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In an effort to ensure that Jamaica's tertiary institutions produce graduates of varying disciplines, which is critical to national development, the Student Loan Bureau (SLB) has devised various methods to steer potential graduates into selected areas of 'preferential' study. "We know that for any country, or for any company, to develop, it has to have areas that are linked to...

The police are investigating the disappearance of the body of a newborn baby - one of a set of twin - from the Mandeville Regional Hospital in Manchester. The baby's body was discovered missing from the facility's morgue by hospital administrators when the parents turned up to collect the baby's body, after being asked to do so by hospital officials....

A team of United States army officers recently completed renovations to the Bull Bay All Age School in Western St. Thomas, the constituency of Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson. The team paved the school walkway, fixed the water system in the bathrooms, installed new toilets and painted sections of the school. They also refurbished the kitchen and installed a...

The Optimist Club of Mandeville will tomorrow (May 30) stage a gospel concert at the Manchester High School, to raise funds to carry out infrastructural improvement at the Top Hill All-Age School in the parish. President of the Club, Kaysi-Ann Spence, informed that the funds raised will be used to rehabilitate the bathrooms, improve water storage, conduct roof repairs, and...

Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Ministers of Health and Education will be involved in two meetings in Montego Bay, Jamaica next week. First they will convene the Eighteenth Meeting of the CARICOM Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) and then will meet with their Latin American counterparts in preparation for a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)....

Alison and Michael Brooks expressed joy as their daughter, Ashleigh, was named winner of the inaugural Jamaica Information Service (JIS) Child Month Essay Competition, yesterday (May 27), at the JIS Television studio, Arnold Road, Kingston. Their reactions mirrored pride, relief and happiness that, Ashleigh, a grade three student of Mona Preparatory School made it from among the six finalists, which...

Principal of the Half-Way-Tree Primary School in Kingston, Catherine Malcolm, is appealing to schools and other education stakeholders to begin preparing students for the Grade 4 Literacy Test from as early as Grade 1. "Don't wait to prepare for Grade 4. I don't agree with that and we don't need the Ministry of Education to tell us that we had...

Jamaicans are being urged not to buckle under current economic and social pressures, but rather to unite and find creative ways, which can benefit themselves and their communities. This encouragement came from Principal of the Hydel Group of Schools, Senator Hyacinth Bennett, who gave the main address at a special function to honour five retired teachers of the Black River...

Following on the heels of the very successful first Town Hall meeting in Mandeville Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding and his team will continue to take the government's message across the island. The next stop will be at the HEART Academy auditorium in Portmore, on Tuesday, May 26 starting at 7:00 p.m. Supporting Prime Minister Golding on the town...

Mrs. Lorna Golding, wife of Prime Minister the Hon. Bruce Golding, has everything to smile about this Labour Day. Her major Child Month project - the staging of two concerts billed as "An Evening of the Classics" played to a fair sized audience at the Half-Moon Hotel in Montego Bay and a full-house at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. The...

Five retired teachers from the Black River Primary and Infant School were honoured at a special ceremony held at the institution on Thursday (May 21). Those honoured were former Principal of the school, Conrad Romans, who gave 38 years to various educational institutions in St. Elizabeth; Jennese Idover-Walters, for 40 years as an educator; Myrna Barrett, who served for 36...

The Ministry of Education is developing a diagnostic tool to asses the reading level of students up to grade nine, as part of a strategic plan on literacy. The tool should be available to teachers in time for the start of the new school year in September, said National Literacy Co-ordinator at the Ministry, Laurel Brent-Harris. "We are in the...