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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 Nassau, Bahamas - Dr. Minnis, Leader of the Free National Movement (FNM), issued the following statement on the PLP’s education failures:
“The PLP continues totalk about doubling the investment in education, yet this government has not built one single high school in its two terms in office; not one high school in nine years. Where did the money go? Where did the one billion six hundred million dollars of borrowed money go? We know the Prime Minister was able to give himself a $2 million slush fund to use in this election year, yet we still do not have a much needed new high school.”
“Under the PLP Government, the public school system continues to graduate far too many students with a D grade average. This is a disheartening statistic. We have to stop social promotion. If a child cannot read or write sending he or she forward to a higher class only breeds anger and frustration. We have to stop this notion that every child should go into a purely academic stream. No child should leave grade 2 without knowing how to read and write and do basic arithmetic.”
“The public education system must provide programmes to ensure that every child emerges from grade 12 with a marketable skill. The FNM will initiate properly staffed, active community centres, where enterprise, music, art, seamanship and various marketable skills are provided free of cost to our young and not so young citizens.”
“Every Bahamian child must have equal access to the best quality education that the country provides. Family Island students should not be denied access to a college education because of geography and or financial circumstances, hence the FNM will provide full scholarships, and housing to qualified Family Island students to attend The College of The Bahamas campus in Nassau and or Freeport. In addition, Family Island students will be provided with a monthly stipend.”
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