Hard Work – Educational Success
Submitted by Douglas
Hon Ronald Jones, Minister of Education
Our educational sector plays a vital role in the development of this country. This DLP administration has always regarded education as one of the key developmental tools which would take this country forward. That decision made by the first DLP administration in 1961 to allow free secondary education for all Barbadians continues to be one of the foundation policies which accounts for all of the growth and development which this small country has accomplished since that time.
One vital component of the educational sector which requires some focus discussion is the Secondary School.
We note, with amazement, that the Opposition continues to dodge their work but yet still draw their salaries and dine at the tables of parliament. We hope that mature bodies who have a vital role to play in the development of this country do not adopt the bad habits and practices of our childish opposition lead by Ms. Mottley. However, we the members of the Democratic Labour Party will press on in our efforts to move this country forward. This week, we focus on secondary school education.
Each year, the secondary schools receive between $125 million to $127 million dollars of the money allocated to the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation. For 2013 / 2014 the total sum allocated to the secondary schools was $127,357,456 which represented some 25.5% of the budget of the Ministry of Education.
The secondary school system plays the greatest role of preparing our students for the world of work. Helping them to build on the primary educational foundation developed in the primary schools. It is at this stage that many of our students can be groomed and developed in to the men and women who will later become the workers and builders of this country.
Over the years the Ministry of Education has seen gradual improvement in the CSEC results in both the public and private secondary schools, no doubt as a result of the initiatives which were put in place by the ministry to ensure that these improvements came about. Since coming to office in 2008 this DLP administration took steps to significantly improve the campuses of many of the primary and secondary schools to ensure that our students and teachers were provided with environments which were conducive for learning to take place. On the technical side this DLP administration initiated a policy for all teachers to receive teacher education training. No doubt the roll out of this policy has allowed more teachers to have a greater grasp of teaching skills and techniques.
Over the years, 2009 to 2013, the CSEC passes, grades one to three accounted for 65.24% to 72.37% of the total CSEC entries. In 2009 there was a 69.98% pass rate, 2010 a 72.01% pass rate, 2011 a 70.07% pass rate, 2012 a decline with a 65.24% pass rate and in 2013 a 72.37% pass rate. The grade one and two passes accounted for between 39% – 41% of the passes.
Further analysis of these results shows that for the males the passes ranged from 64.20% to 70.83%. While for the females the passes ranged from 65.96% to 74.03%.
These passes are commendable and the efforts by the Ministry to improve on the pass rates is also worthy of consideration.
However, we must ask ourselves the question, can we be satisfied with this level of performance or should we be asking for more? For a country which spends over $127 million dollars annually to provide secondary school education to some 19,297 secondary school students in public schools we should demand more.
This works out to roughly $7000 per student annually. For this we have between 39 to 41 % of our students obtaining grade one and two certificates. While, some 27% to 35 % of our students fail.
If as a country we want to retain our competitive edge in this highly globalised and competitive world we have to demand more from our students and our teachers. What can we do as a nation to ensure that the pass rates for grades 1 and 2 shifts closer to 50% while the failure rate falls below 20%? One of the things we can definitely put a stop to is the insidious notion that only the wealthy or middle class benefits from the educational system in Barbados. That notion goes against the grain of all that the members of the Democratic Labour Party have stood for in the near 60 year history of the party.
All Barbadians – rich or poor, from a single parent family or orphaned – have free access to the best educational system anywhere in the Caribbean and even the western hemisphere. Clearly, we need to value it more and ensure that our children make better use of it. Our teachers have a role to play by ensuring that all the children under their charge benefit from quality teaching and instruction at all times. Through hard work and determination we can attain educational success.
We stand by the work we have done!
Barbados Underground 
It seems the BLP continues to battle with Opposition politics:
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Douglas tell us why the DLP is hell bent on the belief that Bajans are TOO PROGRESSIVE and the best way to curtail all this wealth gain thru upward mobility is to KICK DOWN the ladder that EWB had wished would remain. Tell us why 115,000 cars is too many for black people to own why wall houses are scorned, why shed roofs and a bucket of water from the stand pipe is their vision of HARD WORKING BAJANS…
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What Education? when students dont even learn about their country of 166 sq miles , No education of the Plantations and the 11 Parishes .
