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Minister without Portfolio with oversight for the Education, Youth and Information Ministry, Hon. Karl Samuda, addressing a Teachers’ Day function at the Haile Selaisse High School on Payne Avenue St. Andrew on May 8.

Let’s End Violence Against Children – Minister Samuda

Minister without Portfolio with oversight for the Education, Youth and Information Ministry, Hon. Karl Samuda, is appealing for all Jamaicans to work together to end violence against the nation’s children. “Every day we wake up we hear sad stories…; it...

Public Relations Executive in the Marketing and Public Relations Department, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Kadian Brown, reads to grade-one students at the Red Hills Primary School in St. Andrew. Occasion was a visit to the school by a team from the JIS to participate in Read Across Jamaica Day today (May 7).

PHOTOS: Read Across Jamaica with JIS

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge (left), reads to Half-Way Tree Primary School students, on May 7, in observance of ‘Read Across Jamaica Day’. The activity forms part of activities to mark Education Week, from May 5 to 11, under the theme ‘Empowering Educators: Retooling, Innovating, Networking for Sustainable Development’.

PHOTOS: Children Reading with State Minister Terrelonge

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green, addressing the media launch of the Caribbean Hotel Investment Conference and Operations Summit (CHICOS) at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on May 7. CHICOS is scheduled for November 14- and 15 at the Secrets Wild Orchid Montego Bay and Secrets St. James.

Gov’t Finalising National Investment Policy

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge reading to students of New Providence Primary School, in Kingston, today (May 7), to mark Read Across Jamaica Day. The Day forms part of activities to mark Education Week from May 5 to 11, under the theme, ‘Empowering Educators: Retooling, Innovating, Networking for Sustainable Development’.

PHOTOS: Read Across Jamaica Day

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MOEYI), Dr. Grace McLean, at a service at Mt. Ward Methodist Church in Ramble, Hanover, on Sunday, May 5, to mark the start to the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) ‘Education Week 2019’.

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Education Ministry Committed to Resolving the Sector’s Issues

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, says the Ministry remains committed to resolving issues within the sector. She notes that matters arising in 2019, such as those related to the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), have been identified and are being addressed through remedial interventions and other initiatives. This, Dr. McLean adds, in...

International Women Jamaica (IWJ) Founder and Vice Chair of the Board of Management at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA), Sheryn Hylton Parker (centre), addresses the IWJ

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Edna Manley College Students to Benefit from Fundraising Luncheon

Students of Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA) will again benefit from the fundraising luncheon of International Women Jamaica (IWJ). The proceeds from this year’s event, held recently at Nigeria House in St. Andrew, will provide bursaries for five students of the institution. In 2018, five EMCVPA students were recipients of bursaries provided by the organisation....

(FILE) Acting Chief Education Officer, Winnie Berry, delivers a speech on behalf of Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, at the press launch for the Fourth International Conference on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Caribbean, held at the Regional Headquarters of the University of the West Indies, Mona, on Tuesday (April 30).

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Workforce to be Equipped With Technical and Vocational Skills

The Government is redoubling its effort to ensure the nation’s workforce is equipped with technical and vocational skills to better meet the needs of the society. This is according to Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, who said this is being achieved by “mainstreaming” Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) into...

Students perform a cultural item at the official opening of the new Campbell’s Castle Primary School building in Manchester, which was constructed at a cost of $51 million. Seated (from left) are Director of Donor and Partnership Management, National Education Trust (NET), Latoya Harris; Member of Parliament for South Manchester, Michael Stewart; Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Howard Chamberlain; Japan

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Campbell’s Castle School Community Welcomes New Building

The new $51-million structure, built to replace the Campbell’s Castle Primary School in Manchester, is being welcomed by students, teachers and the wider school community. The two-storey building comprises four classrooms, a computer laboratory, principal’s office, staff room, bathrooms, a storeroom, and other facilities to serve the small student population. Prefect at the school, Javelle Hewitt, told JIS News that...

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean (right), along with (from left) Assistant Secretary General in charge of Professional Services at the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Dr Margaret Chin; JTA Past President, Nadine Molloy; Head of Business Banking at JN Bank, Ryan Parkes; Senior Lecturer and Head of the institute of Gender and Development Studies, University of West Indies, Mona, Dr. Lieth Dunn; and Deputy Secretary General in charge of Administration, Human Resource and Finance at the JTA, Dr. Charmaine Gooden Monteith, at the 55th staging of the JTA

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Gov’t Maintaining Policy Implementation to Tackle Gender Disparity in Education

Acting Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean, says Government will continue instituting policy changes aimed at tackling gender disparity within the education sector. “Certainly, there have been specific efforts to focus attention on gender disparities in education. There is an emerging need to reflect and focus in a proactive manner on transforming attitudes,...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, speaking at the Jamaica Teaching Council’s education awards ceremony held at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre, Sam Sharpe Square, St. James, on Tuesday, April 23.

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Educators Urged to Help Rescue Boys from Toxic Masculinity

State Minister for Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, has charged educators to help boys realise their full potential by challenging existing norms and stereotypes with respect to constructs of toxic masculinity. Mr. Terrelonge said that social and cultural factors have had negative implications on the learning outcomes of the nation’s boys. He said that educators need to pay...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, speaking during the Child Protection and Family Services Agency’s (CPFSA) Field Services Conference at Iberostar Rose Hall Hotel in Montego Bay, St. James, on April 16.

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Gov’t Intensifying Zero-Tolerance Approach to Corporal Punishment in Schools

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Alando Terrelonge, says come September when the 2019/20 academic year begins, all reports of corporal punishment being administered in schools “will be treated very seriously”. Mr. Terrelonge, who reiterated the Government’s prohibition policy on corporal punishment, emphasised that this method of discipline “is not the solution for a...