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• The Government is taking steps to amend the Children (Adoption of) Act with a view to making the adoption process in Jamaica less tedious and conform to international standards.
• Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, tells JIS News that the legislation, which was passed in 1958, is outdated.
• “A number of things have changed in relation to the rights of the child… and as such, one of the things we had to look at is to ensure that the adoption accords with the Convention of the Rights of the Child and the Child Care and Protection Act,” he says.