None seem to learn about what is under their feet or what is next to them,
We wait for lies from the National Trust that can not be trusted , promoted puppet now to Sir, Henry,
America you learn 13 and then the 50 so called States that makes up US of A ,
Bajan seem these days to go to school to make beds in hotels and cook in the kitchen,
No one is to focus on the land under their feet , Some Tourist know more about Barbados than Bajans,
So the Massive Land Fraud flies right over their head ,
The jack ass at the head of Education have Most people focus on stupid matters that lead to long and longer talking ,
Now that the crooks are in power and 14 of them have more than a Billion Dollars to their names .In the World of Fraud,,,,,
Who are the 14 Names Sir Cheltenham, Sir CO.Williams , MIA, Sir Forde, Sir Henry, Sir Simmons,
Most or all is to be BLP Ministers ? We will soon know who have been raping Barbados of Beatrice Henry and Violet Beckles Estate ,
Source of FUNDS?
Maybe its all DRUG money.
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What is interesting is that the DLP has used the political argument to win support for its polices in two elections. We see it as one of the greatest indictments on our educated population post Independence.
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Some questions:
Is the data on the number of CSEC entries, numbers passing at various levels, number of students passing 1 or 2 or 3 etc subjects in one sitting, and such details, easily and freely available to any enquiring citizen?
The post states an approximate 72% pass rate for CSEC ENTRIES. How does this compare to actual number of students who were of the expected age for entry to such examinations?
What percentage of Barbadian 18 year old’s achieved CSEC passes in 0, 1…5 or more subjects?
Can it really be said that SECONDARY schools prepare people for work? (In other words, what would be the employment prospects for a person who only had a secondary school education ?)
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@Ping Pong
This is the problem we have if successive government maintain the veil over the performance of students in exams at all levels. Information can be massaged to support mediocre positions.
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@ Ping Pong
LOL
…you going only confuse poor Douglas and AC’s head now with these types of questions…
Everyone and their cousins know that the “pass rates” are calculated from those student who are entered for the examinations……and that large numbers are NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO SIT THE EXAMS.
What are the pass rates of the OVERALL eligible student population?
Everyone knows that many of those who ‘passed’ are sitting for a second time.
@ DOUGLAS
Can you PLEASE tell us why ALL of the information about ALL students, schools assigned, subjects taken, teachers assigned, results obtained and those NOT ENTERED for exams can not be published for public review?
WHY IS THIS INFORMATION SECRET?
Even if individual information is withheld, why can’t school summary results be made available…?
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I would not be surprised if the officials of the Ministry of Education did NOT have the statistics readily available. That such information is not publicly revealed leads me to choosing between two conclusions:EITHER the information is not available OR the data would reveal that schools in Barbados are not performing as well as the Government (and Douglas et al) would have us believe. If the statistics are not available then one would have to ask what does the Ministry of Education do?
It would be even more instructive if the data on the entry and performance of students in all public examinations (CXC, City and Guilds etc) were to be given for each school.
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Not that one expects Douglas to be forthcoming since in the past he has never been, but the place to start would definitely be with the justification of these ministerial jaunts hither, thither and yon at this time. When can Barbadians expect to realize the yield of this most important venture? How many times has Ronald Jones left this rock on our dime, and what do we have to show for his travels? Hey Doug could not some of that money be used to grant at least fifty of the promised bursaries? Truth be told one gets the impression that you like most of us, don’t like Jonesie too much. Why else would you choose to call attention to probably the second easiest failure to identify in the Cadre Of Clowns that we got bout here? As a matter of public interest we need to know how much money you people spend flying back and forth, when we can’t seem to recognize the benefit.
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Don’t I remember Jeff Broomes saying that not a single student from Parkinson left with any qualification at all before he arrived? Is my recollection correct?
Surely before you can plan any strategy to improve the education system, you have to have the data on what is bring achieved?
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There is no successful enterprise or any which aspires to excellence not willing to measure performance AND advise stakeholders of which the public is the biggest one. This smoke and mirror BS all meant to obfuscate by both governments has become tiresome. Suppose we were to ask for a fulsome report/audit of EDUCTEC?
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Perhaps Douglas would also like to tell us why, if the DLP is so committed to improving schools that it has done nothing to advance the CDB funded Education Enhancement Project II? The project is meant to build one new secondary school and significantly reconstruct six primary schools, amongst other things.
Would Douglas like to tell us why tenders were invited from design consultants over a year ago but then returned unopened. Perhaps he could also tell us why tenders were invited again months ago, but tenderers have just been asked to hold their tender prices for another three months?
