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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.

Schools to be Repaired Before New Academic Year

All critical repairs and construction being undertaken at schools will be completed before the start of the new academic year. At a back-to-school press conference at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on August 31, Portfolio Minister, Senator the...
Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Cliff Riley, cuts the ribbon to open a science laboratory at the Windsor Castle All-Age School in Portland on August 30. Looking on is Senior Vice Principal, Beverley Clarke. The lab was provided under the European Union (EU)-funded Improving Innovation Capacities in the Caribbean Project (INVOCAB).
Executive Director of the Scientific Research Council (SRC), Dr. Cliff Riley, cuts the ribbon to open a science laboratory at the Windsor Castle All-Age School in Portland on August 30. Looking on is Senior Vice Principal, Beverley Clarke. The lab was provided under the European Union (EU)-funded Improving Innovation Capacities in the Caribbean Project (INVOCAB).

Windsor Castle All-Age and Horace Clarke High get fully Equipped Science Labs
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), and Programme Director for the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme (ACP), Petronia Colley, listen attentively to a presentation at the two-day training seminar on ‘Farm Enterprise Management’, held at the Hyatt Ziva/Zilara Rose Hall hotel, Montego Bay, St. James, on August 29.
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. J.C. Hutchinson (left), and Programme Director for the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme (ACP), Petronia Colley, listen attentively to a presentation at the two-day training seminar on ‘Farm Enterprise Management’, held at the Hyatt Ziva/Zilara Rose Hall hotel, Montego Bay, St. James, on August 29.

Jamaican Producers Benefit from Globalisation – Head of the Agricultural Competitiveness Programme (ACP)
Operations Manager of the World Bank, Asha Johnson, brings greetings at the closing ceremony for the Integrated Community Development Programme’s (ICDP) 2016 summer camps held on August 30 at Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston.
Operations Manager of the World Bank, Asha Johnson, brings greetings at the closing ceremony for the Integrated Community Development Programme’s (ICDP) 2016 summer camps held on August 30 at Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston.

2,130 Youth Benefit from JSIF Summer Camp
In this file photo, Distribution agent with GeoTechVision Limited, Varon England (left), shows Shaniqua Hibbert, student of the Greater Portmore campus of the Windsor School for Special Education, how to operate one of the tablet computers which were handed over to the institution, under the Tablets in Schools Programme.
In this file photo, Distribution agent with GeoTechVision Limited, Varon England (left), shows Shaniqua Hibbert, student of the Greater Portmore campus of the Windsor School for Special Education, how to operate one of the tablet computers which were handed over to the institution, under the Tablets in Schools Programme.

$2.1 Billion for Second Phase of Tablets in Schools Programme

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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses a back-to-school press conference at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on August 31.
Education

High Schools to Receive Second Disbursement of $600 Million in September

The Government will provide an additional $600 million in tuition to secondary schools during the second week of September. This represents the second tranche of the $3.9 billion in increased tuition support to schools for the 2016/17 academic year, following the Government’s decision to abolish auxiliary fees at the secondary level. In June, the first payment of more than $1.4...
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Chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), Christopher Zacca, provides details about the increase in subsidy on drugs for children during a JIS Think Tank on August 31.
Health & WellnessJIS Think Tank

NHF Increases Drug Subsidy for Children

The National Health Fund (NHF) will be increasing its subsidy on drugs, respiratory devices and diabetic supplies for children from zero to 18 years by 100 per cent effective September 1. The entity will be spending approximately $70 million per year to facilitate the increase. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank on Wednesday (August 31), NHF Chairman, Christopher Zacca, said...
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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses a back-to-school press conference at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on August 31.
Education

CXC Agrees to Accept SBAs of Penwood High Students

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has decided to accept the outstanding School-based Assessment (SBA) samples of students of Penwood High School in St. Andrew. This was disclosed by Minister of Education,  Youth and Information,  Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, during a back-to-school press conference at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on August 31. Approximately 40 students of the school...
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Attorney General, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte (centre) speaks with Chairman of the Montego Bay Free Zone, Mark Hart (left) and Assistant Vice President of Operations and Customer Relations at the Montego Bay Free Zone, Gloria Henry. The Attorney General who is also Member of Parliament for West Central St. James was attending a recent groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of the Free Zone.
Justice

Attorney General Welcomes BPO Development in St. James

Attorney General, Hon. Marlene Malahoo Forte says the expansion of the Business Process Outsourcing, (BPO) sector in Montego Bay is expected to play a major role in the provision of employment for the youth of St. James. She said the recent groundbreaking ceremony for an additional 63,000 square feet of office space to facilitate expansion of the growing BPO industry,...
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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid.
EducationYouth

Zero Tolerance for School Violence – Senator Reid

With the new school year set to begin on Monday (September 5),  Education Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, has warned that violence in school will not be tolerated. “We have an obligation to ensure that our school compounds are safe and that our students and teachers can operate in an environment that is conducive to learning....
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Sport

Jamaica Heads to 42nd World Chess Olympiad in Baku

Right on the heels of Jamaica’s impressive showing in the recently concluded Rio Summer Olympics, led by the irrepressible Usain Bolt, another Jamaican team is off to battle the world! Thirteen individuals (of a fifteen-person delegation) comprising players and officials left Jamaica on Monday, August 29 to compete in the 42nd World Chess Olympiad scheduled to be held in Baku,...
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Minister of Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (centre), listens to a comment from Captain O’Neil Nelson (right) of the Jamaica Combined Cadet Corps at a back-to-school meeting with principals in the Ministry’s Region 4, held at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre in St. James on Tuesday, August 30. Regional Director, Dr. Michelle Pinnock, looks on.
Education

Education Ministry to Introduce New Early-Stimulation Programme

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, will be introducing a new early-stimulation programme, which will prepare children for learning while they are still in the womb. “We are priding ourselves on a structured programme from pregnancy to age 29,” said Portfolio Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid. “We will network through our other ministries…to ensure we work together to...
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