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Cynthia Yvonne Forde ("Cinthy") is a Barbados born veteran politician, former first Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party, member of the Barbados Union of Teachers, current Member of Parliament for the constituency of St.Thomas and current Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.
In response, an umbrella organisation called the Coalition of Trade Unions and Staff Associations was formed in September 1991 by the country's two largest unions, the Barbados Workers' Union and the National Union of Public Workers. This structure was renamed the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados in August 1993 to ...
World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession. Successor. Education International (EI) Founded. 1952. Dissolved. 1992. The World Confederation of Organisations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP) was a global union federation bringing together trade unions representing teachers.
The Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) is a federation of teaching trade unions in the Caribbean. Its affiliated unions are: Anguilla Teachers Union. Antigua & Barbuda Union of Teachers. Bahamas Educators Managerial Union. Bahamas Union of Teachers. Barbados Secondary Teachers Union. Barbados Union of Teachers. Belize National Teachers Union.
Elsie Payne. Dame Elsie Payne ( née Pilgrim; 14 May 1927 – 25 August 2004) DA was a teacher and following independence she became the first Barbadian-born principal of Queen's College in Bridgetown. She was the first woman to receive a damehood in Barbados, for her long dedication to education and nation.
The literacy rate in Barbados for youth and adults are both above 99%, only falling to 98.5 among the elderly. The literacy gender parity rate is 1.0. This information is for 2014. Starting in 2000, the government initiated the Education Sector Enhancement Programme, usually referred to as EduTech 2000. This USD 213 million project was financed ...
The Erdiston Teachers' Training College campus comprises the Pine Plantation Great House and further land on the Pine Hill escarpment. [7] It is unclear whether building is the original, built in 1756 by William Barwick, adorned by subsequent owners, or a new building. It was later owned by Sir Graham Brigg and Sam Manning.
Barbados (UK: / bɑːrˈbeɪdɒs / bar-BAY-doss; US: / bɑːrˈbeɪdoʊs / bar-BAY-dohss; locally / bɑːrˈbeɪdəs / bar-BAY-dəss) is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.