The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information continues measures to increase take-up of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine among students, including staging blitzes at schools, says portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams. “We work on the ground with the regional health authorities to get the vaccination events and blitzes up and working in our schools and we are going to continue to...

The administration of the St. Ann’s Bay Primary School in St. Ann welcomed back its students on Monday (January 10) in fine style by rolling out a red carpet. The entrance to the school was transformed into a glamorous space using balloon arrangements, to make the first day of face-to-face learning since the advent of the coronavirus in March 2020...

Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Robert Montague, has welcomed the School Train Service and urged parents to play their part in ensuring that children are on time to board the trains. Speaking at the Spanish Town Train Station in St. Catherine today (January 10), where the first two trains arrived from Old Harbour and Linstead, the Minister said by...

Two thousand books are being distributed to Jamaicans by the High Commission of India. Persons can visit the High Commission, 5 Earl’s Court, Acadia, Kingston 8, to select the books in which they are interested. The categories of books include English and Hindi literature, governance, international relations, world affairs, history, economy, politics and fiction. The book initiative, which began on...

Principal of Holland Primary School in St. Elizabeth, Simone Doctor, says focus is being placed on improving the reading levels among the critical grades as face-to-face classes resume in schools nationwide. She told JIS News that the institution, which resumed in-class learning on January 5, has already been devising strategies to improve students' reading across all the grades. Mrs. Doctor...

With the resumption of face-to-face classes, the Westmoreland Health Department is appealing to school administrators and parents to be on the lookout for symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HMFD) among children. The Health Department said that while there is no outbreak of the disease in the parish, there have been 12 reported cases of the viral illness across...