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Why Naparima Girls Are Closest To Heaven

Posted on July 2, 2017February 23, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

For Fariah Hyatali This is not a school on a hill, it is a school built within one. On my arrival I was made small against the giant rise of classroom and administrative buildings. The ninety-year old tamarind tree is the legacy of the yard. Currently, the Sarah Morton dormitory of the ancestral cohort of […]

50 Shades of GATE: Beyond Party Politics and Ole Talk

Posted on August 7, 2016March 1, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

“And when you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want” – John Mayer, Waiting on the World to Change We would not be having this discussion on GATE today, if government wastage over the past ten years were […]

Classism 101: How the Government Fails Our Children

Posted on October 18, 2015February 9, 2020 by amilcarsanatan

The failure of State-run secondary schools exacerbates classism socially and in the labour market as a result of mismanagement and neglect by persistent administrations that have had a piece-meal approach to the crisis yutes face in the education system. For 2015, in the allocation pool of four hundred and forty-three (443) national scholarships, denominational schools […]