good afternoon I am Andrea Chisholm with the midday news a special welcome if
you're watching on one spot Mediacom the Ministry of Education is reporting that
over 1,000 of the students who sat the primary exit profile pap exams were
highly proficient over 42,000 students were registered to sit the exam the
results will be made available to schools registered for online platforms
those schools who have not registered to access the results online can collect
their results by two o'clock today at regional offices of the Education
Ministry and will join or report to Prince Moore who is on location at the
press conference a little later in the newscast for more details from that
press conference meanwhile the opposition spokesman on education is
calling on parents to embrace the pepp exams and the results at the same time
Ronald Thwaites wants the Education Ministry to use resources to help
students with low scores he maintains however that the exam was rushed adding
that the results may show that I expect that there will be there will have been
some difficulties because of the newness of the curriculum and strangeness of the
examination whatever it is we have to ensure that we help our children to
remediate and to ensure that they are in the best position to benefit from high
school education he also renewed calls for grades to be published the Education
Ministry said it would move from a percentage format to the scale format
and publish a profile on students performance I encourage parents and
students to accept the placement which their child has been given and to join
in the call for increased resources to be available for those schools where
children with low scores and poor profiles are admitted in other news
preparations are in high gear for the state funeral of former prime minister
Edward Phillip George si Agha TV jeiza Shane masters reports it was a somber
moment as a final rehearsal for the burial of former prime minister Edward C
Agha took place in the wee hours of Friday
morning members of a military decked out in their respective regalia sorting out
the final details for Sunday from the church to outside everything was done as
if it was the real thing from our own mock ceremony the one on Sunday should
last two hours to the slow march from the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity
on North Street to the burial site at the national heroes Park Friday that
March took a little over half or the military and police lining the streets
just as they will on Sunday saluting a mock coffin on a gun carriage to the
burial ground the mock coffin was even lowered as it will be during the
ceremony this weekend and wreaths were laid culture minister Olivia Babs
arranged on hand to observe was excited about the preparations we've had three
rehearsals today is a final rehearsal everything is in place and we expect
that Sunday we will have a very
touching and moving state funeral for the most honorable words the other mr.
Cee Agha died on May 28th on his 89th birthday machine masters TV genius and
plans for mr. C AGA's monument are also under way but five years after the death
of former governor-general Sir Howard Cooke
there is no monument it appears work was rushed on his headstone T V D T V J's -
and Hendrix reports preparation in high gear for the state funeral of former
prime minister Edward C OGG on Sunday the vault already dug and prepared
facilitated the JTF on Friday in its full adjust rehearsal for Sunday to
lower a mock casket in preparation for the real thing on the weekend
beyond that further work on a monument is already in gear the Kingston and st.
Andrew Municipal Corporation they were given a responsibility to build a vault
the Jamaican national heritage trust will Commission the monument and the UDC
will build design and build the monument any timelines on this I can't say an
exact timeline but the intention is to move speedily in getting this done in
fact the culture minister says the Urban Development Corporation UDC
is already designing the monument for mr. C Agha but it appears a similar
urgency has not been given to a monument for the grave site of former
governor-general Sir Howard cook and his wife who passed away in 2014 and 2017
respectively in fact up to Saturday June 15 our cameras captured an unfinished
structure where the two are buried six days later on Friday June 21 a headstone
we asked the Culture Minister about the delay in getting a monument for Sir
Hawara I'm not aware of what the reasons could be at this time but it has been
brought to my attention and I will ensure that that is also done
soonest I will certainly take that in hand and make sure it's addressed but no
monument is one thing rushing the headstone in the last few days and
misspelling the word June another as it's shown in the lower left hand side
it was something we observed a Friday and asked Miss Granger about I can't
accept responsibility for that because that happened on their different
administration but that attempt to pass that the blame was quickly withdrawn
after we sure that the headstone was done recently need a cook passed away in
June 2017 during the current Holness administration miss greens to her credit
said about right away getting the matter sorted out she told us after that she
asked the Jamaican National Heritage Trust to go through and check the graves
for spelling errors and to determine where monuments should go including for
mr. Seeger Mississauga's monument is strategically placed and what he was
what his passing has done in is to symbolize the unity that you have all
the Prime Minister's here and he is closing that circle currently in the
park former JLP prime minister sir Donald sangster and Hugh Shira are
buried on one side while Michael Manley is buried on another side with a road
dividing the graves mr. Sager will be in turn on the same side as mr. manleigh
but with a space in between the grave sites presumably for another Prime
Minister - and Hendrix TVJ News meanwhile roads will close in the
vicinity of the state funeral as early as 7:00 Sunday morning until 3:00 in the
afternoon the funeral will be held at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston
starting at noon and interment will follow at the national heroes accredited
to attend the funeral we'll have access to the church and park and it's time for
break here on the midday news will have more story right after this
welcome back and we're continuing the news now earlier we told you that the
Ministry of Education is reporting that over 1,000 of the students who sat the
