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Due to the increase in heavy rainfall affecting the island The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) is advising that all schools remain closed for Wednesday September 29, 2010. A Flash Flood Warning still remains in effect for Jamaica. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING means that flooding has occurred or will take place very soon. Fishers and other marine...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, says the Government may have to consider channeling more funds into the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB), if the institution is to support the growing demand for tertiary education. Speaking at the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce's (JCC) monthly meeting at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, recently, Mr. Holness pointed out that the demand for...

Educational materials valued at $180,000 (US$2,000) were on (September 28) handed over to four primary schools in Western Kingston by the Spanish Jamaican Foundation. Some 400 children from Denham Town, Chetolah Park, St. Anne's and St. Alban's primary schools are expected to benefit from the donation of interactive math and literacy games, as well as other advanced and comprehensive teaching...

Principal of Sam Sharpe Teachers' College, in Granville, St. James, Dr. Asburn Pinnock in a session with student teachers at the institution. Focused on his mission of producing quality teachers, Principal of Sam Sharpe Teachers' College, Dr. Asburn Pinnock wants to ensure that the nation's children are truly educated. A past student of the institution, which is located at Granville,...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, is reporting a significant improvement in the standard of certification being attained by students sitting the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC)/Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, each year. Addressing the monthly meeting of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston, on September 24, the Minister said the number of students sitting...

A total of 65 students from inner city communities in Kingston and St. Andrew have benefited from scholarships totaling $1.3 million under the Jamaica Bankers' Association (JBA)/Area Four Police Civic Education Scholarship Fund. The presentations were made at an awards ceremony held on Thursday (September 23) at the Police Officers' Club on Hope Road. Commissioner of Police, Owen Ellington, congratulated...

A new Enrichment Room established at a cost of $6.1million and designed as a reading and mathematics resource centre to boost students' learning at the New Hope Primary and Junior High School, Whitehouse, Westmoreland was officially opened Thursday (September 23). The facility, which was set up through the joint efforts of the Ministry of Education and the Digicel Foundation, is...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, says the government will revive its policy supporting the teaching of foreign languages in schools, to secure Jamaica's place as a viable trading partner with non-English speaking countries. Mr. Holness was addressing educators at the Foreign Language Workshop for Teachers at the Caenwood Centre, Kingston Friday (September 24). He said that, as part of this...

The Government, through the Ministry of Education, has forwarded a submission to their Chinese counterparts, seeking grant funds amounting to approximately US $7 million, to build 17 additional early childhood infant schools. Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, says this will form part of the administration's thrust to increase the number of government-run infant schools islandwide, which currently stands at 31....

The House of Representatives has adopted a report from the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) seeking an amendment to the Electoral Commission (Interim) Act, to make provision for the ECJ's entrenchment in the Constitution. Moving the resolution, Minister of Education and Leader of Government Business, Hon. Andrew Holness, pointed out that the recommendation for the entrenchment was an important change...

The youth outreach arm of the National Transformation Programme (NTP) is now operating in some 15 schools across the island. This was disclosed by Director of Development, Planning and Monitoring with the NTP, Fabian Brown, at a recent JIS 'Think Tank'. "The Students for Transformation (SFT) are in Kingston, St. Andrew, St. Catherine and St. Ann. The idea is to...

The Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) has awarded scholarships to 1,861 high school and tertiary students from volatile communities, as the Ministry of National Security intensifies its crime prevention efforts by pushing education. The beneficiaries are from 27 areas, including 1,400 from the Kingston Metropolitan Area, and 461 from St. James and Westmoreland. Presentations were made to the over...