A total of 1,440 children from inner-city communities islandwide are to benefit from Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) clinics next fiscal year. To be held in 26 schools/centres, the clinics will be carried out under the Jamaica Integrated Community Development Project. The project has been allotted $700 million in the 2017/18 Estimates of Expenditure to carry out this task and...

More schools across the island are to benefit from the construction of 26 sanitation blocks this fiscal year. A sum of $200 million has been set aside in the 2017/18 Estimates of Expenditure to carry out this activity under the School Sanitation Project. The project aims to replace pit latrines with flush toilets in order to reduce the contamination of...

Several schools across the island are to benefit from upgrading works this fiscal year under the Basic Needs Trust Fund project. These include the Christiana Moravian Primary and Mandeville Primary in Manchester, Discovery Bay All-Age and Ocho Rios Primary in St. Ann, Old Harbour Primary and Brown’s Hall Primary in St. Catherine, Braes River Primary in St. Elizabeth, and May...

The University of Technology (UTech) has launched its ‘Papine Wellness’ Fest 2017, which will engage thousands of residents living in 15 communities located in close proximity to the university’s campus. The interventions will be implemented over a six-week period starting February 23 at the August Town Primary School. Activities will include dental and basic health checks; seminars on healthy lifestyle,...

Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Dr. the Hon. Andrew Wheatley, says the outfitting and opening of a computer laboratory at the Mount Peto Primary School in Hanover has placed citizens of the community into the fast-paced world of advanced technology. “Mount Peto is a part of that initiative to get Jamaica to be a part of the digital universe,”...

There is a 30 per cent increase in the 2017/18 budget for early-childhood institutions (ECIs), and resources are being set aside to help those institutions most urgently in need of assistance. This was stated by Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, at a meeting with members of Region Five, at Everglades Centre, in Black River,...

Principal of Knockalva Agricultural School, in Hanover, Davia Ramgeet-Robinson, says the 77-year-old institution continues to churn out quality students annually, many of whom have gone on to spread their wings internationally. According to Mrs. Ramgeet-Robinson, the landmark institution is one of the country’s finest agricultural facilities and a perennial force within the sector. “Historically speaking, anybody who is anybody in...