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Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has announced that the Government intends to introduce a Career Opportunities Programme to ensure that secondary school graduates are properly trained. In an address to Carreras Limited's scholarship awards banquet, at the Hilton Kingston Hotel, New Kingston on Wednesday (October 14), Mr. Holness said that details of the programme will be announced in a...

Prime Minister, the Hon. Bruce Golding, yesterday (October 15), broke ground for the $6.2 million construction and expansion of an entrance gate and the re-establishment of 'Holy Ground', at the Jamaica College (JC) campus in Kingston. The re-establishment of 'Holy Ground' is in honour and memory of the Jamaica College old boys who died in World War Two. The expansion...

Teachers and students of Wilson's Run Primary School, Trelawny, had their spirits lifted after receiving gifts of Heritage materials from the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) on Thursday (October 15). Wilson's Run Primary was thrust into the media spotlight recently, when a local television station carried news of the concerns of residents about the Ministry of Education providing more teachers for...

The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) has launched three handbooks to assist secondary school students pursuing studies in economics, geography and sociology, particularly in the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), and their teachers. The handbooks are the brainchild of Director General, Sonia Jackson, and are the institution's response to the students' need for statistical data in undertaking school-based assessments (SBA)...

Thirty two students who sat the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) have reaped the benefits of their remarkable scores, with the award of government scholarships for outstanding achievement. The programme aims to recognise and award exceptional work among GSAT students, who are selected by a committee and ranked based on performance. Chief Education Officer in the Assessment Unit at the...

Minister of Education, Honourable Andrew Holness, has said he is satisfied that there was no breakdown in security at the Duhaney Park Primary School in St. Andrew, where a student went missing on Tuesday (October 13). Yesterday (October 14), members of the community demonstrated at the school, padlocking the gates and forcing classes to be suspended for the day, following...

More than 150 staff members of the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) will receive training in Customer Service over a five-week period, from September 30 to November 4. Staff members, drawn from a wide cross section of the Agency including drivers, accountants, photographers, reporters and production managers, have welcomed the exercise. Giving his impression of the training session, Radio Producer for...

The Governor-General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen, invited about 50 students of Vaz Preparatory School who visited Kings House on Wednesday (October 14) to return for Monday's National Honours and Awards Ceremony. His Excellency extended the invitation following a brief viewing of a Heritage display mounted by the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) at King's House. "I'm giving...

The Managing Director of the London-based Caribbean Council, David Jessop, has been awarded an honorary Order of Distinction (Commander Class) by the Government of Jamaica for service to Jamaica and the Jamaican Diaspora. Mr. Jessop told JIS News that he was flattered to be among those who will receive their honours and awards in Kingston on National Heroes Day (October...

The Vere Technical High School and the Lionel Town Hospital in Clarendon have benefitted from much needed upgrading and repairs, which were carried out by Jamalco as part of its 2009 Month of Service. On Friday (Oct. 9) employees renovated the gymnasium at Vere Technical, transforming it into a dormitory for male athletes, while the maternity ward and main link...

A contract valued at $27 million was signed on Thursday (October 8) between the Hounslow/Bigwoods Basic School Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), in St. Elizabeth, and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), for the construction of a basic school in the community. At the ceremony at the Epiphany Anglican Church, Bigwoods, PTA Chairman, Donovan Williamson, told the gathering that, despite many setbacks...

Eleven-year-old Renae McLeod is the last of 10 children in her family but, with an unemployed, single parent mother challenged with schooling all of her children, she had to turn to selling guineps to give her mother support. During the summer holidays, while other children jetted off for their vacation or stayed home and participated in other fun activities, Renae...