The Caribbean Centre for Excellence for Teacher Training (Caribbean CETT) will be having its first Teacher of the Year Awards Dinner on Tuesday, July 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa, Ocho Rios. At this function, CETT will be honouring thirty (30) exemplary teachers in the Caribbean CETT Project for 2005. These thirty teachers from across the Caribbean have been selected based on performance, from the over four hundred teachers involved in the project in five Caribbean countries. Awards for the Teachers of the Year for Grades 1, 2 and 3 respectively, are donated by Scholastic Inc., Pearson Publications and Book Merchant Limited. Ambassador Brenda Johnson of the United States of America will be the guest speaker.