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CXC Exams scheduled: SVGTU raises concern
The SVGTU panel at last Friday’s press conference (l-r): Andrew John, Oswald Robinson and Fiona Charles.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) has registered its concern that local education officials have accepted the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) schedule for the 2021 the CSEC and CAPE exams, and the Council’s reversion to the pre-2020 format, without involving the Teachers’ Union in that decision-making process.
President of the SVGTU Oswald Robinson made the concern known during a press conference hosted by his Union last Friday, during which he also chided the CXC for being overly taken up with getting the exams done.
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A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran’s story resonates as Black History Month lesson
A thirst for equality: Dying Navy veteran’s story resonates as Black History Month lesson
One summer afternoon in the late 1950s, eight-year-old Phillip Willis Jr. took a break from
Phillip Willis, Jr
mowing lawns at a home in Jackson, Mississippi. Having worked up a thirst, Willis asked his employer, a white woman, for a glass of water.
That simple and reasonable request required minimal physical effort on the woman’s part. Mainly, it required mere humanity and compassion for a young black kid toiling in the stifling heat and humidity. She begrudgingly gave him the water, Willis said, along with a not-so-subtle reminder that he was a black in America’s Deep South during the Jim Crow era.
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