Over 80 primary and secondary level students were exposed to skills in robotics, engineering, and coding at a free five-day camp, which ended on Friday, August 19. The Junior Creators Robotics Camp, organised by Supreme Ventures Foundation in partnership with Halls of Learning, was being staged for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participating students, including...

D'mario Powell (right) receives his certificate of participation in the Food for the Poor (FFP) Jamaica's Bandcamp from ‘Miss Guardian Queen’ Antoinette McDonald on Thursday (August 18), at FFP head office in Ellerslie Pen, Spanish Town, St. Catherine.

Scores of students were assisted in their preparations for the reopening of schools in September at a back-to-school fair staged by staff of the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology on Thursday (August 18). The event catered to children of employees and their relatives, who were provided with packages containing notebooks, pens, pencils and masks. They also received snack items....

Hundreds of children, mainly wards of the State, converged at the National Indoors Sports Centre on Thursday (August 18) for the fifth staging of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA) National Children’s Summit. The biennial event was conceptualised by the agency’s Children’s Advisory Panel (CAP) in 2014, as a means of increasing interaction with the youngsters the panel...

Hundreds of special needs children across the island benefited from support through the Early Stimulation Programme (ESP) last year. The intervention included the provision of developmental assistance, stimulation and therapy, assistive aids and educational support. As contained in the Economic and Social Survey Jamaica 2021, there were 888 referrals to the ESP last year, with Kingston and St. Andrew recording...

Children across the island’s four juvenile correctional facilities were treated to an end-of-summer fun day last week. The event was held to close out the annual summer programme staged by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the Ministry of National Security for the wards under the ‘We Transform’ initiative. Policy Director and Project Manager at the Ministry, Ella Ghartey,...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams, is calling on business graduates to assist the Government’s efforts to impart financial literacy skills to students. She said there is need for students to be exposed to such knowledge at earlier levels of the education system. Addressing the University of Technology (UTech) School of Business Administration’s recent annual staff retreat, Mrs....