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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (right), in discussion with Chairman of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Dr. Orville Beckford, at the 15th Anniversary Awards Banquet of the Council recently.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (right), in discussion with Chairman of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Dr. Orville Beckford, at the 15th Anniversary Awards Banquet of the Council recently.

More Tertiary Programmes Online

Over the next 12 months, more tertiary programmes will be introduced online, courtesy of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ). The first programmes to be offered are Business Studies, Criminal Justice and Hospitality, according to the Council’s Executive...
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addressing parents, teachers and other stakeholders at the Primary Exit Profile [PEP] town hall held at Jamaica College in St. Andrew on Tuesday, December 19.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addressing parents, teachers and other stakeholders at the Primary Exit Profile [PEP] town hall held at Jamaica College in St. Andrew on Tuesday, December 19.

PEP Will Help Tailor Learning to Meet Students’ Needs – Senator Reid
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (FILE)
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (FILE)

Information Minister lauds Boyne’s Consummate Professionalism and Integrity
Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President, Howard Isaacs. (FILE)
Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President, Howard Isaacs. (FILE)

CCCJ Official Participates In Leadership Conference in Arizona
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (left), cuts the ribbon to officially open the shared facility building at the University of Technology (UTech), Old Hope Road, St. Andrew, on December 14. Others (from second left) are President, UTech, Professor Stephen Vasciannie; Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Dr. Wayne Henry; and Chancellor, UTech, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga.
Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (left), cuts the ribbon to officially open the shared facility building at the University of Technology (UTech), Old Hope Road, St. Andrew, on December 14. Others (from second left) are President, UTech, Professor Stephen Vasciannie; Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica, Dr. Wayne Henry; and Chancellor, UTech, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga.

Cabinet Approves Law School for UTech

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Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (left) is presented with a painting by Human Resource Coordinator for the Council of Community Colleges Jamaica (CCCJ), Pricilla Chambers, during the CCCJ’s 15th Anniversary Banquet on December 14 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston.
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Education Minister Hails Council of Community Colleges

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, is lauding the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ) for making quality higher education accessible to all Jamaicans. He said the entity is making an invaluable contribution to national development by ensuring the integrity of the range of certificate, associate and bachelor degree programmes offered at community colleges across...
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Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Hon. Olivia Grange (centre) and State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (right), share pleasantries at the launch of the Sugar Heritage Film Project at the Regional Headquarters, University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Andrew on Tuesday, December 12. At left is Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, UWI, Mona, Professor Archibald McDonald.
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Minister Grange Hails Sugar Heritage Film Project

Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Hon. Olivia Grange, has hailed the Government of Jamaica/University of the West Indies (UWI) Sugar Heritage Film Project as an important undertaking for the preservation of Jamaica’s rich heritage. She noted that the country’s ethnic, economic and cultural history up to this point has been inextricably tied to sugar. “It was sugar...
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Acting Director of Research at the Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC), Racquel Brown, addresses JIS ‘Think Tank’ today (December 12), encouraging the public to utilise the information published in the commercial bank survey.
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Jamaicans Urged to Use Information Published in Commercial Bank Survey

The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) is encouraging the public to utilise the information in the commercial bank survey, which was published on Friday, December 8. The survey, which uncovered the rates and fees charged by the seven commercial banks operating in Jamaica as at August 2017, was done between July and September 2017. Jamaicans can access the information at the...
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Minister of Local Government, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (right), presents an award to Renaldo Facey at the Board of Supervision/Poor Relief Association Awards and Recognition Ceremony, held on November 28 at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew.
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Inner City Student Achieves Despite the odds

Renaldo Facey, 18-year-old resident of the inner-city community of Denham Town, in Kingston, and upper-sixth-form student of Wolmer’s Boys’ School, is on the right track to realise his dream of becoming a medical doctor. Renaldo has achieved grade one at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) level in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Human and Social Biology, Additional Mathematics, Principles of Accounts,...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, addresses graduates of the Ministry of Education Career Advancement Programme (CAP) at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James, on December 7.
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PM Says He Supports Concept of Occupational Degrees

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says he supports the concept of occupational degrees, where persons can reach that level as a butcher, a chef or as a cosmetologist. He argued that the country has suffered over the years as a result of society’s prejudice towards jobs and occupations that were deemed inferior. Addressing graduates of the Ministry of...
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Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (second left), with (from left) Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sandals Resorts International, Adam Stewart; Chief Executive Officer of the CHASE Fund, William ‘Billy’ Heaven; Principal of the West End Infant School in Negril, Sherida Malcolm; and Executive Director of the Sandals Foundation, Heidi Clarke, following the unveiling of the school plaque to mark the official opening of the school on December 6. With them are students of the institution.
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New Infant School Opens in Negril

The new state-of-the-art West End Infant School, in Negril, Westmoreland, was officially opened on Wednesday, December 6. The facility, which commenced classes in September, is the result of a public-private partnership among the Sandals Foundation, the CHASE Fund and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information. The school has the capacity to accommodate 160 students, with 60 students on roll...
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