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Additional classrooms constructed at the Discovery Bay All-Age School, to remove the institution from the shift system. They were built through the Jamaica Social Investment Fund’s (JSIF) Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) programme. (File)

More Schools Coming off Shift System

More than 7,000 students in six primary schools are transitioning from a shift system to regular school hours, beginning this month. This has been made possible through the construction of additional classrooms at the institutions, under the Jamaica Social Investment...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator Hon. Ruel Reid, addresses a back-to-school press conference at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on August 31.

Ministry Partners With JCF to Ensure Students Attend School Safely

Child Care Co-Coordinator at the Maxfield Park Children’s Home, Richard Lawrence (third left) and Acting Manager, Winston Bowen (fourth left), receive school bags from Jamaica Diaspora Advisory Board member from the United States of America (USA), North-East, Joan Pinnock (second right), yesterday (September 6). At right is US Diaspora Advisory Board member (North-East), Sam Sherrington.

Back-To-School Supplies for Maxfield Park Children’s Home

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (at head of table), hosts a meeting with executives of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices yesterday (September 6). To his right is Portfolio Minister, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid and to his left, State Minister, the Hon. Floyd Green. This is the first in a series of meetings to be carried out by the Prime Minister across all Ministries.

PM Carries Out First Ministry Consultation

Project Manager of the Youth Employment in the Digital and Animation Industry (YEDAI) programme at the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology (MSET), Margery Newland (fourth right, front row), with Manager, World Bank Projects at MSET, Judy Marshall Anderson (centre) and Animation Specialist at the YEDAI programme, Robert Reid (fourth left), with animation teachers/students at the closing ceremony for the recently held animation Train the Trainer Programme, at the JAMPRO Training Room. In the second row (from third left) are Trainers Adam Sale and Don Perro from Capilano University, in Canada.

Students Take Part in Animation Training

(FILE) Regional Director of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Region 4, Dr. Michelle Pinnock.

10 years ago Education

Smooth Start to New School Year in the West

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is reporting a smooth start to the 2016-17 academic year in Region Four, comprising schools in the parishes of Westmoreland, Hanover and St. James. In an interview with JIS News, Regional Director, Dr. Michelle Pinnock, said all schools opened on time and without glitches on Monday, September 5. She said the smooth start...

Police Officer assigned to the Community Safety and Security Branch (CSSB) Safe Schools Programme, Corporal Fitzroy Rochester (centre) is flanked by students from Calabar High School, who recently participated in the Suncity High School Disc Jockey Competition.

10 years ago EducationInformationNational Security and PeaceYouth

1,400 Persons Trained in School Safety Techniques

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has trained a total of 1,400 persons in school safety and security techniques, through its School-wide Positive Behaviour Intervention Support (SWPBIS) programme. Of this number, 1,000 are representatives of schools who received training in administration as well as security techniques. The remaining 400 are young persons who were trained as Security Operation Apprentices...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator Ruel Reid (centre), shares a photo opportunity with 2016 awardees of the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation’s scholarships and grants, at a ceremony held recently at The Courtleigh Hotel & Suites in New Kingston.

10 years ago Education

NCB Foundation Awards $1 Million Scholarships to University Students

Nicolette Bailey and Rachel Clarke enter university for the first time this year with a significant portion of their expenses covered by the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation. The 19-year-olds are the national scholars under the Foundation’s scholarship and grants programme. They topped a highly competitive field of applicants to secure scholarships valued at $500,000 each per annum towards their...

Prime Minister, the Most Honourable
Andrew Michael Holness, ON, PC, MP

10 years ago EducationPrime Minister

Prime Minister Holness Commits to Free Access to Education

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness has reiterated the Government’s commitment to free access to education. Speaking at a Special School Opening Ceremony at Seaward Primary this morning (Monday, September 5) he said, “I know in communities like these the tremendous struggle that parents go through and that is why we have reintroduced the no tuition policy. We are...

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid (right), interacts with students and a parent at the Seaward Primary and Junior High School on Olympic Way, St. Andrew this morning (September 5). The Minister was attending a ceremony to mark the institution’s 60th anniversary as well as promote a focus on safety in schools. It was put on by the Ministry in collaboration with the Community Safety and Security Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF).

10 years ago Education

Smooth Start to New School Year

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the new academic year is off to a smooth start. He said there have been no adverse reports from schools, adding that the Ministry is prepared to respond to any concerns throughout the day. Senator Reid was addressing a school-opening ceremony at Seaward Primary and Junior High in...

Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, Dr. Grace McLean (centre), addresses a JIS Think Tank on September 2. She is flanked by Director of Technical Services in the Ministry, Carey Brown (left) and Acting Director for the Career Advancement Programme (CAP), Meloney Rhynie.

10 years ago Education

$4.3 Billion for School Feeding Programme

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is spending $4.3 billion under the School Feeding Programme for the 2016/17 academic year. The allocation will provide meals for over 130,000 students in early childhood, primary and secondary schools, including beneficiaries under the Programme for Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH). Chief Education Officer in the Ministry, Dr. Grace McLean, made the...

Oswald Dixon (2nd right) and Andrew Hall (right) of the Rachel Dixon Memorial Fund, present a laptop computer to Principal of Bethany Primary School, Prudence Bennett-Blake (2nd left). Education Officer for North Manchester, Dorothy Reid, shares the moment. Donations were made to the Christiana Health Centre, and schools and students from communities in North East Manchester, during a function held recently at the Hibernia Early Childhood Institution in the parish.

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Oswald Dixon gives back to Manchester Communities

Oswald Dixon, a Jamaican living in Miami, Florida, is giving back to the North East Manchester area where he grew up. Over the past nine years, he has been making donations to students and schools in Devon, Bethany, Hibernia and surrounding districts, through the Rachel Dixon Memorial Fund, which he founded and named for his late mother. Recently, he handed...