office of the Director of Prosecution, Jeremy Taylor; and Lecturer, Social Anthropology, University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr. Herbert Gayle.

Education Ministry Looking to Expand Support for Schools in Volatile Areas

Head of the Geography and Geology Department at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, Dr. Sherene James-Williamson (left). listens as Scientific Officer in the UWI’s Earthquake Unit, Karleen Blake (centre), explains the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) on display, during the 20th GIS Day National Exposition on Wednesday (November 16). The event was hosted by the UWI. Students looking on (from second left) are Shoya-Kay Espeut and Shackera Wray from Buff Bay High School in Portland, and Nailah Allen from Montego Bay High School

Hundreds of Students Participate in GIS Day National Exposition

Public Relations and Corporate Communications Manager at the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Kristen Laing.

Child Abuse Sensitisation Marches on Friday

The Wycliffe Martin High School team from in St. Mary, show off their prizes for placing second in the 2021-2022 Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ) company of the year competition, at the awards ceremony held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Tuesday (November 15). They are (from left) teacher Tameka Thompson (left) and students Suzan Beckford, Seanna Sterling, Rusheen Rose and Mikalia Manasseh.

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PHOTOS: Junior Achievement Jamaica Awards Top Schools

The Wycliffe Martin High School team from in St. Mary, show off their prizes for placing second in the 2021-2022 Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ) company of the year competition, at the awards ceremony held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston on Tuesday (November 15). They are (from left) teacher Tameka Thompson (left) and students Suzan Beckford, Seanna Sterling, Rusheen...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), listens as Trisha Lee Brightley (third left) of the Enid Bennett High School in St. Catherine, makes a point to Acting Chief Education Officer, Dr. Kasan Troupe (second right). Occasion was the launch of Anti-gang Week on Sunday (Nov.13), at the Phillipo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. Also sharing in the conversation are Director of Safety and Security in Schools, Richard Troupe (left); and Rickayla Knight (third right) and Jeremy Peart, also of Enid Bennett High. The week is being observed from November 13-19, under the theme: ‘Leggo the Gang…Lift Up Jamaica.’

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PHOTOS: Anti-Gang Week Church Service

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), listens as Trisha Lee Brightley (third left) of the Enid Bennett High School in St. Catherine, makes a point to Acting Chief Education Officer, Dr. Kasan Troupe (second right). Occasion was the launch of Anti-gang Week on Sunday (Nov.13), at the Phillipo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, St. Catherine. Also...

Flyer for the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Tourism Quiz finals scheduled for Sunday, November 13.

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TPDCO Tourism Quiz Finals on Sunday

Mount Alvernia Preparatory School in St. James and Naggo Head Primary School in St. Catherine will face off in the finals of the third staging of the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo) Tourism Quiz on Sunday, November 13. The match will be aired on Television Jamaica, beginning at 3:00 pm. Coordinator, Corporate Communications and Community Awareness, TPDCo, Marline Stephenson Dalley,...

Government Senator Natalie Campbell Rodriques (l), representing the Minister of Culture Gender Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Olivia Grange, engages Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme for HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Winifred Byanyima (r) and President of the Jamaica Union of Tertiary Students, Christina Williams. Occasion was a Women’s Forum at Liberty Hall in Kingston on Thursday, November 10. The forum was one of a series of activities by Ms. Byanyima as part of an official visit to the island from November 6-11.

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All-Young Female Parliament for International Women’s Day 2023

Jamaica, for the first time, will stage an all-female sitting of Parliament for young women, ages 18 to 23, on International Women’s Day 2023. The day will be observed on March 8. The disclosure was made by Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and t, Hon. Olivia Grange, in her message at a Women’s Forum hosted by the Under Secretary-General and...

School girls participate in the exciting a goat scramble at the Minard Livestock Show and Beef Festival at Minard Estate in Brown’s Town, St. Ann, on Thursday, November 10.

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Livestock Breeding Programme Bearing Fruit

Twenty-nine high quality calves are expected to be delivered shortly under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries’ National Livestock Genetic Improvement and Breeding Technology Programme. “We are expecting… eight Jamaica Red Poll, six Jamaica Brahman and 15 Jamaica Black, all of which were conceived through artificial insemination,” said Minister of State, Hon. Franklin Witter. He was addressing the Minard Livestock Show and Beef...

Acting Director, Safety and Security Unit, Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Richard Troupe, addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.

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Youngsters Urged to ‘Leggo Di Gang… Lift Up Jamaica’

‘Leggo Di Gang… Lift Up Jamaica’ is the theme for the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Anti-Gang Week 2022 from November 13 to 19. Acting Director of the Safety and Security Unit in the Ministry, Richard Troupe, told JIS News that the week is “significant and timely” given recent incidents of violence in schools. “We, at the Ministry, know that...

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), with 2023 Rhodes Scholar for Jamaica, David Salmon, following the announcement ceremony at King’s House on November 10.

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Wolmers’ Boys Past Student is 2023 Rhodes Scholar

Twenty-two-year-old David Rhoden Salmon is the 2023 Rhodes Scholar for Jamaica. He was one of 11 candidates – seven males and four females – who vied for the highly acclaimed scholarship award this year. The announcement was made on Thursday (Nov.10) by Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, during a brief ceremony at King’s House after a...