Jamaican American Kai-Zoe Flowers was named eighth grade class salutatorian last month at Our Savior Lutheran Church & School in Plantation, Florida. Flowers has chosen to attend Archbishop McCarthy High School located in Southwest Ranches, Florida. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Our Savior innovated with a drive-thru graduation ceremony.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center (CDTC) is hosting its annual Back to School Drive, benefitting hundreds of special needs kids in its care. With a goal of collecting more than 800 filled backpacks by August 6, CDTC is calling on the community to donate to the cause and volunteer.

In an initiative with the Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, Community Scholar, Inc., a US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is hiring Jamaican teachers to tutor students in the United States over the Internet. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced the selection of the Morehouse School of Medicine as the awardee for a new $40 million initiative to fight COVID-19 in racial and ethnic minority, rural and socially vulnerable communities. The Morehouse School of Medicine will enter into a cooperative agreement with OMH to lead the initiative to coordinate a strategic network of national, state, territorial, tribal and local organizations to deliver COVID-19-related information to communities hardest hit by the pandemic.

PRINCETON – Princeton University, a prestigious Ivy League university in New Jersey, has named Caribbean Canadian Nicholas Johnson, son of a Bahamian father and Jamaican mother, the first black valedictorian in the school’s 274-year history.  

The COMTO Fort Lauderdale Scholarship Program was designed to encourage minority High School students to consider a career in transportation and to support minority post-secondary education students majoring in a transportation related field. The scholarships being offered are a one-time award for students enrolled in school in 2020-2021 for:

Miami-Dade County Public Schools has served the community over the last century, improving education and offering quality programs for families. Over 75 years ago, the school district took it a step further, offering its first adult and community education program at Lindsey Hopkins Technical Education Center.

Students at School for Advanced Studies in Homestead organized a student protest on March 14, 2018, following the deadly school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The teens are pictured with Advanced Placement Government teacher Cody Kimmel. The school was named the top school in Miami-Dade County according to U.S. News and World Report’s best high school rankings.

Miami, – Today, four Miami Dade College (MDC) students have been named recipients of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s prestigious Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, a highly competitive national scholarship that provides students with up to $40,000 a year to complete their upper division studies.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.  – St. Thomas University has launched the Center for Pandemic, Disaster, and Quarantine Research (STU PDQ), designed to track the impact of emerging, expanding, and extended pandemics and disasters on all socio-economic aspects of society.  

MIAMI — When school is out for the summer, students can enjoy exciting activities ranging from art, athletics, nature and so much more thanks to Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces (Miami-Dade County Parks). Miami-Dade County Parks “We Have a Camp for That!” summer camp program offers a bounty of kids’ “favorite things,” ensuring their school break is thrilling and memorable.   

An invention by a Jamaican college student could prove effective in the fight against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).