Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, has pledged continued support to the family of eight-year-old Naomi Jones, who died tragically on the weekend at her home in Commodore, St. Catharine. During a visit to the home on Tuesday (September 29), the Minister assured the family members that grief counsellors from the Ministry will continue to work with...

A total of 36,000 needy students, who are not on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), will benefit from a $20,000 subsidy towards the purchase of a tablet or laptop. Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Fayval Williams, made the disclosure during Tuesday’s (September 29) sitting of the House of Representatives at the Jamaica Conference Centre,...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is partnering with Flow, Digicel and ReadyTV to facilitate Internet access and broadband services to enable teaching and learning utilising the G-Suite learning management system. “This means that all principals, teachers, students and parents can now be engaged in virtual/online teaching and learning activities without the need to utilise their personal Internet data,”...

The National Baptist Basic School on Greenwich Street in Kingston, today (September 29), received well-needed equipment and items, initiated by the three First Heritage Co-Operative Credit Union (FHC)  Civil Servants of the Year for 2019, in collaboration with partners. They included a new desktop computer, printer and educational items, and $50,000 from Sagicor for the purchase of school desks and...

Teachers who received devices under the Government’s ‘Tablets for Teachers’ programme are benefiting from technical support through e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam). As of September, more than 20,000 public-sector teachers were equipped with a personal tablet as part of the terms of the Heads of Agreement signed between the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) and the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) in 2018. The...

E-Learning Jamaica Limited (eLJam) has reported that the distribution of more than 20,000 tablets to the nation’s teachers under the Government’s Tablets for Teachers Programme is complete. “As of September, we have completed the primary distribution of tablets to teachers. We commenced rollout a couple of months ago and the objective was to provide 25,000 tablets to the teachers of...