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Jamaica has also formed a summer school program, which is a five-day workshop for students to gain first hand experience working in the tourism environment. Field trips to "local" tourist attractions are also included, along with a "one month placement of the top students in hotels and tourism related organizations.
The following is a list of the most populous settlements in Jamaica. Definitions Kingston, capital of Jamaica Montego Bay The following definitions have been used: City: Official city status on a settlement is only conferred by Act of Parliament. Only three areas have the designation; Kingston when first incorporated in 1802 reflecting its early importance over the then capital Spanish Town ...
Caribbean School of Medical Sciences, Jamaica (CSMSJ) International University of the Caribbean (IUC) Mico University College; Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Royale College; University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) University of the West Indies, Mona; University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) Western Hospitality Institute
This is a list of plantations and pens in Jamaica by county and parish including historic parishes that have since been merged with modern ones. Plantations produced crops, such as sugar cane and coffee, while livestock pens produced animals for labour on plantations and for consumption.
Montego Bay High School was established in 1935 by the Government of Jamaica to fill the need of an all-girls high school in St. James. It was the first government-owned high school for girls established in the country. The school is owned by the Ministry of Education and administered by a local Board of Management.
The school also set up a board of trustees to represent the different Protestant denominations. [1] It caters to secondary students and after 36 years reopened its sixth-form programme in 2014. Westwood is among the five boarding remaining in Jamaica and has been the only school to retain the tradition of wearing a jippi-jappa (Panama) hat. [2]
There is a primary school, post office, police station, electoral office, several churches, as well as various small retail outlets. Anchovy High School attracts students from the Montego Bay area and has a long-standing exchange link with St Martin-in-the-Fields High School for Girls, Tulse Hill, London [7] which is documented in the Anchovy High School library.
Cornwall College is a public high school for boys established in 1896 and located on Orange Street in Montego Bay, Saint James, Jamaica. [2] It is the third oldest high school in the county of Cornwall. As of the 2022-23 school year, the school had an enrollment of just over 1,500 students and 80 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ...