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Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Denise Herbol (left), has the keen attention of (from right): Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor E. Nigel Harris; Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna; Arnett Gardens resident, Jasmine Barnes; Chairman of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Children’s Advisory Panel, Charles Young; and Executive Director of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey. They were at the launch of the Transitional Living Programme for Children in State Care Project, at the UWI on October 30. The project is being implemented by the UWI Open Campus Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC), in partnership with the Child Development Agency. It is being funded by the USAID at a cost of US$1.3 million.
Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Denise Herbol (left), has the keen attention of (from right): Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor E. Nigel Harris; Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna; Arnett Gardens resident, Jasmine Barnes; Chairman of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Children’s Advisory Panel, Charles Young; and Executive Director of the Child Development Agency (CDA), Rosalee Gage-Grey. They were at the launch of the Transitional Living Programme for Children in State Care Project, at the UWI on October 30. The project is being implemented by the UWI Open Campus Caribbean Child Development Centre (CCDC), in partnership with the Child Development Agency. It is being funded by the USAID at a cost of US$1.3 million.

Girls in State Care to Benefit from Transitional Living Arrangements

By: Alphea Saunders, October 31, 2014
Forty girls in Government-run homes are to benefit from transitional living arrangements under a US$1.3 million programme, which was launched on Thursday, October 30, under the United States Agency for...
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre), addresses the launch of the community-based Intangible Cultural Heritage Initiative at the Ministry’s New Kingston offices on October 28. The project is aimed at collecting aspects of Jamaica’s traditional practices for preservation. Also pictured are (from left): Executive Director, Institute of Jamaica, Ann Marie Bonner; and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Jamaica, David Brown.

Culture Ministry Embarks on Initiative to Preserve Legacy

By: Athaliah Reynolds-Baker, October 29, 2014
Minister of Youth and Culture, Hon. Lisa Hanna (left), presents music producer, Donovan Germain, with his silver Musgrave medal during a ceremony at the Institute of Jamaica Lecture Theatre in Kingston, on October 22. Nine Jamaicans were awarded Musgrave Medals by the Institute, in recognition of their outstanding contributions in the literary, scientific and artistic fields.

Nine Outstanding Jamaicans Awarded by Institute of Jamaica

By: Chris Patterson, October 24, 2014

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