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Minister of Education, Hon. Rev Ronald Thwaites (left), and former Minister of Education and board chairman of the South Trelawny Edu-Skills Centre, Neville Gallimore, engage in light conversation, at the centre’s graduation ceremony held recently, at the Albert Town High School, where Minister Thwaites was the guest speaker.
Minister of Education, Hon. Rev Ronald Thwaites (left), and former Minister of Education and board chairman of the South Trelawny Edu-Skills Centre, Neville Gallimore, engage in light conversation, at the centre’s graduation ceremony held recently, at the Albert Town High School, where Minister Thwaites was the guest speaker.

Reject Divisive Politics In Education – Minister Thwaites

By: Sharon Earle, August 4, 2014
Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites, is calling for Jamaicans to reject divisive politics in matters pertaining to education. He said that the education of the country’s youth is “too...
Some of the graduates of the South Trelawny Edu-Skills Centre, at the graduation exercise held recently, at the Albert Town High School.

South Trelawny Skills Centre to Offer Agriculture Training

By: Sharon Earle, August 4, 2014
Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (seated second right), and Managing Director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Scarlette Gillings (seated left), sign a contract for the rehabilitation and expansion of nine schools in rural Jamaica, during a ceremony at the Ministry’s Heroes Circle offices on July 25. Also sharing in the moment are: Director of MAE Construction Company, Phillip Evans (seated right); Member of Parliament for South East St. Elizabeth, Richard Parchment (standing right); Director, Ricam Construction, Devon Richards (second right); and Principal, Aberdeen Primary and Junior High School, Milbert Miller (second left).

$160.5 Million to Rehabilitate Nine Schools in Rural Jamaica

By: Athaliah Reynolds-Baker, July 28, 2014

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Grade Four student Janelle Dolphy of Allman Town Primary witnesses the purchase of her textbooks by mother Hortense Dolphy from Carlton Allen of Book Express. He recently delivered books ordered by the school to Principal Candi-Lee Crooks-Smith. The cost of the set of Grade Four books was a little over $6000.
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Booklists Reduced For New School Year

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By: Byron Buckley, Director, Corporate Communication, July 16, 2014
Former Editor-in-Chief of the Gleaner Company and member of Westwood High School’s class of 1971, Wyvolyn Gager (left), receives the 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from Devon Bramwell of the South Florida Chapter of the Westwood Old Girls’ Association (SFCWOGA). The presentation was made at the 2nd annual dinner and dance of the SFCWOGA held recently, at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Sunrise, Fort Lauderdale. (Photographer Derrick Scott)
Education

Westwood High Resumes Sixth Form in September

After 38 years of inactivity, the Westwood High School for Girls in Stewart Town, Trelawny will reopen its sixth form to students at the beginning of the new academic year...
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By: Derrick Scott, Information Attache (Jamaican Embassy, USA), July 15, 2014