Ministry of Education

"It might be dengue!", she said, "You should get tested."

The Hon. Minister of Education and the Hon.

According to this Trinidad Express article:

EDUCATION Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the $83 million to provide laptops for successful Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) pupils is not as exorbitant as some people believe.

At the risk of it falling on ears that have become spectacularly deaf since 25 May 2010, somebody needs to go to the Ministry of Education (MoE) at 18 Alexandra Street, St Clair, and screech loudly to the folks in there: 'MoE, we have a problem!'

It seems that the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has decided to spend $83 million dollars (TT) on laptops for children when they don't have a proper plan for implementation within the present Trinidad and Tobago education system. It's not that children shouldn't have laptops.

I find it difficult to believe that on one hand, the newly appointed Minister of Community Development plans to wean out handouts while on the other hand the People's Partnership Campaign promise of lobbing laptops out of the Red House for children: 

One of the latest national topics is the Ministry of Education's pilot project to convert twenty co-educational (or co-ed) secondary schools into same-sex (or single-sex) schools.  The issue was first raised by Raymond Hackett, a Temporary Lecturer at the University of the West Indies's School of Education, in his education column in the Trinidad Express (16 Mar 2010, "Schooling and gendermania").  In it, Hackett alerted to rumours of the Ministry's plan and lamented that, consistent with his