More than 100 schools at the infant, primary and secondary levels from across Jamaica attended the annual Seville Heritage Expo 2025, on October 15. The event was held at the historic Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann. The 27th staging of the expo combined culture, history and creativity to inspire national pride and curiosity among the youth...

The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is strengthening counselling and mental health support to students, educators, and families with the launch of its first Psycho-emotional Learning Week from October 26 to 31. Under the theme ‘Strengthening Minds, Building Resilience, Nurturing Communities’, the week will include a series of targeted activities designed to promote emotional wellness, build trauma-informed capacity...

Ardenne High School has copped the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC) Marcus Garvey Award for Excellence in the Performing Arts for the 15th year. The 2025 presentation was held on Wednesday (October 15) at the Little Theatre in Kingston. The coveted Marcus Garvey Award recognises the group or school that has accumulated the most points in three or more performance...

Members of the performing group, Eastern Rangers, put on a show for students during Seville Heritage Expo 2025, held at the historic Seville Heritage Park in St. Ann's Bay, on Wednesday, October 15.

The lives of more than 300 young Jamaicans have been transformed through the European Union (EU)-funded BRIDGE Project, which provided critical training, mentorship, and behavioural support to at-risk youth across several parishes. Implemented by the MultiCare Youth Foundation (MYF) over a 34-month period, the initiative has resulted in measurable improvements in employability, life skills, and personal development among its participants....

Chairman of the Education Transformation Oversight Committee (ETOC), Dr. Adrian Stokes, has welcomed the improved performance in literacy and numeracy at the grade-four level. In the recently concluded assessment for grade four, 99 per cent of students demonstrated satisfactory performance in literacy while 70 per cent of students showed mastery in numeracy. “This compares well to the 2024 data, when...

The MultiCare Youth Foundation (MYF) will embark on a new five-year initiative to improve literacy, in partnership with the Creative Language-Based Learning (CLBL) Foundation. This follows the successful completion of the European Union (EU)-funded BRIDGE Project. Executive Director of the MYF, Mitzian Turner, made the announcement during the Graduation and Close-Out Ceremony for the BRIDGE Project, held recently at The...