Poison Information Coordinator at the Caribbean Poison Information Network (CARPIN), Sherika Whitelocke-Ballingsingh, is imploring parents to be extra careful in safeguarding children, who are now home from school, from exposure to household chemicals.             The appeal comes in light of the increased use of sanitising chemicals by householders to protect against the coronavirus (COVID-19). Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Mrs....

The Early Childhood Commission (ECC) has implemented measures to assist parents and caregivers with the continued development of their children 0-5 years during the period of school closure as a result of COVID-19. Daily activity plans for children and parenting tips have been placed on ECC’s website in the newly created COVID Corner, videos have been recorded of team members...

The Human Employment and Resource Training Trust/National Service Training Agency (HEART/NSTA) Trust, is advising that due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), their institutions islandwide are closed to the public until further notice. However, Director of Marketing and Communications, Julia Smiley Green, told JIS News that the teaching and learning process continues via distance/online methods. She pointed out that assessments that...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information has moved to expand online teaching and learning opportunities in the continuing effort to minimise the disruption of normal school activities as a result of the COVID – 19 threat. To this end, starting on Thursday, March 26, 2020, the Ministry, in partnership with One-on-One Educational Services Limited and Flow began providing students...

Chief Executive Officer of e-Learning Jamaica, Keith Smith, says Cabinet has approved the procurement of 40,000 tablet computers for students and 25,000 devices for teachers, under the Tablets in Schools Project. “We are now finalising contracts with the vendors,” he told JIS News in a recent interview. A new phase of the project, which is to be renamed ‘Technology in...

The Government is scaling up of the Document Management and Digitisation Corps through collaborations with the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology and the Jamaica Archives and Records Department. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, made the disclosure in his contribution to the 2020/2021 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on Thursday (March 19). The Digitisation Corps, under...

An additional 5,000 to 10,000 youth are being targeted for engagement through job placements in the private sector, as part of the scaling up of the Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme. The announcement was made by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, in his contribution to the 2020/2021 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives, on Thursday...