The HEART/National Service Training Agency (HEART/NSTA) Trust is projecting an increase in the number of students taking part in the institution’s approximately 160 training programmes to 152,735, during the 2020/21 fiscal year. Additionally, the agency expects that some 87,144 trainees will be certified this year, with 32,252 being targeted for job placements over the period. This is according to the...

The National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), an agency of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Victoria Mutual Foundation (VMBS Foundation) and Fight for Peace has launched thirty-six (36) helplines to offer much needed psychosocial care to parents across Jamaica. The helplines, which became operational Monday, April 6, have been established,...

In light of the continued home-schooling efforts due to the impact of COVID-19, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MoEYI) and Digicel Jamaica have joined forces to offer increased access to the internet through the provision of a subsidised data plan and zero-rated data access to frequently used learning platforms and websites. On Friday April 3, 2020, Digicel launched...

Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda, says parents of students on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH), will now be given monthly cash payments to prepare breakfast and lunch for their children while schools remain closed. He was speaking at a press  conference at Jamaica House on March 27. Public schools were...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information continues to provide students and teachers with a wide range of opportunities to ensure teaching and learning in an effort to minimise the impact of the disruption of normal school activities as a result of COVID–19.             As of Thursday, March 26, the Ministry has been partnering with One on One Educational Services Limited...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has implemented measures to assist parents and caregivers with the continued development of their children 0-5 years during the period of school closure as a result of COVID-19. Daily activity plans for children and parenting tips have been placed on ECC’s website in the newly created COVID Corner, videos have been recorded of team members...

Staff at the St. Catherine-based Grateful Hill Primary School have volunteered and are preparing and distributing cooked meals to their students while regular classes are suspended due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). The activity is being carried out three days each week by teachers and the ancillary workers for the more than 80 young learners who are on...