Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says strategies must be found to get at-risk youth to use their talents to develop their communities. Dr. Chang, who was giving the closing remarks at the ‘Positive Youth Transformation Project’ awards ceremony, held at the Iberostar Rose Hall Beach Hotel, St. James, on January 27, said there...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, says the annual youth parliamentary sittings are aimed at encouraging young people to remain engaged in the democratic process. She said they also seek to counter an often-cynical outlook, which leads some youth to withdraw from civic activities and the political process, as well as lose faith in the value of dialogue...

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), St. James, Angela McIntosh-Gayle, says the Government’s $14-million Safe Passage Project will be instrumental in saving lives and protecting students as they travel on the streets to and from school. Speaking at the handover of the Salt Spring Safe Passage Project, Salt Spring Primary School, St. James, on January 27, DSP McIntosh-Gayle commended the Jamaica...

The Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ) says its programmes are compatible with the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Sixth-Form Pathways. In an interview with JIS News, Principal of Trench Town Polytechnic College and Chair of the CCCJ Events Management Committee, Dr. Dosseth Edwards Watson, said her institution is in a community where they interact with students who have...

Students at the Jamaica House Basic School are benefiting from a reading initiative being undertaken by the Kiwanis Club of Papine at the University of Technology (UTech), Jamaica. The signature project of the Club, titled ‘Reading for the Stars Reading Competition’, involves partnership with web-based program, Lalilo by Renaissance application. It will run from January 2022 to April 2022 and...

Forty-seven wards of the State, who excelled in their external exams, will be recognised by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) during a ceremony on Friday (January 28). Chairperson for the CPFSA’s Events Planning Committee/Director, Financial Management and Accounting Services, Michelle McIntosh Harvey, told JIS News that wards who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certification (CSEC) and Caribbean...

Westmoreland Public Health Services and the Kiwanis Club of Westmoreland Capital on Tuesday (January 25) coordinated an immunisation drive at the Hatfield Early Childhood Institution in Westmoreland. The project targeted students from zero to six years old from both the Institution and the wider Hatfield community who had missed their original immunisation dates. Public Health Nurse at the Savanna-la-Mar Health...