The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is inviting persons to apply for their funded training programmes in geography, natural hazards or economics at the University of the West Indies (UWI). The Facility has been providing internships to recent university undergraduates and postgraduate students from the Caribbean who have earned degrees in areas such as disaster risk management, environmental management,...

The Government will be spending $1.7 billion to construct additional classrooms, install security fences and upgrade electrical systems at several primary and secondary schools during the upcoming fiscal year. Among the projects listed in the 2025/26 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives, are the commencement of construction activities at 10 high schools to attain various completion rates....

Expansion works at Mount St. Joseph High School in Manchester are expected to conclude in the upcoming fiscal year. Approximately $853.7 million has been allocated to complete the administrative, third- and fourth-form blocks, as well as commence and complete the auditorium. The sum is earmarked in the 2025/26 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives by...

Dunrobin Primary School is better prepared to beat the upcoming summer heat, through the gift of an air conditioning unit by the Optimist Club of Kingston, under the patronage of Her Excellency, the Most Hon. Lady Allen. The unit, valued at over $100,000, will be installed in the staff room. Addressing the recent handover ceremony at the school’s Red Hills...

Parents and teachers are being urged to utilise the transformative power of the arts in cultivating peace, discipline and youth empowerment in schools. Director of the Safety and Security in Schools Unit in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Richard Troupe, in making the call, said that “the arts, whether visual art, music, dance, drama or creative writing,...

Improving literacy and numeracy among children, aged eight and under, and enhancing nutrition support programmes across the education system will be among the Government’s priorities during fiscal year 2025/26. Currently, more than 162,000 students benefit from provisions under the Programme of Advancement Through Health and Education (PATH). This was announced by Custos Rotulorum for Kingston, Hon. Steadman Fuller, while delivering...

More than 600 trainers in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are poised to benefit from training to be facilitated under a partnership between the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI) and the Commonwealth of Learning, for which discussions are under way. Principal of the VTDI, Dr. Delize Williams, made the disclosure while addressing the Institute’s graduation ceremony on Wednesday (February 12)...