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Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Dr. Marlene Street-Forrest, presents top student in the entity’s Primary and Preparatory Schools Stock Market Game for Month 2, Zayden Cunningham, with his certificate at today’s (May 16) awards ceremony for students who participated in the competition, at the JSE, downtown Kingston.
Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), Dr. Marlene Street-Forrest, presents top student in the entity’s Primary and Preparatory Schools Stock Market Game for Month 2, Zayden Cunningham, with his certificate at today’s (May 16) awards ceremony for students who participated in the competition, at the JSE, downtown Kingston.

JSE Wants Primary-level Students to Be Financially Literate

By: GARFIELD L. ANGUS, May 16, 2025
The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) is working to ensure that students at the primary level are financially literate, says Managing Director, Dr. Marlene Street-Forrest. Speaking at an awards ceremony for...
Minister of Science, Energy, Telecommunications and Transport, Hon. Daryl Vaz (third right) gives the thumbs up at the launch of the rural school-bus service in Portland recently. He is joined by (from left) Deputy Managing Director for Operations at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Romain-Khade Gayle; Director of the Safety and Security in Schools Unit at the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Richard Troupe; Member of Parliament for Portland Eastern, Ann-Marie Vaz; Principal of Titchfield High School, Richard Thompson; and JUTC Corporate Communications Manager, Shantole Thompson.

Titchfield High Principal Welcomes Portland School-Bus Service

By: Peta-Gay Hodges, May 15, 2025
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Dr. Kasan Troupe (right), applauds as the Captain I Can robot engages with schoolchildren at the launch of the Captain I Can School Tour, under the theme 'Drugs and Violence No Way' at the St. Andrew Primary School on May 14. The school tour is an innovative student-focused initiative aimed at fostering resilience, prosocial behaviour and violence prevention in schools through empowerment and education. Spearheaded under the Government of the United Kingdom (UK)-funded Violence Prevention Partnership Programme (VPPP), the tour is a flagship initiative led by the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information in collaboration with the Ministries of National Security and Health and Wellness, and the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ). The initiative supports the Citizen Security Plan and Inter-Ministerial School Support Strategy (IMSS), reinforcing national efforts to create safe and supportive learning environments.

Launch of Captain I Can School Tour (PHOTOS)

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Chief Executive Officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Laurette Adams-Thomas, brings greetings at the national Child Month church service held recently at the Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Seventh Day Adventist Church in Mandeville, Manchester.
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Become Champions And Defenders Of Children

Chief Executive Officer of the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA), Laurette Adams-Thomas,  is calling on all Jamaicans to become champions and defenders of children by actively promoting and...
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By: Judith A. Hunter, May 10, 2025