de Castro hailed as a champion for education
With a decrease in the budgetary allocation for education in 2024, Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has hailed Education Minister Sharie de Castro, saying she is a champion for education as well as teachers and students.
“We have a Minister for Education — who even though small in stature — is big and powerful,” the Premier said at a recent ceremony which marked the reopening of the Jost Van Dyke Primary School. “If you get between the Minister of Education and her teachers and students, she will fight you,” the Premier said jokingly.
He said de Castro’s passion is what the territory needs, adding that “she knows her stuff and fights hard for the education system.”
After the Premier spoke, Labour Minister and Deputy Premier Lorna Smith concurred with the leader’s sentiments. Smith hailed de Castro as a strong advocate for education, saying “you don’t want to be near her when she is fighting for $4 million.”
Even as she is being hailed as a competent minister, de Castro has admitted that the territory’s investment in education needs to increase if the BVI wants to remain competitive and attract the best educators.
She said despite the constraints, her aim has been to get the teaching manipulatives and learning aids which teachers call for yearly.
de Castro is also known as a champion of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) in the education system. Under her leadership, the BVI had reintroduced two pathways that allow young people in high school and university to become teachers, filling the shortage of teachers that besets the education system.
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What exactly has she accomplished other than numerous overseas trips with her friend.
Just desserts all she’s interested in .
Give me a break. Champion of what? Laughable
IS THIS 4 REAL ? WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE ON ? ? ? ? ? ❓️
They are not on anything. They are just demonstrating how low their standards are.
The only thing she championed was to ‘remove’ the former CEO to promote her …
This child is a champion for what? This isn’t the same horrible teacher who left the students without a teacher when she quit from the High School? What has she ever done? Champion! We just handing out titles like this now in the BVI? Soon Natalio will hail himself as the greatest leader ever in the BVI. What a set of jokers! Champion for education LOL. Ayo don’t kill me please.
He ten folds better than j**lbud Myron and Drew.
Natalio is a waste of time. Everyone knows this. Get lost with your stupid defense of that imbecile.
I made sure to read the article before coming to the comments. I share the same sentiments as they do by wondering what is it that she has accomplished? I am not saying this to belittle her or anything but we have our bar of achievement set way too low. Her STEAM program hasn’t been around long enough to generate any data on its effectiveness. She is like a quarter back in football, she can throw all the greatest passes in the world, it doesn’t mean anything if it isn’t received. So her STEAM program is only as good as the people it is intended for and we all know the kind of children attending schools these days in majority are not being directed as they should be.
It seems to me she is, at most, just doing her job.
Is everything..she ain’t doing shit
Champion Ego, that’s about it.
This has to be a joke!
People please….
She stole from the people. What an example this woman is for the BVI.
Do we really want to teach our kids that corruption and dishonesty and misuse of funds is appropriate.
Natalio is really doubling down on his bad boy status. What an i**ot.
why did she use public funds to allegedly pay her boyfriend cell phone bill and buy her mom a car?
This man so call premier and is government needs to just step down for Jesus sake ,we tired of these idiots all she and his premier and the rest of them does do is travel in first class all over the dam place ,this is the best laugh I ever had for a long time .Best he had say when Myron was education minister he did amazing job how about that Mr so call premier
Dem shoud b in jail
why did she allegedly abuse government funds to spend on her family and friends?
She is part of an administration that had to beg for money to construct a building. Not improve the syllabus for students territory wide but a building. Nah, sell that piss and ink somewhere else