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The Ministry of Health has confirmed four cases of hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) at Stella Maris Preparatory School in Kingston, after a team of health officials visited the institution and carried out their investigations. 'Due to the highly contagious nature of the disease, the school was ordered closed Thursday (October 8) by the Kingston and St. Andrew Health...

The Canadian-based charity Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) is to build a basic school in Seaforth, St. Thomas, in honour of outgoing Consul General Anne-Marie Bonner. Chairperson of the HHJF, Karl Hale, made the announcement at the foundation's annual Jamaica Charity Ball held recently at the Donalda Club in Toronto. Ms. Bonner will demit office in October after serving as...

Government is seeking to create a trust to make more funds available to the Students' Loan Bureau (SLB). Prime Minister, Hon. Bruce Golding, said that the move will enable students to borrow more, match the repayment schedules to expected salaries, and have the loans spread over longer periods. The Prime Minister was speaking with students of the University of the...

Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, has implored newly appointed Deans of Discipline to ensure they are not seen as "enforcers with a belt", but that they develop a sustainable framework for maintaining discipline in schools. "Any behaviour management strategy that relies on fear is usually very short term. It doesn't change behaviour, all it does is it controls behaviour,"...

The Jamaica Tertiary Education Foundation is to be launched soon, Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, told students attending a Town Hall Meeting at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Kingston on Tuesday night. "Today, I spent three hours with a team from the Ministry, looking at how we are going to manage and...

Students of Campbell's Castle All Age, Pratville Primary and Infant and Victoria Town All Age schools, Manchester, planted over 75 trees, donated by the Forestry Department in collaboration with Jamalco, on Friday (October 2). The event was held to commemorate National Tree Planting Day, and 14 volunteers from Jamalco's mining department joined the students in planting the trees, which included...

Being an expectant mother is always a special feeling for a woman, having to deal with the preparation stages of buying new clothes, a crib, thinking about the fun that she will have when her child is born and what he or she will be like growing up. And, while many may go as far into the future as the...

With World Teachers Day being celebrated today (October 5), Minister of Education, Honourable Andrew Holness, has pointed out that teachers are to benefit from the Jamaica Educational Leadership Academy (JELA), as part of efforts to transform the education system. In his message for the day, Minister Holness explained that JELA would complement the up and running Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC)....

A computer laboratory and resource centre, constructed at a cost of more than $12 million, was opened on Thursday (Oct.1) at the Black River Primary and Infant School in St. Elizabeth. The facility, which boosts computer equipment and software to assist learning, is named for educators and husband and wife Albert and Carmen Reynolds, who served as principal of the...

National netballer Elaine Davis is encouraging students to embrace and appreciate their unique qualities, noting that everyone has something special to offer. "Everyone is unique. There is only one like you. Even identical twins have differences and you should believe that in your uniqueness, you have something special to offer," she stated. She was speaking to students of her Clarendon-based...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding's Town Hall meetings will take a new twist on Tuesday, October 6, when there will be a special session for the Mona community of the University of the West Indies (UWI). The meeting is expected to reach a wide cross section of Jamaicans, including those with academic and business interests as well as bright,...

The Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund, will be contributing $1 million to the Glenmuir High School Library and Resource Centre, in Clarendon. This was stated by the Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Billy Heaven, at the school, on September 30. "We have already committed the funds; it is a question of the drawdown as soon as the library...