Abilities Foundation News Today

The Ministry of Labour and Social Security has introduced a pilot programme for the employment of capable persons with disabilities in the Overseas Employment Programme. This initiative involves partnering with the Abilities Foundation, engaging...

'I am able'

The Abilities Foundation is one of six schools and community centres in Kingston to receive rainwater harvesting tanks courtesy of CityAdapt, an effort led by UNEP to help Caribbean communities contend with climate change.

DEAF and hard-of-hearing members of society are now poised to have direct access to a range of social services including police, fire and legal services, as some public servants were among the 180...

WESTERN BUREAU: Jamaican Pamela Rodney-White has been elected Governor for the Eastern Canada...

EAGER HIGH school students converged on the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston last Wednesday to attend a novel Nature-based Solutions (NbS) advocacy conference designed to equip them with first-hand knowledge of the skills and interventions...

STUDENTS OF Kingston Technical High School and members of the school’s 4-H Club recently attended a comprehensive training session on the set-up and maintenance of container gardens, as part of the United Nations Environment Programme’s CityAdapt...

ENGAGING WITH Jamaica’s vibrant youth population on nature-based approaches to cope with climate change has been an important goal of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) CityAdapt climate adaptation project scoped for Kingston and two...

With deep sadness, we announce the loss of our Mama and Gran, Doris Faust Callies. On Saturday, she hugged our Daddy again for the first time in 16 years. On her side of heaven, there were many …

KINGSTON IS one of three medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean benefiting from a novel climate-resilience project called CityAdapt, which is being implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and financed by the...