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…
Grenadian author launches “Keke the Caribbean Kid” book series
The series depicts the uniqueness of the Caribbean experience and is intended for children aged 3-10 Friday, March 27, 2020 — The island of Grenada’s newest published author, Mrs. Alana Twum Barimah, recently launched the first book in the Keke the…
Cayman Islands Bankers Association potential debt servicing challenges in the event of COVID-19 outbreak
ADVISORY Potential Debt Servicing Challenges in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak Rest assured that your Cayman Islands Bankers’ Association member lending institutions are committed to working with you to find a realistic solution in servicing your debt obligations in…
Early Grade teachers in the OECS producing their own culturally relevant books to teach reading!
By Sisera Simon Wednesday, March 11, 2020 — The USAID/OECS Early Learners Programme (ELP) has facilitated the training of primary school teachers in Bloom Software to enable the creation of customized content for their classrooms. One of the challenges in the…