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Prime Minister Skerrit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite suggestions from the public that schools should be closed due to the spread of the dreaded Coronavirus (COVID-19), Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said schools will remain open in Dominica.<\/p>\n

He made the announcement during a press briefing held on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been suggestions from the public on the closure of schools and I appreciate that suggestion. There are merits to it, but there are also challenges to it,\u201d Skerrit said. \u201cSchool is not only a place you go to learn to read and write and do arithmetic, but you also have another challenge. And so we have decided to hold back the closure of schools and to use the opportunity of students attendance of school to educate them.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out that keeping the children in school will enable them to go through drills of washing their hands and sanitary practices, \u201cso that if we have the students going back home and educating their grandparents, their parents, brothers and sisters, then we can certainly overcome the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Skerrit, if students are sent home before the Easter vacation, \u201chow will the families in Dominica be able to provide the homecare required for the children while they are at work?\u201d<\/p>\n

To every decision made by the government, he said, there are other things to consider.<\/p>\n

“However, if the need arises, then certainly, we will make the decision to close schools,” the Prime Minister said.\u00a0\u201cBut we are mindful of the implications of closing schools.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are currently no reported cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Dominica.<\/p>\n

Meantime,\u00a0 at a special meeting of the OECS Authority and the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) held recently, Heads of Government agreed on the need to close schools in the OECS until after Easter in order to safeguard children from any contamination.<\/p>\n

The Meeting was called by Chairman of the Monetary Council and Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell, to discuss the COVID-19 situation and its impact on the OECS.<\/p>\n

According to information from\u00a0pressroom.oecs.org<\/a>\u00a0it was noted that the OECS Ministers of Education, in collaboration with the Education Development Management Unit (EDMU) at the OECS Commission, were actively exploring the use of online learning as a means of ensuring continuity of learning during the interregnum. Heads further noted that Notesmaster and CXC should be engaged in this process.<\/p>\n

It also stated that the Authority also received a report from the recent OECS Council of Ministers of Education Meeting, where the OECS Director General was mandated to engage the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) on the possible\u00a0repatriation of OECS students (at their own cost) to their home countries given the closure of classes at UWI; and to request that consideration be given to the sitting of their exams, under invigilated conditions, at Open Campus locations in their home territory.<\/p>\n

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