Twenty-two-year-old Aundrene Cameron has been named Jamaica’s 2025 Rhodes Scholar. The 2023 Miss Jamaica Festival Queen was among six female and four male candidates who vied for the prestigious scholarship this year. The announcement was made on Thursday (November 14), during a brief ceremony at King’s House, by Chief Executive Officer of the Port Authority of Jamaica and Chairman of...

Upper school male students from eight secondary institutions in St. Thomas are the focus of the Angelic Ladies Society’s latest social project, ‘Echoes of Change – The Problem with the P’. Through the engagement, the boys will participate in sensitisation workshops covering topics such as sexual violence, inappropriate touching, sex videos, the age of consent and healthy masculinity. The organisation,...

Tertiary level students with an interest in construction and other related careers are being encouraged to apply for the National Housing Trust’s (NHT) 2024/25 Construction Scholarship. The programme offers up to $1 million in funding to individual undergraduate students. Applications will be accepted up to November 24. Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Manager at the NHT, Tameka Hill, told JIS...

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI), through its Safety and Security in Schools Unit will be l observing Anti-Gang Week from November l 10-16, under the theme ‘Follow the TREND, Bring Gang Inna Schools to an End’. The observance involves collaboration with the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Counter Terrorism and Organized Crime (CTOC) Investigation Branch, and the...

Jamaicans with unpaid student loans who migrate to the United States (US) will face significant challenges when they seek to update or renew their immigration status. Manager of the Loan Servicing Department at the Students’ Loan Bureau (SLB), Cheryl Surjue, told JIS News that the Government of Jamaica and their US counterparts have forged a partnership to identify Jamaican immigrants with outstanding student loan payments....

As part of its Youth Month celebrations, the Universal Service Fund (USF) has launched the ‘Crack the Code’ competition, which aims to empower young Jamaicans with digital skills needed for the future. The four-week initiative targets individuals 12 to 21 years and is open to persons with a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Visual Studio Code editor. Interested persons...

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth, and Information remains firmly committed to ensuring that the island’s tertiary institutions deliver education that meets international standards and prepares students for a dynamic and interconnected world. “We understand that in doing so, we empower our young people to become innovators, leaders and contributors to national and regional progress,” said Assistant Chief Education Officer...