Union Island Primary Schools focus on improving reading!
By Sisera Simon Head, Education Development Management Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS Wednesday, July 22, 2020 — Stephanie Brown Primary School in Union Island, St. Vincent and the Grenadines is placing literacy at the forefront. As the beneficiary of…
How to write better web content
97 percent of people lose their faith in really poor content of certain brands, according to a survey conducted by Pardot. In reality, they trust the content of a business three times as much as they trust the actual employees…
McFarland to publish Encyclopedia of Soviet Spymasters by [Caymanian] Peter Polack in 2021
McFarland publishers have acquired the latest book from Peter Polack entitled Encyclopedia of Soviet Spymasters to be published in 2021. The Encyclopedia is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with nearly five hundred Soviet spies expelled from over 50 countries…
Antigua Book Mobile delivers over 1000 books to students across the Island!
By Sisera Simon Head, Education Development Management Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS Wednesday, July 8, 2020 — The OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme (ELP) collaborated with Hands Across the Sea, the School Library Services and 23 schools to provide books…
Raising the age of military enlistment
Peter Polack and Jack McCain The following is the introduction for the book “Only the Young Shall Die” by Peter Polack and Jack McCain. As counter-intuitive as it would appear, the average age of young men dying in combat has…
Is Grammarly a scam?
Are you a writer? Or are you concerned about your writing skills? Then you have got the right platform to test and furnish your writing skills. Grammarly is an online grammar checker that is used by the writer community in…
The UWI Open Campus Early Childhood Centre of Excellence Bloom launches children’s book
Office of the Director Consortium for Social Development and Research, Jamaica. June 29, 2020 – The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus Early Childhood Centre of Excellence, in partnership with Do Good Jamaica and illustrator, Rachel Moss created…
OPINION: Really Hilary?
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. June 22, 2020. Is there a time and place for apologising even if you are not personally guilty? Perhaps, but all situations are different. It is important to remember that apologising is not necessarily an admission…
Dominican librarian trains community members to support reading at home!
By Sisera Simon, Head, Education Development Management Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS Monday, June 22, 2020 — Ms. Ashely Gustave, Librarian at the Coulibistrie Primary School in the Commonwealth of Dominica, is fostering reading during school closures by supporting…
Young students shine during Saint Lucia’s Reading Month!
By Sisera Simon OECS/USAID Early Learners Program (ELP) Saturday, June 13, 2020 — During Saint Lucia’s May Reading Month, educators saw an increase in reading amongst early grade students. Limited movement during this time may have sparked an expanded variety of…