Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

[Lazie]

Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur has pledged that all <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">pre-school</SPAN> children in his country will have free and compulsory education in the next phase of his development plan.

Prime Minister Arthur made the pledge at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston on Monday night during a reception in honour of his country's 40th anniversary of independence.

The Barbadian Prime Minister also spelled out the strides made by his country since independence but said he was not satisfied with his island being just a developing country.

"My national improvement plan for the period 2005-2025 is that we should be successful in building a world-class society with a world-class economy, with a world-class social system and world-class infrastructure for the next generation of Barbadians," he told his audience, which included Barbadian nationals.

Expanding free education

The highly successful Prime Minister reminded the gathering that his country already enjoyed free education at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels (this cannot be true, nuh true comrades?) but, by 2020, the plan would be to give the University of the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">West </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Indies</SPAN> (Cave Hill campus) all the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">land</SPAN> and financial capacity it needs to produce one university graduate per household within the time frame specified. (That thudding sound is Lazie dropping off the chair).

He also noted that, although the island would host two major <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink3 style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061206/news/news4

[Jawge]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Munch on this;

Jamaica tops in access to basic school
published: Friday | December 8, 2006 <DIV class=KonaBody xtUVI="true">


Myrna Bernard (left), director, <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">human </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">resource </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">development</SPAN>, CARICOM Secretariat, Bertrand Bainvel (centre), UNICEF representative in <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Jamaica</SPAN>, and Kwame Boafo, director, UNESCO office for the Caribbean, meet with each other shortly after Wednesday's Caribbean launch of the 'Education For All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report 2007', at the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">Hilton</SPAN> Kingston hotel, New Kingston. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer

[B]With 98 per cent of Jamaican children having access to basic schools, the nation has topped the Caribbean in the provision of <A class=kLink oncontextmenu="return false;" id=KonaLink3 &#111;nmouseover=adlinkMouseOver(event,this,3); style="POSITION: static; TEXT-DECORATION: underline! important" &#111;nclick=adlinkMouseClick(event,this,3); &#111;nmouseout=adlinkMouseOut(event,this,3); href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061208/news/news1.html#" target=_new><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">early </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">chil

[Lazie]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Did you read the article you posted? Obviously not.

[Jawge]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Did Brucie promise this at the last

conference? I know you guys are in gear with the proise car :P

The highly successful Prime Minister reminded the gathering that his country already enjoyed free education at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels (this cannot be true, nuh true comrades?) but, by 2020, the plan would be to give the University of the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">West </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">Indies</SPAN> (Cave Hill campus) all the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; BORDER-BOTTOM: orange 1px solid; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent">land</SPAN> and financial capacity it needs to produce one university graduate per household within the time frame specified. (That thudding sound is Lazie dropping off the chair).

[Lazie]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Damn Jawge, Assasin posted an article where this was addressed. You read it and started changing your call for improved education. WE not into the dandy shandy thing.

[Sickko]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Lazy, compulsory education at the basic and primary level has been in law here for a long time, or have you forgotten?



Up to a few years ago there debates as to how to punish parents who kept their children out of school.



It was found out however that economics was the main reason why some children could not go to school and if I am not mistaken there was some 'scholarship/help' programmes in place.

[Lazie]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Sickko (12/8/2006)Lazy(ie), compulsory education at the basic and primary level has been in law here for a long time, or have you forgotten?

Up to a few years ago there debates as to how to punish parents who kept their children out of school.

It was found out however that economics was the main reason why some children could not go to school and if I am not mistaken there was some 'scholarship/help' programmes in place.

There is obviously something wrong with the system, hence the Education Task force making recommendations that the system be transformed.

Clearly you and Komrade Jawge refuse to see the high lighted part of the article.

[Sickko]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

LazYYY...I did not read the entire thing but I saw the premise and thought I would share the information facts with you.



Feel free to take it or leave it boss...

[Lazie]

RE: Jawge, Karl, Sickko, Balla, unuh see this?

Well you missed it boss. People have a problem with the demons (JLP) proposal of tuiton free education. The purpose of posting the article was to prove what I've said all along about Barbados. Simply keeping it real.

We can brag about how many high school graduates we have each year, but how many of them competent enough to join the labour force?