Seventy-five (75) faculties within the parish of Manchester have been empowered to reinforce their civic schooling efforts after receiving bodily copies of the Structure of Jamaica from the Ministry of Authorized and Constitutional Affairs (MLCA) in the course of the 2025 Ceremonial Reopening of Faculties, held at DeCarteret Faculty on Friday, September 12, 2025.
The occasion was staged by Custos Rotulorum, Lt. Col. The Hon. Garfield S. Inexperienced, beneath the theme “School rooms as a Civic Area.”
Throughout his remarks, Mr. Philip Cross, Senior Constitutional Reform Officer within the Ministry, emphasised the significance of civic schooling in faculties. In line with Mr. Cross; “It helps college students perceive how legal guidelines and selections are made on the nationwide degree and teaches them not simply the info of our historical past but in addition the rules that underpin our democracy immediately.”
The distribution of the Structure types a part of the Authorities’s broader constitutional reform agenda, which goals to deepen civic schooling by offering college students with direct entry to Jamaica’s apex laws and equipping younger Jamaicans with a stronger understanding of the nation’s legal guidelines, rights, and democratic framework.
“These copies are greater than symbolic—they’re instruments for empowerment. They’ll assist rework lecture rooms into civic areas the place college students can discover their rights, obligations, and the workings of our democracy,” Mr. Cross added.
He additional famous that, “as Jamaica continues on the Highway to Republic, it’s critical that our younger folks perceive the foundations of our present system and the proposed adjustments. By inserting the Structure instantly of their arms, we’re serving to them join the dots between the place we’ve come from, the place we are actually, and the place we’re headed as a nation.”
Visiting principals from throughout Manchester who attended the ceremony welcomed the initiative, proudly accumulating copies of the Structure on behalf of their faculties.
Moreover, eighty-seven (87) copies of the Structure have been handed over to the Schooling Officer in control of Area 5, who will distribute them to varsities throughout the parish of St. Elizabeth.
The MLCA stays dedicated to working with faculties, educators, and communities to advertise civic accountability and to lift public consciousness of constitutional reform and Jamaica’s transition to a Republic.
