The Jamaica Youth Chorale (JYC) is enjoying an exciting concert season with financial support of a J$3-million grant from the Culture, Health, Arts, Sports and Education (CHASE) Fund. An elated Principal Director and Founder of the JYC, Gregory Simms, says the donated money is being used to cover the group’s winter tour that goes up to February 2023. Just weeks...

Grade-10 student of York Castle High School in St. Ann, Adryan McNeish, is the 2022 winner of the Jamaica Customer Service Song Competition, adding to the crown she won in 2021. She first entered the competition in 2021 and when the opportunity presented itself to enter again in 2022, she did and walked away with the winning trophy, a certificate...

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...

Seventeen-year-old Delaney Campbell plans to turn his childhood fascination with planes into a rewarding career as an airline pilot. Despite challenging circumstances, the youngster is keeping his eyes on the prize, as he is determined to create a better life for himself, his mother and little brother. The student at Newell High School in St. Elizabeth, has carved out a...

Twenty-four-year-old pig farmer Giovanni Morris dreams of establishing his own state-of-the-art-facility, which will integrate technology in the animal-rearing process. Currently, the Portland resident shares a farm in Boston Bay with mentor and business partner Seymour Duncan, which he says, needs improvement. “Whenever I reach a level where I can acquire the [farm] that I want, I want it to be...

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,...

Determination, proper time management, organisation and motivation were the cornerstones on which Joshell Allen of New Market in St. Elizabeth achieved major successes in her secondary-level external examinations. The 19-year-old graduate of Hampton School in Malvern, St. Elizabeth, gained a combined 10 subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations in 2019 and 2020, while in Grades 10 and...

Teacher/Facilitator at the Human Employment and Resource Training/National Service Training Agency (HEART/NSTA) Trust, Jasper Brown, has received the Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation for Service to Education (PMMA), acknowledging his 47 years in the teaching profession. “The Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation Award really means a lot to me. It goes to show that even on a national level, your...