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Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna.

Youth Ministry Launches Personal Development Training for Young People

The Ministry of Youth and Culture is expanding its programme to focus on the personal development of the country’s young people. Starting on January 29, the Ministry will host a series of training workshops on health and wellness, social graces...

Ministry to Target Unattached Youth through YERP

Bayley Hay scholars, Shannia McDowells (2nd left) and Calvin Lindo (2nd right) are presented with their awards by President of Montego Co-operative Credit Union, Lambert Johnson (left) and General Manager, Ornell Bedasse. The presentation took place at a luncheon held at Day’O Plantation Restaurant in Montego Bay, on July 13.

Young People Urged To Use Education To Rise From Poverty

Young Tahalia Mitchell performs a dub poetry piece during today’s (June 19) staging of the Unite For Change National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention at the Jamaica Conference Centre in downtown Kingston.

Expose Child Abusers

Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry, Greig Smith (left), listens to Simonia Bradbury (right), during one of her visits to the OCR’s office in Kingston, in relation to her 13-year old daughter, Jennira Jane,*who has frequently run away from home. The teen has been recovered and is now in the care of the state. Listening at centre is Mrs. Bradbury’s older daughter, Shoquana Miller.

State Assumes Care of Runaway Teen as Focus on Missing Children Intensifies

10 years ago Ananda AlertsYouth

Four Per Cent Decline in Children Reported Missing

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) says there has been a four per cent decline in the number of children reported missing for January to July 2015, compared with the similar period in 2014. This is based on preliminary statistics from the Missing Person Monitoring Unit (MPMU) of the Jamaica Constabulary Force, which indicate that there were 1,224 missing...

11 years ago Budget 2015/2016Vision 2030Youth

Gov’t to Spend $89 Billion on Youth Development Programmes

The Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna, says the Government will be spending approximately $89 billion on programmes for youth and children across eight Ministries this financial year. The figure, she says, represents 14 percent of the total budget. Minister Hanna, who was making her contribution to the 2015/16 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives on May 6,...

Minister of Youth and Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna. (FILE)

11 years ago Youth

Minister of Youth and Culture Concerned About Child Trafficking Report

The Minister of Youth and Culture, the Honorable Lisa Hanna, notes with concern yet another news story of a child being sexually abused or ‘trafficked’ in a ring of prostitution. She said that while the country has made strides in rescuing over twenty girls in child trafficking cases and seven arrests had been made, there is yet to be a...

Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Mr. Greig Smith.

11 years ago Youth

Reduction in Number of Missing Children

Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry, Mr. Greig Smith, said there was a 10 per cent reduction in the number of missing children in 2014. This reduction, Mr. Smith said, was achieved by the OCR working closely with a number of state agencies, including the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). He was speaking on April 30 at a ceremony...

Community Relations Officer at the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP), Carlton Powell (right), interacts with students at the Irwin High School in St. James, recently. The students were encouraged to be positive role models.

11 years ago National SecurityVision 2030Youth

CSJP Encourages Irwin High Students To Be Positive Role Models

Students from Irwin High School, in St. James, benefitted from motivational talks by the Ministry of National Security’s Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) and Unite for Change, recently. A team from the Ministry of National Security, led by Community Relations Officer for CSJP, Carlton Powell, and former ‘man in the street’, Norado Bell, spoke to the students about being...

Participants in the Parade Gardens parenting workshop take time out to converse with the Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) International Programme Director, Dushyant Savadia (2nd left), and Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ)/Community Renewal Programme (CRP) Technical Specialist, Socio-Economic Development, Charmaine Brimm (right).

11 years ago CommunityVision 2030Youth

CRP Parenting Workshops for More Inner-City Communities

The Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) has moved to capitalise on the success of one of its latest Community Renewal Programme (CRP) initiatives - the staging of Parenting and Stress Management workshops over three days in the community of Parade Gardens, downtown Kingston, in November 2014. Held under the theme: ‘Know Your Child’, the workshops were staged in collaboration with,...

Registrar, Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Creig Smith (left), cuts the ribbon to display the computers, printers and uninterruptible power supplies that were given to the Jamaica Library Service for the purpose of assisting in the search and rescue of children who go missing. The handing over ceremony was held at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library, 2 Tom Redcam Drive, in Kingston, on March 3. Looking on (from right) are: Director General of the Jamaica Library Service, Mrs. Karen Barton; Child Protection Specialist, United Nations Children’s Fund, Jamaica, Janet Cupidon Quallo and Political Officer, Embassy of the United States of America, Rebecca Molinoff.

11 years ago EducationYouth

OCR Hands Over Computers to JLS

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) on Tuesday, March 3, handed over six computers to the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), to assist in the search and rescue of children who go missing. The handing over ceremony was held at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library, 2 Tom Redcam Drive, in Kingston. The computers along with the printers and...