Barrett, Shermaine2025-01-172025-01-172022https://www.convergencejournal.org/vol-44-no-2-2.pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/57142Jamaica has been making continuous efforts to improve literacy and adult basic education, workforce education, and human and resource development through national policy and educational initiatives. This paper captures some of these initiatives and examines the changes in the Jamaican context that have informed these actions over the last 50 years.en-USadult educationadult literacyeducational initiativesOther