Head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Charmaine Shand, is calling on parents and guardians to be more vigilant in monitoring their children’s use of the online space in order to prevent them from falling victim to predators. SSP Shand, who was addressing the virtual launch of the...

Applications are now being accepted from high school students or recent graduates ages 16-18 years old, to represent Jamaica at the 2021 Virtual National Youth Science Camp (NYSCamp). Over 100 students from the United States and select countries will attend the all-expenses-paid virtual program, to be held June 28 through July 21, 2021. Hosted in Monongahela National Forest in West...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has welcomed the launch of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Positive Pathways Activity in Jamaica. It will run for five years and span several communities across five parishes. The $15-million programme seeks to prevent youth involvement in crime and violence by building community, family, and...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) continues its child-protection programme with a series of drive-throughs covering several parishes. Regional Director of the CPFSA South East Region, Robert Williams, said that the intention is to go into communities to promote childcare and protection, especially those where the entity is seeing an increase in reports of child abuse. “We actually...

President of the Vauxhall High School Alumni Association, Jamaica Chapter, Timar Jackson (left), presents grade-nine student, Ishmael Small, with a tablet. The occasion was a ceremony for the handover of 61 tablets donated by the alumni association's New York chapter, at the institution’s Windward Road address in Kingston, recently.

Director of the African Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank (ACIJ/JMB), Bernard Jankee, says storytelling remains a part of the Jamaican culture and has broadened beyond the traditional sense. “I think storytelling is still very much a part of our existence. It is not in the public eye as much but that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. Anansi stories...

Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College in Montego Bay, St. James, in collaboration with the Kiwanis Club of Montego Freeport, has launched its Learning Disabilities Awareness programme. This is geared towards increasing awareness, diagnosis and treatment of children living with disabilities in St. James and neighbouring parishes. The programme will target 40 students facing academic difficulties and behavioural problems. From this group...