EDITOR’S NOTE: In our last edition (i.e. 2021-04-19), #EduCaribbean featured Caribbean educators. In this newsletter, we feature Caribbean educational institutions. The regional as a whole the subject of one of our five articles. The remaining four represent four separate locations, namely: Barbados, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, as well as Trinidad and Tobago.

Our headline, taken from NationNews Barbados, reads: “Ash To Delay School Return”. Airborne ash from eruptions of La Soufriere volcano in St Vincent and the Grenadines has been carried across the Caribbean sea to Barbados and has caused their government to abandon it’s plan for a phased return of students to their classrooms next week.

Regionally, a special meeting was convened in January for the Council of the University of the West Indies (UWI) to consider recommendations of The Chancellor’s Commission on Governance. In Trinidad, their oldest secondary school — Saint Joseph’s Convent, Port of Spain — celebrates 185 years of existence on 5 April.

This summer, The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) will introduce a Hospitality Certificate which has been approved by City and Guilds. And finally, there are now calls even from politicians in the Cayman Islands for an end to the practice of educating Caymanian children separately from their expatriate peers.

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