Career development officer at the Human Employment and Resource Training Trust/National Training Agency (HEART NSTA/Trust), Dr. Howard Harvey, says the agency is playing a key role in improving the life chances of young people. “As a practitioner in the HEART/NSTA Trust for over 27 years, I have seen literal change, transformation in young people. Where I am at the LEAP...

Former ward of the State and Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) high achiever Teana Fuller is encouraging young people in State care to not let their circumstances discourage them from achieving academic success. She says they should instead use their situation as motivation to keep pushing forward. “Just because you’re a ward of the State, that doesn’t mean you can’t...

Students at Central High School in Clarendon are basking in the first Universal Service Fund (USF) Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Club for high schools, aimed at promoting digital literacy and bridging the digital divide among Jamaica's youth. Launched recently, the club’s membership is 56 and has a growing list of prospective members. The initiative will provide students with a...

Resident of Majesty Gardens in Kingston, Emerson Benjamin, is now embarking on a new path of empowering youths within his community to stay away from crime and violence. After overcoming the lowest point in his life in 2022, Mr. Benjamin, along with his business partner, Nigel Francis, is now mentoring 13 youths, through his Positive Impact Foundation. “I try to...

Dozens of residents of the Mount Olivet Boys’ Home are now experiencing improvements in completing their school assignments as a result of devices acquired through the facility’s ongoing ‘Tablet Drive’. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the administration of the Walderston, Manchester-based facility embarked on the initiative to acquire tablets for the more than 40 wards, at the time....

Approximately 240 students from three communities in the Corporate Area and St. Catherine are being taught the basics of investing and money management through a series of gamified financial literacy workshops dubbed ‘Math and Money Challenge’. The initiative is being undertaken by Natty Platforms Limited through funding from the United States Embassy in Kingston and aligns with the Government’s objective...

High-school students across the island are being taught safe and responsible driving before getting behind the wheel, through a Learner Driver Education Programme being undertaken by the Road Safety Unit and the Island Traffic Authority (ITA). Education/Information Officer at the RSU, Dontae Matthews, tells JIS News that the programme seeks to introduce road and vehicular safety information to students, particularly...

Eighteen-year-old Alexcia Grant of Brown’s Town in St Ann, has always had a love affair with art. Her mother discovered her talent at just two years old, when the toddler drew a picture of them going to the supermarket, and Alexcia has not stopped drawing since, with her work adorning every corner of the family home. While she had raw...

For former student of the Montego Bay High School in St. James, Dora Watt, there is much to be proud of, having copped the award for Most Outstanding Performance in Humanities in the 2022 sitting of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). The 19-year-old Christian, who hails from Bethel Town in Westmoreland, made her family and...