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Jamaica’s Promise – Winston Jones High Introduces Students to Farming

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Director of Children and Family Programmes at the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Warren Thompson (right), displays the cover of a story book to grade-two students at the Bamboo Primary and Junior High School in St. Ann during Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday (May 3). Mr. Thompson visited the institution as part of a school tour to promote the importance of child protection and the Agency’s 211 Child Abuse Reporting Hotline.

Jamaica’s Promise – Winston Jones High Introduces Students to Farming

Through the school’s agricultural program, students at the Winston Jones High School, are being introduced to the many benefits and practices of sustainable farming, engaging in among other things, poultry farming, animal husbandry, and crop production. Principal of the Manchester-based institution, Marie Wilson Mclaughlin stressed that the school’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) program has a strong emphasis on agriculture and agricultural science, describing the subject as the mainstay of the curriculum.

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