Top performer in the 2019 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination at the Jonathan Grant High School, Orville McKellop, says the challenge of outperforming his class, was not an easy one. Orville, who is 18-years-old, has been struggling with a genetic disorder known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta, also called Brittle Bone Disease. He says the disease, along with other difficulties, were challenges he...

With three state-of-the-art classrooms and other facilities set to come into operation at the South Camp Juvenile Correctional and Remand Centre in St. Andrew, officials say wards will further excel in their educational pursuit. The new additions will be accommodated in a multipurpose centre, to be completed by the end of the year. The Centre will also have an information...

High achiever, Geri-Ann Miller, has made her school and family proud, having secured 13 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) subjects, including 12 Grade Ones, in the 2019 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Examination. The 17-year-old Manning’s School top achiever, who hails from Savanna-la-Mar in the parish, obtained grade one in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Additional Mathematics, English A, Human and Social...

For the past four years, Alrick Powell, a student of Dinthill High School in St. Catherine, has had to live with the fact of his father, with whom he shared a very close relationship, being in a vegetative state. This resulted from the elder Powell developing complications after undergoing surgery at a hospital in Kingston, where he has remained for...

Tarrant High School in St. Andrew is on a mission to become one of the nation’s secondary institutions of choice. The non-traditional institution, which has faced some disciplinary challenges but has been on a path of transformation and image rebuilding in recent years, is set to become the first high school in Jamaica to have a smart mathematics laboratory. The...

The14-year-old Petrojam scholarship programme, which provides financial and mentoring support to high-achieving students for the duration of their high-school life, is being lauded as a motivator for learners to excel. Since 2006 with the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) and now the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), the programme has supported 41 top-performing male and female students from the Greenwich All-Age...

Emerging as the top performer in the 2019 Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination at Tarrant High School in Kingston, has been a thrilling experience for Feona Cameron. The achievement has been even more significant, as Feona’s other four siblings did not finish high school. Feona tells JIS News that she was determined to be the first one in her...

With the growing belief that emerging opportunities in technology will dominate career choices in the future, Tarrant High School in Kingston is positioning its students to take advantage of jobs in areas such as robotics, programming and animation. According to the Principal, Paul Hall, who has been at the helm of the school for the past two years, the institution...

Grade-six students, who are preparing to sit the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) in 2020, are being encouraged by top performers in this year’s inaugural sitting of the assessment to put the nerves aside and focus on preparation. In an interview with JIS News, 12-year-old Gemeila Jones, who was the highest achiever at Spanish Town Primary School, advises the upcoming test-takers...