Hundreds of young people are expected to converge at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston, on Monday (March 14), for the inaugural Commonwealth Day Youth Forum and Model Assembly. The event, organised by the Jamaica Youth Ambassadors Programme, is in observance of International Commonwealth Day, under the theme: ‘An Inclusive Commonwealth’. Secondary school students, members of youth groups and youth-led...

Some 50 youth housed at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Detention Centre for Boys, in St. Catherine, are undergoing rehabilitation, in preparation for their reintegration into society. The Reaching Individuals Through Skills and Education (RISE) Life Management Services is providing training in essential life skills, through its ‘Finding My Voice’ programme. Under the rehabilitation and reintegration component of the programme, the boys...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture, through its Youth and Adolescents Policy Division (YAPD), will be conducting a Needs Analysis within each parish, to ascertain the current needs and challenges faced by youth. “It is the intent of the Division to use this information to customise the programmes being delivered in each parish to effectively address the respective parish youth...

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 and etiquette, social media practices, wardrobe presentation, skin care, public speaking, self-discipline, self-motivation and critical thinking. The first workshop, which...

The Ministry of Youth and Culture will be seeking to target unattached youth between 12 and 29 years of age, through its Youth Empowerment and Reintegration Programme (YERP). This was noted by Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Sherril O’Reggio Angus, in a report to the Human Resource Committee of Parliament, at Gordon House, today (January 19). The Permanent Secretary explained...

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...

Young people are being encouraged not to use poverty and debilitating circumstances as excuses to fail, but to use education as a vehicle for social advancement and to rise from poverty. “Understand that education is the fundamental means for social transformation and empowerment...the best means of having a fighting chance in a challenging world is education,” said President of the...