In its assessment, the CDC said: Travelers should avoid all travel to The Bahamas.
Meanwhile , Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson has expressed concern about a number of suspected COVID-19 cases at numerous schools across New Providence. âWe note that the majority of the cases are students as young as five years old,â she claimed.
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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Following another incident of students ingesting marijuana edibles on Thursday, education officials said they are closely monitoring what may be a new trend.
Police said several students on Eleuthera fell sick on Thursday after reportedly eating “marijuana-laced cookies”.
Reports indicated that the edibles were shipped from New Providence via a mailboat to Rock Sound.
Although the students attended Preston Albury High School, the matter did not occur on the school’s premises.
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Education Director Marcellus Taylor told
Eyewitness News that while the latest matter did not occur on a school campus, education officials have taken steps to address the serious concern surrounding the use of drugs with students.
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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson said COVID testing of teachers and students is critical for a safe, full return to face-to-face learning.
“Whether you are going to use the hybrid model or the face-to-face model for everyday instruction, how do you get them back into school, into the classroom, in a safe manner?” Wilson asked.
“Those are our concerns. A safe manner for us means that you would have the opportunity for students and teachers to undergo COVID testing.
Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson. (FILE PHOTO)
“We also would like to ensure that the schools are cleaned and sanitized and disinfected, and also that the support staff, specifically the janitorial staff, they would have had the correct training as to how to properly clean in a COVID environment…”
Challenges persist with virtual learning program in public schools A student participates in virtual learning. FILE
Teachers grappled with accessing the Ministry of Education’s learning management system (LMS) as they tried to deliver instruction to students on the first day of school yesterday, according to Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson, who urged the Ministry of Education to acquire a virtual learning platform that is “operable and able to meet the needs of teachers [and] students in the public school system”.
“We are now back to square one,” Wilson said in a statement yesterday.
“Teachers and students returned to the new school year on the first day Monday, January 4, 2021, to be faced with the same issues as they were faced with since March 2020. The Bahamas Union of Teachers is again urging the Ministry of Education to acquire a virtual platform that is operable and able to meet the needs of teachers, students in the public school s
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Nassau – The Ministry of Education is being urged to repeat the 2020 education year based on the results of this year’s national examination results.
In a recent statement, the president of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT), Belinda Wilson made the recommendation and pointed to the exam results that saw a decline in 2020 when compared to 2019.
According to Wilson, the education system has continually failed the children of The Bahamas.
“I strongly recommend that the Ministry of Education stop, review, cancel, pause and consider students having the opportunity to repeat the 2020 school year and that the social promotion practices cease forthwith. It is so sad, but true – the educational system has failed the children of this nation over and over and over.