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Curriculum Development Officer Clive Baker explained that the courses students have been taking at high school up until now are not designed as college preparation courses. “We have been setting up a large number of kids for failure. We send them overseas and in many cases they struggle academically, particularly with ...
Success in the AP programme can give students credit at college, which could in some cases be as much as a year credit, Wahler explained. “It’s a fantastic programme, but it’s very intense and not for everyone,” she said.
As an alternative to the Year 12 programme, students can take A levels at a private school that offers these or go to UCCI to continue their education, but they will not get an overseas scholarship straight after Year 11 and they will have to show that they have attended and gained suitable achievements in their chosen...
The Year 12, therefore, now has a strong vocational studies element, which will give students externally accredited qualifications in vocational, career and technical (VoCaT) education in the Further Education Programme.
This will be offered at two levels: Level 2 VoCaT education programmes are aimed at students who have at least 3 or 4 passes at grades D/IV or below. Students will take BTEC First Diploma schemes (equal 2 –4 GCSE passes), which has a work experience component (at least 1 day per week). It is also possible to combine vo...
On Cayman Brac it is possible to restructure the high school so that next term’s Year 9 are able to take advantage of the “5+1” system. These students will then choose their options at the end of the next academic year and take their external exams at the end of year 11.
For more on the restructured secondary education, visit the Department of Education Services blog.
(CNS): With the addition of eight officers to the number of law enforcement officials that can now work underwater the RCIPS now has a dozen divers available for duty. The officers were trained by Customs Officer Darren Kirchman, who is a member of the Joint Marine Unit (JMU), The officers who successfully completed th...
The JMU has five full time divers. One of the JMU divers took part in the recent training courses alongside seven colleagues from various departments in the force, namely CID, Neighbourhood policing, DTF and two officers from the ranks of the Special Constabulary.
Two local diving companies, Sunset Divers and Ocean Frontiers assisted with equipment and pool facilities for the courses.
C.O. Kirchman is a PADI certified instructor and a PADI Emergency First Response (EFR)instructor. He is about to undertake a public safety dive instructor course and will represent the JMU on an underwater crime scene instructors course in the USA later this year.
“The preservation of life is a top priority for the RCIPS and the Joint Marine Unit,” said Superintendent Kurt Walton of the RCIPS “That’s why, when we identified a need to have more divers available within the force, we moved quickly to train additional staff.
(CNS): A survey of lenders in the Caribbean revealed that tourism development projects that have either stalled or failed in the region did so because of unrealistic projections or forecasting. The “Caribbean Regional Financing Survey” by KPMG’s regional advisory practice also pointed to lack of cash and poor financial...
This year for the first time KPMG also included development banks in the survey to capture the emergence of a potential new source of financing in the sector. Lenders were asked about the key lessons learned over the past year and in general the responses revealed a back to basics return to a conservative, long- term a...
With respect to development financing, responses indicated that the level of reliance on pre-sales had become very unattractive and should pre-sales be considered as a source of funding then more manageable phasing and more thorough due-diligence would be required.
Lenders said they remain cautious about the projects they are willing to finance and where. When asked to name their current top three markets they noted The Bahamas; Barbados and Bermuda. However, when asked about future investment, there was less agreement, with The Bahamas, Jamaica and Costa Rica all in the running.
All agreed that good airlift and strong market demand were crucial for the success of any project.
Collectively those surveyed reported total exposure in the region in excess of US$2.58 billion.
When asked what characteristics might suggest to them that a development should be re-financed or otherwise revived they noted: Strong project sponsorship (new and sufficient infusion of cash), quality of sponsors and current customer base, strong project fundamentals and structural competencies such as good location, ...
KPMG also revealed that some lenders were not willing to share quantitative responses concerning loan parameters, a reflection of the more cautious attitude, the accountants said.
KPMG stated that recovery in the major tourism and investment markets will take time to translate into recovery in the region. “The development pipelines will be fairly slow for the next two to three years and the roller coaster ride in personal savings and investments over the last few years could further dampen the d...
(CNS): Following its organisation Alex has become the first hurricane of the 2010 season and the first June Atlantic hurricane since 1995. At 10:00 pm on Tuesday night Hurricane Alex was a category one hurricane moving mostly westward near 9 mph approaching the coast of north eastern Mexico or Southern Texas. Maximum s...
