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Authorities are being pressed to explain why school meals have been delivered late since the start of the term, leaving thousands of primary school students waiting long periods for lunch.The Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) and the Association of Public Primary School Principals (APPSP) confirmed to Barbados TODAY in separate interviews that from the beginning of the Michaelmas term, the School Meals Department has habitually delivered lunch behind schedule.“We want to know what is the problem. Some schools have reported receiving lunch after 12, some after 1 p.m. and some as late as minute...

The inaugural Summer Nutrition Programme is getting thumbs up, with Minster of Education Kay McConney saying the feedback from parents so far has been excellent. She was speaking to the media following a science event in Queen’s Park yesterday involving children from various summer camps. “The collaboration with the summer camps has been an exciting time for us. We’ve had a number of young people of many different backgrounds taking …

As Government’s Summer Nutrition Programme (SuN) got underway with almost 7 500 students on Monday, Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw assured that no teacher would be forced or coerced to participate in the programme that will feed and teach children over the vacation.That commitment followed concern expressed by the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) about a memo sent out to teachers late Sunday night.“It is a voluntary response. We are not making it mandatory for teachers to be here to supervise any of the activities; it is voluntary. If the teachers want to come out and gi...

Former Opposition Senator Caswell Franklyn has slammed Government’s offering of school meals to needy children during the summer vacation, suggesting that the Mia Mottley-led administration should instead be distributing supermarket vouchers to their families.Chief among his objections to the Summer Nutrition Programme is that children would have to experience the indignity of going to various locations to queue for food and be exposed to ridicule.“That has me so angry it ain’t funny. I pray about not losing my cool over that. You have a situation where you have needy children; God knows...

The Summer Nutrition Programme is not a soup kitchen nor is it designed to embarrass or discriminate against anyone, says Chief Education Officer Dr Ramona Archer-Bradshaw. Responding to criticisms levelled at the programme from Democratic Labour Party president Dr Ronnie Yearwood and general secretary of Unity Workers’ Union Caswell Franklyn, she told the midweek nation last night it was simply a way to gauge how children felt about a healthier …