Approximately 700 young people have received training and venture capital support through the expanded Rural Youth Economic Empowerment Programme (RYEEP) managed by the Jamaica 4-H Clubs. This is contained in the Planning Institute of Jamaica’s Economic and Social Survey Jamaica, 2021, which was tabled in the House of Representatives recently. Participants also received advanced training in business development and management,...

The Global Services Sector (GSS) Project is aimed at providing Jamaicans with the requisite skills and training to attract foreign direct investment and other positive outcomes. Speaking at a recent JIS Think Tank session on the new High School Immersion Bootcamp Training Programme offered under the GSS Project, Programme Director, Marjorie Straw, said that skills and training are important considerations...

The Ministry of Education and Youth and the National Council on Education (NCE) are putting medium and short-term strategies in place to transform the current school governance structure. This is according to portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, who informed that several initiatives are being pursued to provide greater support to the boards of management and to transform the school governance...

More than 700 primary-level teachers who have received electronic vouchers (e-vouchers) under the ‘Laptop for Teachers’ initiative are yet to redeem their vouchers for devices and are being urged by the Ministry of Education and Youth to do so. Portfolio Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, said the latest numbers show that 8,852 e-vouchers for laptops have been issued to primary-level teachers...

Students of the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts have an opportunity to receive tuition assistance through a Scholarship programme spearheaded by the Cecil Cooper Foundation. The programme was launched on June 17 concurrently with the inaugural Cecil Cooper Scholarship Exhibition, which is slated to run until July 16. The exhibition features never-before-seen works by the late...

Education and Youth Minister, Hon. Fayval Williams, is appealing to parents to provide adequate supervision for their children and not to leave them home alone. In an emotional send-off on Sunday (July 3) for two Clarendon sisters who perished in a fire at their Haylesfield home on March 24, Minister Williams said parents should “ensure that [children] are always in...

Attractive green spaces have been established at the Lethe and Bickersteth Primary and Infant schools in St. James, which will serve as recreational areas for the students and wider community members. The facilities were created at a total cost of over $3 million under the Parks and Green Spaces Project of the Integrated Community Development Project – Phase 2 (ICDP...