The Government of The Bahamas is complicit in Cuban official institutional slavery ……… while their own UB trained teachers cannot get hired due to "vetting" ……. Lord help us all.

Cuban auto mechanics teachers? The cars in Cuba are early ‘60s vintage models from the U.S.!

Will the govt be teaching Agriculture students to use oxen to plow fields, oxen to pull carts how to change the wheels on the ox carts???

Makes sense be taught in Spanish by a comrade Cuban speaking Spanish teacher - but should you find yourself traveling Cuba and you have heart issues - you probably wouldn't want **be mistakenly plugging in - say - you're **heart's portable electrical medical recharging device** into hotel room's **220v AC** wall socket?

WOW

Have a Canadian born child with Bahamians citizenship who is a teacher with 25 years plus experience, guess what, she was declined for a position as a teacher

This just after Minnis said work permits only if a Bahamian can’t do the job

So what’s the problem, we gots nobody to teach, or our teachers ain’t no good?

Look at the d average nation stats and make our own guess

The women will all be pregnant or married within the next 6 months!

These officials should hang their heads in shame. Firstly the last MOE director and deputy director told employed teachers in subjects such as auto, electrical due to retire thay they could work for another 5 years after retirement. Lies, when the previous D Director went to Cuba to hire teachers in one case to replace a family teacher with proven results,. not only did this teacher not get the courtesy of a response for his request for extended employment his replacement was knowingly hired as a teacher who had never taught that subject before. Tell me how it is more cost effective to pay all the costs with hiring a Cuban when you have established teachers with their own houses on the family islands. Consider that some of these Cuban teachers have an extremely poor grasp of speaking English and in some cases really don't have the students interests in the forefront. Lets face it Cubans put as little money as possible into the local economy preferring to save and buy as much stuff as possible to take back to Cuba. It takes a foreign teacher in many cases years to understand the kids, culture etc etc and as they are on contracts their is little motivation to fully integrate. Why not apprentice the brightest students from BTVI to work alongside an experienced teacher. This would employ a young Bahamian and their must be a way of these apprentices doing summer courses at COB. Teacher training gives you the theory but doesn't necessarily make you an effective teacher. This nonsense will go on for years if wr don't get outward thinking, competant Directors and their underlings. Why is the BUT not getting involved and fighting hard to find a long term solution ?
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Got to hand it to Minnis. He loves everything foreign, e.g. illegal Haitian aliens, deep pocket foreign investors, low-cost Red Chinese construction workers, Peruvian and Filipino maids for the Lyford Cay community, low-cost Cuban teachers, and so on and so forth. Meanwhile his failed policies are perpetuating our very dysfunctional D- public education system that for the most part produces essentially illiterate Bahamians who no one wants to hire, not even himself. My oh my, what an evil, arrogant and nasty monster we have as PM.

Just like when the Cuban doctors came here several years ago. I met one at the Green Parrot. He told me that his family was not allowed to join him, even though he had young kids, so that he wouldn't defect and leave Cuba for good. The person who called this institutional slavery in the above comments was spot on. It is a way for the Cuban government to get hard currency by slaving out their population.

These Ministers of Education have NO vision ……. just 5 year brownie point projects so that they can brag about it at the rallies ….. The whole obsolete 1970s system needs to be scrapped and retooled ……. $300 million and still most students are either quitting or finishing school labelled as "functionally illiterate"???? …….. Most students still cannot even meet the diploma criteria ............… if Graduation is based on 4 BJCs with D, we are really setting the bar LOW ……. MOE is covering up a lot of crap.

You are right ………. the first curriculum came out in 1982 ….. none since