Miss Clarendon Festival Queen 2025, Rhaveen Kildare, is leading a parish-wide school tour focused on violence prevention, targeting young men enrolled in high schools across Clarendon. The project, titled the ‘R.E.A.L. Man a Yaad’ School Tour, is being undertaken in collaboration with the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC). It addresses key issues affecting the growth and development of young men,...

Alison McFarland of Moy Hall, St. James, was concerned when her son’s teachers indicated to her that he was struggling with his lessons and was not staying in class. “He’s always on the outside; he’s not writing,” she told JIS News. “When I spoke to him, he said that the teacher is writing too fast for him,” she pointed out....

Eighteen General Construction students from the HEART/NSTA Trust Buff Bay Vocational Training Centre in Portland, have been given firsthand experience of a major construction site through a recent tour of the Boundbrook Urban Centre Project in the parish. The massive development is the second Urban Centre to be built in Jamaica and is now 51 per cent complete. It is...

In classrooms where equations meet encouragement and technology unlocks new horizons, Dorette Rhoden-Henry has quietly shaped a legacy—one student, one success story at a time. With 31 years in the education sector, the Mathematics and Information Technology teacher at deCarteret College in Manchester now proudly holds the title of LASCO/Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information/Jamaica Teaching Council 2025 Teacher...

A new study has highlighted the urgent need for robust digital literacy to better enable teens to navigate the rapidly evolving technological environment, including responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). Digital literacy is the ability to appropriately use information and communications technology (ICT) to utilise digital resources and communicate with others. The research, titled ‘Teens and Technology Report 2025: Digital...

The National School Environmental Club Programme (NSECP) is playing a pivotal role in positioning Jamaica’s youth at the forefront of efforts to combat the global triple planetary crisis of biodiversity loss, pollution and climate change. Coordinated by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), the initiative is currently active in more than 40 secondary schools islandwide, equipping students with the...

Dozens of teenagers across western Jamaca have benefited from a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) initiative aimed at guiding them in developing healthy and responsible social media habits. The Social Media for Social Change workshop, held recently at the Montego Bay Cultural Centre in St. James, brought together students from several high schools for a day of learning, creativity and reflection...

Born out of the love of a father for his child, the Jamaican Association on Intellectual Disabilities (JAID) has evolved from a small initiative into a critical organisation that has empowered thousands through advocacy and education and training. Its journey began in 1955 when devoted father and founder Randolph Lopez, driven by the need to assist his daughter with Down’s...