MINISTER OF Education, the Reverend Ronald Thwaites (pictured below), has blamed the lack of trained teachers in the early childhood sector for the 50 per cent failure rate of students sitting entry tests to attend primary schools. “We have some things that we need to correct in our early childhood system. Of the educators in the […]

WESTERN BUREAU: DR ASBURN Pinnock, the principal of the Sam Sharpe Teachers’ College in St James, is calling for English language to be taught as a second language, arguing that such a move would improve the pass rate for the subject in the island’s schools. Pinnock made the call while addressing last Friday’s St James […]