GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Guyana-based Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat says a new regional program aimed at helping students recover the learning losses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) era will be presented to the public on Thursday.
CARICOM photo.Many schools throughout the Caribbean were forced to close and embark on virtual teaching as the region implemented several measures aimed at curbing the spread of the virus that has so far killed and infected thousands of people in the Caribbean since March last year.
CARICOM said that the program will be launched on Thursday evening during a two-hour virtual town hall session beginning at 5.30 pm (ECT).
It said the Learning Recovery and Enhancement Program for Caribbean Schools was developed through collaboration involving the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the CARICOM Secretariat and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Commission, to assist educations with facilitating the learning recovery needed by students whose education has been impacted by the COVID pandemic.
Among those addressing the virtual town hall meeting will be Dr. Martin Baptise, CDB senior operations manager in education, Shone Gibbs, the President of the National Council of Parent Teachers Association in Barbados, the District Education Manager in the Belize Ministry of Education, Mrs. Nelma James and Professor Joel Warrican, the Director of School of Education at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the west Indies (UWI).