The CDB approved the loan in 2011. Why has nothing been achieved on the project?
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Of course the Ministry of Education has the DATA on the performance of students. This is not the same thing as the STATISTICS (which is derived from the data). With the click of a computer button the statistics can however be calculated.
Without data and hence statistics, discussion, analysis and diagnosis of schooling (and all other public) issues are reduced to uninformed speculation and hidden agenda driven commentary. Such speculation and commentary is then easily refuted by civil service administrators.
A friend of mine suggests that there is no conspiracy to withhold information because this might reveal failings in the system. The culture of withholding information, he posits is an inherited one from the colonial administrative practices which operated on a presumed view of “who needs to know” which does not include (in the minds of administrators) the general public. It is therefore reflective of the “anti-democratic” considerations and condescending contempt of the “man in the street” by civil service administrations.
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@ Douglas:
“All Barbadians – rich or poor, from a single parent family or orphaned – have free access to the best educational system anywhere in the Caribbean and even the western hemisphere.”
If Barbados has best educational system in the Caribbean or even western hemisphere please explain the following:
How come so many of those ‘best educated’ people, especially males, end up on the blocks twiddling their thumbs while ‘bombed out’ on herb from St. Vincent?
How come these so-called highly educated black Bajans end up being glorified servants and sophisticated hewers of wood and drawers of water to businesses owned by foreigners especially those controlled by less educated Trinidadians, Jamaicans, lower-caste Indians and in the eyes of “Negroman” rat-catching-rat eating Chinese?
How come there is so much litter and filth on the streets, beaches and in the precious gullies? Which set of “the best educated” people would wantonly poison their own water system and despoil their own environment creating major hazards to their own health and economic livelihood?
You better recoil the ball of jingoistic crap you just dropped on the BU pages.
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What is passing grade ?when the grade is based on misinformation , lack of information, no information, things that are needed and not given in to the pool of so-called education, when people out side your World knows more about your World than you know inside your world.Fraud Education base on false teaching.
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“The grade one and two passes accounted for between 39% – 41% of the passes.
However, we must ask ourselves the question, can we be satisfied with this level of performance or should we be asking for more?”
Douglas,
We want more. Who should we ask?
If the percentages you quoted are true, who should take responsibility for this unwholesome state of affairs?
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Why do we want to build more schools if as Dr Denny of the CDC recently stated the average number of students per classroom is dropping? Explaining why minister Jones has called on Barbadians to breed more?
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How can you treat this post seriously given its third paragraph?
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David the reason the Minister of Education want Barbadians to breed more so that he can get as many illiterate people to vote for him (LOL)
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David, Barbados export its People So called Black and import So called White people , We need Person to have a Nation, and People to have and to work to have an economy .
Barbados is Fraud and money Driven, The to Slave Parties DLP/BLP of Barbados are always looking to put its People in to Slavery,
Education is just enough for ABC and 123 to get to the US of A, As soon as they done with school they run to America and England ,
As the PIMPS sit back in Barbados basting in the Sun,
As they come back to to live all land and housing gone and the Prices are more than the USA ,,, So who will do the work if more SEX is not going on ,
St Vincent age is 15 , they are looking also to Boost their Population for the Plantations,
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Typical shite article trying to justify their spending on education, and deflect from the real issues. What are they preparing the children for: more lawyers, or more teachers, more bankers? Barbados already has an abundance! Industry, and Technical positions need to be created so that after the education process they can move into these jobs.
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“CANADA’S NEW POLICY on employment for temporary migrant workers has had a “severe impact” on the Barbados Government’s efforts to fill jobs in that country’s hospitality sector.”
This is very unfortunate. Exporting Bajan workers has helped to earn forex but even our best friends changing the rulse of the game.
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@ Douglas
.old onion bags February 14, 2015 at 7:39 AM #
Douglas tell us why the DLP is hell bent on the belief that Bajans are TOO PROGRESSIVE and the best way to curtail all this wealth gain thru upward mobility is to KICK DOWN the ladder that EWB had wished would remain. Tell us why 115,000 cars is too many for black people to own why wall houses are scorned, why shed roofs and a bucket of water from the stand pipe is their vision of HARD WORKING BAJANS…
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Douglas I still awaiting your answers…..If you like me and the countless other down stricken Bajans remain puzzled, kindly go ask PM Stuart to help…also why his most callous remarks that came from ur George St. HQ and how else we should interpet them inlight of hard times he seemingly wants us revisiting. Ask Uncle Batons and Breakin bones, to spell out if the $1000 bursaries will be a one time thing ..or will the students also receive annnuda $1,000 next year…these ting we want to know Dougie. Can U help us?
