Sharp Senior Citizens can spell any word...

Watch these sharp-minded older persons battle it out in the annual Senior Citizens Spelling Bee in Kingston, Jamaica. The competition is organised by the National Council for Senior Citizens, which is an agency of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.


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Jamaica schoolboy football season 2017 is on!

High school footballers from urban and rural Jamaica will battle it out over the next 12 weeks for a number of prestigious trophies in the exciting schoolboy football season. Take a look.

Praise and worship 2017 style!

Students of @Old Harbour High School, St. Catherine, Jamaica perform a medley of praise and worship songs with a dancehall twist.

This was at the handing over of the Enrichment Initiative Project to the Ministry of Education in Kingston last month.

The Enrichment Initiative, sponsored by Digicel and the USAID, seeks to achieve 100 per cent literacy among primary school students. Through the initiative, Jamaica’s literacy rate at the grade-four level reached 86.5 per cent in 2016, exceeding the Ministry’s target of 85 per cent.

Old Harbour High won the popular TV secondary school choir competition “All Together Sing” in 2016.

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Science meets dancehall – at last!

Science meets dancehall in Jamaica

Imagine high school students creating dancehall lyrics to generate interest in Science? That’s what Science Genius Jamaica hopes to achieve.

The programme is a partnership between the JN Foundation and Science Genius from the USA.

The backstory is that Jamaica is not producing enough students who are doing well the sciences, which are needed for needed for in-demand careers such as in health care and ICT.

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Local carrots, bananas and other produce needed for Jamaica’s school feeding programme

During a recent tour of Nutrition Productions Ltd (NPL), CEO Orville Lewinson revealed that more carrots and bananas were needed to process lunches and juice drinks for daily delivery to children in Jamaica’s public school system.

Mr. Lewinson said persons wishing to sell produce to NPL should contact their local office of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA).

The Hon. Ruel Reid, Minister of Education, Youth and Information toured NPL’s Kingston plant recently where he discussed government’s plans to provided lunches to more of Jamaica’s vulnerable students.

NPL provides more than 92,000 lunches to students daily more three plants through its network of 35 vehicles.

Watch a video of the tour here.

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Lee Chin rubbishes critics of Prime Minister Holness’ Israel visit

Chairman of the Economic Growth Council Michael Lee Chin has defended Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ recent visit to Israel, stating that Jamaica may reap rewards in investments from that country.

 The Jamaican-born Canadian billionaire who was part of the Prime Minister’s delegation on the trip to Israel earlier this month, said he will be returning to Israel within two months to meet with representatives of the top 50 companies in that country, with a view to striking business deals to benefit Jamaica.



Speaking at at dialogue with stakeholders in the education and training sector at Jamaica House on Wednesday, January 25, Lee Chin dismissed as “stupid” newspaper articles station that Holness should not have gone to Israel where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “We’re tired of have skinny kids”, Lee-Chin quipped, adding that he will visit any country in order to secure investments for Jamaica.

Holness received backlash in some quarters to the visit, for example this view.

 The Eonomic Growth Council was formed last year as part of government’s plan to achieve five per cent GDP growth annually over the next four years (“five in four”).

To listen to Mr. Lee Chin's comments click here.