GIS mapping, COVID data to guide school reopening

Kitson Town Primary surpasses expectations

Evolving from a non-performing institution that was on the brink of closure, Kitson Town Primary School in St Catherine has made a dramatic turnaround and has honoured four of its top Primary Exit Profile (PEP) performers on Wednesday. The tone of...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: Restore Girls' Menstrual Dignity

65 per cent of women cannot afford sanitary towels

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Source: allAfrica.com

Opposition, Gov’t haggle over COVID risk on tourism corridor

CHAIRMAN OF the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC) of Parliament, Dr Wykeham McNeill, has taken issue with portions of the COVID-19 protocols published by the Ministry of Health that are to govern the tourism sector and has warned against giving false impressions about the

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Students encouraged to get familiar with Google Suite

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is encouraging students and other relevant stakeholders to become familiar with the Google Suite Learning Management System, which is being rolled out across all educational institutions. The system...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Rwanda: Who Are the Four Corona Action Rwanda Winners?

Four local projects have won grants worth more than Rwf100 million in Corona Action Rwanda, an initiative designed to prop up solutions for cushioning Covid-19 impact on the Rwandan

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Source: allAfrica.com

PAC may subpoena CMU treasurer as it probes Auditor General’s report

Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has not ruled out using its subpoena powers to summon the new treasurer of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) to attend its sittings as it reviews the Auditor General’s report into allegations of malpractices at the scandal-hit

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

East Africa Business Recovery Strategy On the Cards

[Citizen] Arusha -- A study on post-Covid-19 recovery strategy for businesses in the East African region is on cards.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Uhuru's Sh54bn jobs plan

The government will hire 200,000 youths to clean towns, 10,000 teachers and 5,000 health workers as part of a stimulus package unveiled

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

JTA calls on Government for SOE ...

WITH teachers of some privately run schools only receiving a fraction of their salaries over the past three months and none expected for the next two months, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) Owen Speid is again calling for State assistance for floundering schools.

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Kenya cancels 2020 school year, classes to resume next year | Africanews

Kenya has declared the academic year of 2020 lost because of the coronavirus pandemic. All primary and secondary schools in the East Africa nation will remain closed until January

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Learning Channel filling gap for students without internet access - Stabroek News

As the new school year began virtually for many students across the country, the Ministry of Education rolled out programmes on the Guyana Learning Channel to reach those students who cannot access the

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Zimbabwe: Govt Sets June 2020 Exam Dates

On opening of schools, Tabela said they need at least four weeks to put logistics in place adding that the opening will be in

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Source: allAfrica.com

Robinson calls for removal of taxes on tablets, computer devices ahead of schools reopening

Opposition Spokesperson on Technology, Julian Robinson, is calling for the government to immediately remove the General Consumption Tax on tablets and computer devices to make them more affordable to parents ahead of the reopening of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah , (born 1945, Baidoa, Italian Somaliland [now in Somalia]), Somali writer whose rich imagination and refreshing and often fortuitous use of his adopted language made him the most significant Somali writer in any European

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Source: Brittanica

Education ministry not backing down from plans to hold exams

The Ministry of Education (MoE) is not backing down from its request to have teachers return to schools while the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) insists that returning to schools at this time can pose a threat to students and teachers

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Zimbabwe: Deputy Minister Mutodi Fired

In a statement last night, the Permanent Secretary for Presidential Communications in the Office of the President and Cabinet, Mr Regis Chikowore confirmed the dismissal saying: "The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr MJM Sibanda, has announced the termination of employment by His

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Source: allAfrica.com

Jamaica: Three more COVID-19 deaths, 224 new cases - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Star) Jamaica recorded three more COVID-19 deaths last night, bringing the total to 24. The article Jamaica: Three more COVID-19 deaths, 224 new cases appeared first on Stabroek News.

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Kenyans reject bid to reopen schools on virus fears

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Source: Business Daily

Rwanda: Private Varsities Threaten to Lay Off Workers

The Government has since challenged private learning institutions to diversify their revenue streams and told them they could benefit from a $200-million (about Rwf186 billion) relief fund designed to help the private sector recover from Covid-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

16-year-old girl ‘sold’ to Kenyan man

“An estimated 23% of girls in Kenya are married before their 18th birthdays, the main reasons being gender inequality, poverty and traditional beliefs,” said Joshua Ole Kaputa, a children’s rights crusader and peace

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Source: South Florida Times

HELP OR HURT? - Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger

Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Kenya: Education Ministry Seeking Sh429 Million for Post-COVID-19

Nairobi — The Ministry of Education says it will require additional funding to the tune of Sh429 million to facilitate the testing and provision of protective kits for the trainers and students in the country's Techinical and Vocational Training colleges in the post-COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Crisis offers varsities chance to reclaim charm

In terms of numbers, the staff in the administrative university are four times more than the teaching

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Source: Daily Nation - Breaking News, Kenya, Africa, Politics, Business, Sports | HOME

Rwanda: Data Management System to Expedite School Feeding Support

[New Times] A school data management system that has started being used in public and private schools is expected to address the issue of delays in disbursement of the Government financial support to schools, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning has said.

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Source: allAfrica.com

Rwanda: Chinese Embassy Donates Food Supplies to Rwandan Kungfu Community

Rwandan Kungfu players and coaches have been given food donations from the Chinese embassy to assist them in their daily life amid the difficulty caused by the COVID-19

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Source: allAfrica.com

Like Donald Trump, Joe Biden Would Be a Right-Wing President. - ThyBlackMan

At the end of the next four years, hundreds of thousands of people around the world are more likely to be alive if Donald Trump is president rather than Joe Biden. Donald Trump has resisted new wars and is bringing an end to the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan; Biden has

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Source: ThyBlackMan

700 PEP students to repeat

MORE than 700 students who were registered to take the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) exam this year stand to repeat grade six in the next school year which begins in

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

School leaders offered training to manage institutions remotely

STARTING June 1, school leaders across Jamaica will participate in a virtual instructional leadership (VIL) online course, which will equip them with the skills and competencies to effectively manage institutions

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Therell be a big party - Tanzanian miner with 30 children becomes overnight millionaire - Face2Face Africa

Saniniu Laizer, a Tanzanian small scale miner has hit the jackpot, becoming an overnight millionaire after digging up two huge Tanzanite stones, one of the world’s rarest gemstones. Laizer earned $3.4 million after selling the gemstones with a combined weight of 33lb to the country’s ministry of

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Source: Face2Face Africa - The Premier Pan-African Voice

Rwanda: Senior Govt Officials Pinned in Multi-Billion Public Tender

A prosecutor said that the purchase of the building was in 2018 entrusted in Rwankunda, in his capacity as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Infrastructure and the building was meant to house different government

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Source: allAfrica.com

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