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The employment forecast for Jamaica shows opportunities in education, health care and social assistance, and professional and business services, including Information Communication Technology (ICT). Hospitality, financial, scientific and technical services, construction, and creative and cultural industries, also show strong prospects. Manager of the Human Development Unit at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Mr. Steven Kerr, made the revelation as...

The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the Broadleaf Benevolent Society have partnered to carry out rehabilitation work on the Broadleaf Basic School in Manchester. The facility which cost a little of over $ 7 million to renovate, now boasts three classrooms, a sickbay, an office, indoor play area, three restrooms, a kitchen, outdoor play area equipped with slides, swings...

The Jamaica House Basic School in Kingston has been presented with furniture, valued at US$10,000 (J$890,000), by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Office in Jamaica, and the United States Southern (Military) Command (SOUTHCOM). The furniture, comprising 250 chairs, 83 tables, 12 teachers' desks and chairs, two filing cabinets and a stationery cupboard, was a joint initiative...

Principal of Old Harbour High School, Mr. Lynton Weir, urged students to protect the good name of the school. He made the call during the 40th anniversary Church service of the school, at the Word of Life Worship Centre in Rhoden's Pen, St. Catherine, yesterday (October 25). "Parents and other stakeholders, hold true to your cause. We need you, we...

Principal of Old Harbour High School in St. Catherine, Mr. Lynton Weir, has urged students to protect the good name of the school. He made the call during the 40th anniversary Church service of the school, at the Word of Life Worship Centre in Rhoden's Pen, St. Catherine, yesterday (October 25). "Parents and other stakeholders, hold true to your cause....

Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Hon. Daryl Vaz, has stated that the Ministry of Education is currently reconfiguring regional education boundaries. "This reconfiguration of the regions involves an increase in the number of Regional Education Agencies (REAs) from six to seven, and was undertaken with a view to ensuring a more proportionate spread of the school...

Some 416 at risk youth between the ages of 17 and 25 will benefit from at two-year programme focusing on providing technical, vocational, and life skills, which will enable them to become employed, or to start their own enterprises. The Caribbean Youth Empowerment Programme (CYEP) is being implemented by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the International...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that the police should investigate the parents of all the persons linked to the killing of a student of Ferncourt High, St. Ann, on the school premises on Wednesday (October 21). "In this particular instance, I think that the police ought to investigate the parents, as well," Mr. Holness told parents and...

Education Minister, Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that more emphasis will be placed on the Grade Four Literacy Test rather than Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) in order to achieve the Ministry's goal of attaining 100 per cent literacy by 2015. In an address at the Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training (C-CETT) Western Caribbean Awards ceremony at the...

The Ministry of Education is embarking on a national campaign to raise the importance and awareness of improving students' literacy skills. As part of this campaign, parents are being encouraged to play a greater role in developing reading habits in their children from an early age. "We have to get them (parents) back to the point where they read with...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has condemned yesterday's (Oct. 21) fatal stabbing of 17-year- old Ferncourt High School student, Garron Jones. He said he was "very disappointed and very disturbed" by the incident, which took place on the grounds of the school based in St. Ann. The Minister, who was speaking to journalists at the Knutsford Court Hotel in...

Glenmuir High School in Clarendon has once again copped the Marcus Garvey Award for Excellence in the 2009 Jamaica Cultural Development Commission's (JCDC) Performing Arts competition. The institution racked up more that 50 medals and several trophies at the parish and national levels of the competition to gain their second hold on the prestigious award, which they first won in...