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At approximately 10:20 pm, Sunday, April 19, a lone gunman forced his way through security check points at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St. James and boarded CANJET flight number 918 destined for Halifax, Canada (a chartered flight), with a scheduled stop in Santa Clara, Cuba. The gunman held hostage members of the crew (eight in total) and...

The Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) has extended its programme beyond literacy training, and is now offering computer courses and training up to the high school level. "We have introduced computer training; basic, intermediate and advanced, and that is for everybody," said Manager for Public Relations and Marketing, Gerry McDaniel, noting that persons can also matriculate into the HEART...

The California-based DILIEU Technology has donated $100,000 to the Caribbean Christian Centre for the Deaf (CCCD), to assist with the general operations of the institution. The donation follows recent reports that the school, which has locations in Kingston, Mandeville Manchester and Montego Bay St. James, may face closure, due to rising operating costs and dwindling support from overseas sponsors, who...

The 60 schools remaining to be equipped with Information and Communications Technology (ICT) facilities will be online by August. Prime Minister Bruce Golding, made the commitment during Tuesday(April 14) meeting of the House of Representatives' Standing Finance Committee at Gordon House. The schools will join 120 other educational institutions which were outfitted, with support from the Universal Access Fund which...

The delivery of secondary education has received much attention, with the provision of $21 billion in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure, currently before the House of Representatives. The bulk of the sum, $20.35 billion, will be provided as grants to high schools to be used for direction and administration, instruction, boarding, student assistance, and programme enhancement for newly upgraded high...

Literacy enables persons to become agents of change, Dean of Education at Howard University, Dr. Leslie Fenwick recently told a literacy conference, at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in Mandeville. "A literate individual possesses communicative competence, he or she is able to use knowledge for persuasive purposes with a deliberate desire to change thinking, attitudes and behaviour," Dr. Fenwick said....

The Government has allocated $2.6 billion for the Education Transformation project in the 2009/10 Estimates of Expenditure. The funds will finance the continuation of reform activities undertaken by the Education Transformation project. A little more than $449.6 million will go towards curriculum, teaching and learning support. This component focusses on literacy and numeracy remediation strategies as well as curriculum development....

Government's support for Special Education has been boosted with the provision of over $800 million in the 2009/2010 Estimates of Expenditure. The total figure of $846.6 million will be apportioned as follows: schools for the mentally challenged, $405 million; institutions for the hearing impaired, $159 million; and schools for the visually impaired, $60 million. The funds will be used to...

The World Bank will be pouring $120 million into Phase Two of the Reform of Secondary Education (ROSE) Project in the 2009/2010 fiscal year. The funds will be used to continue improvements to the quality and equity of secondary education, through school-based initiatives and reform support. The project is also aimed at expanding access to secondary education, and strengthening the...

The Ministry of Education will be investing $5 million this fiscal year, in improving literacy and numeracy in targeted schools. Under its Expanding Education Horizons Project, the Ministry will also seek to enhance the quality of interventions for out-of-school youth and increase stakeholder support. The project will receive budgetary support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Gains...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has committed to what it has dubbed, a 'Greeninitiative', as part of its efforts to promote environmentally sound practices. The pact provides the UWI with a unique opportunity, as a regional university, and the Mona campus, as a national leader in teaching and research, to declare its commitment to protecting and improving its...

A project aimed at enabling young children to learn and develop optimally, will receive $228.5 million in the 2009/10 Budget. According to the Estimates of Expenditure for the new fiscal year, the Enhancement of Basic Schools project, supported by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), was initially slated to run from 2002 to 2006, but that deadline has been revised twice,...