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Dermaine Sinclair of Cecil Auto Services Limited, hands over a television set to staff of the Chantilly Primary and Infant School (from left), Jayann Lee, Zasanya Rowe, Juleen Morrison, and Principal, Nicole Poyser. The television was among technology devices and school supplies donated by the business to the Westmoreland-based institution recently.
Dermaine Sinclair of Cecil Auto Services Limited, hands over a television set to staff of the Chantilly Primary and Infant School (from left), Jayann Lee, Zasanya Rowe, Juleen Morrison, and Principal, Nicole Poyser. The television was among technology devices and school supplies donated by the business to the Westmoreland-based institution recently.

Chantilly Primary and Infant Gets Donation of School Supplies

The Chantilly Primary and Infant School in Westmoreland has benefitted from a donation of technology devices and school supplies. The items, which include a laptop, multi-media projector, a television set, tables, chairs, among other things, were provided by businessman, Dexton...
Director of Projects and Strategic Management, MultiCare Youth Foundation (MYF), Mitzian Turner, emphasises a point as she addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.
Director of Projects and Strategic Management, MultiCare Youth Foundation (MYF), Mitzian Turner, emphasises a point as she addresses a recent JIS Think Tank.

Multicare Youth Foundation Making a Positive Impact at Denham Town High School
Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), greets Head of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Caribbean, Paula Marcelle Irish. The event was the University of Technology (UTech) 15th Annual Students Accounting Seminar held on March 21 at the AC By Marriot Hotel in Kingston. President of Utech, Dr. Kevin Brown, is at centre.
Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (left), greets Head of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Caribbean, Paula Marcelle Irish. The event was the University of Technology (UTech) 15th Annual Students Accounting Seminar held on March 21 at the AC By Marriot Hotel in Kingston. President of Utech, Dr. Kevin Brown, is at centre.

PHOTOS: UTech’s Students Accounting Seminar
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.

Implementation of Jamaica Education Transformation Commission’s Recommendations Progressing
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.
Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.

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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams.
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Jamaicans Encouraged to Learn a Second Language

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...
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Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr. Hon. Christopher Tufton, addresses students of Immaculate Conception High School in Kingston during the handover of the institution’s newly installed ‘Wellness Bench’ on Monday (March 18).
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Immaculate Conception High School Gets Wellness Bench

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...
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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), is in discussion with Chairman, Education Transformation and Oversight Committee (ETOC),  Dr. Adrian Stokes, and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Kasan Troupe, during a press conference at the Overseas Examinations Commission offices in Kingston on March 14.
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Implementation of ECC Reclassification to Take Effect April 1

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...
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National School Moves Day to Be Celebrated April 26

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...
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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, road safety, and other subject matters at the school’s health fair on Friday, March 15. Visitors to the booth were also able to interact with Writer/Producer/Presenter, JIS Radio, Jayda Francis, and test their skills at voice acting.
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PHOTOS: St. Catherine High School Health Fair

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,...
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Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, engages with primary-school students at the Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library as part of activities to mark Read Across Jamaica Day 2023.
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Education Ministry to Scale Up Literacy Programmes

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...
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