Alex is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 6 to 12 inches over portions of north eastern Mexico and southern Texas with isolated maximum amounts of 20 inches.
According to the NHC dangerous storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 3 to 5 feet above ground level along the immediate coast to the north of where the centre makes landfall. The surge will be accompanied by large and destructive waves as well as isolated tornadoes over portions of extreme southern Texas on...
Alex has gradually become better organized bur forecasters say Alex is unlikely to strengthen beyond category one status prior to landfall.
(CNS): The opposition said the new national honour system is at risk of being politicised because of the power the premier’s office wields over the committee and the decisions on who will receive the awards. The National Honours and Awards bill was presented to the Legislative Assembly on Monday when McKeeva Bush said ...
McLaughlin said he supported the idea of Cayman’s own honours system but the law gave too much discretion to the premier’s office. According to the law, the premier would select the members of the National Honours and Awards committee with only passing consultation with the leader of the opposition, be able to override...
“I have great concern over the legislation’s potential for politicisation on the granting of these honours,” the PPM member told the House during the debate. “If they begin to appear as though they are granted by the favour of the ruling party we will diminish them,” McLaughlin warned.
He said that none of the members of the Legislative Assembly held their seats forever as they were there at the will of the people and they needed to ensure that the honours would haveintegrity and stand the test of time. McLaughlin said it would undermine the objective if people believed the awards were granted for po...
The third elected member asked the premier to re-examine the structure of the law to create more independence from the premier’s office for the committee and the final decisions. “We mustn’t make them at the whim of whoever is in office,” he added, cautioning that the honours should not be the premier’s “royal" award s...
Arden McLean, the member for East End, also questioned the premier’s influence on the awards and queried the clause which provided for non-Caymanian residents to be honoured. He asked what was the point of even having a committee if the premier got to make all the final decisions. McLean said he was not trying to dimin...
The independent member for North Side also questioned the clause that would allow non-Caymanians to be honoured. Ezzard Miller said he supported the bill as he had never been one that liked the queen’s awards as it was impossible to know the criteria on which they were based, and pointed out that he had refused UK roya...
Offering his support to the bill he added that he would like to see that honours reserved for Caymanians only and a clearer definition of the criteria.
Closing the debate, Bush said he was outraged by the criticisms from the opposition but he was not going to be discouraged. However, he wondered why the opposition always had to be the way it was.
“In all my time on the opposition bench I would never have tried to throw cold water on such a laudable initiative,” he said, adding that he had no intention of changing the bill because of the opposition. “They have nothing to offer but scepticism and dissent.
The premier said the bill had been on the table of the Legislative Assembly and in public discussion for several months but he had not heard from the opposition until now. “They can say anything but they are not going to stop this government,” the premier added.
He denied that the honours would bepoliticized and pointed out that the leader of the opposition would be consulted about the committee. Bush claimed that the opposition was only concerned about the awards coming from the premier’s office because he was never meant to be premier and the third elected member for George ...
Defending the decision to include residents as well as Caymanians in the honours, Bush said many people from overseas had contributed to the development of the country and they should be honoured. Relating a story about how his own brother’s life was saved at the hands of a foreigner, Bush asked where Cayman would be w...
The law passed with support from government, the independent North Side member and Anthony Eden from the opposition benches. Arden McLean and Alden McLaughlin abstained.
The first recipients of the country’s own medals will be awarded on National Heroes Day January 2011.
(The Guardian): Spare a thought – and perhaps a euro – for the poor French politician. No more taxpayer-funded Cuban cigars, private jets, or even luxury hotels. And, if Nicolas Sarkozy has his way, no more overstaffed offices and unfettered use of the ministry photocopier. Having cancelled the Elysée palace summer gar...
(Bloomberg): Just before sunset on April 10, 2006, a DC-9 jet landed at the international airport in the port city of Ciudad del Carmen, 500 miles east of Mexico City. As soldiers on the ground approached the plane, the crew tried to shoo them away, saying there was a dangerous oil leak. So the troops grew suspicious a...
