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Upper school male students from eight secondary institutions in St. Thomas are the focus of the Angelic Ladies Society’s latest social project, ‘Echoes of Change – The Problem with the P’.

Through the engagement, the boys will participate in sensitisation workshops covering topics such as sexual violence, inappropriate touching, sex videos, the age of consent and healthy masculinity.

The organisation, which successfully executed a similar project last year focusing on young girls, has received European Union (EU) funding…

Jamaica’s budget scorecard has risen by two percentage points since 2019 to reach a still insufficient score of 41, according to the Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI) which last Thursday evening presented the results of an open budget survey assessing the openness of the Government of Jamaica’s 2023 budget.

Jamaica’s average score of 41 resulted from scores across three categories – Transparency (50), Participation (18), and Oversight (54).

The score ranks Jamaica at 55th out of the 125 countries assessed in the…

Horace Chang, deputy PM of country with highest homicide rate, praises US attorneys generals’ support for legislation.

Jamaica’s deputy prime minister has welcomed a campaign by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, to push through new measures and legislation to tackle gun trafficking from the US to the Caribbean.

Horace Chang, who is also Jamaica’s minister of security,…

The Government is being nudged to introduce incentives to prod thousands of Jamaicans currently outside the labour force — because they are caregivers of children or older relatives — back on the job.

The local think tank, Caribbean Policy Research Institute (CAPRI), says of the 411,000 individuals aged 18 to 70 outside the labour force: The greatest potential for additions to the country’s pool of workers would be from those individuals who are currently not working due to care responsibilities.

“Of those who were…

The Caribbean Policy Research Institute, CAPRI, says the state should subsidise the cost of care responsibilities for working and job-seeking parents.

That’s among the recommendations in CAPRI’s latest report on the labour force. The report is titled ‘Outside In: Increasing Participation in the Labour Force’.

CAPRI says it has concluded that approximately 411,000 people between the ages of 18 and 70 are outside the labour force.

Lead Researcher at CAPRI, Dr. Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil, says of that number, 15,000 want to…

Experts weigh efficiency of ZOSO’s social intervention methods; CAPRI reports calls for review of strategies

The spotlight on social-intervention tactics in crime-ravaged neighbourhoods, controlled by gangs with unchecked violence, is glaring. While some critics and security stakeholders support these methods, others remain critical, citing their prolonged history of failures despite being deemed essential by some.

The issue was among those that took centre stage last week as the Caribbean Policy Research Institute’s (…