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Principal Director of the National Spatial Data Management Division of the Ministry of Water, Land, Environmment and Climate Change, Rohan Richards (right), speaks with a participant during the recently held GIS Technical Seminar at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Mr. Richards says the division has been working with the Office of the Children’s Registry to see how utilsing the GIS technology can help with enhancing the Ananda Alert Missing Children Recovery Programme.
Principal Director of the National Spatial Data Management Division of the Ministry of Water, Land, Environmment and Climate Change, Rohan Richards (right), speaks with a participant during the recently held GIS Technical Seminar at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. Mr. Richards says the division has been working with the Office of the Children’s Registry to see how utilsing the GIS technology can help with enhancing the Ananda Alert Missing Children Recovery Programme.

Ministry Wants More Professionals to Use GIS

The Ministry of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, is increasing its public awareness effort to get more professionals to utilize the geographic information system (GIS) in their work. “One of the things we want to do is increase the...
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.

Pictures of Missing Children on Electronic Billboards
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith.

OCR Moves to Encourage More Reporting of Child Abuse
Youth participants in the KingstOOn animation conference and film festival held recently at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies (UWI).
Youth participants in the KingstOOn animation conference and film festival held recently at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies (UWI).

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Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (centre), along with Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Panama in Jamaica, Erick Cajar Grimas (4th left); and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. Vivian Brown (5th right), with members of a youth delegation that will visit Panama from September 24 to 28 to participate in the Fourth Panama World Trade and Investment Foundation ‘Youth Ambassadors Programme’.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (centre), along with Chargé d’Affaires at the Embassy of Panama in Jamaica, Erick Cajar Grimas (4th left); and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. Vivian Brown (5th right), with members of a youth delegation that will visit Panama from September 24 to 28 to participate in the Fourth Panama World Trade and Investment Foundation ‘Youth Ambassadors Programme’.

Industry State Minister Leads Youth Delegation to Panama

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Minister with responsibility for Sports, Hon. Natalie Neita-Headley (left), along with Canadian High Commissioner to Jamaica, His Excellency Robert Ready (2nd left); Chief Executive Officer, Council of Voluntary Social Services (CVSS), Winsome Wilkins (2nd right); and LIME Foundation Chairman, Errol Miller, view the championship trophy, one of several prizes up for grabs at this year’s renewal of the CVSS Summer Games, during the event’s launch at the National Volunteer Centre, Camp Road, Kingston, on Thursday, June 20.
Social SecurityVision 2030Youth

More Than 1,000 Socially Challenged Young People to Take Part in Summer Games

More than 1,000 young people from communities islandwide, deemed socially challenged and vulnerable to crime and violence, will participate in this year’s 21st staging of the Council of Voluntary Services Social Services (CVSS) summer games on July 13. The games, to be held at the Mona Bowl, University of the West Indies (UWI), target young people aged 10 to 25...
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Governor GeneralVision 2030Youth

GG Urges Youth Participation in Policy Decisions

Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, is underscoring the importance of youth participation in developing policy decisions and actions impacting them. Addressing Junior Achievement Jamaica's Champions for Youth Awards Banquet, at the Terra Nova Hotel in Kingston on Thursday (May 30), the Governor-General, noted private and public sector leaders' recognition of the need for investment in youth...
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Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (right), is greeted by Group Chief Human Resource Officer, GraceKennedy Limited, Dr. Cassida Jones (left), during today’s (April 17) official launch of Child Month 2013 at the GraceKennedy Limited offices in downtown Kingston. Activities will begin in May under the theme: ‘Children’s Care and Protection: A Fi Wi Mission’. Looking on (from second left) are: Chairman of GraceKennedy Limited and Patron of the Child Month Committee, Douglas Orane; and Chairman, Continental Baking Company, Gary Hendrickson.
Youth

Allocation to Rehabilitate Children’s Homes Increases by 900%

The capital allocation for the rehabilitation of children’s homes and places of safety for 2013/14 has increased 900 per cent, moving from just over $6 million last year to $60.3 million. This was announced by Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, at the official launch of Child Month 2013 on Wednesday, April 17, at the GraceKennedy Limited offices,...
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TechnologyYouth

Students Warned to Watch what they Post Online

Students are being cautioned against posting inappropriate comments and pictures online, as these postings could affect their future job prospects. Executive Director of the Broadcasting Commission of Jamaica (BCJ), Cordel Green, issued the warning while speaking to students and teachers of the St. Andrew Technical High School in Kingston on Friday (February 1) in the school’s auditorium. “The photographs, the...
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National SecurityYouth

Police Stations to be Equipped to Deal with Children

Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says that the Government will be equipping one police station per parish to deal with issues relating to children. Addressing the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew held on Tuesday, January 29, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston, she informed that the police stations have been identified and...
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CommunityYouth

Muirton Boys’ Home Making a Difference

The Muirton Boys’ Home, located in the hills of Manchioneal, Portland, has been making a difference in the lives of many Jamaican youth for over 30 years. The institution, which occupies about 29 acres of the Muirton Estate, a slave plantation up to 1838,is currently home to 26 boys, three of whom are in transitional housing, as they have aged...
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Youth

Social Workers to Assist in Rehabilitating Children in Custody

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says that special arrangements are being made to have social workers assist in the rehabilitation of children in custody, who are placed there for exhibiting “uncontrollable behaviour”. The Minister, who was addressing the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of St. Andrew, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on Tuesday, January...
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