Chad Bryan, Youthlink Writer
Located at the corner of Young and Ellis Streets in Spanish Town, St Catherine, Spanish Town High School, formerly known as Spanish Town Junior Secondary, was built in January 1967 as a public institution. In 1974, it was renamed Spanish Town Secondary and enrolled its first batch of grade-10 and grade-11 students. That same year, the shift system was also introduced and it continues to this day. The...
Racquel Simpson, Youthlink Writer
In its ongoing efforts to strengthen the lingual practice of Spanish in Jamaica, the Spanish-Jamaica Foundation (SJF), along with several Spanish-speaking embassies, turned its focus on secondary students, with the inaugural staging of a CSEC oral practice 'Spanish Immersion Day'.
Third-form students at Convent of Mercy Alpha Academy were able to benefit from the expertise of a number of persons from different professions who visited the institution during a recent staging of career day. Following devotion and a show of spectacle from the school's dance troupe, soldiers from various levels of the country's defence, personnel from the security industry, a film producer, nurse, medical technologist and others...
