Minister of Education, Hon Andrew Holness, has disclosed that the Government is contemplating a savings programme to support Jamaicans pursuing tertiary education. "We are setting up something called the National...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has outlined eight key traits possessed by today's youths that, he says, will rescue Jamaica and the rest of the world from the current...

The Helping Hands Jamaica Foundation (HHJF) is a young organisation that has done a lot of good in its three short years of existence. Formed in 2006 with a mandate...

The Government has added $600 million to the budget for the School Feeding Programme for 2009/10 under the Ministry of Education. According to the figures available in the First Supplementary...

Minister of National Security, Sen. the Hon. Dwight Nelson, has congratulated thirteen (13) juveniles at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre in St. Catherine, who have obtained passes in the...

Cabinet has approved the sum of $62.06 million to complete construction of the Islington Early Childhood Institution in St. Mary. Construction is to be undertaken by Howard Construction Company Limited....

The Ministry of Education's (MOE) thrust towards achieving 100 per cent literacy at the primary school level by 2015 was boosted Wednesday (September 16), with the opening of an Enrichment...

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dwight Nelson, has said that the Government's Safe School Programme has been successful in the schools in which it has been tested. He said that,...

The Ministry of Education has said that classes for the 115 students placed at the Steer Town Primary and Junior High School, after sitting the Grade Nine Achievement Test (GNAT),...

Representatives of the European Commission's (EC) Delegation to Jamaica and the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) signed contracts and broke ground for a multi-million dollar expansion project at the Maverley...

Minister of Education, Hon. Andrew Holness, has reiterated the Government's decision, that no child will be allowed to sit the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), without achieving mastery on the...