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The activities of the School Feeding Modernisation Programme have been boosted with an allocation of $18.1 million. This is set out in the 2013/14 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. Being implemented by the Ministry of Education, the programme seeks to improve the operations of the School Feeding Programme by modernising and upgrading its institutional capacity and...

The Government will be introducing a breakfast programme in the new legislative year, as part of measures to improve student nutrition. The initiative will be piloted in 150 schools in Kingston and St. Andrew, with some 115,000 students to benefit. It is being undertaken by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The breakfast...

The Savanna-La-Mar Primary School in Westmoreland is to be given a face-left soon, as the institution has received 10 gallons of paint from Edgechem Jamaica Limited. Managing Director of the company, Doreen Frankson, handed over the paint at the official opening of the company’s new paint store in Savanna-La-Mar, on March 22. Member of Parliament for the constituency and Minister...

Glenmuir High School student, Yashae Mitchell, is the 2013 winner of the Access to Information (ATI) National High School Essay Competition. The very articulate and confident, 18-year-old copped the top prize, after beating out some 21 rivals, during an awards ceremony held at the Medallion Hall hotel in Kingston on March 26. Yashae received high praises from the judges for...

Approximately 108 students and six teachers of the Tower Hill Missionary Early Childhood Institution, in Kingston, are now enjoying newly upgraded facilities at their school, completed at a cost of some $29.5 million. The project was spearheaded by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), with funding from the European Union, under Government of Jamaica’s Poverty Reduction Programme (PRP). Beneficiaries, including...

The Ministry of Education has devised several strategies aimed at strengthening the early childhood sector, in light of the fact that the formative years are critical to the development of children. Some of the strategies include: the merging of uneconomical and ineffective basic schools into primary institutions; teacher training; the development of nutrition programmes; and forging partnerships with stakeholders, which...

Members of the Accompong community in St. Elizabeth have expressed gratitude for the new basic school that was handed over recently. "We are thankful to all those persons who gave willingly to make this a reality. I am overwhelmed. The parents and the community will protect the school,” said Principal of the school, Daynia Miles, at the handing over ceremony....

The HEART Trust/National Training Agency (NTA) has re-named the campus for its academy at Junction in south east St. Elizabeth, the Derrick Rochester Campus, in honour of the former parliamentarian who represented the area. The academy, the Southwest Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) Institute, offers courses in engineering, furniture making, website designing, agro processing, and the creative arts. A...

Minister of Education, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, said that an additional $1billion has been added to the upcoming budget for special and early childhood education. “We are adding it so that our little children can get the best…we wish we could do more,” the Minister stated. He was speaking at the official opening of the Accompong Basic School in...

Education Minster, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, says everything is in place for the start of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on Thursday, March 21. He said schools are already receiving their supplies to facilitate the two-day sitting of the examination, and the delivery process should be completed by the end of Tuesday. “I am encouraging any school that...

Minister of Education, Rev. the Hon. Ronald Thwaites, is encouraging Jamaicans to save more as this is important to the country’s economic growth. “We need to improve savings at all levels in Jamaican society. We need to stop depending on other people’s savings as much as we have chronically done and have now placed us in the impasse of our...

The Government is moving to expand the National School Garden Programme, with plans to establish a garden in every public school over the next five years. Currently, 352 schools in Jamaica have gardens under the programme. The announcement was made by Director of Field Services and Economic Development of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Ron Blake, as he addressed the St....