At 25 years old, Aubrey Stewart has achieved more than many others have accomplished over a lifetime. The outgoing Chairman of the Youth Advisory Council is a Jamaica House Fellow, a recipient of the Queen’s Young Leader Award and the Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Leadership, and has earned various academic awards. With his many achievements, Aubrey remains true to...

Significant work was carried out by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development during 2018 to improve service delivery to Jamaicans. Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) • The JFB acquired six new emergency response vehicles valued at $385 million. The units included two firefighting boats, fire trucks, and two pumper tankers. A total of $189 million was allocated in the...

Approximately 50,000 residents of several communities in northern Clarendon are to benefit from improved health services through the upgrading and expansion of the Chapelton Community Hospital. Beverly Nichols, a native of the district of Blackwoods, who currently resides in the United States (US), is donating US$1 million for the project through her Push Start Foundation. The one-year undertaking will include...

Persons with disabilities (PwDs) often have difficulty integrating into society to contribute to the economy, while providing for themselves. The Social Development Commission (SDC), through its Local Economic Development Support Programme, is helping to change that reality for PwDs in Linstead and surrounding communities in St. Catherine, through the Linstead Disabled Group Ltd. Rehabilitation Officer with Community-Based Rehabilitation Jamaica (CBRJ)...

The Mico University College Optimist Club brought Christmas cheer to the children and staff of the Olga Mendez Basic School on December 7. Established just two months earlier, on October 4, the club hit the ground running in delivering on its mandate to serve the youth, adopting the institution and making generous donations of stationery, books, appliances, toiletries and food...

Genuine care and concern for others are hallmarks of a life spent in voluntary service for Social Development Commission (SDC) Kingston and St. Andrew Leadership and Community Development Award recipient, Hazel Veronica Espeut. Now 101 years old, Mrs. Espeut has dedicated her life to giving back to her community of McIntyre Land in Brown’s Town, Kingston, where she has lived...

Over thirty years ago Kenneth Wilson and a group of residents joined forces to stem the gun violence that has stained the image of August Town. Through various social intervention methods, the August Town Peace Builders reaped its biggest success in 2016 when the community recorded zero murders. “We never set out for any type of award when we started....

Claudia Chambers can easily match skills with any male carpenter and also hold her own equally behind a welding torch. “I just love building things,” says Ms. Chambers, who is a certified welder and carpenter. “I like the fact that when I build something I can actually go back and look at it and say I built that,” she tells...

He started out selling water to churchgoers in the Valdez Road community of Spanish Town before taking on other small entrepreneural ventures. Today, Peter Ivey is a recognised international chef and owner of The Reggae Chefs – a personal-chef business based in New York. The Jamaica College old boy says it was his grandfather who first sparked the flame of...