The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) has named Ardenne High School’s Lianna Jones and Curtis Clennon of Cornwall College as its 2022 Youth Ambassadors. During a year...

More children with sensory challenges now have access to therapeutic assistance, following the commissioning of the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP) Sensation Station, in Kingston, on May 31. The ESP is...

Jamaican youth are being encouraged to take up active participation in the country’s disaster risk management and preparedness efforts. Director General at the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management...

Ninety-four students, who had unpaid fees during their final semester at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, have received financial assistance through the Prime Minister’s Positive Jamaica Foundation...

Four early-childhood education institutions across the island have been given a much-needed facelift by the Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA). The agency undertook critical repairs and beautification works at the schools,...

Six thousand young people were engaged in 2021, under the Youth Summer Employment Programme. They were deployed across the country to assist in implementing the COVID-19 support programme, under the...

Eighteen patients at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) on Labour Day benefitted from well-needed surgeries which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The surgeries were performed as...

With an average of 34 calls on matters of child abuse received each day by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency, Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams...