Ikem Smith, a 24-year-old freelance visual artist and graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, is the winner of the Caribbean Development Bank’s (CDB) 2016 VYBZING Jamaica Animated Music Video Challenge.

Ikem won the top prize of US$2,000 for his entry entitled: ‘Funky Beam School Band’.

GRADE three St Andrew Prep School student Joshua Kelly was a sight to behold on Friday, carrying a trophy almost as big as himself and just about as heavy.

He earned it for winning the school’s in-house spelling bee competition, beating his brother Samuel, who placed second, and Justin McKay, who placed third. The three will move on to represent the school in a final among 30 other prep and primary schools in the Ministry of Education’s regional cluster next month.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information, the Hon. Floyd Green has congratulated Shamoy Hajare on her selection as Commonwealth Caribbean/Americas Young Person of the Year 2016.