With an average of 34 calls on matters of child abuse received each day by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency, Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams is reigniting the call to end violence against Jamaican children. The Minister noted that corporal punishment, which is defined as physical punishment such as caning or flogging, is still being...

The National Child and Adolescent Mental Health (NCAMH) Awareness Day will be observed this Thursday (May 26), under the theme ‘Let’s Check in with our Children: Their Mental Health Matters’. Liaison and Communications Director for the NCAMH Committee, Dr. Michelle Campbell, said the theme was designed against the background that there is a need to assess the effects of COVID-19...

The Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts is poised and ready to train Jamaicans for impending growth in the creative industry. Speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’, Director for School of Continuing Education and Allied Programmes at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Leighton Jones, said the College is ensuring that it...

The Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission (BGLC) is now accepting applications for the BGLC Tertiary Education Grant for the 2022/2023 academic year. The grant is a contribution towards tuition fees and will see 300 students receiving $60,000 each. It is available to full-time first to fourth-year undergraduates, no older than 26 years, who are enrolled at an accredited local tertiary...

The National Water Commission (NWC) team in Hanover carried out work to improve the flow of water through the taps at the Cacoon Primary and Infant School in the parish on Monday (May 23). Regional Manager at the NWC, Jeffery Smith, told JIS News that the Labour Day project was focused on relocating the tanks, which is the school’s main...

Hundreds of young people have been empowered with scholarships, placement on lands, training, certification and agricultural technology over the past year, by the Jamaica 4-H Clubs. According to Executive Director of the 4-H Clubs, Dr. Ronald Blake, during the period, they established 346 school gardens, geared at not only providing food for the institutions but to serve as “laboratory models”...

Jamaica is in dialogue with several countries to acquire coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for children aged five to 11 years. Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie, made the disclosure during the Ministry’s COVID Conversations virtual press conference on May 18. “We have good indication from both the United Kingdom and Spain that we will be able to get vaccines for five...