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Rudy Lovell is the new president of the Barbados Union on Teachers (BUT). On Saturday night, he earned 244 votes to Dwane Goddard’s 63. Voting was held online and at the BUT’s Merryhill, Welches, St Michael headquarters. The post of president became vacant after Pedro Shepherd resigned on January 4 to run as the Democratic Labour Party candidate for St Michel South East in the January 19 General Election. (SAT)
The new president of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT), Rudy Lovell, says continuing dialogue on the return to face-to-face classes will be a priority for the body. But he warned there were other hazards in schools prior to COVID-19 – the reason why there has been little to no in-person teaching for the past two years – that also have to be resolved. Lovell made the comments in a …
Postpone common entrance, CXC sitting – BUT
With the country moving into another full-scale lockdown, the head of one teachers’ trade union has suggested the Minister of Education defer the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination (BSSEE) and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)’s May/June sitting.
In an interview with Barbados TODAY, President of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) Pedro Shepherd declared on Friday the union wants realistic targets set for the remainder of the school year, as a gruelling second wave of COVID-19 keeps students away from their physical classrooms.
Students have lost almost a year of “proper” teaching owing to inadequate infrastructure for online instruction, he declared.