primer exit profile prep exams were highly proficient and over 42,000
students were registered to see the exam as promised we now join or reporter
Prince more live for more details Prince thanks Andrea
now the minister this morning used opportunities at different categories
used for all subjects and the categories ranged from beginning to highly
proficient so students who is between 0 to 24 percent are at the beginning level
it moves on to developing with 25 to 40 percent students who raise between fifty
to seventy nine percent are proficient and those ranging between 80 and 100
percent are highly proficient now the results from the students performance in
various subjects show that less than 10 percent of all students at the beginning
liberal and at the other end of the spectrum students a range of 6 to 13
percent of students are categorized as highly proficient in the various
subjects now agreed on of the subjects showed that 40% of the students who set
the tests have demonstrated proficient or advanced proficiency in mathematics
whilst 52% of the students are considered to be developing as it
relates to language arts 55% of the students with demonstrated proficiency
or advanced proficiency while 36% of those students are considered to be
developing the other subjects period science would show that 50% of the
students have demonstrated proficiency or advanced proficiency while 44% are
developing know the best performance in the exam world social studies with 60%
of the students showing proficiency or advanced proficiency of achievements
outlined this morning that the ministry will be placing one of the
percent of students in full secondary level institutions ninety-four percent
of students are well will be placed in schools of their choice he also
mentioned that eighty-four percent of students on path have been placed in
schools of their choice the ministry is providing the
individualized report for each student for the initial release along with a
summary report for each school and as I mentioned initially all schools are no
able to or schools who are registered for the online perform the online
platform I know able to access online and the
other schools will be able to pick it up by two o'clock their respective regional
offices there are some other treatments Angela and will be providing the
information in subsequent news cash thank you very much or reporter Prince
more their reporting from a press conference hosted this morning by the
Ministry of Education now to a developing story
two policemen are the subject of a probe by the center for the investigation of
sexual offences and child abuse ahsoka in connection with the two incidents
which occurred this week the first involves a policeman attached to the
Kingston Western Police Division while the other involves a policeman attached
to the hand of a police division the cops are to be interviewed by detectives
from see soca today the allegations linked to the policeman in Hannover
involved a minor it reportedly occurred between Wednesday evening and yesterday
morning in the holding area of the Lucie police station the child later reported
the incident to all the police officers the Independent Commission of
investigations in the comb is also investigating three people staged a
protest this morning outside the United States Embassy in Kingston outraged by
the alleged mistreatment of a five Jamaican fishermen by the US Coast Guard
in 2017 surely Richard a couple things one that are chained really no those
days finish with their achieved secondly that there
but the vessel was destroyed then they were just kept like on the dock of
defeat ship the food that they were served before the whole matter of the
way they were treated a while on board the Coast Guard you know all of that
very very vexing very very troubling Ms Richard says they are disappointed with
the government's response and are hoping that compensation for the men are on the
agenda during discussions we need full disclosure on the part of the US
government if that is at all possible knowing who the US government is what we
need thorough investigations into what happened I don't know could it be the
subject of a congressional hearing I think is important enough for it to take
center stage in the US media and for thorough investigations to be done in
the US and for the persons involved to be brought to justice and for the
fishermen to be compensated residents of the several communities in central
Manchester are crying foul as thieves continue to steal livestock one of the
affected farmers said they stole a stole a boat which was to support his family
another farmer is calling on the authorities to do more as thieves are
taking over the parish Friday morning an hour week
all right we're not going to take that clip but those were some farmers in
central Manchester complaining about fields who are stealing their livestock
and in sports the reggae boys will go in search of back-to-back wins at the
CONCACAF Gold Cup when they take on El Salvador in Texas United States later
this evening and now the wind would take the Jamaicans one step closer to the
quarterfinals TVJ Simon Preston has our preview the reggae boys began their 2019
Gold Cup campaign with a 3-2 win over Honduras at the National Stadium on
Monday the win marked the first time Jamaica defeated Honduras at the Gold
Cup since 2011 head coach Theodore Tapper Whitmore
expects that victory to give the Jamaicans momentum and leading into
their next game early Assam it should be a confidence boots going in into the El
Salvador game you know I think from this game the momentum should take us through
you know so we know it's gonna be a tough game against El Salvador they have
won tonight as well so we have to perform the last time Jamaica played out
Salvador was in March in the CONCACAF Nations League where Jamaica lost to nil
and team captain Andre Blake expects it to be a tough encounter we know every
game is gonna be very important you know and we want to win all our games that's
the aim you know we know what a salvador is about it's not gonna be easy it's
gonna be another tough game but we'll be up for the challenge you know we're
gonna have to go back know do a recovery make sure we're taking care of our
bodies and learn from our mistakes tonight and just continue to move
forward Thank You Simon and that's the midday
news I'm Andrea Chisholm join us at 7:00 for the prime time news package on
behalf of the news of sports and production teams good afternoon