Approximately $1.3 billion has been allocated to the Child Development Agency (CDA), in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The CDA represents an amalgamation of...

Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, is encouraging young people to take up jobs in the tourism industry. The Minister, who was addressing the inaugural Tourism Youth Expo and Career Fair...

The Development of Sport and Recreational Facilities Project has received $600 million to continue to help preserve Jamaica's cultural heritage. The funds have been set aside in the Estimates of...

Youth development and empowerment is being given special attention in the 2009/2010 budget, with a total of $186.3 million allocated to these programmes. The Youth Development Programme (YDP) will spend...

Work will continue this fiscal year to increase the access of the youth to quality information, skills and services in order to reduce their risk for HIV infection. This will...

Twenty one, of more than 300 singers and songwriters across the island that entered the Festival Song 2k9 Competition have been selected to participate in the semi final round on...

Children's Advocate, Mary Clarke, has called on Jamaicans to begin to practise proper waste disposal in order to ensure a safer environment for the nation's children. "It is time for...

The Government is spending approximately $82 million this fiscal year on youth empowerment and development programmes. The Ministry of Education has been allocated $50 million in the 2009/10 Estimates of...

Ladies and Gentlemen, join me in creative imagination. Close your eyes and picture this:A backdrop of unfurling mountain ranges, towering peaks and lush vegetation - sixty thousand revelers sway in...

The Mandeville Police Youth Club will on Saturday (April 4) stage a fun day to support its social outreach programmes in communities across Manchester. The event will feature many popular...

Emancipation Day will be celebrated on August 1, as usual, this year although the date falls on a Saturday. A release issued by the JIS yesterday had quoted Minister of...