Monthly Archives February 2013

Eighteen-year-old Moya Williams was left stunned recently when she learned Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) had named her, a Jamaican living in the Cayman Islands, its top performer worldwide in travel and tourism.

As a result of her outstanding performance in her exams last June, Moya just over two weeks ago received the ‘Top in the World’ award from CIE, the world’s largest provider of international education programmes and qualifications for students up to 19 years old.

According to CIE, more than 9,000 schools in more than 160 countries are part of its learning community.

Williams, who grew up in Westmoreland and left Jamaica less than a decade ago, studied AS-Level travel and tourism at the Cayman Prepar...

Photos by Ira Philip Vincent Samuels (second left) in the Gallery of the Bermuda Historical Society Museum about to receive what he said is the only photograph (other than sketches) he had seen of James (Dick) Richards. The photograph is from the gallery operated in Hamillton Parish by the late June Augustus of black people playing significant roles in the history of 20th Century Bermuda. Upon her death, her husband, Alfred Augustus (right) and their daughter, Bonnie Clagette, donated the collection to the Historical Society Gallery. At left above is Andrew Bermingham, the president of the Society and society executive Mrs Shirley Robinson Pearman.

We finally caught up personally this week with a distingished Jamaican, Vincent Samuels who can best be described as a man on an exciting miss...

Members of the School Board at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) whose names are listed under About Us on BOSA website, are appointed by the Honourable Minister of Education on the advice of National Council on Education (NCE).

 Beersheba Elementary School which many of us Old Students attended was housed in an old dilapidated wooden building at Carr District, New Market, Saint Elizabeth that was owned by the Moravian Church in Jamaica. While we are indeed grateful to the Moravian Church for its innovation in building the wooden structure to provide formal education to the children of slave ancestors, many of us will recall the number of times we were forced to move our ink-well desks all over the floor whenever it rained.

As owner and administrator of Beersheba Elementary Scho...

 Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is pleased to announce that Dr. Winston A. Samuels, Ph.D., President and CEO of Maxx Performance, Inc., Chester, New York, USA, and Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased)

 Alumnus, will be inducted into Virginia Tech College of agriculture and Life Sciences Hall of Fame, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA on March 22, 2013 commencing at 6.00 p.m. Classmates of Dr. Samuels from Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased), New Market, Saint Elizabeth and Jamaica School of Agriculture (JSA) who may either wish to attend the ceremony or send him a congratulatory message, may either contact him through his e-mail address: Winston.samuels@maxxperform.commm or you may tweet him on social media Twitter: @ maxxperformance-http://twitter...