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.
VIP ran a campaign hinged on education
And while making reference to his former days on the hustings for the now governing Virgin Islands Party (VIP), Skelton-Cline said: “I helped to run a campaign where education was the main point. We put a sheet of licks on the then government over this matter of education.“
“I want to say to our government, whatever else we may have had in mind, I want to say to every single ministry — Ministry of Health, Ministry of Natural Resources and Labour, all the Ministries — everybody needs to sit down right now and give up some portion of their budget to focus this country on education,” he stated.
He argued that the government ought not to guess whether the necessary funding will be dumped in education but rather it must insist on doing so.
“The monies have to be appropriated, the sacrifices have to be made so that education in a meaningful and a substantive way takes priority in this country once and for all,” he urged.
The political commentator also called for a comprehensive plan surrounding the issue of education.
“We are failing generations of children and therefore mortgaging our future for the deficiencies that have existed in education and it’s not just today, (it has been) over the last 15 or 20 years,“ Skelton-Cline stated.
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Partnership for progress.
That advice must be worth at least 10k per month of taxpayers money!
Give back your Consulting Contracts. You ain’t showing no work or progress. The education system could benefit if greed is removed from the glutenness.
He just can’t keep his mouth shut and go away. He wants an edumacation consultancy now cause he be an expert in edumacation. Let’s give him $20k a month, no reports, no meetings and nobody to report to. I hope $20k enough so he can give F** Albert a piece. Lmfao.
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Get your consulting contract signed with Government before you give us your stunningly original ideas! Giving them away for free would be shameful , we wouldn’t want people thinking your a Communist.
Boi you sure has a way with words ( you can sell oil to the Arabs. We have the past-Ar , we have the bish-UP so when one of with the name JESUS ?
The unnecessary consultancy money wasted on this guy could’ve had most of the schools in tiptop shape
Stand down Claude. Stop trying to justify your existence. Just let your wife support you, she is very smart!
Now give back the $500k of no work, payoff bs contracts you stole from ppl. If not, following what you said here, there ar 500 ppl on this islan that can tak turns punching you in th fac every day.
How can the Government make education a priority when we have persons like yourself on the Government’s nipples.
Give back the money you got for those contracts so we could give it to the schools. The money you got could pay 10 teachers for a whole year. Some teachers on average make $2,200 per month. Do the maths. Only because the VIP throw you away now that you’re talking against their nonsense. A little too late.
This jackass is always braying about something. Maybe he needs to be given a brush cutting contract and he can be chained up along the roadside braying and chewing.