UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland - The sprawling Wellspring Manor & Spa in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, provided an elegant setting on Saturday, September 19, as Jamaican students at Howard University, university officials, Jamaican alumni, business leaders and friends of Jamaica gathered to celebrate academic excellence and raise support for the next generation of Jamaican scholars.

BELMOPAN, Belize – The Belize government says it is committed to having students access their education safely and consistently amid reports that some school bus routes would be disrupted as a result of outstanding payments to school bus contractors.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – Education Minister Daryll Matthew has described as “historic”  the decision to provide “universal free education from early childhood to university” as the new school term got underway in Antigua and Barbuda on Monday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness has urged regional students attending the University of the West Indies (UWI) to play an active role in advancing regional integration by fostering stronger relationships across the Caribbean and beyond.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and The University of the West Indies (UWI) have marked the graduation of the third cohort of their joint postgraduate programme aimed at strengthening health policy and leadership capacity across the Caribbean.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A school term opened in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar issuing a warning parents to do their “part now with your children so that in years to come when they become adults, you won’t have to be at the courthouse in your old age trying to secure bail to get them released from incarceration”.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Education has established an independent oversight committee to monitor the repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction of schools affected by Hurricane Melissa.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information is to receive an official report from the school where a student was denied the opportunity to use the restroom and subsequently soiled herself.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Guyana’s ambition to emerge as a major centre for education and professional training in the Caribbean moved a step further with the establishment of the region’s fourth Council of Legal Education (CLE) law school at the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus.

PORT AU PRINCE – When UNICEF’s Representative in Haiti Geetanjali Narayan stepped into a classroom in Port-au-Prince at the start of the new school year, she asked the children a simple question: What did they most need from the UN children’s agency?

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The Jamaica government says it plans to review schools’ textbook lists to ensure that only essential, high-quality texts are required, amid growing concerns about rising back-to-school costs.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is offering two fully funded scholarships to procurement professionals across its 19 Borrowing Member Countries to pursue a master’s degree in public procurement in Italy.