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Niyokia Hines (second right), digital marketing specialist at The Gleaner Company Media Limited, engages with grade-four students from the Corinaldi Avenue Primary School for Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday.
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Niyokia Hines (second right), digital marketing specialist at The Gleaner Company Media Limited, engages with grade-four students from the Corinaldi Avenue Primary School for Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday.
Latoya Harris-Ghartey, executive director of the National Education Trust, is delighted with a grade-five student at the Windward Road Primary School who shared her excitement after a storys. Ghartey-Harris read to the class for Read Across Jamaica Day on
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Latoya Harris-Ghartey, executive director of the National Education Trust, is delighted with a grade-five student at the Windward Road Primary School who shared her excitement after a storys. Ghartey-Harris read to the class for Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday. One of The National Education Trust’s focus areas is to generate resources to support improved educational outcomes in Jamaica.
Deryke Smith, CEO of COK Sodality, reads to students at Dunrobin Primary School on Read Across Jamaica Day at the school on Red Hills Road in St Andrew on Tuesday.
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Deryke Smith, CEO of COK Sodality, reads to students at Dunrobin Primary School on Read Across Jamaica Day at the school on Red Hills Road in St Andrew on Tuesday.
Audrey Tugwell-Henry (right), CEO of the Scotia Group, reads to grade-three students at Elletson Primary and Infant School during Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday.
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Audrey Tugwell-Henry (right), CEO of the Scotia Group, reads to grade-three students at Elletson Primary and Infant School during Read Across Jamaica Day on Tuesday.
Tamar Dormar, principal of St Paul’s United Infant School, takes part in Read Across Jamaica Day at Calabar Primary School in St Andrew on Tuesday.
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Tamar Dormar, principal of St Paul’s United Infant School, takes part in Read Across Jamaica Day at Calabar Primary School in St Andrew on Tuesday.
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Individuals from government and corporate bodies across the island on Tuesday took time out to visit several schools where they participated in Read Across Jamaica Day activities.

Read Across Jamaica Day forms part of the Ministry of Education and Youth’s and the Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s annual Education Week activities being celebrated between May 7 and 13 this year.

Here are a few highlights of the activities that took place on Tuesday.