MAY PEN, Clarendon – Parents registered under the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH) are advised to ensure that their children’s names are listed on the beneficiary records at respective schools.

That listing ensures students access to all benefits allowed within the school system. “We have found that there are instances where the child’s name is not on the PATH beneficiary list at the school, and so the exemption from school fees is not available to them,” says Glendon Palmer, parish manager in the Clarendon Office of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.

Some 10,180 families in Clarendon are now registered under PATH, a welfare programme, up from 9,530 families in February of this year. “The numbers of families have been increasing over the months and we are paying out a little over $16.2 million for the July to August payment,” said Palmer.

Dr Rosalea Hamilton (left), chief executive officer at the Institute of Law and Economics, accepts a cheque from Mary Allen of Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS).

The JNBS Foundation financed a ‘Strategic Intervention Workshop’ for CAPE/A’ Level teachers at the Medallion Hall Hotel in Kingston, covering key legal and economic concepts, and techniques on improving examination passes in law and economics. Looking on is Karen Radcliffe, teacher at Glenmuir High School.