While a student at the Morant Bay Primary School, Iandrea Whyte was nicknamed “Young Einstein” by her classmates, because she maintained consistent academic excellence. Now, the well-spoken 12-year-old is the ‘top girl’ at the St Thomas-based school in this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations. With her placement score of 368.4, Iandrea will be attending the Morant Bay High School,...

Young Georgia Francis of Guanaboa Vale Primary has brought pride to her school, parents, and community after being placed at her first-choice school of St. Catherine High. She is one of the 12 students from the small rural St. Catherine institution who will be going on to secondary school in September after taking this year’s Primary Exit Profile (PEP). Soft-spoken...

A young housing developer is seeking to use skills gained from the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force and service clubs to impact youth by providing manual work on his firm’s construction sites. Managing Director of Alfran Development Limited, Ricardo Foster, said during the development of the company’s first housing project, Genesis 28, on Waterloo Road in St. Andrew, over 60 inner-city...

Students in State care are being encouraged by their peers to use the opportunities presented to rise above stigma and improve their lives. “I wouldn’t want them to feel less of themselves. I want them to see [State care] as an opportunity because, honestly, I’ve been part of this system for four years and the opportunities I have received, I...

Morant Bay High School, located in the cool hills of Highbury, St. Thomas, will welcome many new faces when the 2022/23 academic year begins in September, and one of those will be 12-year-old Alex Talbot. This year’s ‘Top Boy’ in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations at Morant Bay Primary School, young Alex has defeated the odds, rising from once...

Apart from the impressive academic achievements and destined-for-greatness attitude, the two top performers in the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) at the Providence Kinder-prep School in St. Thomas have more in common than meets the eye. Both boys tell of a simple secret to their years of academic excellence, and it is not mere hard work and determination; it’s also the...

Come September, young Z’iandra Tabanor will leave her home in St. Mary to begin the next phase of her education at her first-choice school – Immaculate Conception High, in Kingston. Z’iandra, who graduated from Three Hills Primary, in the parish, performed outstandingly in the 2022 Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examinations. She was assessed ‘Highly Proficient’ in Mathematics, Language Arts, Science,...

Five hundred young children in the St. James Social Development Commission (SDC) ‘Teach the Youth Summer Camp 2022’ competed in Sport and the Performing Arts and enjoyed the fun-day activities presented on Friday, August 5. The event was held on the SDC playground in Albion, Montego Bay. Parish Manager for the SDC in St. James, Randy Hayle, told JIS News...

Thirty-five children benefited from a two-week Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF)-sponsored literacy and numeracy summer camp, held in Rosemount Gardens, Montego Bay, St. James. The camp, which culminated on Friday (August 5), was designed to improve the youngsters’ conflict resolution skills, while impacting their education and personal development. Children from six to 17 years of age were targeted and engaged in...