(CNS): McKeeva Bush hit back at public criticisms regarding Cayman Airways funding on Friday, when he said that the airline had been running at an annual $20 million loss under the previous administration. The premier said under the last government CAL was underfunded and crippled by financial challenges which it had i...
Because of what he said were misleading, biased and uninformed opinions, Bush made a statement to the House. He wanted the public to fully understand what the finance committee had approved for the airline the premier explained.
“I find it most disappointing that such important and positive news for our national flag carrier is being dragged through the dirt by the very naysayers who benefit one way or another from the airline’s commitment to these islands,” he told his parliamentary colleagues.
The government and the airline’s current board had inherited the financial challenges crippling the airline which he said had been ignored for too long.
Bush said the funding approved was as a result of this action plan. While people were critical and trying tomislead the public, he said, over the last 3 financial years 2007, 2008, 2009 the airline experienced an average operating loss of approximately CI$19.6 million each year, but the previous government only provide...
This government had made funding decisions which had been approved by Finance Committee, Bush noted, that he said more accurately matched the needs for the routes Cayman Airways is required to operate. The CI$15 million operating cash was going on interest related to debt, payments for agreed purchased strategic airlif...
The premier went on to justify the $20.1million which the airline has received in this year’s ‘bare bones’ budget as he said Cayman Airways provides the Cayman Islands with unique advantages.
He pointed to CAL’s role as an essential air bridge, providing affordable fares between Grand Cayman and the Sister Islands. For six months of each year, it provided peace of mind to visitors and residents with guaranteed provision of pre- and post-disaster relief and the capacity for evacuations, the premier added.
Bush talked about the pride in knowing that Cayman has “this tremendous asset” and everyone should show patriotism and support by choosing CAL when the travelled.
By giving the airline what he said was the correct level of output payments and addressing the debt related to historical unfunded operations Cayman Airways was now able to effectively operate as the “strategic engine for tourism and economic development, providing the country with an optimized return on its investment...
(CNS): During a Finance Committee discussion on Tuesday 22 June, Arden McLean, the East End representative, questioned public health officers on what appears to be an unauthorized vehicle scrap yard. In addition to the illegal construction of an office along Shedden Road, McLean had concerns that the area could be a pu...
“I have received reports that across from Mango Tree there are hundreds of vehicles stacked up there,” said McLean.
Deputy Premier Juliana O’Connor-Connolly responded to the subject by advising him to mention the situation to the police commissioner since the matter is related to derelict vehicles, which she indicated was more likely to be a police matter than public works.
The opposition party member spoke with CNS and told us that more than just the police and public health services could be involved. The planning department and immigration services could be involved because the people running the scrap yard may not have a permit or business licence. The construction behind all the junk...
Director of the Department of Environmental Health Roydell Carter said that the problem of the derelict vehicles could be down to weaknesses in the Environmental Health Law.
CNS went out to the location of the scrap yard on Shedden Rd by the Mango Tree restaurant. We spoke with customers about buying parts and found that most clients thought it was convenient but they too raised questions about its legality and safety.
Ahleigh Hydes is a 15-year-old worklink student from John Gray High School.
In 1973, Managers Could Work 23 Minutes Without Distraction. And Today?
How much has a manager’s day changed in the last 40 years?
· Managers scarcely have time to start on a new task or to sit down before they are interrupted.
· Only 12 times in the study did the manager succeed in working undisturbed in his office for at least 23 minutes.
· “The brevity of many of the manager’s activities is most surprising…Half of the observed activities were completed in less than nine minutes, and only one tenth took more than an hour.
· Managers were seldom able or willing to spend much time on any one issue in any one session. Telephone calls were brief and to the point (averaging 6 minutes), and desk work sessions averaged around 15 minutes. Only scheduled meetings commonly took more than an hour. The same characteristic of brevity was reflected i...
A recent study? Hardly. These quotes are taken from Henry Mintzberg’s classic The Nature of Managerial Work published in 1973.
So how much has a manager’s day changed in the almost 40 years, since these studies were performed? If the number of management handbooks lining bookstore shelves is any indication, than the answer must be “quite a bit.” Many management theorists believe that management has undergone massive changes over the last decad...
