The former registrar of the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr. Didacus Jules has been commenting on the ongoing threat by teachers across the region to withdraw their services in marking examination projects under the School Based Assessment (SBA) and the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) set by the CXC.
According to the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation, teachers in some Caribbean countries, notably, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados have been complaining about not being paid to mark the projects and have threatened to withdraw their services in protest.
However Jules, who left the post in 2014 after six years to become the Director General of the St. Lucia-based organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), said that the issue of payment to the teachers has been a long standing matter.
The CXC was established in 1972 under agreement by the participating regional governments to conduct examinations as it may think appropriate and award certificates and diplomas on the results of any such examinations so conducted.
The 16 participating countries are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and Turks and Caicos Islands.
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