More than 7,000 students in six primary schools are transitioning from a shift system to regular school hours, beginning this month.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — A month ago, 17-year old Jamaican students Arianna Stephenson and Emmanuel Sylvester didn’t know much about building a wind turbine, or developing and programming an underwater robot. Today, not only can they do both of these things, but they can also programme a computer game, and speak Mandarin.

Ikem Smith, a 24-year-old freelance visual artist and graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, is the winner of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 2016 VYBZING Jamaica Animated Music Video Challenge.

Ikem won the top prize of US$2,000 for his entry entitled: ‘Funky Beam School Band’.