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The Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is a trade union representing education workers in Jamaica. In 1961, the Jamaica Union of Teachers, the Association of Headmasters and Headmistresses, the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, the Association of Teacher Training Staffs, and the Association of Assistant Masters and Mistresses ...
The Jamaica Union of Teachers (JUT) was a trade union representing schoolteachers in Jamaica. The union was founded in 1894. It was the first trade union in Jamaica. Its initial organisation was based on the British National Union of Teachers. However, in its early years, the JUT functioned more as a professional association.
The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association ( JAAA) is the national governing body for the sport of athletics (including track and field, long-distance running and racewalking) in Jamaica.
The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) is a 5,000-member public sector trade union in Jamaica which represents workers in local and national government, governmental corporations, quasi-government bodies and other agencies created by statute. Its members are non-supervisory personnel and include fire-fighters with the Jamaica Fire Brigade, workers at the National Water ...
Lacovia High School (COBY) is a government-owned, co-educational, first-to-sixth form, non-traditional, secondary school located in Lacovia in the parish of St Elizabeth, Jamaica. According to Go-Local Jamaica, an online branch of the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, Lacovia High has recently been noticed by the upper echelons of society. The school has outperformed a number of other well-known ...
When the Trench Town Senior School was established in 1963 the Kingston School Board named Byfield as headmaster, but the Ministry of Education rejected the appointment. Manley refused to get involved in the controversy. [7] In April 1964 Byfield was Acting Secretary of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA). [8] Byfield became Deputy Chairman of the People's National Party, headed by Norman ...
As a member of the Joint Board of Teacher Education (part of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica), the College offers: Bachelor's degree in Teaching (Early Childhood & Primary), Diploma in Teaching (Primary& Early Childhood), Bachelor's degree in School Leadership & Management for principals, vice principals, senior teachers and trained teachers.
Edith Dalton-James MBE CD (February 1, 1896 – November 5, 1976) was a Jamaican educator and politician. She was a founding member of the People's National Party (1938), and the first woman to become president of the Jamaica Union of Teachers in 1949.