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Student carries out hair raising attack on Career Fair at PSVE
PHILIPSBURG -One student of the Vocational School was arrested on Friday after placing students and faculty of the St. Maarten Academy PSVE School as well as and the police in danger. This happened during the Career Fair at the school on which got off to a successful start with over 20 companies and entities participating. The student seen in the photo, through a bottle at first then a stone over the wall of the PSVE.[More....]
Blackman recruits in the Netherlands
AMSTERDAM--Finance and Personnel Affairs Commissioner Xavier Blackman left Sunday afternoon on a recruitment trip to the Netherlands. His primary aim is to meet with St. Maarten and Antillean students who have completed or are close to completing their studies. Blackman was originally scheduled to travel to the Netherlands last week, but this trip was postponed because of issues with the draft 2010 budget. The Island Council will handle the budget on Monday, March 22.[More....]
Commissioner Heyliger signs USONA agreement for school information system.
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GREAT BAY (GIS)—On Thursday, Commissioner Theo Heyliger signed an agreement with USONA for the financing of an Education Management Information System. Present were Lars Walrave, Dutch Representative on St. Maarten, Reginald Isenia, Director of USONA(St. Maarten), and Bart Pasman also of USONA.[More....]
Use prison as last option for first offenders - Wigley. By Rawle Nelson.
SMNN - "I think that jail should be used as a last option when dealing with first time offenders as we continue to see that many first time offenders continue to return after they would have been placed with hardened criminals," this is according to former Senior Defense Force Officer and now Managing Director of a private security firm, Shawn Wigley. He has also issued a passionate appeal to the relevant authorities to create initiatives with the view to promote the social development of young people here in St Kitts and Nevis. He said that this will help to curb what he said is the staggering increase in criminal activities within the federation.
Registration of 4 to 9 year old children.
SMNN - The Department of Education hereby informs all parents that the second phase of the implementation of compulsory education continues from March 8 through March 12, 2010 with the registration of children between the ages of 4 and 9. This registration is important in order to get an accurate picture of the number of children whose status is not regulated (the undocumented) that need to be placed within the school system for the upcoming school year.
Rebuilding Lives: Education is crucial to the rehabilitation of offenders.
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Educating young inmates through training in the trade areas of barber, computer repair and tailoring, is a very positive development and a step in the right direction in rehabilitating these persons and making their way back into society as productive citizens. Last week Foundation Judiciary Institutes Windward Islands signed a financial agreement with Dutch-funding agency AMFO for over Naf.155,000 to develop the intervention rehabilitation program based on the aforementioned trade areas. [More....]
SHTA applauds Commissioner Marlin for obtaining funding for SBO.
SMNN - Philipsburg: ----The SHTA is commending leader of Government, Commissioner William Marlin for obtaining necessary funding to realize the development of a new Secondary Vocational School (SBO) on St. Maarten.
Apart from awarding scholarships for colleges and universities abroad, the SHTA has been encouraging Government to use available EU or Dutch funding to develop a Vocational Poly-technical/ Hospitality Training Institute on St. Maarten that could provide the local population with the training, skills and certification necessary to successfully enter the job market. This, the SHTA believes would not only protect the local workforce, but would reduce the need for businesses to seek foreign labor.
More Monies Needed to Build New Secondary School.
SMNN - Philipsburg:--- Commissioner of Education William Marlin and USONA Director Reginald Doran signed off on two contracts on Wednesday. One of contracts is for the new secondary school, which is to be built in Cay Hill. USONA is providing 5.6 million guilders for the construction of the school while the island government of St. Maarten has to provide the other 5 million guilders to fulfill the entire construction cost. On display were some drawings, which depict the SBO School, which is to be built later. Marlin said 4 million guilders are for the construction of the school while 1.6 is for the preparation of the teachers that would be teaching at that school when it is completed.
Government meets with school bus owners and drivers, short and long term solutions discussed
PHILIPSBURG - A general meeting with school bus owners and drivers was held at the John Larmoni Center on Thursday afternoon. Also attending the meeting were the principals and representatives of schools on the island.[More....]
William recommits to educating every child
CAY HILL--“Children should not suffer because of decisions their parents make,” Leader of Government and Education Commissioner William Marlin said in reaffirming government’s commitment to continue with the introduction of compulsory education. “Government has decided that we will tackle the problem once and for all,” Marlin told participants in a compulsory education summit held at the Belair Community Centre on Wednesday.[More....]
