Give education budgetary priority, gov’t told

Political commentator Claude Skelton-Cline has called for an urgent reassessment of the priority of the education system in the BVI.

Skelton-Cline‘s comments come in the wake of a sequence of deplorable events which has seen teachers engaging in industrial action centred around continuously deteriorating school infrastructure — including some structures with mould, hazardous wiring, and caving ceilings — and generally poor working conditions, among other things.

Education, especially at public schools, must now be pushed to the front of any budget brought by the government, Skelton-Cline stated on his Honestly Speaking radio show yesterday, November 2.

He argued that addressing the issue is long overdue.