Olivene Chambers

Olivene Elfreda Louise Chambers (21 April 1925 – May 2019, née Patterson) was a Jamaican educator.

She studied independently for A-level examinations and then gained a degree in education at the University of the West Indies in 1951.

[1] She married Alvin S. Chambers on 15 April 1953, and they moved to Brown's Town, Saint Ann Parish, a year later.

[1] Chambers taught at Browns Town Primary School, where by 1968 she was supervising trainee teachers on one-year internships from colleges around the island.

During her time there she implemented a two-shift system to enable the school to cope with rising student numbers.