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Regardless of its obvious untruthfulness of the views held by Douglas, a mindset also central to the dominate narratives accepted by the majority of Bajans.
Douglas is obviously a dyed in the wool Dem. His mindset is not best explained by an education system or lack thereof but by an even more rapacious propaganda infrastructure, an endless propaganda war on the people, which extends to Barbados but is universal in character.
That a feckless government, like this one, could even find a single supporter anywhere in the universes, speaks better to the success of the work of Bernays, Lippmann and Goebbels for which the expected failure of the Bajan mis-education system is but a by-product.
Douglas’s piece represents a mature inversion of reality.
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@ Racehorse
Spot on!!
It is an article which shows (i) how much they fear the Barbados Underground Blog and (ii) seeks to get a temperature of how much they are hated.
If the central tenet of responses remains around education and the statistics they will beleive that, in spite of their abysmal records, they remain on “safe” ground but if they start seeing too many bright people like you and Bush Tea
@ Bush Tea
Another bullseye scored by your statement “…Everyone and their cousins know that the “pass rates” are calculated from those student who are entered for the examinations……and that large numbers are NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO SIT THE EXAMS …”
I recall saying that some time back about the secondary schools that while a part of the teaching matrix in Barbados ARE NOT ADMINISTERED by the ministry so places like St Gabriels can say they have 90% passes at CXE because instead of the 90 students that they have elegible for the exams participating, ONLY 20 WERE ALLOWED IN THE CXC when it came due!!
@ DLP or Douglas or whatever you want to call yourself
When you said/typed the words “This DLP administration has always regarded education as one of the key developmental tools which would take this country forward. …” some being cognisant of the true legacy of the Dipper would have prayed that you choked to death on those word OR, since they were typed and not mouthed, that lightning should have simultaneously hit the keyboards of the computers of each one of you traitors to the DLP cause and vision of free education.
You have lost your way and what EWB progressed to what equates to our “national collective Rubicon” of governance and development, you, 7 years, have spectacularly and unceremoniously thrown that achievement, into said “River” while frolicking while marching over said tributary.
It is ironic that you cast aspersions at the other set of clowns the BLP who equally have plundered our nation with the $236 million fiasco.
“Alea iacta est” – the die is cast.
And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Here endeth today’s reading
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This type of propaganda serves a purpose. If you are able to dismiss it there hope for you.
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I would like BLP supporters and members to realise that I am an engineeer professional. I am free to ply my trade. I am working for Rock Hard cement company. My leader Mia Mottley plied her legal skills wiith Four Seasons hotel and i did not hear anybody quarrel witj her.
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@ David
Any time that a well known personality is named as a contributor, Bushie would like to think that you can confirm that the post is genuine (by your check), otherwise the post should be deleted….. or assigned a ‘John Doe”….
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@Bush Tea
Some are about being political all the time. After seven long years one gets the impression we have achieved nothing in the period.
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“I would like BLP supporters and members to realise that I am an engineeer professional.”
These abominable party hacks can’t even tell a proper lie…lmao.
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@ david
re After seven long years one gets the impression we have achieved nothing in the period……i am assuming you are talking about the work of BU
QUESTIONs are you satisfied that you have made the effort even if you have not got the desired result.?
would you be comfortable with yourself if you had not made the effort
fOR 13 YEARS I HAVE EXPOSED BOGUS MEDICAL SCHOOLS WHERE I WORKED–ONLY TWO OF THEM HAVE CLOSED AND NEW BOGUS SCHOOLS START EVERY YEAR– WE EVEN HAVE ONE IN SILVER SANDS—BECAUSE FOLK WANT TO BE DRS SO BADLY THEY DONT CARE ABOUT STANDARDS AND THE POOR TRACK RECORD OF THESE SCHOOLS
THE STUDENTS ALL THINK THEY CAN BEAT THE SYSTEM…………BUT THOUSANDS OF THEM HAVE FALLEN BY THE WAY SIDE
I AM SATISFIED THAT I STOOD UP …………..SO SHOULD YOU
WE WERE ENJOINED THUS….” HAVING DONE ALL….STAND!”
