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Twelve-year old Huddoy Walters is the pride of Port Antonio Primary, having copped top honours in the Junior Division of the 2009 Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Environmental Poster Competition. For his winning poster titled: 'Preserving Our Island's Paradise', the Portland student not only defeated other entrants from the wider Caribbean and Latin America, but earned US$6,000 for himself and his...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday (March 31), approved a Government guarantee of US$2.75 million, of a loan of US$5.5 million to the University of the West Indies (UWI), to partially finance the construction of a Vice Chancellery building on lands adjacent to the Mona Campus. According to a Ministry Paper, which was tabled in the Lower House, the Vice...

Approximately 64 schools are to receive security fencing, as part of the safety and security initiative of the Ministry of Education (MOE), at a cost of $429.7 million, during the 2009-2010 academic year. The disclosure was made by Chief Building Officer in the MOE, Leonard Jackson, during an interview with JIS News. "Twelve schools benefitted from the programme in 2008/2009,...

Students For Transformation, the grouping of corporate area secondary schools, has launched a campaign aimed at promoting peace and camaraderie leading up to the staging of the Boys' and Girls' Athletic Championships. Members of the organisation's executive body today (March 27) announced a list of peace-building initiatives surrounding the event at a press conference held at the Office of the...

The Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI), in association with Security Administrators Limited (SAL), will officially launch a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Security Administration and Management, at the Knutsford Court Hotel, in Kingston, on April 8, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Addressing a JIS 'Think Tank' on March 26, Executive Director of the CMI, Fritz Pinnock, explained that the degree programme...

The Jamaica Library Service (JLS) today (March 26), received $1.3 million from the Rockhouse Foundation, to purchase books for the Negril Branch Library. The presentation was made at a ceremony at the JLS office, Tom Redcam Drive, Kingston. The funds will assist the Foundation to fulfill its mandate of enabling national development through the creation and support of a knowledge-based...

Everything is in place for the 2009 sitting of the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) on Thursday March 26 and Friday March 27. Forty nine thousand seven hundred students are registered for the examination. GSAT materials have been dispatched and are to be collected by the principals of schools in time for the examination. Presiding examiners and invigilators have been...

The delivery of education at the Ramble Primary School, in St. Mary, has been significantly enhanced, with the construction of a resource centre at the institution, by the Digicel Foundation. The Ramble Primary School Resource Centre, which was officially handed over to the school on Friday, March 20, was built and equipped at a cost of approximately $6 million. Completed...

United Kingdom-based Jamaican, Verley Josephs, is working to transform the small primary school that he attended in rural St. Elizabeth, into a model institution for primary education. Through the Association of Friends of Primary Education, which he founded, Mr. Josephs raised several thousand pounds to build and equip a new library at the Fyffe's Pen Primary School, with adjoining medical...

Students of Campbell's Castle All-age in Manchester benefited from water conservation tips at a World Water Day event held at the school on Monday (March 23). The event, organised by alumina refinery company, Jamalco included presentations on the significance of World Water Day, and facts about water and water-related projects supported by the company; and a mini-quiz, with winners receiving...

Five high school students of Caribbean descent received tertiary level scholarships from the Caribbean Educators' Association (CARE), at the fourth annual scholarship banquet on Friday (March 20), at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, United States of America (USA). The scholarship recipients are Farah Ali, Laderne Cadeus, Michka Barham, Kimberly Williams and Jhonny Thermidor. They are high school seniors...

Operators of some 75 early childhood institutions in Kingston and St. Andrew are set to benefit from training to improve health and safety standards at the facilities. The Council for Voluntary Social Services (CVSS) has secured some $1 million in funding for the training programme, which will cover health and sanitation, disaster and emergency management preparedness, and fire safety. Chairman...