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The community of Epworth in St. Ann has benefited from a refurbished and expanded basic school, which was constructed and equipped at a cost of $3.4 million. Constructed through the efforts of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) and the Social Development Commission (SDC), with the community members providing five per cent of the project cost in cash or kind,...

A recent trace study conducted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has revealed that approximately 60 per cent of youth who participate in the programmes that the National Youth Service (NYS) operates, either go on to being employed on a full-time basis or pursue higher learning in tertiary institutions. Executive Director of NYS, Reverend Adinhair Jones said, " the national...

State Minister in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Culture, Senator Noel Monteith has cautioned against the hasty suspension and expulsion of students with chronic maladaptive behaviors from the school system, as in the future, this could present serious problems for these students and the society as a whole. He was speaking on Thursday (March 27) at the opening of...

Three schools in the parishes of St. Ann and St. Mary are participating in an educational programme, titled 'The River of Life Programme', geared at cultural exchange, environmental education and computer literacy. The schools, York Castle High and Moneague Primary & Junior High in St. Ann, and Iona High in St. Mary, have formed educational links with a number of organizations...

Jamaican male students have performed creditably in some science subjects and information technology, surpassing their Caribbean counterparts. Data from the January 2003 Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) results show that for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, the greatest disparity between pass rates for Jamaican males and their Caribbean counterparts was in Physics. Of the 37 Jamaican male students who...