Holness

The Ministry of Education is to receive $800 million from the Finance and Public Service Ministry early next week to pay schools for reimbursement of tuition fees.

Education Minister, Andrew Holness, said that parents should begin collecting sums paid at the start of the school year by mid-November.

He told The Gleaner yesterday that the pay-back should be completed by the end of the school term on December 19.

The Bruce Golding-led Jamaica Labour Party pledged to remove all tuition fees at the secondary level and gave the commitment to refund parents who had already paid school fees.

At a press conference on September 25, Mr. Holness said that the reimbursement of tuition fees should go directly to the children's parents and stressed that schools should not deduct any fees that were owed previously to the schools by the parents.