BISHOP’S COLLEGE AWARDS ITS OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS AND CONTRIBUTORS

Principal of Bishop's College, Rholda Quamina

Hillsborough, January 29th, 2010- One of Carriacou’s secondary schools plans to introduce an inter-house competition this academic year to aid in improving students’ performance in Mathematics.

The proposed Mathematics’ competition at Bishop’s College comes against the background of concerns expressed by the Ministry of Education at the below-average performance in math by the nation’s students. The average pass rate of students sitting the 2009 CXC Examinations in Mathematics was 33 percent.

Bishop’s College Principal, Rholda Quamina, has announced that the school is taking the lead to arrest the math problem.

She made the disclosure at the College’s annual Speech Day and Award Ceremony on Thursday, January 28.  In her principal’s report, Ms. Quamina said the 2008-2009 school year was challenging, but successful for Bishop’s College.  Its successes included a 100 percent pass rate in seven CXC subjects, she said.

DR. MITCHELL CALLS ON COARD FOR A CREDIBLE EXPLANATION  

St. George, January 29, 2010 -- Grenada’s Leader of the Opposition, Dr. The Right Hon. Keith Mitchell has called on former Leader of the Grenada Revolutionary Government, Bernard Coard, to provide concrete evidence for the claims that he has made about the disappearance of the bodies of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and Members of his Cabinet who were brutally executed at Fort George during the last days of the Revolution.

SPECIAL UNIT FOR CARICOM HAITI ASSISTANCE

Greater Georgetown, January 29, 2010 -- The Bureau of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has mandated the CARICOM Secretariat to establish a small dedicated unit to co-ordinate CARICOM’s continued assistance to Haiti over the long term in the wake of the catastrophic earthquake which struck that country on 12 January.

ACTING COORDINATOR OF NADMA VISITED CARRIACOU

NADMA's Acting Coordinator, Terrance Walters

Hillsborough, January 29, 2010- The Carriacou Emergency Operating Centre located at Belair is now in a better position to respond to disasters with the receipt of a consignment of equipment.

The supplies – useful in the case of a disaster – include generators, hurricane lanterns and chain saws.

The items were presented by Terrance Walters, Acting Coordinator of the National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA), during a two-day visit to Carriacou and Petite Martinique.

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2010 INDEPENDENCE SPEECH BY LEADER OF HER MAJESTY'S OPPOSITION
DR. HON. KEITH MITCHELL
(Revised)

Fellow citizens of Grenada, Carriacou and Petite Martinique, it is a great honor and a privilege for me to address you on this significant milestone in our nation’s development, the thirty-sixth anniversary of Independence.

PRIME MINISTER RECEIVES LEGACY AWARD

NEW YORK, JANUARY 28th, 2010; Prime Minister, Hon. Tillman Thomas, on Thursday evening received a Legacy Award from the American Foundation for the University of the West Indies (AFUWI).