Minister of Education And Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), observes as grade-one student at Mountain View Primary and Infant School in Kingston, Everett Austin, demonstrates his mathematics skills using an abacus. Minister Williams visited students, staff and parents at the institution on Monday (September 4) to observe activities for the start of the 2023/24 academic year.

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (right), reads to students of Jack’s Hill Primary School in St. Andrew (from left) Mary Kate Rankin, Anleka Creary, and Jessica Small, during her visit to the institution on Monday (September 4) to observe activities for the first day of the 2023/24 academic year. Looking on is the School Board’s Chairman, Jermaine...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, is upbeat about the 2023/24 academic year, based on activities observed while visiting several schools on Monday (September 4). She and other Ministry officials toured the Windward Road Primary, Jacks Hill Primary and Infant, Mountain View Primary and Infant, and Hope Valley Experimental Primary Schools in the Corporate Area to assess the...

The Victim Services Branch (VSB) is encouraging parents to be vigilant with their children, to minimise trauma resulting from crime and violence. Director of the VSB in the Social Justice Division of the Justice Ministry, Dionne Dawn Binns, told JIS News that more than 50 per cent of the Branch’s clientele are children. “Our most common cases include those related...

A total of 100 participants are set to commence training in coding, under the 2023 Universal Service Fund (USF) Technology Advancement Programme (TAP) III Residential Coding Course. The opening ceremony for TAP III was held on September 1, at the Stony Hill HEART Academy in Kingston. TAP is a comprehensive training programme that provides participants with the technical, creative, and...

Minister of Health and Wellness, and Member of Parliament (MP) for St Catherine West Central, Dr. the Hon. Christopher Tufton (left), with some of the 39 students from primary and high schools, as well as tertiary institutions, who received educational support from the MP, at a recent back-to-school event, held at the Watermount Open Bible Church in St. Catherine. Nestlé...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says more youth, particularly young men, are needed in Jamaica’s labour force to ensure the nation’s continued economic growth. He notes that despite the country’s unemployment rate falling to a record low 4.5 per cent, an untapped pool of young people remains outside the labour force. Mr. Holness said many of these youth...