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Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Donna-Marie Rowe (centre), and Duty Officer at the Mount Olivet Boys’ Home, O’Neil Reid (left), listen as Managing Director, Perishables Jamaica Limited, Norman Wright, outlines details about his company’s products. The occasion was the JIS’s annual Easter Sports Day visit to the Home in Walderston, Manchester on April 7.
Chief Executive Officer, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Donna-Marie Rowe (centre), and Duty Officer at the Mount Olivet Boys’ Home, O’Neil Reid (left), listen as Managing Director, Perishables Jamaica Limited, Norman Wright, outlines details about his company’s products. The occasion was the JIS’s annual Easter Sports Day visit to the Home in Walderston, Manchester on April 7.

Mount Olivet Boys’ Home Embarking on Herbal Teas Project

The Mount Olivet Boys’ Home is poised to establish a herb farm, following the donation of plants and a proposal for purchase of the harvest by local tea manufacturer, Perishables Jamaica Limited (PJL). “We’re planting the seed and will watch...
Some of the boys at the Mt. Olivet Boys’ Home in Walderston, Manchester, participate in a race during the annual sports day held at the Home on Saturday, April 7. Some 100 persons from the Jamaica Information Service, as well as friends, sponsors, and the wards and staff of the Home, participated.
Some of the boys at the Mt. Olivet Boys’ Home in Walderston, Manchester, participate in a race during the annual sports day held at the Home on Saturday, April 7. Some 100 persons from the Jamaica Information Service, as well as friends, sponsors, and the wards and staff of the Home, participated.

Mount Olivet Boys Enjoy Sports Day Activities
Acting Senior Director for the Bureau of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Sharon Coburn Robinson, addresses a ‘More Than an Athlete: Not Just a Player’ symposium, held on Thursday, April 12, at Jamaica College in Kingston. The symposium sought to equip male high-school athletes with the knowledge and life skills to make healthy choices as they transition from school into professional careers.
Acting Senior Director for the Bureau of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Sharon Coburn Robinson, addresses a ‘More Than an Athlete: Not Just a Player’ symposium, held on Thursday, April 12, at Jamaica College in Kingston. The symposium sought to equip male high-school athletes with the knowledge and life skills to make healthy choices as they transition from school into professional careers.

Male Student Athletes Attend Symposium
Chairman of the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), Dr. Pauline Mullings, addresses the media launch of Child Month on Wednesday (April 11) at GraceKennedy’s head office in downtown Kingston.
Chairman of the National Child Month Committee (NCMC), Dr. Pauline Mullings, addresses the media launch of Child Month on Wednesday (April 11) at GraceKennedy’s head office in downtown Kingston.

Affirm Our Children – National Child Month Committee
General Manager, Triple Century Sports Bar and Grill, New Kingston, Radcliffe Haynes (left), presents copies of cricketer, Chris Gayle’s autobiography ‘Six Machine’, to former Jamaica netball team captain, Simone Forbes, during the launch of Project GOLD (Guidance, Opportunities and Lessons for Development) on April 6. Chris Gayle is a patron of the initiative, which is being spearheaded by Ms. Forbes.
General Manager, Triple Century Sports Bar and Grill, New Kingston, Radcliffe Haynes (left), presents copies of cricketer, Chris Gayle’s autobiography ‘Six Machine’, to former Jamaica netball team captain, Simone Forbes, during the launch of Project GOLD (Guidance, Opportunities and Lessons for Development) on April 6. Chris Gayle is a patron of the initiative, which is being spearheaded by Ms. Forbes.

August Town Welcomes Project ‘GOLD’

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Hundreds to Participate in J.Wray & Nephew Boys Conference

Hundreds of young men and boys are scheduled to participate in the J. Wray & Nephew (JWN) Foundation’s ‘Spotlight Sessions – Focus on Boys’ conference in Kingston from April 17 to 19. Part of the entity’s social inclusion initiative, the conference seeks to raise awareness about the special needs of boys/young men, especially in relation to education. Speaking to JIS...
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Youth

Wards of the State Take Part in Five-Day Camp

Sixty young persons between 16 and 18 years old who are living in State care participated in a five-day camp hosted by the Dunwoody Baptist Church (DBC) of Atlanta, Georgia in the United States of America (USA), in partnership with the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). The camp, held April 2-7, was in keeping with the CPFSA’s commitment...
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Director of Communications and Marketing at the National Youth Service (NYS), Julia Smiley Green, highlights the various programmes being undertaken by the agency, at a JIS Think Tank on March 13.
Youth

Application for Hope Summer Work Programme Extended to April 27

The application deadline for the HOPE Youth Summer Work Programme has been extended to April 27, 2018. The thrust, which is in line with the Government’s initiative of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme, will enable 14,000 young people to benefit from valuable work experience during the months of June, July and August. The target group, aged 17...
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Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dean-Roy Bernard (right), speaking with (from left) Custos Rotulorum of Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller; Deputy Principal, UWI Open Campus, Professor Julie Meeks Gardner; and Campus Registrar, UWI Open Campus, Karen Ford-Warner. Occasion was the launch of a photo exhibition entitled ‘The UWI –Then and Now… Riding on the Shoulders of Giants’ at the Open Campus on Camp Road, Kingston, on April 9.
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UWI Open Campus Launches Photo Exhibition

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dean-Roy Bernard, has commended the University of the West Indies (UWI) on 70 years of outstanding achievement. “I doubt there are any who would even attempt to contest the wide-ranging, social, cultural, political and economic impact of UWI on the development of our country and, by extension, our region,” he...
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Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (right), places a flower in honour of two wards of the State who perished in a fire earlier this year at the Walker’s Place of Safety in Kingston. Waiting to make a floral tribute is Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dean-Roy Bernard. Occasion was a memorial service held in honour of the children on Monday (April 9) at the Faith Tabernacle Shiloh Apostolic Church on Lyndhurst Road.
EducationInformationYouth

Ward of State Among Three Recommended for Gallantry Award

Three persons, including a ward of the State, are being considered for national honours for their acts of bravery during the fire at the Walker’s Place of Safety earlier this year that took the lives of two children and destroyed the Lyndhurst Crescent-based facility. Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, made the...
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Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (right), examines the mural he unveiled as part of the official opening of the University of Technology (UTech) 60th Anniversary visual art exhibition, ‘Legacies’, at its Old Hope Road location in Kingston on Thursday (April 5). The mural was created by students of UTech on the wall of the Centre for the Arts, where the exhibition is being showcased. Also admiring the artwork (from left) are Director, Centre for the Arts, Philip Clarke; Associate Vice President, Advancement Division, UTech, Hector Wheeler; and Curator and Visual Arts Educator, UTech, Dr. Winston Campbell.
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Programme to Help Creative Industry Practitioners

State Minister in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, says the Government is seeking to establish a national programme aimed at showcasing and marketing final products and services of creative industry practitioners. This, he said, will also focus on unearthing new talent, and will be part of the Government’s thrust to create a culture and...
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