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Not that it matters, but have to ask
What happened to the Suckoo in Dr. Esther Byer Suckoo
Her profile at in the list of candidates at http://www.dlpbarbados.org refers to her as Dr. Hon. Esther Byer Suckoo, M.P. FOR ST. GEORGE SOUTH, MINISTER OF LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY
Her profile at http://gisbarbados.gov.bb refers to her as Senator Dr. The Hon. Esther R. Byer, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Human Resource Development
Did not want to be referred to in BU as Dr. BS
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@GP
It is all very frustrating sometimes.
@DD
Byer has remarried to her ‘campaign manager’.
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David wrote “Some are about being political all the time.”
That describes a lot of Bajans.
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@David,
Maybe you should focus on those bloggers who value BU. The FREE medical information from Georgie Porgie is priceless.
The awareness this blog provides about the legal system is of great value to some of us.
Caswell, Bushie, Miller and a few others make BU worth the effort.
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David February 14, 2015 at 4:37 PM …Some are about being political all the time. After seven long years one gets the impression we have achieved nothing in the period.==============
David, I am not sure if your ‘we’ is as GP suggested and relates to BU or rather to our society in general.
If BU then surely you know the blog has been absolutely PRICELESS.
The impact it has made may not be apparent but there can be no doubt that it has caused many Bajans, local and otherwise, to rethink their perspectives of the operators on the lovely island and reformat.
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@ David [BU]
I don’t believe that you are talking about BU, surely not?
I second rather third, the sentiment expressed by Hants and DeeWord
You started the site in 2007 and this is 2015 which is eight calendar years though, depending on where you “started” and where your cutoff period is, might be 7.
I think you are talking about the regime of the Deficit Leprechaun Party though and that fateful day in 2008.
Notwithstanding all of the above, you are to be commended in the face of the despots ON BOTH SIDES who sought, are seeking,. and (according to the PDC crew) will seek to close you down AS A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY.
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Traveling
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
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wHATEVER IT IS IS, THIS IS OUR ORDERS
EPHESIANS 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
THIS IS SURELY THE EVIL DAY
IT IS THE TIME WHEN WE HAVE DONE ALL WE CAN…..WE MUST STILL STAND!
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peter wickham says he is not going to make any predictions for the st,kitts nevis election ,however one can stay tune that whatever the outcome he will find a way to spin his side as that of having a “good feeling” as to whom the winner would have been.
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http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/63509/usd3m-uwi-study-grants
how quickly we forget, there was a time not so long ago the bursaries can was kick up and down the road, now it has come to a final stop, the loud noise makers have taken up their heels and head out the door, what happen to transparency,
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My fellow CanBajans. Cricket is on omni Rogers channel 14 in the Tdot.
India vs Pakistan
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The problem with the bursaries is that the Government failed to make them means-tested, so available to low income family students only.
Every child of a family that owns a $115,000 SUV can apply for a bursary.
The $3 million a year should have been better targeted to give less well off students a push up the social ladder.
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@St.Georges Dragon
It is obvious after the flip flop by government with Sinckler embarrassing Jones for committing the government to paying bursaries, it has become a political hot potato. They had to release the pressure. Yet another bungle.
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Opposition slams "11th hour" approval of bursaries
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the fact is that they have been released , and of course the opposition would have an opposing view,
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“We note, with amazement, that the Opposition continues to dodge their work but yet still draw their salaries and dine at the tables of parliament. We hope that mature bodies who have a vital role to play in the development of this country do not adopt the bad habits and practices of our childish opposition lead by Ms. Mottley.”
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On December 12, 2007, the DLP announced an indefinite boycott of both houses of Parliament, in protest of the ruling BLP’s refusal to debate a no-confidence motion against a junior minister for alleged corruption, as well as more recent comments made by the Speaker of the House, who promised a “standing order” to keep the opposition leader out of parliament.
Thompson told the press that the DLP will instead “take its message to the street until the Government starts to take Parliament seriously again, or alternatively, there is a change of government.”
DLP General Secretary, Chris Sinclair, is reported as having said that until they receive an apology from the Speaker, the DLP will not return to Parliament. If they decide to return, Sinclair admitted, it will be in January 2008.
