Business executive, and youth mentor, the Hon. Ian Forbes, who will be officially installed as Custos of St. Andrew on May 12, wants to continue to create positive pathways for young people. Mr. Forbes, who is the Managing Director of Sherwin Williams West Indies Limited, received his introduction to community involvement from the Scout Movement, in which his parents gave...

The public is being encouraged to come out and support youth farmers at the Jamaica 4-H Clubs National Achievement Expo 2022, to be staged at the Denbigh showground in Clarendon, on Friday, May 13. The event will be held under the theme ‘Youth in Agriculture, Strengthening Food Security Through Innovation and Technology’. Public Relations and Marketing Manager, Karelle McCormack, told...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) remains steadfast in its mandate of protecting children from harm and ensuring their well-being. During Child Month (May), the agency will undertake several activities predominantly targeting children in State care and their families, with an emphasis on providing opportunities for children’s self-expression, in keeping with the 2022 Child Month theme, ‘Listen Up!...

Screams of excitement punctuated the air on Tuesday (May 3) as students from primary and infant schools across Northeast St. Ann came face-to-face with the Child Protection and Family Services (CPFSA) mascot, ‘Mr. Protector’, which was designed by a primary-school student. The mascot made its inaugural stop at the Bamboo Primary and Junior High School, the institution that its designer,...

The Manchester based empowerment and charitable group, MATHS Simplified, is steadily making the subject of mathematics easier for students in the parish, while also equipping them with tablet computers. For the second consecutive year, the group staged the MATHS Simplified Essay Competition and awarded four participants with scholarships valued over $89,000. In addition, they also donated 45 tablet computers to students...

The Bustamante Hospital for Children, in partnership with the Southeast Regional Health Authority (SERHA), will be launching its inaugural Child Safety public education campaign in May as part of activities to mark Child Month. This is to sensitise parents and caregivers about critical interventions that should be implemented to safeguard children three to 17 years of age against the ingestion...

Ninety-eight per cent of the 701 students at Mile Gully High School in Manchester are re-engaged, following the two-year disruption of the education sector, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Principal of the school, Christopher Tyme, told JIS News that they carried out extensive outreach interventions, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth’s ‘Yard to Yard, Find the Child’...

Using agriculture and land-based therapy to disrupt violence and criminal behaviour among young people is the aim of the Positive Pathways Initiative’s Social Agriculture programme, which was officially launched in the community of Flanker, St. James, on April 9. The programme is being executed by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through Democracy International, in collaboration with the Village...

The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) has commended the Government, particularly the Ministries of Education and Youth, and Health and Wellness, for taking steps to address unhealthy eating in schools. Speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at the JYAN, Shereika Mills, said that “we all have to start taking steps to realise our Vision 2030...