It was appropriate that Jamaica’s first poet laureate who adopted the name Tom Redcam was honoured by the use of that name to identify a road where buildings alongside it would be used for general education and various categories of ‘the arts’..
Donna Haynes, the voice actor extraordinaire, who voiced not only for Digicel but for many radio and TV commercials for the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB), among others, has died.
Haynes died last Thursday (November 24).
Haynes also serv
There are nearly 100 Catholic educational institutions in Jamaica, and Catholic schools are among the best in Jamaica. Campion, Immaculate Conception, Mt Alvernia, Mt St Joseph Catholic High – all produce top achievers. The same is true for many of our primary schools and some infant institutions as well.
Besides, we can celebrate with St Joseph’s Teachers College, which has been chosen to be the first college to be incorporated fully into The University of the West Indies. St Michael’s Theological College and the Catholic College of Mandeville also offer graduate and postgraduate degrees of high quality.
“Let me say that one of the more remarkable facts emphasised by this analysis is the stellar performance of the nation’s Catholic schools. Given that members of the Catholic Church constitute less than five per cent of the nation’s population, the Church’s contribution to the island’s education, and especially to its high-performing schools, is truly extraordinar