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

OCR Moves to Encourage More Reporting of Child Abuse

The Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR) will be intensifying its public education thrust in order to encourage more citizens to report cases of child abuse. The move is in keeping with recommendations coming out of a recent baseline study...

Youth participants in the KingstOOn animation conference and film festival held recently at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge, University of the West Indies (UWI).

Youths Welcome Animation Industry

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

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.

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

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.

Allocation to Rehabilitate Children’s Homes Increases by 900%

13 years ago 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...

13 years ago 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...

13 years ago 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...

13 years ago 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...

13 years ago 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...

13 years ago Social SecurityYouth

ESP Initiative Reaching More Special Needs Children

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...

13 years ago SportYouth

Fathers Urged to Nurture Children’s Development

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,...