The chatter of children filled the newly refurbished Children’s Computer Lab at the St. James Parish Library, as grade-five students from Chetwood Memorial Primary School, became the first to explore the space since its reopening. The computer lab had suffered extensive damage during the passage of Hurricane Melissa on October 28, 2025. The Jamaica Library Service (JLS), in partnership with...

The Portland-based Fair Prospect High School is celebrating a 33-percentage-point increase in passes in English A in the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination. The school’s pass rate in the subject jumped to 73 per cent from 40 per cent in the previous year. Fair Prospect High School is one of 56 institutions benefiting under the Ministry of Education,...

The St. Catherine-based Charlemont High School is on an upward trajectory in Mathematics and exemplary performance in English Language, coming out of the recent Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. Students more than doubled the performance numbers in Mathematics, moving from a 16 per cent pass rate to 36 per cent, while they maintained an 81 per cent pass rate...

When Hurricane Melissa swept across Jamaica on October 28 last year, it left behind a trail of destruction that disrupted communities, damaged infrastructure, and tested the resilience of the nation’s education system. However, amid the challenges, schools are steadily returning to normalcy, thanks to the coordinated efforts of the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information (MoESYI) and its agency,...

As Jamaica rebuilds in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, which devastated the western end of the island in October 2025, the Save our Boys and Girls Foundation has taken aim at reducing learning loss in severely affected communities, with the launch of a programme dubbed, ‘School in a Box’. The humanitarian assistance project, which is being delivered in collaboration with...

With support from the National School Learning and Intervention Plan (NSLIP), the Clarendon-based Kemps Hill High School registered a 32 per cent improvement in English Language, in the 2025 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination. The NSLIP, aimed at improving Mathematics and English Language in high schools, was instituted by the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information to deal...

Schools in western Jamaica are on a path to recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, with repair works progressing across several institutions. Minister of Education, Youth, Skills and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, said that the objective is to reopen all hurricane-affected schools in January. She outlined the extensive coordination required to complete assessments, secure funding,...

For education officials in Region 4, ‘Bouncing Back Better’ has become more than a slogan, it is the guiding framework for how schools, parents and communities are responding to learning loss, following the disruption caused by Hurricane Melissa on October 28. Regional Director for Region 4 (Westmoreland, St. James and Hanover), Dr. Michele Pinnock, told JIS News that the Region’s...