Prime Minister AndrewHolness (right) interactswith students of theSt Joseph's PrimarySchool in downtownKingston yesterdaywhile participating in areading session as partof Read Across JamaicaDay. Pictured (secondright) is Member ofParliament for KingstonWestern and Minister ofLocal Government andCommunity DevelopmentDesmond McKenzie.
May 8, 2018
Reading is FUN
Scores of representatives from corporate Jamaica yesterday joined students across the island for Read Across Jamaica Day activities. Here are some photo highlights:
The children at Culloden ECI in Whitehouse, Westmoreland, declare that ‘Reading is Fun’ on Read Across Jamaica Day. Sharing in the moment is SandalsSouth Coast General Manager Adrian Whitehead who, along with other members of his staff, took time out to read to the children yesterday.
Natasha Levy, group marketing manager JN Money Services, readsa story to grade two students during Read Across Jamaica Day atMaxfield Primary School in Kingston, yesterday.
Students of St Michaels Primary are absorbed inthe story being read by Scotiabank’s Kofie-ManiaJosephs during the Read Across Jamaica Dayactivities yesterday. Sharing in the activity isfellow volunteer Andrea Williams.
Little Mickayla McKay (standing) of Waterford InfantSchool gives JMMB Joan Duncan Foundation’s chair,Patricia Sutherland (seated), homework after storytime during Read Across6 Jamaica Day activitiesyesterday. (Photo: Aston Spaulding)
Claudia Jarrett-Myers, finance & accounting officer at the BettingGaming and Lotteries Commission, reads to children at EarlyAchievers Training Centre for Read Across Jamaica Day yesterday
Right: Chorvelle Johnson, Sagicor Bank CEO, is excited as shegets ready to share the adventures of the children’s book IrieMorning by Jamaican author Alison Moss-Solomon; the CEOread to the little ones at Collins Close Basic School in St Andrewas part of the Read Across Jamaica Day activities yesterday.
Katasha Thompson, senior brand manager atUnicomer Jamaica, reads to students at the PembrokeHall Primary School on Read Across Jamaica Dayyesterday. (Photo: Michael Gordon)
Six-year-old Dontae Smith, a student of Hope Valley ExperimentalPrimary School, and Kaylia Card, seven, look on with interest asErrol Miller, executive chairman of the Flow Foundation and newchildren’s author, Paula Ann Porter Jones read from her new book,Sandy, Tosh and the Moo Cow during FLOW’s Read Across JamaicaDay event hosted at the Hope Zoo in Kingston.