EDITOR’S NOTE: Towards the end of March, #InfrastruCaribe featured infrastructure in Caribbean education in our edition 2021-03-30. This newsletter does the same, as we continue our series on social infrastructure. Three countries are covered, namely: The Bahamas, Guyana, and Jamaica. Additional content may be found in our Twitter feed.
Our headline, taken from Spaces4Learning newsletter, reads: “Bahamas IB School Opens New Academic Building”. The Lyford Cay International Baccalaureate(IB) School, in Nassau, opened its newest academic building this year to students. The facility is to be the centerpiece of a proposed 17-acre Upper School campus now under development.
In Guyana, State-of-the-art Westminster Secondary School has been completed and will be ready for the new academic year in September. Another such facility — Good Hope Secondary School — is still under construction, but contractor gave his company’s commitment to have the school completed by May 22: therefore, ready for the new academic year.
The $14.5 million Kamwatta Primary School was however commissioned by Local Government and Regional Development Minister — Nigel Dharamlall. In Jamaica, Alpha Academy — one of it’s revered music institutions — opened a state-of-the-art facility, courtesy of Digicel Foundation, to train 120 students in performance and technology over the next four years.