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Drop in top grades as exam results are released
NATIONAL exam results worsened in 2020 compared to 2019, with fewer students achieving A, B and C grades and more students receiving D, E, F and G grades compared to the year before.
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Save Guyana: History summons its leaders to higher purpose By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat) NOVEMBER 28 general elections in Guyana have resulted in a crisis for the country. While it is being suggeste
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EXAMS: DROP IN STUDENTS RECEIVING A TO C GRADES – Minister says BGCSE results show ‘much work to do at all levels of the system’
THE number of students who achieved A, B and C grades in BGCSE exams this year dropped compared to 2022, with more students receiving D, E, F an G grades.
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Staff in morgue walkout
STAFF at Princess Margaret Hospital’s Morgue Department staged a walkout yesterday due to the discovery of mould. The matter has been remediated, according to PHA Deputy Managing Director Lyrone Burrows, who explained the development was likely due to the improper use of an air-conditioning closet.
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Exam results add up to a slight improvement in maths and english
ALTHOUGH Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald highlighted improvements in numerous BGCSE exam results yesterday, the national mathematics average remained an E while the English language average rose from a D to a D+.
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Officers sued over illegal detention
A MAN is suing the commissioner of police and three of his subordinates after police detained him for almost three days for having an illegal firearm and ammunition, which was later discovered to have possibly been planted by two of the officers who subsequently fabricated evidence to suggest they caught him with it.
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C H Reeves teachers have 'a host of concerns'
A TEACHER at C H Reeves Junior High School criticised Education Minister Jeff Lloyd’s response to the industrial action taken by teachers last Wednesday for protesting against conditions at the school.“The charge was given for us, the teachers at C H
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Concacaf Nations League: Senior men’s national soccer team set to play in Group A of League C
THE Bahamas senior men’s national soccer team was drawn into Group A of League C for the upcoming windows of the 2024-25 Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) Nations League matchups.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS: 28th National High School Track & Field Championships
• Here’s a look at the official results of the Ministry of Youth Sports & Culture’s 28th Annual National High School Track & Field Championships:
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Success for young artists
A HIGHLIGHT of Bahamas Insurance Month in October was an art competition open to all primary and secondary school students, in which C C Sweeting Senior High School students Cory Hamilton and Darjanique Green took the top two places.
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Hopes for more than 1,000 essay contest entries
THE Templeton World Charity Foundation is hoping that entries for their 2015 “Laws of Life” essay competition will surpass the 1,000 that took part three years ago.
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A-C grades increase in exams
EDUCATION Minister Jeff Lloyd revealed yesterday that the number of BGCSE students receiving A, B and C grades this year increased by more than 10 percent compared with 2019.
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Jury hear evidence that man had shot at police
THERE is evidence that a 20-year-old man fired a gun the night police officers said he shot at them, causing them to return fire and kill him in the Mason’s Addition area four years ago, a jury heard yesterday.
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CW Sawyer moving to UB campus
STUDENTS of C W Sawyer Primary School will be temporarily relocated to the University of the Bahamas’ campus to resume face-to-face classes on Monday.
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Guyana crisis follows election
By Sir Ronald Sanders NOVEMBER 28 general elections in Guyana have resulted in a crisis for the country. While it is being suggested that the elected President, Donald Ramotar, of the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) can appoint and run a minori
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Exam passes down again
STUDENTS who took the Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) examinations performed marginally worse this year in comparison with those who took the national tests in 2017.
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C-Force wows Grand Bahama
The Grand Bahama Performing Arts Society (GBPAS) last weekend hosted “C-Force, An Evening of Musical Fusion” at the Regency Theatre in Freeport. Also making an appearance was beloved Bahamian writer, poet and filmmaker Marion Bethel, who read some of her poetry, incorporating GBPAS scholarship recipient Chavez Parker on percussion into her performance.
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sports inbrief
BASKETBALL GSSSA FINALS THE Government Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA) best-of-three championship series is slated to begin at the Kendal Isaacs gym on Thursday. In the junior girls division at 4pm, the H O Nash Lions are scheduled to take on
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sports inbrief
SPORTS AUTHORITY NEW CHAIRMAN LEROY Archer has been named as the new chairman of National Sports Authority, it has been reported. DARTS NATIONAL GOLD CUP THE Bahamas Darts Federation is scheduled to hold its National Gold Cup Tournament at Club Wate
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sports inbrief
SPORTS AUTHORITY NEW CHAIRMAN LEROY Archer has been named as the new chairman of National Sports Authority, it has been reported. DARTS NATIONAL GOLD CUP THE Bahamas Darts Federation is scheduled to hold its National Gold Cup Tournament at Club Wate
