IN JAMAICA: D&G pumps $4M into HEART's CXC night academy... More than 500 students across the island will benefit from the donation.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Floyd Green (centre), state minister in the Ministry of Education,
 Youth and Information, shares a photo op with (from left) Garth
 Williams, sustainability manager, Red Stripe; Dr Marcia
Rowe-Amonde, senior director, TVET Development and
Support System, HEART Trust/NTA; Noel daCosta, chairman,
 Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) Foundation; and Rhoda Crawford,
 education services director, Jamaica Foundation
for Lifelong Learning (JFLL), 

The Education Ministry has heaped praises on the Desnoes and Geddes (D&G) Foundation for its ongoing support of the development of the nation's youth, following a donation of $4.2 million to the HEART Trust/NTA's CXC Night Academy programme.

More than 500 students across the island will benefit from the donation.

At the recent cheque handover, Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information Floyd Green commended the foundation for its stake in harnessing education as a tool for national development.

“I applaud this partnership and really thank the D&G Foundation for remaining true to its mandate. I can tell you, across the length and breadth of Jamaica, the lives of people will be made better,” he said.

The Foundation presented the cheque at the Jamaica Foundation for Lifelong Learning (JFLL) headquarters on South Camp Road. Under the partnership between the HEART Trust and the D&G Foundation, 515 students will be able to re-sit Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate mathematics and English language in May/June 2018 free of cost. more