EDITOR’S NOTE: Towards the end of January, #eduCaribbean featured the new school term in the Caribbean, in our edition 2021-01-28. This newsletter features preparation being made for the 2021-2022 school term. Four Caribbean countries are covered, namely: Haiti, Guyana, Cuba, and Jamaica. Guyana has two of our five articles. The others have one apiece.

Our headline, taken from Haiti Libre, reads: “Haiti – Quebec : Prospects for Bilateral Cooperation Conducive to Sustainable Development”. Haiti’s Consul General in Montreal discussed academic and technical cooperation with the Minister of Higher Education of Quebec, and is presently awaiting offers for review and transmission to the Haitian authorities for follow-up.

Guyana has budgeted a sum of $320M towards a Sports Academy in this fiscal year. The Academy will initially train prodigies in all core sports from their teenage years. The University of Guyana is also negotiating for an increase in the number of its law students that are granted automatic admission to the Trinidad-based Hugh Wooding Law School.

In Cuba, ninth-grade students returned to classes at the end of May. And this month, students in the municipality of Colombia will return to their classrooms to close their school year. Finally in Jamaica, the Ministry of Education is reconsidering its proposal to have mandatory summer classes this year following disapproval from the island’s public school teachers.

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