Tag: Christen Suckoo
School leaders improve own learning
(CNS): Fourteen leaders from government schools and the education department have passed through Part 1 of the International School Leadership programme, offered through the Ontario Principals Council (OPC), as part of efforts to improve the professional development of teachers and managers in the Cayman education system. Recent reports commissioned by the ministry pointed to extensive problems […]
Suckoo confirmed as education ministry boss
(CNS): After more than twelve months acting in the job, Christen Suckoo has been appointed as the chief officer in the Ministry of Education, Employment and Gender Affairs. Deputy Governor Franz Manderson said Suckoo was given his formal title on 1 October following an open recruitment process, though government officials did not say how many […]
Rivers: Labour bill will help local workers
(CNS): A number of measures in the proposed new legislation dealing with labour relations will protect and help the Caymanian workforce in particular, the labour minister has said. Launching a sixty day consultation process Wednesday, Tara Rivers outlined the draft Labour Relations Bill 2015 and pointed to a number of new provisions that she said […]
Ministry to tackle teacher trouble
(CNS): The acting chief officer in the education ministry has said that there are plans to review teachers’ pay, as well as to conduct exit interviews with all teachers who are leaving this year and to start focus groups with local teachers who have already quit the profession. Christen Suckoo told Finance Committee last week […]
Drug dogs and gun seizures at local school
(CNS Video): John Gray High School is dealing with yet another incident involving an imitation firearm after security guards seized a toy gun from students traveling on a school bus from West Bay last week. The recovery of what was said to be close replica of a weapon is the second in just two weeks. […]
