Do your best!That was the advice that Minister of Labour Colin Jordan and St. James North Member of Parliament Edmund Hinkson shared with pupils of the Gordon Greenidge Primary school ahead of tomorrow’s Secondary Schools Entrance Examination.On Tuesday some 3,300 pupils across the island are expected to write the exam. Speaking to the pupils at the Rock Dundo, St. James school today, the two politicians shared encouraging words and gave assurances that their best was good enough. Noting that the Common Entrance was an important exam, Jordan emphasized that it was one among many that they will have to take in their lives. He noted that while there may be some feelings of stress or nervousness ahead of the exam, they must reassure themselves that there are accustomed to tests.
A Government backbencher is taking some unemployed Barbadians to task for not grabbing hold of the free opportunities to improve their skills.During the Barbados Labour party (BLP) St. James North branch meeting at the Gordon Greenidge Primary School, Rock Dundo St. James on Sunday night, Member of Parliament for that constituency Edmund Hinkson expressed his irritation.“I get frustrated when I hear some of our people say they can’t find work or they want a job and when I ask them . . . what skills do you have, you can’t get anything out of them or you hear them say they could do anything. And when my response is, ‘well you can’t fly a plane or spaceship to the moon. Come again, what can you do? And we giving you this opportunity and this is of course after 12 years of free education, between ages 4 and 16/17, that – we are giving you a second opportunity as a young adult to get training, to get skills, to be able to provide for yourself and your family,” he said.
The Advisory Committee to guide the establishment of a Commission for Improving the Lives of Persons with Disabilities has until November 30 to develop a national policy and a draft Bill which will prove the lives of this vulnerable gr
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