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Read Across Jamaica

Published:Wednesday | May 8, 2013 | 12:00 AM
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Bradley Smith looks very comfortable as Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller reads to him from the book 'Shaggy Parrot and the Reggae Band'. Bradley, along with 29 of his peers from the Jamaica House Basic School, visited the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday to participate in activities marking Read Across Jamaica Day. - Contributed
Phyllis Anderson of the Jamaica Reading Association reads to grade-three students at the Jamaica Reading Association and First Heritage Co-operative Credit Union Reading Week 'Read Aloud' sessions at the Cockburn Gardens Primary and Junior High School yesterday. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Senior customer service representative of Sangster's Book Stores in New Kingston, Alecia Henry, reads to students in Class 2 Green at Alpha Infant School. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Lasco Principal of the Year 2012-2013 Dr Margaret Bailey (left) and Renée Dixon Rose (right), LASCO branch representative, read to students at the Spanish Town Primary School in St Catherine. - Rudolph Brown/Photographer
Twanna Kay Blackstock reacts with excitement as Errol Miller, chairman of the LIME Foundation, reads a story from a tablet during part of Read Across Jamaica Day activities yesterday. LIME visited the Hope Valley Experimental School and donated three NucQleo tablets. The foundation also committed to extending the current Internet service it provides the school to additional areas on the compound. - Contributed
Shelly-Ann Harris (left), Digicel senior communications manager; Nicole Jones (background, centre), principal of Port Royal Primary School; and Denise Campbell (background, right), grade-three teacher at Port Royal Primary, look on as students use the Huawei tablet to read aloud. Digicel was interacting with the students through reading sessions using the device. - Contributed
Opposition Leader Andrew Holness teaches at Trinitarian Basic School in Olympic Gardens, St Andrew. - Contributed
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Representatives of corporate Jamaica and others took time out of their busy schedules to take part in yesterday's celebration of Read Across Jamaica at schools across the island. Here are some images from the day's events.