The Ministry of Schooling, Abilities, Youth and Data (MoESYI) is ready to honour Jamaica’s brightest younger skills on the 2025 Prime Minister’s National Youth Awards for Excellence, scheduled for Saturday, Might 31, 2025, at Jamaica Home.
This 12 months’s occasion embraces the theme: “Impression – Centered on Modern Minds, Purposeful Motion and Collective Triumphs.”
Acknowledged as Jamaica’s premier nationwide accolade for youth achievement, the Awards will highlight 88 distinctive nominees from numerous fields. Notably, this 12 months introduces new classes for Technical and Vocational Schooling and Coaching (TVET) and Particular Skills, reflecting the Authorities’s dedication to increasing alternatives for all younger Jamaicans.
Senator Dr. the Honourable Dana Morris Dixon, Minister of Schooling, Abilities, Youth and Data, expressed her enthusiasm forward of the ceremony: “I’m at all times able to assist and have fun our younger individuals. I’m happy to see the calibre of innovation, creativity, and excellence being recognised at this 12 months’s Prime Minister’s Nationwide Youth Awards for Excellence. This 12 months is very significant as we introduce two new classes—Technical and Vocational Coaching (TVET), and the Particular Skills Award. These additions replicate this Authorities’s deliberate thrust to create actual alternatives for all our younger individuals.”
Minister Dixon additional emphasised the Ministry’s sturdy funding in TVET by the HEART/NSTA Belief as a confirmed path to jobs and financial empowerment. She additionally highlighted the elevated give attention to youth with particular wants, acknowledging their resilience and management. “We see you, imagine in you and have fun you,” she added.
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Dr. Kasan Troupe, Everlasting Secretary of the Ministry, reaffirmed the dedication to youth empowerment by schooling and alternative. She famous the Ministry’s transformation agenda geared toward increasing numerous pathways for younger individuals to form their futures. “The Prime Minister’s Youth Awards stand as a robust image of the Ministry’s dedication to at all times have fun those that seize alternative whereas inspiring others to rise to their fullest potential,” Dr. Troupe stated.
This 12 months’s awards additionally mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the Youth and Adolescents Coverage Division (previously the Nationwide Centre for Youth Improvement), which has been pivotal in empowering Jamaicans aged 15-29 by strategic programming and public-private partnerships.
Senior Director (Performing) Yanique Williams, a key determine within the Division’s historical past, described the Awards as a celebration of youth affect and transformative management: “The Prime Minister’s Youth Awards are a testomony to what turns into attainable when our younger individuals are empowered to guide from the entrance and construct the longer term all of us need to see.”
Prime Minister Dr. The Most Honourable Andrew Holness is predicted to personally current a particular award to a nominee whose achievements exemplify distinctive braveness, imaginative and prescient, and affect over the previous 12 months.
The Awards ceremony will likely be livestreamed on the Prime Minister’s and Jamaica Data Service’s social media channels, showcasing excellence throughout classes corresponding to Lecturers, Agriculture, Arts and Tradition, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Safety, Science and Expertise, Journalism, New Media, Music, Nation-Constructing, Management, Particular Skills, TVET, Sports activities, and Youth Improvement—accompanied by participating leisure performances.
As Jamaica continues to put money into its younger individuals, the Prime Minister’s Nationwide Youth Awards stay a beacon celebrating innovation, dedication, and the promising way forward for the nation.
