The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is committed to supporting mechanisms to empower the youth and address citizen safety and security. This assurance came from UNDP Resident Representative, Denise Antonio, while speaking at the virtual UNDP Youth Summit on crime and violence in observance of World Peace Day on September 21. Ms. Antonio said that as a development partner, the...

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Denise Antonio, is encouraging the Government to consider establishing a national knowledge-sharing and empowerment network on peace, crime prevention and citizen safety and security for youth organisations. “The network will serve to systematise best practices in youth-led community-based crime-prevention methods and provide mentorship, resources, crime prevention micro-grant funding and other opportunities to youth-led...

Jamaica’s hosting of the 10th Commonwealth Youth Ministers Meeting is being pushed back from 2021 to 2025. Cabinet has approved Jamaica’s request for the deferral, consequent on the coronavirus (CoVID-19) pandemic and requirements for the event to be held face-to-face. This was announced by Education, Youth, and Information Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, during last Wednesday’s (September 22) Post-Cabinet digital media...

Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry, says that young people must be included in any solutions aimed at addressing youth crime and violence. Dr. Henry, who was addressing the virtual United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Youth Summit on crime and violence recently, noted that there was a time when initiatives were planned with minimal...

The Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, says the Government has implemented social investments to target youth within the 15 to 24 age group. He noted that data from the last 10 years indicate that, increasingly, the victims and perpetrators of category-one crimes, such as homicides, are from this age group. “Research confirms that an average of 40...

The National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) is providing guidance to parents for monitoring children’s activities in remote learning. For the 2021/2022 academic year, which began September 6, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information announced that remote learning would be undertaken due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To facilitate this, students have been furnished with online or computer-aided learning, audiovisual...

The National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC) has established a single helpline, (876) 560-9272, to replace the 36 helplines that were launched in April 2020 to support parents struggling with the effects of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Chief Executive Officer (CEO), NPSC, Kaysia Kerr, told JIS News that the helpline will serve all parishes. “We now have one main helpline number...