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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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Early Stimulation Programme (ESP) has been improving its operations, through a Technical Co-operation Project, to better assist children with special needs. The six-month initiative, which began in September 2012, and currently funded bythe Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), seeks to provide training for child development officersin five areas of child development - self help skills, cognitive, social, emotional, and language...

Job Walters, father of current World Boxing Association (WBA) Featherweight Champion, Nicholas Walters, has called on fathers to guide and nurture the development of their children. Mr. Walters said he had stood by his son through hard times and helped him to become a world champion. “Fathers, stand up strong for your kids. I am a dad here, feeling proud,...

Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the audit of the Maxfield Park Children’s Home, which commenced last year, has already resulted in improvements in financial operations at the facility. “There have been some financial systems that have been put in place, not only in terms of purchases but also in terms of how money is spent. There...

The Government will be working, as fast as possible, to address some of the priority areas of concern at the Maxfield Park Children’s Home in Kingston. This was disclosed by Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, on Wednesday (January 16), following a tour of the facility located on Maxfield Avenue. “Some of the priority areas [have to do...

About 3,005 children in need of care and protection were placed with families under the Living in Family Environment (LIFE) programmes between January and September 2012. Chief Executive Officer of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Carla Francis Edie, said the number is 57. 5 per cent of the 5,226 children in state care and represents an increase over the 53...

The Ananda Alert programme is now officially under the purview of the Ministry of Youth and Culture. This was disclosed by Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, as he responded to questions posed by Member of Parliament for West Kingston, Desmond McKenzie on Tuesday (Jan. 15), in the House of Representatives. He informed the Lower House...

Youth and Culture Minister, the Hon. Lisa Hanna, says the Government is committed to tackling the problem of high youth unemployment in Jamaica. She said the estimate of a 32.2 per cent youth unemployment rate at July 2012, is unacceptably high, even when one considers that there has been a slight improvement coming from 34 per cent in April of...