The Union Gardens Infant School in South West St. Andrew has taken steps to ensure that the nutritional needs of the nearly 70 students enrolled at the early childhood institution are being adequately met. This is in keeping with Standard 7 of the Early Childhood Commission’s Standards for the Operation, Management and Administration of Early Childhood Institutions (ECIs). Principal, Pauline...

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has congratulated West Indies Cricketer Chris Gayle on becoming the first batsman to score 10,000 runs in Twenty20 cricket. Gayle set the world record while helping his team Royal Challengers Bangalore defeat Gujarat Lions in the Indian Premier League on Tuesday. In sending congratulations to Gayle, Minister Grange said...

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Howard Isaacs, has urged members to constantly remind themselves of the principles under which the association was formed. Addressing the opening of the JTA’s annual three-day Education Conference, at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort & Spa, St. James, on April 18, Mr. Isaacs noted that the founders of the JTA, in setting out...

General Secretary of Education International, Fred van Leeuwen, says teachers should view the profession as their most valuable asset and their most effective weapon to realise their democratic ideals and aspirations. “We should not allow outsiders, self-proclaimed experts, consultancy agencies, and corporations to determine our professional standards,” he urged. Mr. van Leeuwen, a native of the Netherlands, was giving the...

Some $50 million has been spent by the Child Development Agency (CDA) to refurbish the Summerfield Child Facility in Clarendon, which houses 31 teenage girls. Speaking at the official reopening on April 18, State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, said the work had been put in to make sure that the staff and...

The Government will be launching a National Science and Technology Fund on Wednesday, April 19. The Fund will support technology transfer from innovators to industry and service sectors, provide intellectual property support, enhance human resource development and promote science. This was disclosed by Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, during his contribution to the 2017/18...

Newly established Community Access Points (CAPs) are to be outfitted with solar systems as the Government works to ensure the sustainability of operations at these sites. This exercise is to be carried out by the Universal Service Fund (USF), which is also to begin retrofitting old CAP sites with these systems. Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon....