The country’s ability to detect, monitor and prepare for earthquakes is being strengthened through the input of secondary-school students.

Sixteen students from non-traditional high schools across the island were on Wednesday awarded for outstanding performance in the 2015 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)-administered external examinations.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles says that all UWI campuses will soon have Spanish as a compulsory course.

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid, says the Grade Nine Diagnostic Test will be implemented during the 2019/2020 academic year.

Eight young Jamaicans have been awarded medical scholarships to study in Cuba for the 2016-2017 academic year, under the Cuba-Jamaica Cooperation Programme.