— Education Minister

─ more resources for primary school students

Students of Wakenaam and Leguan Islands, Region Three, will now be able to travel to school in comfort and their parents will be relieved of transportation costs, following the handing over on Saturday of school buses valued close to $10 million.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, M.P, will meet this week with other education officials to further discuss the appraisal instruments for the licencing of teachers.

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has finally completed its production of the locally produced reader and work books in the Atlantic Reader series of literacy textbooks, which will help the ministry to avoid the high cost of importing such books that need to be used in the teaching of literacy to grade school pupils.

The Ministry of Education on Friday handed over two complete table tennis sets to St. Cuthbert’s Secondary School.

-Islands’ NDCs also receive brush cutters