Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, is encouraging more Jamaicans to learn a second language to expand opportunities for employment and better relate to other cultures. She noted that in a globalised world where cross-cultural communication and understanding are important, studying a foreign language helps people to have more positive attitudes towards persons who are from a different...

Minister of Health, Dr. Christopher Tufton encouraged students at the Immaculate Conception High School in Kingston to see the newly installed Wellness Bench as a symbol of mental wellness and a safe space. Dr. Tufton was speaking at a Wellness Check In at the school on Monday (March 18) as part of the Ministry’s #DoYourShare mental wellness campaign, in accordance...

The proposed reclassification and restructuring of the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has been approved by the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service and should take effect on April 1. The development follows an institutional review of the ECC, said Project Lead for the Transforming Education for National Development (TREND) in the Ministry of Education and Youth, Nicole Brown. She...

The Ministry of Education and Youth, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Wellness, celebrates National School Moves Day on Friday, April 26, under the theme ‘Live Life Moving: Every Movement Matters!’. As part of the celebrations, students at the primary and secondary levels are being encouraged to enter a ‘Flex and Flow’ song and dance competition. A bulletin...

Students at St. Catherine High School listen attentively while Acting Special Projects Manager, Jamaica Information Service (JIS), Charnele Henry (second right), shares information about the agency and the JIS publications on display. Looking on is Special Projects Officer, JIS, Romona Geohaghan (seated left). Students and adults visited the JIS booth to receive information on healthy eating, citizen rights, breast cancer,...

The Ministry of Education and Youth will be seeking to scale up literacy intervention programmes in schools across Jamaica. The Jamaica Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022: Situation of Women and Children, launched on Friday (March 15) at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, reported that the level at which students aged seven to 14...

Mayor of Montego Bay, Richard Vernon, says there continues to be a critical need for further educational development, particularly at the tertiary level, to drive economic activities. Speaking at the launch of the Jill Stewart MoBay City Run, at the Holiday Inn in Rose Hall, St. James, on March 13, Mr. Vernon pointed out that Jamaica's tertiary education enrolment rate...