· New changes in work patterns supplement (rather than replace) old work patterns. Case in point, geographic dispersion of work colleagues and the introduction of email may have flattened organizational communication and changed some of the work dynamic, but old work patterns still exist. For example, meetings, even if...
· Managers’ behavior is still unpredictable and dependent on factors that transcend specific work situations. In other words, people are still people.
The last point is particularly poignant. Mintzberg’s own research involved only 5 chief executives. And although his conclusions were based on a series of 14 studies involving a total of 579 subjects; only half of these studies looked at more than 10 managers. Tangblad’s conclusions are based on an even smaller group; ...
Do you think technology has altered the shape of managers’ days today? How so? Tell us about it in the comments.
Author David Lavenda is a high-tech marketing and product strategy executive. He also does academic research on information overload in organizations and he is an international scholar for the Society for the History of Technology. He tweets from the road as @dlavenda.
UPDATED: August 31, 2016, at 11:29 a.m.
Students returning to campus for the fall semester were greeted by a number of new businesses in Harvard Square, with several more preparing to open in the coming weeks.
Tom’s Bao Bao, a restaurant specializing in Chinese buns, opened its doors earlier this month in the former location of Yogurtland, and quickly drew customers. The eatery boasts large open windows that allow customers to see the buns as they are being prepared.
A sunny day in Harvard Square, pictured last April ahead of Harvard's visiting weekend for prospective freshmen.
According to Jillson, students can also look forward to the opening of several other establishments in the Square within the next six to eight weeks as well.
The Hourly, an oyster bar owned by Grafton Group, the same company that owns both Grafton Street Pub and Grill and Russell House Tavern, will open up on Dunster Street across from the Smith Campus Center in the former Kennedy’s on the Square location. However, Jillson expressed concern that the Campus Center’s current ...
Just a couple of blocks away at 8 Holyoke St., Mediterranean-style wine bar En Boca will move into the location previously occupied by Sandrine’s. An Italian restaurant owned by chef Michael Pagliarini—who also owns Italian restaurant Giulia—is set to open in the Charles Hotel.
DAVIDsTEA will open its first Cambridge location on JFK Street next to Sweetgreen, an East Coast-based salad chain. Sweetgreen, originally slated for a summer opening, will most likely open up by the end of the year, according to Jillson.
Although many students are still reeling from the closure of Panera earlier this year, Tatte Bakery and Cafe, which Panera has invested in, will open up in Panera’s former location in late September, according to Tatte’s catering manager Sarah Hang.
“We are very excited to be joining Harvard Square. It’s such a lively area,” Hang said.
However there are also several Harvard Square establishments that students will no longer see as they reacquaint themselves with the Square.
The Sound Lion audio store is among the businesses that have shut their doors. A couple of storefronts away, the Tannery clothing and shoe boutique has also closed its doors. The reason for the closure is unclear, and the business did not respond to a request for comment.
“I’ve heard different reports that they might relocate in the Square or close permanently,” Jillson said.
The Concepts sportswear store, also on Brattle Street, will relocate to 9 JFK St, according to a recent tweet from the company.
A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to the restaurant Grafton Street Pub and Grill.
Arlington social entrepreneur Jessica Shipman’s organization, Cheti, which helps fund community schools in Africa, has been nominated as 2012’s Best New Charity.
Cheti founder Jessica Shipman with a few of the young beneficiaries. Photograph courtesy of Cheti.
feeling as though she’d helped others and herself.
and felt obligated to help it along.
subsidies as well as essentials like buildings and books.
would help the school and the families,” she says.
and contributions made specifically to help the charity itself grow).
and empower Tanzania’s youth one small group at a time.
from that final group at a ceremony in San Diego in September.
Oprah Winfrey will be the next guest at the UMass Lowell Chancellor's Speaker Series.
Oprah Winfrey, a global media leader, philanthropist, producer and actress, will be the next guest at the UMass Lowell Chancellor’s Speaker Series, which brings individuals at the top of their respective fields to speak to students and the community while raising funds for student scholarships.
The event will be held on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell.
“A Conversation with Oprah Winfrey” will be moderated by UMass Lowell Chancellor Jacquie Moloney.

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