Absolutely on the target. Jobs are not advertised but passed down to family members, or through political connections. Moreover the policy of hiring Cuban teachers who in many cases have difficulty with the English language or are here to make as much money as possible is at the expense of the Bahamian students. In reality nothing changes and mediocrity extends in every area especially in education.

Some of the Cuban teachers can speak and spell english better than our Bahamian teachers...just saying.

Bahamians had better mark their "X" on the ballot next to the picture of the gate, as it represents (1) the gate to keep thousands of foreigners (wanting Bahamian status) out of our country and (2) the gate to keep same-sex marriages from happening in our country! The corrupt Ingraham-led FNM and Christie-led PLP governments of the past three decades think we are all fools. Even though many of us are either unemployed or under employed, our corrupt government is now hell bent on granting thousands of foreigners Bahamian status in exchange for their vote down the road. We can't afford to let this happen. Bahamians must show up at the polls on June 7th and vote a resounding "NO!" to all four of the proposed amendments to our constitution. Remember....just mark your "X" next to the picture of the gate on your ballot. We must all vote "NO" otherwise we and our families will really be sorry when the wave of foreigners come to our shores to take our jobs for less pay!

Lol pure embarrassment

Bahamian's are not desirable as employee's. This is evident! Maybe it has something to do with their attitude, level of education, general vest for life? Who knows. It does not look good on the ground level for those the government are churning out, that is for sure.

how can we find a bahamian's mason's assistant who speaks five languages includig japanese?

well need to get a work permit.

The top 10% of graduates each year go off to school and do not return ....... the next 10% go to COB and local colleges and linger for a decade ....... the middle 30% look for a job hookup with a family or political friend ........ the bottom 50% sit at home play video games, smoke, drink and have sex or go on the block and deal, steal or prostitute ....... that is what happens to the 6000 graduates/dropouts each June ............ and that is compounded year over year

Good statement. But what is the solution? How do we turn this around?

Much of this stems for a feeling that we have a right to a job because we are Bahamian and, no matter how bad we are at the job, you are stuck with me.

I don't have to work because Immigration will protect me.

The solution is: Get rid of the two-tiered system of education that maintains class/race discrimination .......... end primary school at grade 5 and jr school at grade 8 ........make BJC results criteria to advance to specific type of high school.......create real magnet technical & vocational high schools including a public elite academic school ........ Adopt CXC program ........ Refine national HS diploma .........INVEST IN BETTER TRAINED BAHAMIAN TEACHERS with its own Teachers' Commission ...... Make teaching profession a 5-year contract system, merit-based incentives with board certification required at end of each contract period.......... make principals' performance responsible to school boards and staff ............ invest in a real Polytechnic College to train all post-HS trade sectors ......... create mandatory para-military national service (2 summer of HS/ 1 year after HS) to be served on a Family Island ........ ?!?!

Yes, we really need a good Polytechnic College. I would also suggest a percentage of foreign teachers though. Studies have shown that the best Universities and Private Boarding Schools have a high number of foreign professors and teachers.

The idea behind this is that they provide the student with different points of view thus making the students better thinkers and problem solvers.

Universities like Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge all have a high percentage of foreign professors.

***"The IDB also noted the relatively low graduation rates at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI), the main provider of occupational and vocational training to high school graduates, non-finishers and adults.
“The bulk of students fall between 19-23 years of age, and the Institute enrolls about 1,700 students each year during the fall, and graduates about 150 to 440 persons a year on average,” the IDB said."***

This is serious.

the point is that technical education is not for the illiterate and innumerate.

masons, carpenters, electricians, mechanics all need to learn how to read well and do basic math well.

the average of the exam might be D, for those who got a grade. the majority had papers so bad they were unmarked or ungraded.

**.............. Proud end results of 4 decades of *YOUR* PLP and FNM at work! .............**

No need to be concerned. Their friends, family and lovers are all straight!

Everything was better educationally and morally and realistically prior to 1967. Graduates from all government and private (church) schools were literate, numerate, had better social skills and appreciated their country, its people and realities of life and true potential of possibilities ahead of them.

having worked in the private business sector for over 25 years I have hired and terminated many employees. during the pindling rule particularly in the 80's, the cabinet spent a lot of energy trying to persuade the Bahamian voters that high prices in our country were solely due to greed of the (white) merchant class rather than their lousy fiscal policy.
as a result I, and I suspect many other business owners and managers do not believe that the government is our friend. this lack of trust means that we have never even considered supporting a government institution with it's inherent corruption, unless no other alternative is available. Nothing much has changed since that time with this new bunch of jokers and the private business sector will continue to mostly ignore the ministry of labour's offerings.
it should be noted that nottage and Christie were both part of the cabinet that devised the tactic of blaming the white merchant class to strengthen their racially divisive policy. The plp has sown many bad seeds, this is just one that has come home to roost. Excuse the mixed metaphors.

We cycle through dozens of worthless employees each year...most of them are fresh 'graduates' being pumped out by RMBailey apparently 'educated'. Very very sad...our schools are merely big day care centers and not much else.

Why are you beating up on RM Bailey?????? ........ there are at least 50 high schools in this country that pump out "dummies" every year ...... and they are only "dummies" because the PLP & FNM governments have watered down the educational system so much in the past 40 years that it is efficiently creating "dummies" with high school diplomas, BJCs, BGCSEs etc ...... the Bahamas now is officially FAT, DUMB & HAPPY (if you are a PLP)

There are the nearest school to us so the brunt of most of our 'graduates' are from there...but yes, in reality, it is across the board.