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Students at the Barracks Road Primary School in Montego Bay, St. James.
Students at the Barracks Road Primary School in Montego Bay, St. James.

Positive Start to 2024/25 Academic Year at Several Schools

Officials of the Ministry of Education and Youth and school administrators are reporting a smooth start to the 2024/25 academic year, on Monday (September 2), at several institutions. This, in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl, which threatened to derail reopening...
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (third left), speaks with Kingston College and Jamaica College students on Monday’s (September 2) start of the 2024/25 academic year. Looking on is Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (third right). The Prime Minister and several Government Ministers greeted students at the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre in St. Andrew as they made their way to school.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (third left), speaks with Kingston College and Jamaica College students on Monday’s (September 2) start of the 2024/25 academic year. Looking on is Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (third right). The Prime Minister and several Government Ministers greeted students at the Half-Way Tree Transport Centre in St. Andrew as they made their way to school.

STEM Education Remains a Gov’t Priority – PM
Minister of Labour and Social Security and Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.
Minister of Labour and Social Security and Member of Parliament for Clarendon South Eastern, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.

Mineral Heights Christian Kinder-Preparatory School Founders Praised
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Hon. Marsha Smith.
Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Hon. Marsha Smith.

More Spanish Teachers in Schools
Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Maureen Thompson (centre), and Deputy Chief Education Officer, Curriculum and Support Services, Ministry of Education and Youth, Winnie Berry (right), converse with Chief Executive Officer, Victoria Mutual Foundation, Samantha Charles, during the JLS’ National Reading Competition awards ceremony on Friday (August 30) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston. The event was held under the theme: ‘Read More In 2024’.
Director General, Jamaica Library Service (JLS), Maureen Thompson (centre), and Deputy Chief Education Officer, Curriculum and Support Services, Ministry of Education and Youth, Winnie Berry (right), converse with Chief Executive Officer, Victoria Mutual Foundation, Samantha Charles, during the JLS’ National Reading Competition awards ceremony on Friday (August 30) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in New Kingston. The event was held under the theme: ‘Read More In 2024’.

JLS Looking to Make the Annual National Reading Competition More Inclusive

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (sixth left), and Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (eighth left), with some of the more than 500 recipients who received the Dr. Barry Wint Memorial Scholarship, at a ceremony held today (August 30), at the AC Mariott Hotel, in New Kingston.
EducationHealth & WellnessYouth

Scholarships for Young Persons to Pursue Degrees in Health-Related Fields

The Government has awarded more than 500 scholarships to young persons from across the island, to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies in a health-related field, with some getting up to $1 million. Under the Dr. Barry Wint Memorial Scholarship Award, persons have been selected to study medical technology, human resources for health, medical social work, epidemiology, medical physics, health records...
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Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Hon. Marsha Smith, addresses the Church Teachers’ College 60th Anniversary press launch at the institution’s campus in Mandeville, Manchester, on Thursday (August 29). Ms. Smith represented Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams.
EducationYouth

Church Teachers’ College Celebrating 60th Anniversary This Year

Church Teachers’ College in Mandeville, Manchester, is this year celebrating its 60th anniversary with a slate of activities between October 2024 and July 2025, under the theme ‘Celebrating A Legacy of Excellence: Boldly the Demands of the 21st Century and Beyond’. Details of the events were announced during a media launch at the College on Thursday (August 29), which was...
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Executive Director, National Education Trust (NET), Latoya Harris Ghartey (right), addresses a recent Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’ at the agency’s head office in Kingston. With her is Director of Donor and Partnership Management at NET, Keisha Johnson.
Education

NET Far Advanced with Development of Education Sector Building Standards

The National Education Trust (NET) is far advanced in work to develop building standards for the education sector. Executive Director, Latoya Harris Ghartey, made the disclosure recently during the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) television programme ‘Get the Facts’. “The building standards cover [the] early-childhood to secondary level. We have reviewed the secondary level, and we have approved it, and the...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (third left, background) and Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Ambassador Dr. Rocky Meade (third right, background) with some of the children of employees of the Office of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet Office, who were successful in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations held earlier this year. The awards function was held at Banquet Hall, Jamaica House, on Thursday (August 29).
Education

Funds Being Put In Place to Build Six STEM Schools

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, has informed that financing is being put in place to construct six science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) schools across the country. He made the disclosure during the annual Primary Exit Profile (PEP) awards function, held at Banquet Hall, Jamaica House, on Thursday (August 29). “These schools will not be run under the...
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Applications for the Ambassador’s Scholarship Scheme to study in India will close on August 31.
EducationFinance & Public ServiceForeign Affairs

Applications for Scholarship to Study in India Closes Aug. 31

Applications for the Ambassador’s Scholarship Scheme to study in India will close on August 31. The scheme offers up to 100 per cent scholarship on tuition for 10 eligible Jamaican nationals to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at a university. The application, which can be made through the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service via its website, is offered...
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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, addresses Wednesday’s (August 28) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House.
EducationHurricane Relief & RecoveryYouth

Repair Bill for 362 Damaged Schools Exceeds $3 Billion

The repair bill for the 362 schools damaged by Hurricane Beryl in July has exceeded $3 billion. Preliminary estimates to undertake repairs were priced at $2.7 billion. The disclosure was made by Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, during Wednesday’s (August 28) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. “Given that the number of schools assessed has increased, that...
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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), addresses Wednesday’s (August 28) post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House. Looking on is Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with Responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon.
EducationHealth & WellnessYouth

Schools Urged to Institute COVID-19 Safeguards in New Academic Year

Schools are being urged to institute COVID-19 safeguards when the 2024/25 academic year commences on September 2. The call comes from Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, amidst recent surveillance data indicating high transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus among the population. “We are asking our principals and our school nurses to be particularly vigilant. While there’s not a...
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