The country’s ability to detect, monitor and prepare for earthquakes is being strengthened through the input of secondary-school students.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles says that all UWI campuses will soon have Spanish as a compulsory course.

Executive Director of the Jamaica Cultural Development Commission (JCDC), Delroy Gordon, is calling for more emphasis to be placed on civics in schools.

The University of the West Indies (UWI) announced on Friday that it will confer an honorary doctor of laws degree on the first female vice-chancellor at the University of Oxford, Professor Louise Richardson, in the next two weeks.