Results Based Funding (RBF) Fully Implemented
For more than five years, the HEART/NSTA Trust has been steadily rebuilding the way it funds its training partners. On April 1, 2026, that work reached its turning point: Results-Based Funding (RBF) moved out of its pilot phase and into full implementation, opening the 2026/2027 financial year on a milestone years in the making. The […]
Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) Programme Graduates Celebrate Successful Completion
The hall of the Caribbean Military Academy buzzed with excitement last Friday, August 28, 2026 as 45 young Jamaicans prepared to march across the stage and collect their awards — the second cohort of the Jamaica National Service Corps (JNSC) Workforce Development Programme to reach its closing-out ceremony. Among them was Jahshawn Jackson. A former […]
HEART/NSTA Trust: Cooking Up Confidence
When Evelyn Scarlett heard from the principal of the Free Hill Primary & Infant School that she would participate in a HEART/NSTA training for cooks, she asked her colleague if that would be possible considering how “her head tough”. Ms Scarlett as she is affectionately called by her fellow Trainees has come a long way […]
Summer in St Bess: Unearthing Tech Talent in the Breadbasket Parish
Summer in the breadbasket parish is usually defined by blistering heat, families on excursions, and farmers battling the humidity. Summer 2026 added something different: robots and code. Through the HEART/NSTA Trust, 42 secondary students from six schools swapped days at the rivers across the parish for a robotics lab at the HEART/NSTA Trust in Chocolate […]
From HEART Trainee to JCDC Parish Manager: Andrion Miller’s Journey
Picture a fresh-faced high school graduate, unsure of his future, starting life on dorm at the Ebony Park HEART Academy in rural Clarendon. The year is 2004, Usher’s hit single “Yeah!” is on constant rotation, and the Livestock Rearing course is about to begin. This is the backdrop to the Andrion Miller story — one […]
HEART Trainees Set for Training in China
Skills Without Borders It is not hard to find stories about young people who are unfocused, or worse, focused on the wrong things. The lives of the four young Jamaicans featured here tell a different story. From late June through September, Javier Farquharson, Janel Foster, Shamar Brown, and Chrision McPherson — four HEART/NSTA Trust trainees […]