President of the Mico University College Dr Asburn Pinnock, speaking at JIS Think Tank held on Wednesday.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa, Jamaicans have watched images of flattened roofs, shattered windows, toppled power lines, and damaged cultural landmarks. Dionne Jackson-Miller’s recent segment on her All Angles programme on Television Jamaica brought these realities into sharp focus, with principals painfully describing the devastation they witnessed in real time.
One principal watched the destruction of his administration block while powerless to intervene; others spoke of months, even a year, before a return to normality.
I have given decades of service to Jamaica’s education system and almost all of those years to teacher education. I feel compelled to comment on the damage done to school infrastructure by the recent record-breaking hurricane, and the deeper educational and psychosocial impact that this disaster now imposes on our student
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