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...

The Human Employment and Resource Training Trust/National Service Training Agency (HEART/NSTA) Trust, is advising that due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), their institutions islandwide are closed to the public until further notice. However, Director of Marketing and Communications, Julia Smiley Green, told JIS News that the teaching and learning process continues via distance/online methods. She pointed out that assessments that...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has moved to expand online teaching and learning opportunities in the continuing effort to minimise the disruption of normal school activities as a result of the COVID – 19 threat. To this end, starting on Thursday, March 26, 2020, the Ministry, in partnership with One-on-One Educational Services Limited and Flow began providing students...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has reached agreements with Restaurant Associates of Jamaica, operators of the Burger King, Popeye’s and Little Caesars franchises and Restaurants of Jamaica, operators of KFC, to provide meals to students on the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH). The WYSINCO Group will also be providing cases of Freshhh Lite orange juice....

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has partnered with the RJRGLEANER Communications Group to deliver live interactive teaching sessions across all its media platforms for high school students in Jamaica. The agreement will see the RJRGLEANER brands - Television Jamaica (TVJ), The Gleaner’s Youth Link, Music 99FM, jamaicagleaner.com, televisionjamaica.com, Television Jamaica You Tube, Jamaica News Network (JNN) and 1spotmedia...

Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Karl Samuda has thanked teachers, school administrators and other partners for collaborating with the Government to allow the provision of educational content to students in their homes following the closure of schools for 14 days. “Students now have access to the necessary educational resources to continue their learning...

Chief Executive Officer of the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), Kaysia Kerr, is encouraging parents to provide structure for children during the time that they will be out of school due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, on Friday (March 12), announced the closure of schools for 14 days beginning Monday (March 16). “The time...