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The National Child Month Committee has promised a series of engaging and uplifting activities for Child Month 2009, which will focus national attention to the need to protect the environment for the future of the nation's children. Under the theme: 'Preserve the Environment: Protect our Children', the month will seek to heighten awareness of the rapidly deteriorating social and physical...

Some 20 schools and one library across six parishes are to benefit from literacy support as the Read Across Jamaica Foundation pays its annual visit to the island from May 1-9, under the theme: 'Journey across Jamaica.' Executive Director of the Washington DC-based (USA) Diaspora organisation, Janice Wisdom, said that the volunteers will be visiting institutions in the parishes of...

Retreat Primary and Junior High School topped the competitive events at the recently held St. Mary 4-H Clubs' Achievement Day at the Oracabessa High School. Second place went to Marymount High School in Highgate, and third to St. Mary High School, also in Highgate. Retreat Primary and Junior High won eight first places, while Marymount High and St. Mary High...

Opposition Spokesman on Education, Senator Basil Waite, has said that if Jamaica's crime situation is to be fixed, the education system must be fixed first. "I am of the view that as a country, Jamaica's best days are ahead of us and if we are going to fix Jamaica, as we must, if we are going to fix the crime...

Minister of Education Hon. Andrew Holness, has said that he will replicate the success of the Expanding Educational Horizons (EEH) project, by using some of its components as Ministry of Education policy initiatives. Speaking at a symposium and exposition of the EEH project at the Hilton Kingston Hotel today (April 30), Mr Holness said that its success must not be...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has said that a survey of schools is being conducted to determine how many have physical education programmes in place. She said that the survey, which is now underway at the primary level, is to see if "all the schools have physical education coaches or if they have coaches in other...

Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding has given the assurance that none of the approximately 100 Jamaican students in Mexico has contracted the Influenza A (H1N1) Virus (Swine Flu) currently affecting that country. The Prime Minister was speaking last night (April 29) on his monthly call-in radio programme, Jamaica House Live. Mr. Golding said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs...

St. James High School in Montego Bay has received a $5 million donation from the Montego-bay based Wards Power Tools and Supplies Limited to assist with development projects at the institution. The funds will go towards the construction of a computer laboratory; supporting the industrial arts programme for which the company has already contributed $250,000; and covering scholarships to the...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Dr. Ronald Robinson, has called for a more commercial approach to the provision of tertiary education in Jamaica. "There has been a major shift, particularly since the 1970s, towards reducing Government funding for higher education, with moves towards greater competition and a commercial approach to...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Olivia Grange, has praised the outstanding performance of Jamaica's student athletes at the recently concluded Penn Relays in the USA, noting that the international community got another taste of 'Brand Jamaica'. "The more than 50,000 Jamaicans and friends of Jamaica and millions more watching at home on television got another taste of Brand...

A warning system for flooded fordings, a honey extractor, and an ackee power project, were some of the innovations that received top honours at the Jamaica Public Service (JPS) National Science and Technology Exposition on April 22 at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The event served to showcase and reward the best scientific innovations and inventions created by preparatory,...

The Canadian Army on Thursday (April 23) donated educational items valued at CA$2000 to the Port Royal Primary and Junior High School. Speaking with JIS News Master Corporal in the Canadian Army, Kimberly Hardy said that they are pleased to give assistance to Jamaica. "I am very touched, and it is heart warming because of the reality of what our...