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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Teacher mom highlights challenge preparing son Mikhail Clarke for PEP success
And just as expected he did brilliantly, registering an average of 95.2% to be the second highest ranked student at Old Harbour Primary.…
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Spring Garden Primary’s Durwin Brown seals St Jago move to continue family tradition
Durwin was awarded top boy and top achiever at the Spring Garden Primary School after he obtained an average of 95.1% that earned him a spot…
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Top student Zabdiel Dewar leads boys’ renaissance at Old Harbour Primary
However, special mention has been reserved for the boys, with 12-year-old Zabdiel Dewar leading a renaissance. Dewar topped the school’…
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Davis Primary top girl Nichaelia Whyte punches ticket to Glenmuir High
Not only did she just pass for the prestigious high school in Clarendon, but she also came out on top at Davis Primary with the highest…
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Adiel Harridon’s mom speaks truth after 94% PEP average
Andrene Harridon, who is an educator, is trying to instill this lesson into her son Adiel Harridon.
Adiel, which his mom says means…
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Ajhaunii Simms secures scholarship to Old Harbour High
Indeed, that’s how Candice Simms and her husband Omroy are feeling at this time since the eldest of their three boys, Ajhaunii, did…
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Nickhale Nelson ‘outdid’ himself in PEP after ‘father’ was murdered
For an 11-year-old child to do so makes it even more remarkable.
A little over a week before the commencement of the Primary Exit…
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Marlie Mount Primary past student ‘100% on Jamaica’ educators with TagHeart Foundation
But in the last few years she and husband Mark McTaggart, who is an avionics engineer, saw themselves branching out on their own.
In…
- | Diaspora, Education, Health
Trained counsellors for child gambling
The training is being conducted over three days between June 27 and July 1, using a lesson plan created by RISE Life Management Services in…
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