213 primary students receive tablets in Jamaica for knowledge enhancement

Jamaica: Over 213 students from four primary schools in Portland were conferred with tablets on Thursday (October 22) as the Administration remained the delivery of devices under the Tablets in Schools Programme.

Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Fayval Williams and Minister of Science, Energy and Technology, Daryl Vaz, gave the tablets when functions were held at the Buff Bay Primary School and Port Antonio Primary School.

In total, 213 tablets were given to the students, who are recipients of the Programme for Advancement By Health and Education (PATH).

Buff Bay Primary got 164 tablets; Charles Town Primary 17; Tranquility Primary and Infant, 21; and St. Margaret’s Bay Primary, 11.

Minister Williams, during her speech at the give away held at Buff Bay Primary, encouraged the students to take care of the tablets.

“Assure that you are utilising these tablets carefully, you’re taking care of them and that they are assisting you in terms of your knowledge experience,” she stated.

Minister Vaz, in his statements, remarked that the coronavirus (COVID-19) “has made the use and ownership of information and communications technology (ICT) devices by our students a requirement”.

“This certainty makes the prerequisite of these tablets timely and vital,” he transcribed.

Vaz said that some 714 students in Portland attain to benefit from tablets under the Tablets in Schools Programme.

“I want to inspire our students who will be getting tablets to use them carefully and responsibly. These devices are means for your educational progress and we recommend you to learn all you can and use them to improve your knowledge,” he stated.

The Government, by e-Learning Jamaica (e-LJam) started the circulation of 40,000 tablets to students on PATH on October 2.

The tablets are targeted at pupils in classes four to six.