Page 4 - Linvern Wright News Today

In this September photograph, two students share one laptop to attend their online class. There are ongoing concerns about the digital divide in Jamaica. In many poor, urban communities, students regularly stay away from their online classrooms because their parents cannot afford to pay for fixed Internet/broadband service in their homes. My young friend Sydney has given up the tutorial teaching he was doing at the university level. The frustration of trying, mostly unsuccessfully, to reach h...

8:04 pm, Thu December 10, 2020 Adela Scotland, a sixth form student in Trinidad; Khaleel Kothdiwala, Head Boy at Queens College in Barbados; and Linvern Wright, President of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools   Some regional students have reported they are grappling with suicidal thoughts and loss of scholarships following this years CSEC and CAPE exams.       Speaking on Thursday at a Regional Stakeholder Press Conference to demand answers from CXC, Adela Scotland, ...