David Salmon’s Rhodes Scholarship dream fulfilled
He topped the field of 11 Jamaican candidates – seven males and four females – vying for the globally acclaimed Rhodes…
- | Education
NCB grants $2 million wish to Old Harbour trio
The trio of Claudia Mendez, Tarik Pryce and Dane Warren were all nominated for the NCB Foundation’s Grant-a-Wish programme, an…
- | Education
TagHeart Foundation gifts Marlie Mount teachers with cash prize
The kind gesture was in response to the overwhelming support the United States-registered charity received from the Old Harbour-based state-…
- | Education
Education Ministry to address termite issue at Davis Primary
Following a tour of the school during Heritage Day celebration last Friday Sophia Forbes-Hall, told Old Harbour News that the matter is being…
- | Education
Old Harbour Primary to benefit from US$50,000 ICT lab investment
Details of the three-month project were revealed Monday during an official signing ceremony at the school situated in Marlie Acres, Old…
- | News, Education
History-maker D’Jhane Brown smashes 10 CXC subjects
Compound that already challenging scenario with covid-19 limitations and one would think that any student attempting to learn may at times…
- | Education
Marlie Mount Primary finally off shift system
This was made possible by the school’s parent-teacher association as the body galvanized support from corporate Old Harbour.
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- | Education
Jamaicans to increase their employability as HEART/NSTA extends digital literacy programme
First geared towards HEART trainees, the programme is being extended to include other members of the public.
Aspirants can sign up on…
- | Education
YEA delivers 180 back-to-school packages in Spring Village
The initiative was led by the Youth Education Association (YEA) and Youth Education Jamaica (YEJ) with the support of sponsors Best Dressed…
- | Education
12-y-o Nastassia Robinson makes history for Brown’s Hall Primary
Indeed, as this amazing young scholar explained it, right after she completed the required exams she came home and told her mother that she…
- | Education
Best friends Munro bound after acing PEP exam
Trevaughn Rehedul and Aedan Bailey are two halves of an equal whole, similar in everything from personality, interests, work ethics and even…
- | Education
Jamaica Diaspora group to use RICE to aid educators back home
The conference is coordinated by the combined five education task forces led by Dr. Noel Gordon, Ms. Andrea Thomas, and Dr. Sherian Demetrius…
- | Diaspora, Education
‘I chose Glenmuir because it is a good school’, says mom of Bois Content Primary top student
“I felt very good and excited,” she said in an interview with Old Harbour News.
Antroy Howard, Johnson’s son, is now…
- | Education
Shayanne Henry is Bois Content Primary’s top girl in PEP
This was in the annual Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination, a national standardized external assessment programme for primary school…
- | Education
Top achiever Kleona Chapman inspired by uncle
Described by her grandmother Maurene Beharrie as a “book worm”, Kleona chalked up an average of 94.4% on the national primary…
- | Education
PEP success feels like Christmas for Old Harbour Bay Primary ‘star girl’ Djenique Palmer
The season is marked with a special Star. However, for 11-year-old Djenique Palmer and her family and friends of Old Harbour in St Catherine…
- | Education