Douglas, as demonstrated by the DLP’s actions in 2007, and by extension, Thompson’s refusal to enter parliament until the elections are called, surely you must agree that over the years, both BLP and DLP have displayed significant levels of immaturity.
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@ AC
I don’t think you understand the concept of “11th hour” as opposed to “too little too late”
The 11th hour speaks to some asset or resource being provide in the nick of time, BEFORE, something disastrous happens.
Too Little too late means that there was paucity and that, irrespective of the intent, meant disaster!!
Leh me brek it down for you further.
With regard to the student bursaries the school year has already begun and the instruction for the academic year is well advanced so bursaries now are to little too late.
I hope that you understand this
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“Over the years, 2009 to 2013, the CSEC passes, grades one to three accounted for 65.24% to 72.37% of the total CSEC entries. In 2009 there was a 69.98% pass rate, 2010 a 72.01% pass rate, 2011 a 70.07% pass rate, 2012 a decline with a 65.24% pass rate and in 2013 a 72.37% pass rate. The grade one and two passes accounted for between 39% – 41% of the passes.”
Statistics can be manipulated to make any situation appear as though it has been a success or failure. It’s all good to state that “grades 1 to 3 accounted for 65.24% to 72.37% of the total CESC entries”.
However, in an effort to better understand, interpret and analyze these stats, it would interesting to know, for example, what were the measures of central tendency [i.e. population mean and median], was a random sample size of the population used, what was the mean score and standard deviation, was the sampling distribution “normally distributed”……….. just to mention a few.
Additionally, were these results taken specifically from government secondary schools, or were all those who sat the exams, irrespective of learning institutions, taken into consideration and included in the population [i.e. students who may have failed, for example, chemistry at school, and decided to take the subject through the O’ Level Institute or registered independent of schools or other learning institutions].
Were adults attending other learning institutions included in the population?
I would appreciate if you are in a position to be able to adequately address these few concerns.
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PDYR
i hope you understand the concept of better late than never, i think the chances still remain open when another school year begins,
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the blp are the eternal optimist so hearing their response is nothing new, if they had said different it would have been a breaking story, it is not as if the bursaries were a one time chance they can still be applied, mia mottley and her crew members seem to enjoy whipping up frenzy and mayhem as a means to and ends ,yet when it is time to show up for work they absent themselves under some hocus pocus disguise ,
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@PUDRYR
Don’t agree with your last comment. The issue is the emotional/mental stress caused to parents by the uncertainty of not knowing whether financial help promised would be forthcoming. Do you know how difficult it is to want to educate your child but challenged financially to do so? The promise by Jones then the refusal to honour by Sinckler feeds into s lack of confidence by the population. Jones has become the laughing stock.
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the blp are the eternal pessimist so hearing their response is nothing new, if they had said different it would have been a breaking story, it is not as if the bursaries were a one time chance they can still be applied, mia mottley and her crew members seem to enjoy whipping up frenzy and mayhem as a means to and ends ,yet when it is time to show up for work they absent themselves under some hocus pocus disguise ,
the emotional response by the blp misfits is to be expected and pretentious especially based on all other knee jerks response founded out of fear and to bolster mayhem
i believe that the govt had originally stated that when the bursaries become available measures would have been put in place to accommodate who had applied all this ” wuh loss throw hands” up in the air is nothing new by the mottley crew
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DofBU
Don’t worry yourself
Everything has an element of failure
Even success often feels a disappointment and a let down
Being disappointed with those around you is a form of enlightenment / message
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@ David [BU]
I know that the comment about the 11th hour was simplistic but, given the particular “who” i was responding to (lol) going any deeper into the layers of disruption that this has had, would have been an exercise into futility.
Look how you have expanded into the financial hardship this has meted out on the parents. That is another perspective that the optimist/pessimist transposer cant possibly discourse on
We could, if we really wnated to bust dem brain, go a level further and speak to the short, medium and/or long term effect this “abandonment and undercutting” of free education WILL HAVE ON current and future generations.
In its 1 1/2 political “term”, the DLP has done more to carry our people “back into the cane fields” than Christopher Columbus did.
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“We hope that mature bodies who have a vital role to play in the development of this country do not adopt the bad habits and practices of our childish opposition lead by Ms. Mottley. ”
Tell me Mr Douglas – did you consider the opposition led by Mr Thompson childish and immature when they boycotted parliament for a lengthy period in 2007?
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