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The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) is crediting its relationship with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) for swift investigations of viral child-abuse videos. There have been several videos circulating on social media in...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) says that 151 children who went missing from January to December 2023 are still missing. This number includes 133 girls and 18 boys. The Agency says that this is 14.7 per cent of the total 1,...

The Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) has been coordinating and engaging in activities to support the Ministry of Education and Youth's effort to implement the National Plan of Action for an Integrated Response to Children and...

An hour before her mother Heather Moyston was killed in a murder-suicide by her husband, Aimee Norman received a text message from her. As she did regularly, Moyston was inquiring about the well-being of her only child and her four grandchildren...

At 32 years old, Karen* still bears the emotional scars of being bullied throughout high school. She recalls how the repeated abuse from her peers at a prominent Corporate Area institution gnawed at her mental health to the point where she no...

Thirteen-year-old *Sanjay Green sat on top of a water bucket under the bridge at Three Miles, Kingston, with his squeegee and a bottle filled with soapy water in hand. Periodically, his tiny frame joins the throng of older windshield wipers who...

There were two contrasting scenes last Thursday: Old Harbour Primary School children smiling as they took their seats in their new ICT laboratory and Esher Primary School children receiving grief ...

Each year, the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) spends more than $40 million for tuition payments, educational grants and school supplies for children in State care. The money benef...

As part of our drive to support local charities, this week we are highlighting the incredible support provided by Norfolk-based Scottys Little…

Police seeking to clamp down on players in the deadly child trafficking scheme, which continues to leave families across the island devastated, say they have apprehended two women who they believe are facilitators in the underground ring. Police s