Hard work has paid off for 17-year-old Abigayle McGrowder, who is the National Child Month Committee’s (NCMC) Top Academic Achievement Award recipient for 2022. The St. James High School graduate, who is currently in sixth form at Herbert Morrison Technical High School, was recognised at an award ceremony held recently in Kingston. To qualify for the Academic Achievement Award, students...

Educators and students at the May Pen Infant School now have access to a comfortable learning environment, after moving out of an old, termite invested building into a new modern facility. The changeover follows a generous donation by the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund totalling $130 million. The grant covered building and renovation costs for a two-storey...

Retired Westmoreland educator Theresa Lindo says she always wanted to be a teacher. “Ever since I was a child, I knew. My principal and his wife, Desmond and May Gascoine, they were my influences. I used to come home from school, line out kerosene tins and play school. I was always the teacher,” she tells JIS News. Pursuing her dreams...

Everyone in the workplace is important, says Bursar at Clarendon College, Theda Falconer Brooks, who has served in the education sector for 36 years. Using this as a principle, according to Mrs. Brooks, made all the difference in her work etiquette, management, and success over the years. “Everyone on the ground is important… no matter how you look at them....

There was a time when the dream of almost every little Jamaican girl was to grow up and become a teacher, and while the minds of many changed over time, one little girl did all she could to make that dream a reality. Born and raised in Sawyers, Trelawny, Patience Deloris Williams recalls that her father was a farmer and...

Guided by a strict and attentive mother, veteran Educator, Beverly Rose, always felt she knew both her life’s destiny and chosen calling. Ms. Rose, a 66-year-old retired school principal and recipient of the Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education, tells JIS News that her love for students and passion for teaching took her straight inside the walls...

Guided by a strict and attentive mother, veteran Educator, Beverly Rose, always felt she knew both her life’s destiny and chosen calling. Ms. Rose, a 66-year-old retired school principal and recipient of the Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education, tells JIS News that her love for students and passion for teaching took her straight inside the walls...

A good educator is one who seeks to improve the lives of future generations through deliberate actions in their daily work. This can be said of nation-builder and 2022 Prime Minister’s Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education awardee, Raymon Treasure, who was among 80 recipients honoured in September.   The decorated Principal of York Castle High School in St....

Nothing could stop former St. James High School student Abigayle McGrowder from acing her external examinations this year. Not even the financial constraints that made it difficult for her parents to afford to purchase a new pair of shoes for her to wear to school. With her mother laid off because of the COVID-19 pandemic and her stepfather’s salary slashed,...