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Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes Abrahams (2nd left), cuts the ribbon to formally open the Caribbean Maritime Institute’s (CMI) Integrated Work Force Development Centre (IWDC) in the Montego Bay Free Zone (MBFZ) on October 29. Others (from left) are: Minister of Education, Hon. Rev Ronald Thwaites; Assistant Vice President for Operations and Customer Affaires at the MBFZ, Gloria Henry; and Director of the IWDC, Osric Forrest.

Skills Training And Medical Centres Open In Montego Bay Free Zone

Two facilities for the delivery of world-class skills training and medical and wellness services have set up operations in the Montego Bay Free Zone (MBFZ). They are the Integrated Workforce Development Centre (IWDC) and the e-Shore Medical Centre which were...

Secretary General of the Organization of the American States (OAS), H.E Luis Almargo (left), and Principal of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Professor Archibald McDonald, shake hands at the official launch of the OAS-UWI Partnership Programme on Citizenship Education on November 2, at the Faculty of Law, Mona campus. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the partnership was signed in June.

UWI Collaborates With OAS to Deliver Citizenship Education Programme

Special Projects Officer at the Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Christine Ade-Gold, presents heritage material to Principal of the Breadnut Hill Primary School in St. Ann, Ricardo Kennedy, during a visit to the school by a JIS team on October 21, as part of the agency’s Heritage Month celebrations.

Principals Credit Improved Performance to Good Teacher – Pupil Ratio

Executive Director of the National Parenting Support Commission (NPSC), Dr. Patrece Charles-Freeman.

Poor Parenting Is To Blame

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, addressing the Jamaica Inclusive Education Conference at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James on Thursday (October 29). The Minister, who delivered the main address at the event, spoke of Government’s progress in ensuring that special need students are better able to participate in the education system.

30 Special Education Centres to Be Established

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Access to Secondary Education a Proud Achievement – Thwaites

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, said the fact that every student has the opportunity for a five-year secondary school education is a proud achievement for the country. Speaking at Mount Alvernia High School’s prize giving ceremony at the Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Montego Bay, St. James on Thursday (October 29, the Minister said that there was a time...

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Mico Care Centre Continues to Impact Lives of Children

The Mico University College Child Assessment and Research in Education (CARE) Centre was established in 1980 through collaboration with the Ministry of Education, to meet the needs of children in Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean who suffer from learning disabilities and require special interventions. Thirty-five years later, the institution continues to significantly impact the lives of children who struggle to...

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Gov’t Investment In Education Paying Off

The Government’s increased investment in education continues to bear fruit, as evidenced by the steady improvement in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) passes over the last three years. Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, reports that the average pass rate for students from public schools, who sat English in the CSEC examinations in 2012, has increased by 10 percentage...

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NCB Foundation to Continue Paying Examination Fees

The Ministry of Education is reminding parents, guardians and students that the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Foundation will continue to pay in full for CSEC Principles of Accounts and Principles of Business examination fees, for qualifying students at the secondary level. In a bulletin issued by the Ministry on October 28, the Ministry said that in an effort to ensure quality...

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Diagnostic and Early Childhood Centre for Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College

Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College, in St. James, is to benefit from a Diagnostic and Early Childhood Centre, to complement its preparation of trained teachers with specialization in Early Childhood and Special Education. To this end, Cabinet has approved a contract to Food for the Poor for the construction of the Centre at a cost of $50.64 million. “Presently, there is...

General Manager of the Spanish Jamaica Foundation, (SJF), Karen Donaldson (2nd right), and Community Relations Manager at Grand Bahia Principe Hotel in St. Ann, Farrah Blake (centre), present a cheque for $300,000 to Deputy Manager of the HEART College of Hospitality Services in Runaway Bay, St. Ann, Angela Powell (3rd left). The money represents the value of five scholarships presented to students of the institution on Tuesday (October 27). From left, are scholarship awardees: Tavia Rowe, Matthew Bancroft, Shadae Rowe, Kimberley Bryan, and Ganisha Johnson; and Head of Sections (Spanish) at the college, Nicole Dennis Lawrence.

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Spanish Jamaica Foundation Awards $300,000 in Scholarships

The Spanish Jamaican Foundation (SJF) has awarded scholarships valued at $300,000 to five students of the HEART College of Hospitality Services in Runaway Bay, St. Ann. The recipients are Matthew Bancroft, Tavia Rowe, Shadae Reid, Kimberley Bryan and Ganisha Lawrence. They were selected for the awards, having met the SJF’s criteria of being functionally fluent in conversational Spanish, being active...

Terrike Brown tries his hand at pottery making in Japan.

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JET Participant Hails Programme

An unquenchable passion for new experiences and a desire to learn the cultures of others prompted Terrike Brown to travel more than 12,000 kilometres to the East Asian island of Japan in 2011 to participate in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme. At the time, he was working as a research assistant at the Embassy of Japan in Jamaica....