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Director of Education and Training at Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Trisha Ewen-Smith; Principal of Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf, Stacy-Ann Dockery; Acting Chief Executive Officer, e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited, Andrew Lee; and Director, Business Development Division, Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Deniese Badroe, display tablets donated by e-Learning Jamaica to the Jamaica Association for the Deaf, as part of the agency’s Corporate Social Responsibility. The tablets were handed over during a ceremony held on December 10, at the Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf in Kingston. The devices will support online teaching and learning at schools for the hearing impaired.
Director of Education and Training at Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Trisha Ewen-Smith; Principal of Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf, Stacy-Ann Dockery; Acting Chief Executive Officer, e-Learning Jamaica Company Limited, Andrew Lee; and Director, Business Development Division, Jamaica Association for the Deaf, Deniese Badroe, display tablets donated by e-Learning Jamaica to the Jamaica Association for the Deaf, as part of the agency’s Corporate Social Responsibility. The tablets were handed over during a ceremony held on December 10, at the Lister Mair Gilby High School for the Deaf in Kingston. The devices will support online teaching and learning at schools for the hearing impaired.

E-learning Jamaica Donates Tablets to the Jamaica Association for the Deaf

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (right); and British High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency, Judith Slater (centre), exchange greetings on arrival at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on Thursday (Dec. 9) to particiapte in the National Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Fourm. Looking on is Director, Donor and Partnership Management, National Education Trust (NET), Latoya Harris. The forum was staged by the NET under the theme: ‘Setting the stage for a national vision on STEAM Education in Jamaica.’
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (right); and British High Commissioner to Jamaica, Her Excellency, Judith Slater (centre), exchange greetings on arrival at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on Thursday (Dec. 9) to particiapte in the National Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) Fourm. Looking on is Director, Donor and Partnership Management, National Education Trust (NET), Latoya Harris. The forum was staged by the NET under the theme: ‘Setting the stage for a national vision on STEAM Education in Jamaica.’

PHOTOS: Minister Williams address STEAM forum
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (centre) and Chairperson of the Usain Bolt Foundation, Ms. Winsome Wilkins (third right), at a ceremony where supplies were handed over to the Mountain View Primary and Infant school by the Foundation, today (December 9). Others at the ceremony (from left) are: Acting Principal, Ms. Sashan Brown; Board Member of the Foundation, Mr. Stephen Shaw and students Amoya Atkinson, Dominick Hunt and Taeda Brown.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams (centre) and Chairperson of the Usain Bolt Foundation, Ms. Winsome Wilkins (third right), at a ceremony where supplies were handed over to the Mountain View Primary and Infant school by the Foundation, today (December 9). Others at the ceremony (from left) are: Acting Principal, Ms. Sashan Brown; Board Member of the Foundation, Mr. Stephen Shaw and students Amoya Atkinson, Dominick Hunt and Taeda Brown.

Usain Bolt Foundation Donates Supplies To School
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, the Hon. Fayval Williams (2nd right), looks at tablets donated to students of the Kingston High School by First Heritage Cooperative (FHC) Credit Union under the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child Initiative.’ FHC’s Kingston Gardens Branch Manager, Trudian Stewart (left), handed over the devices recently, at the branch located at 10 East Avenue, Kingston 4. FHC Credit Union has donated 100 tablets, with 40 of the devices reserved for special needs students, and the remainder for primary and secondary students island-wide.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, the Hon. Fayval Williams (2nd right), looks at tablets donated to students of the Kingston High School by First Heritage Cooperative (FHC) Credit Union under the ‘One Laptop or Tablet Per Child Initiative.’ FHC’s Kingston Gardens Branch Manager, Trudian Stewart (left), handed over the devices recently, at the branch located at 10 East Avenue, Kingston 4. FHC Credit Union has donated 100 tablets, with 40 of the devices reserved for special needs students, and the remainder for primary and secondary students island-wide.

PHOTOS: First Heritage Donates Tablets to Kingston High School Students
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Nesta Morgan (left); Chairman of the Board at CHASE Fund, Omar Frith (second left) and Chief Executive Officer of the CHASE Fund, Billy Heaven, are led on a tour of a section of the Bethlehem Moravian College Early Childhood Centre of Excellence in Malvern, St. Elizabeth, by Acting Head of the Early Childhood Department at the Bethlehem Moravian College, Kade-Ann Daley-Salmon, at the official opening on Monday (December 6).
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Robert Nesta Morgan (left); Chairman of the Board at CHASE Fund, Omar Frith (second left) and Chief Executive Officer of the CHASE Fund, Billy Heaven, are led on a tour of a section of the Bethlehem Moravian College Early Childhood Centre of Excellence in Malvern, St. Elizabeth, by Acting Head of the Early Childhood Department at the Bethlehem Moravian College, Kade-Ann Daley-Salmon, at the official opening on Monday (December 6).

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