Former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Killarney, the Most Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis contributed to debate on the Apprenticeship Bill 2024 in the House Of Assembly on Wednesday.
While quoting a report from the Inter American Development Bank (IDB), Dr. Minnis mentioned the country’s challenges in the public education system. He said, “‘the education system does not equip the students with 21st century skills. It went on academic shortcomings start showing up in primary school and are not effectively tackled early on which has an accumulative effect through time.’ The crime problem we face in directly related to our inability as a people to properly ensure that there are robust systems in place to transition young people, and especially boys, successfully into adulthood.”
Minister of Education and Technical and Vocational Training and Member of Parliament for Englerston, the Hon. Glenys Hanna-Martin responded saying, “what is interesting though about the IDB report, while it is published recently in 2024, it covers the period in which the Member for Killarney was Prime Minister of this nation and oversaw the educational system. All of those observations were under the watch of the then Prime Minister, all of them. And so to come here now and he wants to see the revolution, the difference between us and them is that we face the truth about what’s happening in the educational system in this country.”
The Apprenticeship Bill passed in the House Of Assembly and now moves to the senate for debate.
