OMG Digital Magazine OMG Issue 276 14th September 2017 | Page 38
OMG Digital Magazine | 276 | Thursday 14 September 2017 • PAGE 38
AGREEMENT: THA Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles, left, talks with WASA
representatives, Assistant to the Chairman Raquel Brown, right, and
Executive Secretary to the CEO Meiling Wong, after the signing of
a Memorandum of Agreement for a waste water treatment plant in
southwest Tobago that will serve roughly 20,000 Tobagonians.
ASSESSMENT FOR
UNDERPERFORMERS
THUMBS UP FOR REPAIRS
Students in Tobago returned to school
on Monday (September 4) without any
major hiccups, with repairs during the
July/August vacation period completed
on time.
Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles, who is
also Secretary of Education, Innovation
and Energy, is pleased with the repairs
he saw during a surprise visit.
“It was designed to see for myself what is
happening at the schools, to get an idea
because it was unannounced so I wanted
to see the school in its glory. I didn’t want
a situation where people knew I was
coming so they planned,” he said.
The visit also allowed for an evaluation
of the repairs, and assessment of the
contractors. Charles highlighted one
major issue.
“It’s on target,” he said. “The concern
I have, however, has to do not with
the school per se but with the level of
vandalism that seems to be taking place.
As you would have seen for yourself, all
the light fixtures, the perimeter of the
school were destroyed.”
Charles urged parents and teachers to
encourage students to take better care
of school property. On Tuesday, the Chief
Secretary visited schools in east Tobago.
A revised curriculum is being created for students who scored below 30 per cent
at this year’s S.E.A exams. Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles said an outline has been
done for the curriculum and a student assessment must also be completed.
“Along with the psycho-social assessments would be the assessments would be
the assessments of those students who are to be placed or who have been placed
at the various schools,” he said.’
Charles said programmes can then be devised to help these students improve.
“I expect that the teachers in those schools, along with the curriculum officers in
the Division of Education, Innovation, and Energy, would then create the necessary
programmes that would allow [the students to move] to where you would like to
take them.”