Last Updated on September 29, 2022, 2:46 AM AST by Anthony Morris
Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Terrance Drew, said his administration has already started re-introducing the I-literacy One to One Laptop Programme in secondary and primary schools in the country.
The Prime Minister mentioned the fact during an interview hosted by the media portal SKN Newsline. The news agency broadcasted the interview on Youtube on Wednesday, September 28, 2022.
This programme was active in St Kitts and Nevis in the past. It was responsible for providing laptops to all the students of form 1 studying in private and public secondary schools in both St. Kitts and Nevis.
The previous administration of the nation halted the programme unceremoniously. Talking about the same, Prime Minister Dr Terrance Drew stated that “Like any other new programme, it was not a perfect programme, so all that needed to be done was to where there were issues you could fix them, but you shouldn’t just throw out the whole programme.”
The Prime Minister states that his administration realizes that there were some issues with the implementation of the programme in the past. He acknowledged that the present administration will still face these problems and any new problems that may arise.
However, PM Drew stated that there is no reason for children to be deprived of access to technology and resources.
He added, “We have started to move to put the laptop programme back in place because we want our students to have access to technology so that they can educate themselves and are not left behind.”
The Prime Minister hoped that the children of St Kitts and Nevis could compete with those in China, India, across the world in Western Europe and so forth.
He stated that even though (St Kitts and Nevis) are comparatively smaller, we believe we can educate our people to compete anywhere in the world.”
When the programme resumes, it intends to distribute laptops first to fifth-form students sitting their CXC examinations in the coming months.
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