Character Designer and Illustrator, Danielle Parchment, has welcomed the experience gained, after participating in a two-month summer programme at the Capilano University in Canada. Danielle, is the winner of the Character Design category at the KingstOOn 2019 animation competition, held earlier this year. Her project was entitled ‘Gabby – The Duppy Conqueror’. As part of her winning prize, she was...

Statistics from the National Children’s Registry (NCR) is showing a reduction in reports of missing children last year. A total of 1,512 children were reported missing in 2018, which is the lowest figure since the establishment of the Ananda Alert system in 2009. In 2017, a total of 1,674 children were reported missing, with 1,476 returned. There is a 90...

With three state-of-the-art classrooms and other facilities set to come into operation at the South Camp Juvenile Correctional and Remand Centre in St. Andrew, officials say wards will further excel in their educational pursuit. The new additions will be accommodated in a multipurpose centre, to be completed by the end of the year. The Centre will also have an information...

The Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), has been empowering teenage mothers through its Advancing Secondary, Tertiary Remedial Education for Adolescent Mothers (A-STREAM) Programme. The initiative, which was launched in March 2018, has three main components – mentorship, sponsorship and scholarship. WCJF Director of Field Operations, Beverley Martin Berry tells JIS News that the Foundation is in the business of...

Santana Morris has distinguished herself as a dedicated youth leader, who is devoted to nation building and youth advocacy. Over the last two years, the Youth Ambassador to the United Nations General Assembly has been using her platform to empower young people in Jamaica and the Diaspora and to advocate for actions to address the concerns and issues that they...

As 21-year-old Ryan Williams laid in hospital nursing gunshot wounds in December 2018, he decided that it was time to make a change in his life and end his involvement in criminal activities. Shortly after he was released from the hospital, the Kingston resident visited the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) III office, determined to move his life in...

High achiever, Geri-Ann Miller, has made her school and family proud, having secured 13 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects, including 12 Grade Ones, in the 2019 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Examination. The 17-year-old Manning’s School top achiever, who hails from Savanna-la-Mar in the parish, obtained grade one in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, English A, Human and Social...

For the past four years, Alrick Powell, a student of Dinthill High School in St. Catherine, has had to live with the fact of his father, with whom he shared a very close relationship, being in a vegetative state. This resulted from the elder Powell developing complications after undergoing surgery at a hospital in Kingston, where he has remained for...

Emerging as the top performer in the 2019 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination at Tarrant High School in Kingston, has been a thrilling experience for Feona Cameron. The achievement has been even more significant, as Feona’s other four siblings did not finish high school. Feona tells JIS News that she was determined to be the first one in her...