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The 2024 Professional Development Institute is being hosted, by the Early Childhood Commission (May 20-24, 2024) under the theme “A Place to Belong: A Child’s Right to Quality Early Childhood Education,” at the Conference Centre in Kingston. CHASE provided $18M towards the 2024 PDI conference aimed at raising awareness on…

CHASE Fund Director, Nicole McLaren Campbell, reads to students at the Allman Town Infant School in Kingston for Read Across Jamaica Day. Read Across Jamaica Day is an initiative that is observed islandwide that aims to encourage students to develop a healthy habit for reading. CHASE staff also visited the…

Pediatric surgery, the delicate art of operating on infants, children, and adolescents, last week witnessed a remarkable advancement with the first laparoscopic surgeries performed at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC).  The appendectomy (removal of the appendix) and cholecystectomy (gall bladder removal) were made possible with the laparoscopic machine, donated…