Quality leadership needed to facilitate change at New Opportunity Corps – Norton

Stakeholders who met last week to carve a path for the improvement of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) have been urged to see young people as assets to society rather than problems.

Addressing the meeting, Presidential Adviser on Youth Empowerment Aubrey Norton referred to President David Granger’s choice to pardon a number of youth prisoners convicted for petty offences, noting that there was need for a reevaluation aimed at having juvenile