MONTEGO BAY — Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, says that with increased access to secondary education, educators are faced with increased social issues affecting their students. Addressing the conference...

PORT ANTONIO — The Portland Parish Disaster Committee is undertaking a public education programme aimed at sensitising residents about the importance of disaster preparedness and mitigation. The initiative got underway...

MANDEVILLE — Students at the Waltham Basic School in Manchester now have more space, as the   section used by the Principal as an office will now be used as a...

KINGSTON — Chairperson of the Lifelong Learning Focus Group, Erica Williams, has stressed the importance of continuous learning throughout one’s lifetime. Speaking with JIS News Wednesday (June 15) during a...

PORT ANTONIO — The St. Mary Disaster Committee will be hosting a series of public education expositions on disasters, in various communities of the parish during the remainder of June...

MIAMI — Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness says distance learning will be the choice of many more students to achieve tertiary level education in the future.  He said that...

MANDEVILLE — The St. Catherine-based Kitson Town All-age School has honoured six teachers and a security guard, who have given a combined 130 years of dedicated service to the institution....

MANDEVILLE — The Nain Early Childhood Institution and the St. Elizabeth Resource Centre were opened at Nain, in St. Elizabeth, on June 9, by Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness....

KINGSTON — A short-course intervention programme is being scheduled by the Management Institute for National Development (MIND), June 27 to 29, to bring public and private sector procurement officers up-to-date...

KINGSTON — Five Jamaican students have been awarded scholarships to study medicine at universities in Cuba, under the 2011/2012 Cuba-Jamaica Medical Scholarship Programme. Cuba’s Ambassador to Jamaica, His Excellency Yuri...

PORT ANTONIO — Higgins Land Primary School, St. Ann, emerged winners of the National Solid Waste Management Authority’s (NSWMA) Clean School competition for primary and preparatory schools in Portland, St....