Young journalist and Prime Minister’s National Youth Awardee for 2020, Javaughn Keyes, says the real awardee is his mother, Claudette Thomas. Mr. Keyes, 23 years old, tells JIS News that his mother not only brought him into the world but also provided for him, even while she was also in need, because as a freelance florist, business has not always...

The third time’s a charm for actor and educator, Akeem Mignott, who took home the Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence in arts and culture this year after two previous nominations. He was first nominated in 2013 and again in 2017. The 27-year-old, who spoke to JIS News shortly after the made-for-television awards ceremony on December 13, says he...

Not many persons across the globe can boast of achieving a Guinness World Record. Jamaican, Brandon Chin Loy, can do so, as he and five other members of a multi-national team, achieved the most chest to ground burpees (12,502) ever recorded in 24 hours, set in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE), on May 3 this year. The goal or...

There is a plan to assign a mentor to every adolescent mother who enrols at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF). The WCJF, a division of the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, was established in 1978 to provide continuing education for girls who drop out of school due to pregnancy. The plan is one of the recommendations...

With 18 subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, 14 of them with distinction, it is no surprise that Wadada Dixon was named the top performer at this year’s staging of the National Child Month Committee (NCMC) youth forum and academic achievement awards. The 16-year-old Denbigh High School student is among 21 pupils from 16 non-traditional high schools...

Shantel Williams, an aspiring information and communications technology (ICT) teacher, is the first successful recipient of the inaugural Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH) Tertiary ICT Scholarship. In an interview with JIS News, she expressed joy at getting the opportunity to realise her dream of furthering her education. The soft-spoken 19-year-old, after delaying college for two years owing...

Life has taught transitioning ward of the State, 18-year-old LeChelle Walker, to live with a heart of gratitude and always look for the silver lining in every situation. It is, therefore, no surprise that the teenager, despite not achieving eight distinctions in the 2020 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination, as she had hoped, is nonetheless still happy and thankful...

Becoming a statistician was never something that Amanda Lee had planned on doing. In fact, when the 27-year-old St. Hugh’s High School past student started the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, her career goal was to become an economist. “I did economics in sixth form, which I really enjoyed. Statistics, I kind of picked up along the way,”...

Director for the Mount Olivet Boys’ Home in Manchester, Patrick Newman’s passion for working with boys and young men, deemed at risk, as also children in State care is driven by his philosophy to “leave the world a better place than how I came and saw it”. Mr. Newman is among the hundreds of Jamaicans who will be recognized on...