Sion Hill Government School in St. Vincent innovates with agriculture to improve literacy!
By Tracey Warner-Arnold From OECS/USAID Early Learners Program Wednesday, December 18, 2019 — As part of the OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme (ELP) within the Education Development Management Unit of the OECS Commission, small grants were provided to support school-based reading intervention…
94 schools across the OECS benefit from grants to improve literacy
By Tracey Warner-Arnold Branding & Marking Consultant for the OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme (ELP) Wednesday, December 4, 2019 — Canaries Infant School (Saint Lucia) Uses Grant to Improve Boys Reading Levels! As part of the OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme (ELP) within…
Hazell hits high notes with latest autobiographical release
New York, NY (Sonique Solutions) – Following the successful November 5th release of her latest book ‘Suitcase of Dreams’, Caribbean-American Mental Health Advocate Hazell McKenzie has been impacting readers, been in high demand for speaking engagements & appearances and has…
OECS Educators become literacy changemakers!
OECS/USAID Early Learners Program (ELP) Wednesday, November 20, 2019 — The Early Learners Programme (ELP) within the Education Development Management Unit of the OECS facilitated the attendance of 35 Educators throughout the OECS at the International Literacy (ILA) conference in October…
Made in Cuba events
Made in Cuba events and dinner hosted by the king and queen of Spain By Yoel Rodriguez Tejeda From On Cuba News The project led by two young Cuban entrepreneurs took on its most important work to date: the organization…
Growth and development of notch speleothems from Cayman Brac, British West Indies
Response to variable climatic conditions over the last 125,000 years By Jones, Brian;Zheng, Erjun;Li, Long The spectacular wave-cut notch on Cayman Brac, which is 6 m above sea level, formed during Marine Isotope Stage 5e highstand, 128,000 to 116,000 years…
OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme: Changing lives and improving the reading levels of children in the OECS!
By Tracey Warner-Arnold OECS/USAID Early Learners Programme, Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Wednesday, November 13, 2019 — In June of 2019, the United Nations indicated that the world is about to fall severely short of its education commitments and needs to implement drastic…
The Editor speaks : Time
I was wasting a lot of time pondering on what I was going to write for my Editorial today until I heard the minister of the church I attended give a message on time. Basically, how little time we give…
Classroom assessment techniques for elementary students
The teacher’s aim is not only to provide knowledge. To be sure that students absorbed the necessary information is much more important. If you want to evaluate the quality of teaching, look at student’s grades or answers. The assessments are…
The Jewish pirates who ruled the Caribbean
By Andrew Paul From Mental Floss As European nations pushed westward in a mad dash for colonies from the 16th to 18th centuries, the Caribbean became a pirate’s paradise. Legendary sailors like Edward “Blackbeard” Teach and William “Captain” Kidd famously…






