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...

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...

The Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, as well as selected entities such as the Bureau of Gender Affairs, can now apply for a protection order on behalf of a victim of gender-based violence. State Minister, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, made the disclosure while addressing the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life (JASL) HIV, Law and Human Rights Symposium on March...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says the National Unattached Youth Programme (NUYP), which provides skills training opportunities for young people, aged 17 to 30, is being reviewed. He said that the revision is aimed at developing a new format for rollout of the HEART/NSTA Trust-administered programme during the 2021/22 fiscal year in response...

 

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is reporting that it has received a record 1,055 applications for the 2021 cohort of National Youth Parliamentarians. Since its inception in 2003, the programme has received between 500 and 700 applications annually. State Minister in the Ministry, Robert Nesta Morgan, told JIS News that “the Ministry is very excited to have a...

A Child Therapeutic Centre is to be constructed for the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) during the upcoming fiscal year. The facility will offer psychological support to children who have undergone severe emotional trauma and are in need of therapeutic intervention. A sum of $684.4 million has been allotted to undertake this and other activities under the Basic...