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Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry, Greig Smith (centre), responds to a question at an information dissemination session for childcare and protection stakeholders, hosted by the Ministry of Education’s Quality Education Circle Thirty-One (QEC 31) cluster of schools on Thursday (December 11), at Troy High School in Trelawny. Others (from left) are: Marsha Baker from the Office of the Children’s Advocate; and Carla Bingham-Ledgister of the Trelawny Parish AIDS Association.
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry, Greig Smith (centre), responds to a question at an information dissemination session for childcare and protection stakeholders, hosted by the Ministry of Education’s Quality Education Circle Thirty-One (QEC 31) cluster of schools on Thursday (December 11), at Troy High School in Trelawny. Others (from left) are: Marsha Baker from the Office of the Children’s Advocate; and Carla Bingham-Ledgister of the Trelawny Parish AIDS Association.

OCR Calls for Partnerships to Protect Children

By: Sharon Earle, December 16, 2014
Registrar at the Office of the Children’s Registry (OCR), Greig Smith, is appealing for increased partnerships for the care and protection of the nation’s children. He said that the collaboration...
Clinical Psychologist and Special Educator, Jamaica Association on Intellectual Disabilities, Dr. Avril Daley, conducts a training and sensitisation workshop for job coaches attached to the National Youth Service (NYS) Empowerment Programme. The workshop is being held at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston from December 8 to 12.

NYS to Help Intellectually Disabled Young Persons

By: Athaliah Reynolds-Baker, December 9, 2014
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna, addresses participants in the final presentation ceremony for the National Youth Service’ (NYS) Entrepreneurship Competition ‘The Pitch’ at the New Kingston Conference Centre on Thursday (Dec. 4). The top three finalists were awarded a total of $600,000 to invest in their businesses.

Young People Urged to Create Their Own Jobs

By: Alecia Smith-Edwards, December 6, 2014

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Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2014, Anjell Bryan (right), is in discussion with Manager, Public Relations and Communications, Child Development Agency (CDA), Prudence Barnes, following the official launch of the Guardian Anjell Play and Learn Initiative on November 3, at the Guardian Life offices in Kingston.
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NYS to Launch Entrepreneurship Competition

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Deputy Head Girl of Ardenne High School, Karen Nembhard (right), holds mike for a student to make her contribution at the National Child Month Committee (NCMC) 2014 Youth Forum, held at the St. Andrew Parish Church Hall on November 7.
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Students Participate in Youth Forum

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By: Judith A. Hunter, November 10, 2014