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Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (right), listens to a concern being raised by trainee teacher of the Mico University College, Chevelle Crosdale (left), at a job fair for unemployed teachers hosted by the Ministry at its National Heroes Circle location in Kingston, August 13. At second left is trainee teacher, Shortwood Teachers’ College, Shelly-Ann Willis.

Education Minister Encourages Trainee Teachers to Volunteer

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is encouraging trainee teachers to volunteer their services as a first step to securing employment. “I am urging you (student teachers) to consider volunteering where necessary, and where available in your school communities,”...

Participant in the Jamaica Business Development Corporation’s (JBDC), intermediate leather craft and business development skills training programme, Shanice Beckford (left) shows off her work to JBDC Trainer/Leather Craft Expert, Valentine McLean (centre); and Project Manager, Inner City Basic Services Project, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Dale Colquhoun, during the programme’s closing ceremony at the JBDC’s Incubator and Resource Centre on Marcus Garvey Drive, Kingston, on August 9.

Twenty Residents Complete JBDC Leather Craft Course

Representatives of the St. James Parish Library, Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), and Blue World Travels, engage in sorting out the over 1000 books that were presented by passengers of the Cruise Ship, Festival at Sea, for students across western Jamaica, after the vessel docked in Montego Bay, St. James, last week. The donations, which were facilitated through United States-based Blue World Travels, were handed over to representatives of the Ministry of Education and JTB, during a brief presentation ceremony at the Montego Bay Cruise Ship Terminal.

Students to Benefit from International Children’s Book Drive

Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change Minister, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (centre), views sections of the Nonpareil Water Supply Rehabilitation and Expansion Project in Negril, Westmoreland, during a tour of the works on Friday (August 9). Accompanying him were, from left: Tourism Minister and Member of Parliament for Western Westmoreland, where the project is located, Hon. Dr. Wykeham McNeill; Contractor, David Foote; Mark Bare, Ministry of Water; and Mayor of Savanna-la-Mar, Councillor Bertel Moore.

Negril Water Project Slated for 2014 Completion

Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Fenton Ferguson (2nd left), looks on as Youth and Culture Minister, Hon. Lisa Hanna (centre), participates in the symbolic groundbreaking exercise at the Claremont Health Centre in St. Ann on Friday (August 9) to launch the $40 million Centre of Excellence project at the institution. The project is located in South East St. Ann, for which Minister Hanna is also the Member of Parliament. Others participating in the exercise included: North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) Board Chairman, Leon Gordon (2nd right); and Chairman of the National Health Fund (NHF), which is funding the project, Sterling Soares (right).

Ground Broken for $40m Claremont Centre of Excellence

13 years ago Education

Mathematics Initiative Earmarked for September

The Ministry of Education will be implementing an intensified mathematics programme come the start of the 2013/14 academic year in September. This initiative aims, among other things, to boost Jamaica’s performance in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) mathematics examinations. The intervention, to be undertaken over the short to medium term, is intended to ensure that persons teaching mathematics have...

13 years ago Culture

NCYD Stages Youth Forum on August 12

The National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD) will be staging a Youth Forum at the Law Faculty Theatre, at the University of the West Indies, on Monday, August 12, beginning at 2:00 p.m. This is being held to observe International Youth Day, which has been designated by the United Nations (UN). On this day the UN promotes the development of...

Krystal Tomlinson, Miss Manchester and the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Miss Jamaica Festival Queen 2013 (centre), is flanked by (left), Nordia Marie Antwine, Miss St. Mary (First Runner up), and Evonie Blake, Miss St. Elizabeth (Second Runner Up), at the Coronation Ceremony, held at the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre, on Hope Road in Kingston, on August 3.

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13 years ago Culture

National Festival Queen to Undertake Project for Disabled Students

Newly crowned National Festival Queen, Krystal Tomlinson, says she is targeting heightening the awareness and changing the attitude of students toward persons with disabilities, specifically their peers, as one of her parish projects. The project for disabled students is slated to be launched on August 29 at a selected school in Manchester. “I want to start inside our schools because...

13 years ago Education

Decisive Action for Students’ Academic Challenges Urged

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is urging principals and other high school administrators to ensure that literacy or numeracy challenges which new students entering their institutions may have, are addressed as a matter of priority. “When you go in with the grade seven students in September...spend the time to get to know them and if there are weaknesses in...

13 years ago Labour

Registration Fairs for Disabled Persons Underway

An additional 6500 persons with varying degrees of disabilities have been added to the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD) database, through a series of islandwide registration fairs, currently underway. The initiative, which began on July 22, forms part of the Council’s thrust to enhance its outreach programme to disabled persons across the society. Executive Director of the JCPD,...

13 years ago Education

Top GSAT Students Awarded Petrojam Scholarships

Two students of the Greenwich All-Age School in Kingston, Romario Rowe and Chanel McGregor, who performed outstandingly in this year’s Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), have been awarded five-year scholarships valued $300,000 each towards their secondary education by state oil refinery, Petrojam Limited. Both youngsters, whose results topped their school’s list of GSAT candidates, will each receive $60,000 per year...

13 years ago Education

NPSC to Host Information Fairs in August

The Ministry of Education, through the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), will host a series of Information Fairs during the month of August, under the theme: ‘Surviving the Transition to Secondary School’. These fairs are being staged to provide assistance to parents whose children will be attending secondary schools in the new academic year. The first in the series will...