Announcement of Winners: Inaugural CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) Regional Secondary School Essay Writing Competition 2019-2020
By Justice Christopher Blackman CARICOM Competition Commission Monday, May 4, 2020 — The CARICOM Competition Commission (CCC) is pleased to announce the winners of its Inaugural Regional Secondary School Essay Competition, which concluded on 31st March 2020. The competition was a…
Nevis Teacher reads bedtime stories to grade two students using mobile phone!
By Sisera Simon Head, Education Development Management Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS Thursday, April 30, 2020 — As early grade teachers across the OECS find ways to connect and support their students – one teacher in Nevis has actively…
Cayman: Update on COVID 19 for Friday, 17 April 2020 – All new tests negative
12 new tests were all negative. · Flights from Miami arrived successfully. Flights to Nicaragua are cancelled due to the Nicaraguan Government closing their borders and not allowing the Cayman Airways flights. · New CTMH Doctors Hospital testing lab is approved by…
Read Alouds’ for early grade students in the OECS while schools are closed!
By Sisera Simon Head, Education Development Management Unit, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, OECS OECS/USAID Early Learners Program (ELP) Media Release Thursday, April 16, 2020 — As parents and caretakers across the OECS grapple with home schooling and managing young students…
Cayman: UCCI Professor Dr. J.D Mosley-Matchett wins IACBE-Peregrine Leadership Best Paper Award
University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) is honored to announce that professor Dr. J.D Mosley-Matchett recently won the IACBE – Peregrine Leadership Best Paper Award for 2020 at the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) Virtual Conference on…
Martin: Stories R US – Write about COVID-19 on the Islands
By Melissa Martin The future will find us looking back on the pandemic of 2020. Articles in newspapers will be archived. Children will grow up with school cancelation tales. Each individual will have a similar, yet a distinctive story about…
Monitoring, evaluation and reporting on early grade reading, enhanced within the OECS!
By Sisera Simon Wednesday, April 1, 2020 — The OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme has launched an online modality for its monitoring, evaluation and reporting (MER) using a platform called Toladata®. The use of this platform will enable the six Member States…
5G changes mobility – video interview with Prof. Dr. Johannes Springer
The basis for networked mobility and logistics is continuous network availability. 5G offers more bandwidth, lower latency and positioning that is accurate to the centimetre. And the standard can convert the huge amounts of data in real time that will…
Cayman: The Courts’ response to the shelter in place regulations
By the Hon. Chief Justice Saturday, March 28, 2020, the Government put into force the Public Health (Prevention, Control and Suppression of COVID-19) Regulations 2020, outlining managed restrictions on movement for the public and businesses alike for a period of…
Martin: Humanity – best and worst
By Melissa Martin “A Tale of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens, a classic that sums up life and death from the beginning to the ending. The human history is a narrative of war and peace, but also health and disease…