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  2. Education in Barbados - Wikipedia

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    The literacy rate in Barbados for youth and adults are both above 99%, only falling to 98.5 among the elderly. The literacy gender parity rate is 1.0. This information is for 2014. Starting in 2000, the government initiated the Education Sector Enhancement Programme, usually referred to as EduTech 2000. This USD 213 million project was financed ...

  3. Erdiston Teachers' Training College - Wikipedia

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    The Erdiston Teachers' Training College campus comprises the Pine Plantation Great House and further land on the Pine Hill escarpment. [7] It is unclear whether building is the original, built in 1756 by William Barwick, adorned by subsequent owners, or a new building. It was later owned by Sir Graham Brigg and Sam Manning.

  4. Cynthia Y. Forde - Wikipedia

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    Rolerick Hind (Democratic Labour Party) Cynthia Yvonne Forde ("Cinthy") is a Barbados born veteran politician, former first Vice Chairman and General Secretary of the Barbados Labour Party, member of the Barbados Union of Teachers, current Member of Parliament for the constituency of St.Thomas and current Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly.

  5. List of permanent secretaries (Barbados) - Wikipedia

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    Permanent Secretary. Chief Medical Officer. Mr. Wayne Marshall (acting) Dr. the Most Honourable Kenneth George, FB. Ministry of Agriculture and Food and Nutritional Security. Permanent Secretary. Chief Agricultural Officer. Mr. Terry Bascombe (acting) Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Third Sector.

  6. Cabinet of Barbados - Wikipedia

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    The Cabinet are individuals of Barbados which execute the duties of the Government of Barbados . Under a Parliamentary republic , these powers are vested nominally by the President of Barbados, but are exercised in practice by a Cabinet of Ministers, presided over by the Prime Minister of Barbados. The Prime Minister is formally appointed by ...

  7. Santia Bradshaw - Wikipedia

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    Santia Josette Omara Bradshaw was born on 13 March 1976. [citation needed]. She studied Law at the University of Huddersfield. Afterwards she worked as a lawyer in Barbados before entering politics. In 2010, she was appointed by the leader of the Opposition to take a seat in the Senate of Barbados. On 9 November 2010, she was sworn in to office ...

  8. Queen's College, St James - Wikipedia

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    Queen's College is a public secondary school in Barbados that was established in 1883. It is a multi-racial school with students drawn from a wide cross-section of the Barbadian community. It comprises eleven departments in which approximately thirty-three subject areas are taught. Annually a high percentage of Queen's College graduates enter ...

  9. Harrison College (Barbados) - Wikipedia

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    Bridgetown, Barbados. Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school ( secondary school) in Bridgetown, Barbados. Founded in 1733, the school takes its name from Thomas Harrison, a Bridgetown merchant, who intended it to serve as "A Public and Free School for the poor and indigent boys of the parish" . Even in the nineteenth century it was ...