Nassau, Bahamas – 7th October,
2015 – The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology wishes to inform the
parents of students from the islands impacted by Hurricane Joaquin to contact the Deputy Director for School
Management, Mr. Joel Lewis at 502-8239, 502-8267 or 502-8244 to have the
process fast-tracked for having students relocated to schools in another island.
Like most, if not all of the structures on those islands, schools were severely
or completely destroyed.
We are mindful that many students will be
moving to New Providence and other islands to live with family members and will
need to be registered in a new school. We want to make this process and
seamless and hassle free as possible. We appeal to parents to enroll students
as soon as possible in order to bring some degree of normalcy back to their
lives and to ensure that their education is not interrupted in the midst of all
that is taking place.
Given the circumstances facing our country
at this time, we want to be sensitive to the needs of our fellow citizens,
particularly the students of those islands and do whatever we can to make this
transition as easy as possible.