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Minister of Education,Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses the Senate on April 28.

School Violence Trending Down

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says preliminary data indicate that there was a downward trend in school violence during the first four months of this year. “This has been the case for the past...

Minister of Energy, Science and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley.

Girls Create Innovations to Address Social Issues

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (2nd left), enjoys a light moment with (from left): Project Leader, Junior Achievement Company of Entrepreneurs (JACE) Secondary Early Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) Programme, Yanique Taylor; United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Director of the Office of Citizen Security, Andrew Colburn; and Executive Director, Junior Achievement Jamaica, Alphie Mullings-Aiken. Occasion was the launch of the JACE/SEED initiative at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in Kingston Thursday (April 27).

Grade-Nine Students to Learn Entrepreneurship

Therapedic Caribbean Company Limited Director, Aswad Morgan.

Private-Sector Support for Social Bonds to Fund Tertiary Education

Professor of Child Health, Child Development and Behaviour at the University of the West Indies (UWI), and Patron of the Autism Support Association, Professor Maureen Samms-Vaughan, addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.

Children with Autism to Show off Talent at Concert

9 years ago Education

Government to Take Over Private Early Childhood Institutions

The Government will be moving to convert private early childhood institutions to publicly run facilities. This was disclosed by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, who said the process is slated to begin in September this year, with the conversion of the Jamaica House Infant School. The Minister was speaking at an awards function for...

9 years ago Education

400 More Trained Teachers for Early Childhood Sector

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information will be placing an additional 400 trained teachers in basic schools and infant departments as part of measures to strengthen early-childhood education. State Minister in the Ministry, Hon. Floyd Green, said the initiative will be done through the Housing, Opportunity, Prosperity, Employment (HOPE) programme. “These are trained teachers, who will be assigned throughout...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green (right), listens to a question from one of the students who attended the CAP and CAPE symposium, held at St. Elizabeth Technical High School in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, on April 26.

9 years ago Education

Students Urged to Write Plan for Goals

Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Hon. Floyd Green, is encouraging high-school and tertiary students to write a plan for their goals, to expand their horizons and to believe in themselves. Delivering the keynote address at a career symposium for the Career Advancement Programme (CAP) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) students at St. Elizabeth...

Chairman of the Third Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Caribbean, Professor Halden Morris, addressing Wednesday’s press launch at the University of the West Indies’ Mona Campus in St. Andrew on Wednesday, April 26. At left is Education Programme Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Dr. Claude Akpabie.

9 years ago Education

Montego Bay to Host Third Caribbean TVET Conference

The Third International Conference on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in the Caribbean will be held from May 10 to 12 at the Hilton Rose Hall Resort and Spa in Montego Bay, St. James. The conference, themed ‘TVET for Sustainable Regional Development’, will be attended by local, regional and international officials of key government ministries and agencies as well...

Labour and Social Security Minister, Hon. Shahine Robinson (right), escorts a student of the Stimulation- Plus Early Childhood Development Centre in Rockfort, Kingston, to the site of the facility’s expansion project, for which ground was broken during a ceremony on Tuesday, April 25. Accompanying her are Director of the Early Stimulation Programme, Antonica Gunter Gayle (left); Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Colette Roberts Risden (2nd left); and Councillor for the Springfield Division in Eastern Kingston, were the Centre is located, Lorraine Dobson (right).

9 years ago Education

$70M Expansion for Stimulation Plus Childhood Centre

Students and staff at the Stimulation-Plus Early Childhood Development Centre (STIM-PLUS) will benefit from a $70-million expansion of its facilities that is slated for completion by the end of 2017. Ground was broken on Tuesday, April 25, at the facility’s Ostend Close premises in Rockfort, Eastern Kingston, for the construction of seven classrooms, bathrooms, physiotherapy rooms, administrative offices, a sickbay...

Early Childhood Commission (ECC) Inspector, Marlene Turner (right), attends to participants registering for the ECC’s Region Two Certification Fair in Buff Bay, Portland, in October 2016.

9 years ago Education

ECC to Host Early Childhood Certification Fair in St. Catherine

The Jamaica Early Childhood Curriculum will be the central focus of a Regional Certification Fair scheduled for the Cedar Grove Academy in Portmore, St. Catherine, on Friday, April 28. The event, being organised by the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), is slated to get under way at 9:00 a.m. with an opening ceremony scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Acting Executive Director of...

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (2nd right), and Managing Director of Make Your Mark Consultants, Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd (right), are shown displays mounted at the booth of technology firm, Iprint Digital, by Sales Manager, Sophia Somers Williams (2nd left). Looking on is the entity’s Sales Administrator, Monique Blake. The occasion was the opening day of the eighth annual two-day Make Your Mark Consultants Middle Managers’ Conference, at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Tuesday, April 25.

9 years ago Education

Middle Managers Encouraged to Become Transformational Leaders

Education, Youth and Information Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, is encouraging middle managers to become transformational leaders within their organisations by supporting their entities’ ultimate vision. “You must find out where senior management or owners want to take the organisation and how you, as an individual middle manager, can help in that process,” he said. The Minister was addressing...