KINGSTON, Jamaica Jamaica College and José Martí Technical High School are poised to benefit from the two largest solar systems being provided under the Schools Energy Efficiency and Solar Energy Public-Private Partnership (PPP) pilot project. Thirty schools across Jamaica were selected for the pilot, which commenced in March 2022. Executive Director of the National Education Trust (NET), Latoya Harris-Ghartey, advised that the two schools have the highest energy costs. The.
RECENTLY I had reason to visit Jose Marti High School in southern St Catherine.
I visit and am associated with several high schools. This, for various reasons ranging from tae kwon do, trade trai.
Tameka is a 38-year-old mother of four. She has lived in the tough inner-city community of Riverton City off Spanish Town Road in St Andrew all her life.
Her four children ages 21, 16, nine, and one were born in Riverton City, the site
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Prime Minister and West Central St. Andrew Member of Parliament, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, who visited students at Penwood High School, offered them words of encouragement and a distributed tablet computers to youngsters without devices to assist in their preparations.
Prime Minister Holness noted the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), which administers the exams, has indicated that consideration will be given to the psychosocial effect of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the students, in the grading process.
Eleventh grade Penwood High student, Ruth-Ann Sullivan, who will be sitting CXC/CSEC Human and Social Biology and Biology, and City and Guilds Mathematics and English, said although she was nervous about taking the exams, the session was helpful.
EduCom Co-op Credit Union has gifted a total of 20 laptop computers to five schools in Kingston as part of an initiative to provide students with the necessary technology to facilitate online education.
The devices, valued at approximately $1.2 mi