Recently, U.S. Embassy Kingston’s program partners Junior Achievement Jamaica (JAJ) handed over 15 tablets to three institutions, as part of JAJ’s Adopt-A-School Program. The benefiting institutions are Elletson Primary & Infant School, Jacks Hill Primary & Infant School and Denham Town High School. This contributes to the nation’s One Laptop or Tablet Per Child initiative, aimed at promoting inclusivity in...

The Jamaica 4-H Clubs through its Rio Tinto Scholarship Programme has given it commitment to clubite Delano Tucker to support him in his agricultural studies; as he begins his sixth form journey at the Guys Hill High School in St. Catherine. Tucker, whose story was brought to the organization’s attention has been a clubite since grade nine and since then...

     

The National Family Planning Board (NFPB) is inviting adolescents and young people, ages 16 to 24, to participate in a Safer Sex Week Instagram Live session on Friday, February 18. The event is focused on bringing awareness to the issues surrounding adolescent sexual reproductive health and will seek to dispel myths and provide information about safe spaces. It will also...

Approximately $83 million has been allocated to continue work on the construction of the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay, St. James, during the new financial year. Details are outlined in the 2022/2023 Estimates of Expenditure, now before the House of Representatives. The project is aimed at building a 220-bed facility on the compound of the Cornwall Regional...

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) is turning national focus on early-childhood education as Jamaica marks 2022 as the Year of Early Childhood Development. Chairperson of the Regulation and Certification Committee of the ECC Board, David Salmon, told JIS in an interview that the designation provides the opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of early-child development, and increase emphasis on...

The Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) is reporting that a decision has been taken to postpone the Grade Six Primary Exit Profile (PEP) Ability Test from its originally scheduled date of February 22, 2022, to March 24, 2022. However, the Grade Six Performance-Based Test scheduled for March 22 and 24, 2022, have been cancelled. Meanwhile, the Grade Six Curriculum-Based...