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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), listens as Director of The Arrow Foundation, Christopher Bonterre (second left), outlines the entity’s activities during Tuesday’s (May 2) launch of Literacy Education Acceleration Programme (LEAP) pilot, at the Holy Trinity High School in Kingston. Also listening are Chief Education Officer (Acting) in the Ministry, Dr. Kasan Troupe (second right) and Head of the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, Belize, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands, Her Excellency Ambassador Marianne Van Steen.

Students in ZOSOs with Literacy Challenges Poised to ‘LEAP’ These Barriers

Students at six secondary schools in communities declared Zones of Special Operations (ZOSOs) are poised to benefit from the Literacy Education Acceleration Programme (LEAP) pilot, being implemented by the Ministry of Education and Youth. The beneficiary institutions are the Corporate...

President of the Jamaica Red Cross, Allasandra Chung.

Benefit Performance to Assist Jamaica Red Cross and Immaculate Conception Orchestra

Managing Director, Free Rock Trading Company Limited, David Ffrench (left); St. Mary Technical High School teacher, Richard Allen (centre); and Regional Sales Manager for the Megger Group, Moies Arenas, look at camera equipment in the school’s utility room. Occasion was the hand over of electrical testing tools by Free Rock to the institution on Thursday (April 27).

PHOTOS: St. Mary Technical High School gets Electronic Testing Tools

Education Officer in the Ministry of Education and Youth’s Special Education Unit, Avarine Bradshaw.

School-to-work Pilot to Begin September

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams.

Teachers Encouraged to Embrace Artificial Intelligence

The five age group champions of the 2022 National Reading Competition (foreground, from left): Janae Brown (12-14) who represented the St. Ann Parish Library Network; Allyiauna Gordon (15-20) from the St. Thomas Parish Library Network; Adlyn Smith Graham (21 and over) from the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library Network; Aly-Anna Holness (nine-11) from the St. Catherine Parish Library Network, and Cavane Carter (six-eight) from the Portland Parish Library Network. Celebrating with them are (background, from left) JLS Board Chairman, Paul Lalor, and Chief Executive Officer, VM Foundation, Samantha Charles. The 2021 and 2022 National Champions were awarded during a ceremony at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel last August.

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Entries Being Accepted for 2023 National Reading Competition

Jamaicans are being invited to enter this year’s National Reading Competition, for which registration has commenced. Entries are now being accepted for the competition, which is organised annually by the Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Persons may submit entries online at www.jls.gov.jm/nrc, or in-person at public libraries islandwide. The deadline for submission is May 13. The competition is slated to start...

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., brings remarks at the seventh annual Ueshima Coffee Company (UCC) Quality Cup contest at the Craighton Estate in Irish Town, St. Andrew, on April 20. UCC is the largest buyer of Jamaican coffee and was one of the first Japanese companies to directly take Jamaican coffee into Japan.

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PHOTOS: Minister Charles JR. Attends UCC Quality Cup Contest

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., brings remarks at the seventh annual Ueshima Coffee Company (UCC) Quality Cup contest at the Craighton Estate in Irish Town, St. Andrew, on April 20. UCC is the largest buyer of Jamaican coffee and was one of the first Japanese companies to directly take Jamaican coffee into Japan.

Member of Parliament for St. Catherine South East, Robert Miller, looks on during an education summit at the HEART/NSTA Trust College of Construction Services in Portmore on Thursday (April 20). The summit engaged fifth- and sixth-form students from high schools in the area.

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Portmore Students Benefit from Education Summit

Fifth- and sixth-form students from several high schools in Portmore were exposed to options for tertiary-level education and skills training, including financing, at an education summit on Thursday (April 20). The session, under the theme ‘Transforming Lives,’ was held at the HEART/NSTA Trust’s College of Construction Services and attracted students from Waterford, Bridgeport and Cumberland high schools. The students were...

Grade-six students at Constant Spring Primary School in St. Andrew, Romiah Jule (left, seated) and Stephen Dennis (right, seated) are assisted by (from left) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative, Denise Antonio; Deputy Regional Director, UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean, Linda Maguire; and Chief Executive Officer, Universal Service Fund (USF), Daniel Dawes, to navigate a computer software. The event was the closing ceremony for the Advancing Jamaica’s Digital Response to COVID-19 Rapid Finance Facility (COVID-RFF) Project on Wednesday (April 19), at the UNDP’s Kingston office.

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Jamaica Closer to Becoming a Digital Society

The country is one step closer to becoming a digital society, with 17 Internet sites across 10 communities now having broadband access through the Advancing Jamaica’s Digital Response to COVID-19 Rapid Finance Facility (COVID-RFF) Project. Under the initiative, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in partnership with the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, and the Universal Service Fund (USF),...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, addresses Zed Technologies Cybersecurity and Data Protection Conference, held on April 19 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston.

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Education Ministry Working to Improve Efficiency in Service Delivery

The Ministry of Education and Youth is working to improve efficiency in service delivery, including payments to its personnel, says Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams. Speaking at the Zed Technologies Cybersecurity and Data Protection Conference, held on April 19 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston, Mrs. Williams said the entire leadership of the Ministry wants to “do a...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon Fayval Williams, addresses the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica Biennial Research Conference 2023, at the Holiday Inn Resort, Montego Bay, St James, on Wednesday (April 19).

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Teachers Urged to Make Greater Use of Technology in the Classroom

Teachers are being implored to make greater use of technology in the teaching and learning process, even as normality has returned to the education sector, following the COVID-19 pandemic. Making the call, Minister of Education and Youth, Hon Fayval Williams, reiterated that technology-based education must become a permanent fixture in schools. She was addressing the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica Biennial...

Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (third right), and Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (third left), peruse the Citizens’ Guide to the 2023/24 Budget, during Tuesday’s (April 18) launch of the Secondary Schools Tour at Wolmer’s High School for Girls in Kingston. Copies of the Guide were presented to students at Wolmer’s Boys’ and Girls’ Schools. Also perusing the guide are (from left) Principal, Wolmer’s Boys’, Dwight Pennycooke; Head Boy, J’Vaughn Hyman; Head Girl, Wolmer’s Girls’, Dominique Brown and Principal, Colleen Montague.

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Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Kicks Off Secondary Schools Tour

Students at 10 institutions are poised to benefit from the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service’s Secondary Schools Tour, which runs from April 18 to 28. The event, which kicked off on Tuesday (April 18) at Wolmer’s High School for Girls in Kingston, will provide the youngsters with a simplified breakdown of the Government’s 2023/24 budgetary allocations. They will...