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The Government has selected the Islington Basic School in St. Mary as the National Project for Labor Day 2003 and has allocated $2 million for the renovation of the early childhood facility. The upgrading of the institution, which was founded in 1938, is also meant to pay homage to the country's first basic school, which was founded by Rev. Henry...

Unknown to many, early childhood education commences before a child enters a basic or infant school. In fact, it begins as early as daycare. Speaking to JIS News, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, with special responsibility for youth, Dr. Donald Rhodd, stressed that daycare centres play a pivotal role in the developmental process of...

Two new facilities designed to improve agricultural production and training have been opened at the Ebony Park HEART Academy at Tollgate in Clarendon. The facilities are a state-of-the-art poultry house, which has established in conjunction with the Jamaica Broilers Group of Companies at a cost of $9 million, and an agro-processing laboratory, set up in collaboration with the Caribbean Regional...

Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Computing at the University of Technology (UTech), Gossett Oliver, has said that the institution was positioning graduates to take advantage of trading arrangements such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). Pointing to the opportunities being opened up at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and FTAA levels for the export of...

Little World Schoolhouse, a nonprofit educational organisation in Minnesota, United States (US), recently donated six laptop computers valued at $700,000, to six schools in St. Ann and Clarendon, that are a part of the River of Life Programme. The presentation was made at the Village Hotel in Ocho Rios recently. The schools, which benefited from the donation, were York Castle...

Maxine Henry-Wilson, Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, has urged CARICOM leaders to incorporate a strong focus on regional integration in Caribbean school curricula. Without this emphasis, she asserted, "a region whose history has been forged in mistrust, suspicion and division, will never integrate". Minister Henry-Wilson was making her contribution to the Distinguished Lecture Series, held to commemorate the 30th...

A new basic school constructed at a cost of some $4 million, has opened in the community of Higgins Land, St. Ann to accommodate over 100 students. The school was constructed through funding from the Social Economic and Support Programme (SESP), Lift Up Jamaica, Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Company (KJBCo.) and the community. Speaking at the official opening ceremony yesterday (April...

Persons living in North East Manchester are being invited to a Book Fair which will be held at the Christiana High School on May 7, beginning at 10 a.m. The event is being organised by the School's Reading Department and is designed to improve reading at both the school as well as national levels. One of the Principal Organizers for...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry-Wilson, left the island yesterday (April 23) for Paramaribo, Suriname, where she will participate in the Distinguished Lecture Series to commemorate the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) 30th anniversary. The Minister will make her presentation today, to coincide with the 8th Meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development, scheduled to take place from...

Minister of Education, Youth and Culture, Maxine Henry Wilson has lauded schools' savings programmes initiated by financial institutions as, "a very positive initiative" and effective means of teaching children to save and plan for the future. Speaking with JIS News, the Minister said that as a high consumption society, it was important to instill the value of thriftiness in the...

Students from the over 200 high schools across the country are being encouraged to submit applications for nominees to run in the upcoming National Executive elections, for the National Secondary Student's Council (NSSC). Jody Grizzle, Programme Development Specialist at the National Centre for Youth Development (NCYD), said that the elections slated to take place at St. George's College on April...

The Osbourne Store Primary and Junior High School in Clarendon has hosted a Boys' Day in an effort to develop self confidence and foster positive behavior among their male students. The day was celebrated on Wednesday (April 9) at the school. Acting Principal, Sonia Black said that the purpose of the day was to "reverse a growing trend of male...