April 24, 2019
Parents Encouraged Not to Isolate Children with Disabilities
JIS: Director of the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus, Senator Dr. Floyd Morris, is encouraging parents not to isolate, exclude or discourage…
April 21, 2019
Focus on Children With Special Needs in May
JIS: Jamaica will observe Child Month 2019 in May, under the theme ‘Encourage, Enable, Include Me’. Speaking at the launch,…
April 21, 2019
Adoption Regulations to be Amended
JIS: State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, says regulations governing the adoption of children in State care are to be amended in order to…
April 21, 2019
Gov’t Intensifying Zero-Tolerance Approach to Corporal Punishment in Schools
JIS: Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, says come September when the 2019/20 academic year begins, all reports of corporal punishment being administered…
April 11, 2019
Refurbished Science Lab Handed Over to St. Catherine High
JIS: A refurbished science laboratory was officially handed over to St. Catherine High School in Spanish Town today (April 10) by Member of Parliament and wife of the Prime Minister, the…