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Schools islandwide will observe Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday, May 4, as part of activities for Education Week, which is being celebrated from May 2-8. The celebration of the day is of particular importance to the Ministry of Education, as it seeks to achieve 100 per cent literacy at the primary level by 2015. Director of Communications at the...

Students at Tavares Gardens Primary School, in the inner city community of Payne Land, in Kingston, are aiming for top professions, such as lawyers, doctors, pilots, policemen, nurses, teachers and business persons. This was evident yesterday (April 27), as the students paraded in the attire of their chosen career, during the school's Annual Career Day, held as part of the...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Ministry of Education and the Mutual Building Societies Foundation, for a Centre of Excellence Project, aimed at improving the management systems and teaching methodologies in six non-traditional high schools. The six participating high schools are Mile Gully, Porus, McGrath, Seaforth, Green Pond, and Godfrey Stewart. The signing took place today...

The Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation (WCJF), on Trafalgar Road, in Kingston, today (April 28), officially opened its brand new Home Economics Management Facility, fully equipped with top of the line equipment and furniture. The facility was built by the Jamaica Volunteers Association and equipped by the Digicel Foundation. Former Chairperson of the School Board of the Women's Centre, Miss...

Children from Rose Hall and surrounding communities in St. James are to be exposed to life-changing lessons, through football, at the newly-launched Real Madrid Football School for Social Integration. The school was officially launched in Montego Bay on Monday (April 26), however, the agreement for its establishment was signed Tuesday (April 27), at the Knutsford Court Hotel, New Kingston. The...

More than 140 high school students were recognised for successfully completing various pursuits under the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Jamaica, at an awards ceremony at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, Kingston on Tuesday (April 27). The awards programme, a character-building initiative, allows young people aged 14 to 25 years to participate in activities aimed at fostering personal and social development. Persons...

A poultry project has been established at the Donnington Primary School, in St. Mary. It was officially handed over to the school on April 23. The project, which began operations in November 2009, was funded by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations, with support from the school and the Jamaica 4-H Clubs. During the function, a...

Jamaican students continue to excel in the annual Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Environmental Poster Competition, with Calabar High School student, Lorenz Rowe, topping entrants from 15 countries in the region to win the senior division of the 2010 contest. Lorenz was awarded a cash prize of US$3,000 for his winning poster entitled: 'We are our Environment,' which depicts groups and...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, has noted that his Government sought to, as best as possible, preserve budgetary allocations to Education, while admitting that there have been reductions in some areas, most significantly the allocation to the University of the West Indies (UWI). "We know that this will pose difficulties for both the students and the University. I have...

Minister of Education, the Hon Andrew Holness, will host Wednesday night's "Jamaica House Live". Minister of Education and Leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Andrew Holness. He will be hosting the programme in the absence of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, who is currently in Brasilia attending the CARICOM/Brazil summit. "Jamaica House Live" begins at 8:30 p.m. on major radio...

Alston High School is now the proud recipient of a new multi purpose hard court courtesy of the Sports Development Foundation (SDF) and State Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Hon. Michael Stern. Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the new facility held on Thursday (April 22) on the school's compound at Alston, Clarendon, Mr. Stern who is the...

Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament for East Central St. James, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has donated $1 million for the development and empowerment of the Grade 4 literacy and numeracy levels in primary and all-age schools within the constituency, from his Community Development Fund (CDF) allocation. A special grant of $250,000.00 was also made to the John Rollins Success...