IN JAMAICA: Grade five students to run businesses. JAMAICA is to become the first country in the Caribbean and Latin America to have a Junior Achievement Biztown (JA Biztown)

(From left) Member of Parliament
for South Eastern St Andrew
 Julian Robinson (left) joins head
 of Junior Achievement Jamaica
 Alphie Mullings-Aiken, 

JAMAICA is to become the first country in the Caribbean and Latin America to have a Junior Achievement Biztown (JA Biztown), a model business town in which students in Grade Five will be allowed to run their own businesses while learning the basics of financial responsibility.

The announcement came last Friday at the groundbreaking ceremony at Caenwood Centre, St Andrew..

JA Biztown is the Rotary Club of Kingston's major project for 2013-14.

"The aim of the project is to get 10,000 students across the island at Grade 5 level to participate and discover practical life skills that they can take with them for life. By participating, students will get a taste of the real world," said Allison Peart, president of the Rotary Club of Kingston. more