Parents are to benefit from critical support to improve child-rearing under the Partnership for Improved Safety and Security in Schools project. The project, which aims to reduce violence among students and youth, is being undertaken by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information through US$3 million in grant funding over two years from the United States Agency for International Development...

An additional $125 million has been allocated to continue work under the Government’s School Sanitation Project. The sum is contained in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure now before the House of Representatives. It will go towards the construction of modern sanitary facilities in 12 institutions. The project, which commenced in January 2012, aims to replace pit latrines in primary schools...

The Government is to engage a consultant to assess and prepare a preliminary design for the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) Special Education Diagnostic Centre in Portland during the 2018/2019 fiscal year. Details of the $5-million project are outlined in the 2018/2019 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The Government, through the Ministry of Education,...

The Government of Jamaica has provided $461 million for continued implementation of the education transformation programme under the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information. The allocation, which is contained in the 2018/2019 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, will provide for execution of National Standard Curriculum (NSC) workshops for grades two, three, five and six; complete the...

The quiet, farming community of Above Rocks in St Catherine, is home to the St. Mary’s All-Age School, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. The Roman Catholic institution was established by Father Joseph Dupont in 1842. The original structure, part of which is out of use, was erected in 1940, with additional buildings erected in 1988. Currently, the...

The Government has allocated approximately $80 million to renovate the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information’s head office at National Heroes Circle and its Caenwood Centre facilities on Arnold Road in Kingston during the 2018/19 fiscal year Details are provided in the 2018/19 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. Work at the National Heroes Circle complex will...

The Government, in an effort to reduce schools’ dependency on the importation of fossil fuels to create energy, will spend approximately $120 million on the implementation of projects in schools under the Solar Systems Project. Details have been outlined in the 2018/2019 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives on February 15. Statistics have shown that an estimated...