Some 600 young farmers and fishers across five parishes will benefit from support to bolster their enterprises and combat climate change under the pilot ‘Strengthening the Adaptive Capacity of Farmers and Fisherfolk in Jamaica’ project. The initiative, which is being undertaken through a $21.5-million grant from Global Affairs Canada and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), United Kingdom, was...

Minister of Education and Youth, Hon. Fayval Williams (second left), presents Student from Hayes Primary School, Ontwane Griffiths (second right), with a back-to-school voucher and school bag, at the New Fortress Energy Foundation’s annual back-to-school fair held on August 9 at the Wembley Centre of Excellence, Hayes, Clarendon. Other participants (from left) are Vice President, New Fortress Energy, Verona Carter...

Twenty-three scholarships and 10 bursaries, valued at approximately $10 million have been awarded to students at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels by the Barita Foundation. The presentations were made during the Foundation’s inaugural scholarship awards ceremony, which was held on August 10 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. Scholarships were awarded to seven students who sat the...

More Jamaicans, especially the youth, are taking up farming as a lucrative profession, says Executive Director of the Jamaica 4-H Clubs, Dr. Ronald Blake. He noted that with an average farmer age of 48.7 years, Jamaica has one of the youngest farmer populations in the world, where the average age is 60. Moreover, he argued “the data [prove] that the...

Thirty young farmers are the newest selectees for agricultural land leases across the country’s agro-parks and production zones. This has been done under the Agro-Investment Corporation (AIC) ‘Youth in Agriculture’ programme. Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr., said the initiative continues the Government’s mandate of focusing at least 20 per cent of its activities on youth. “The...

The Ministry of Education and Youth, in collaboration with the Amber Group, continues the Train the Teachers Initiative, under the Coding in Schools Programme. Hundreds of Information Technology (IT) and Computer Science teachers are scheduled to participate in this phase, which begins August 22 and will last for five weeks. The course will be conducted using both synchronous and asynchronous...

Early childhood institutions across the island will benefit from a donation of 300 mattresses from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. The contribution was at the request of the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) in the Ministry of Education and Youth. The mattresses will provide for the establishment of isolation centres at the schools to satisfy the Ministry of Health...