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The Board of Supervision Outreach and Welfare Committee’s Top Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) scholarship recipient, Shanique Sommerville, poses with her trophy, which was presented at the awards ceremony held recently at the Mona Visitors’ Lodge in St. Andrew. Shanique is the reigning Miss Manning’s School 2017.

‘Mom Would Have Been Proud’

As Shanique Sommerville walked up to collect her scholarship award for outstanding performance in the 2017 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, her first thoughts were of her late mother. Cheva Newton died seven years ago, when Shanique was just...

Centenarian, Merinda ‘Miss Mim’ Bryan is surrounded by students and teachers of the John Rollins Success Primary School after they presented her with gifts during a visit to her home in Barrett Town, St. James, on December 18.

Primary-School Students Present Gifts to Centenarian

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid. (FILE)

Education Ministry Allocating $18m To State-Run Children’s Homes for Christmas

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.

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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)

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Information Minister lauds Boyne’s Consummate Professionalism and Integrity

Information Minister Senator Ruel Reid has praised the professionalism and patriotism of veteran journalist Ian Boyne who died yesterday after a brief illness. In expressing sadness at his passing, Senator Reid said Mr Boyne had served the Government and people of Jamaica well through the Jamaica Information Service, across political administrations and through his television programme Profile, in which he...

Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) President, Howard Isaacs. (FILE)

8 years ago EducationInformation

CCCJ Official Participates In Leadership Conference in Arizona

Jamaica’s community college system stands to benefit from the recent participation of member of the Council of Community Colleges of Jamaica (CCCJ), Howard Isaacs, in a one-week leadership conference in Arizona in the United States (US). Organised by the League for Innovation in the Community College, the event provided the opportunity for potential community college presidents, or those in transition,...

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.

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

Cabinet Approves Law School for UTech

Cabinet has given approval for the establishment of a law school at the University of Technology (UTech). This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, at the official opening of a shared facility building at UTech’s Old Hope Road Campus in St. Andrew on December 14. “I am quite aware of the agreement...

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.

8 years ago EducationInformationYouth

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...

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...

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...

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.

8 years ago EducationYouth

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,...