Caribbean Airlines Cargo will expand its freighter service from May 02.
Caribbean Airlines Cargo will update its schedule and increase its weekly freighter capacity by 200,000 pounds to meet the growing demand for air cargo services on the Miami-Kingston-Miami and Miami-Trinidad-Miami routes.
The schedule will include four (4) weekly flights between Miami and Trinidad as the carrier launches a new Monday flight. Caribbean Airlines will be increasing its capacity between Miami and Kingston on Tuesdays by upgrading the aircraft which operates the service. Additionally, the airline will move its Monday flight between Miami, Kingston and Montego Bay to Sunday.
The carrier’s freighter schedule also includes a third weekly flight between Miami and Kingston and weekly flights on the Miami-Trinidad-Guyana-Miami and Miami-Barbados-Trinidad-Miami routes.
In addition to the direct freighter services, onward carriage of cargo is available throughout the entire Caribbean Airlines network and beyond.
Caribbean Airlines Cargo Freighter Schedule
Visit https://cargo.caribbean-airlines.com/#/contact_customer for customer support contacts throughout our network or call: Trinidad & Tobago: 868-669-3000 option 4; International toll-free (US): 855-295-5000 or send email: cargo@caribbean-airlines.com
Health Safety Diligence and Vaccines Key to Caribbean’s Tourism Recovery
The Caribbean COVID-19 Tourism Task Force is calling for continued diligence and adherence to public health safety protocols and encourages all tourism-related stakeholders who are able to do so to be vaccinated as vaccines become available.
The Caribbean has generally been successful in containing the virus over the past year to levels below that which is being experienced in many parts of the world. COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death rates are among the lowest in the world. This has been attributed to the early and ongoing response by many Caribbean governments, health care and tourism industry leaders, and the large number of Caribbean residents who have adhered to health safety protocols.
The task force cautions that now is not the time to “let down our guard”, as the next several months will determine how quickly the tourism-dependent region will be able to rebound. Tourism is viewed by many as the catalyst for getting people back to work and restoring much needed revenue that governments have lost due to the pandemic.
“We are now in a race against time,” cautioned Dr. Joy St. John, Executive Director for the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA). “Particularly given the presence of variants which spread more rapidly, we must adhere to health safety protocols lest we find ourselves moving backwards, rather than forwards. We must remain diligent while we continue to accelerate vaccinations of our populations, now that approved vaccines are becoming more available,” she stated.
“We urge countries to continue to intensify their surveillance activities to rapidly screen, identify, test, quarantine, isolate and trace contacts of new cases; and for every resident and visitor to the Caribbean to do their part through physical/social distancing, wearing of masks, and practicing proper hand hygiene,” she advised, speaking on behalf of the Task Force.
The Task Force also urged all members of the public who are able to do so to become vaccinated once they become available and they are eligible. Data overwhelmingly supports the safety of World Health Organization (WHO)-approved vaccines.
The Task Force was established over a year ago to develop and collaborate on strategies and programs aimed at helping to share information; develop health safety protocols and guidelines for the tourism industry to protect employees and travelers; conduct health safety training; monitor and minimize COVID-19 incidents in the tourism industry; and advocate for sound health safety practices and the harmonization of said practices.
Through the agency’s efforts, more than 5,000 hotels and tourism-related managers and supervisors have undergone CARPHA-led health safety training, which has reached thousands more who have been trained by the initial graduates. The Task Force member organizations include CARPHA, the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), and the Jamaica-based Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center (GTRCMC).
For information about vaccines and health safety protocols, visit www.carpha.org.
Caribbean Airlines & CARPHA collaborate for healthier, safer tourism
Caribbean Airlines is collaborating with The Caribbean Public Health Agency, through its Regional Traveller Health Program (THP) to promote healthy, safer tourism, as the region opens to tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both CARPHA and Caribbean Airlines are committed to safe and responsible tourism to protect the health and wellbeing of both visitors and the local populations.
On April 20-21 April, a total of 179 employees of Caribbean Airlines underwent CARPHA’s COVID-19 Essential Health Guidelines Training for Airlines. These staff members included flight attendants, customer experience officers, crew control officers and others. All participants received certificates of participation.
The training is the first step in Caribbean Airlines acquiring the Caribbean Travellers Health Assurance Stamp for Healthier Safer Tourism (HST) award. The HST Stamp is a measurable and verifiable recognition award for tourism entities that are implementing CARPHA’s recommended proactive COVID-19 health monitoring and safety measures. The award is recognised by the region’s premier tourism agencies (CTO and CHTA) and internationally in November 2020 by the World Travel Tourism Council (WTCC). It provides travellers with the
added assurance of a healthier safer option when choosing a tourism product in the Caribbean.
The COVID-19 training that Caribbean Airlines employees received was specifically designed by CARPHA for the airline industry. Caribbean Airlines is the first airline in the Caribbean region to receive this training and to enrol and initiate the process for the HST award. The airline’s participation, demonstrates its commitment and leadership to ensure safe regional travel. Caribbean Airlines is working judiciously to be the first airline to
be awarded the HST Stamp in the region.
Caribbean Airlines, Head of Corporate Communications, Dionne Ligoure noted: “From the onset of the pandemic, Caribbean Airlines rolled out programmes to educate and secure the health and safety of our employees and customers, including the ability for customers to access COVID-19 test via our website and adding a tool that provides up to date info on entry requirements to all of our destinations. Collaborating with CARPHA on this important initiative is another example of our commitment. The HST Award, will be a further
demonstration of Caribbean Airlines putting safety first”.
Dr. Lisa Indar, Director of Surveillance, Disease Prevention and Control Division, remarked “We are delighted to be engaging with Caribbean Airlines. As the Caribbean’s main airline with the largest network, Caribbean Airlines is ensuring that they are protecting travellers every step of the way from check-in to disembarkment, playing a critical role in fighting COVID-19 and reinstating safe travel to the Caribbean”.
The award of the HST Stamp is also dependent on reporting to CARPHA’s Tourism and Health Information System (THiS) – a real-time, web-based, confidential, early warning system for public health illnesses. Previously, it was designed primarily for use only by the accommodations sector, but CARPHA modified its THiS to also enable reporting by airlines. In the upcoming months CARPHA and CAL also propose to collaborate on various advocacy activities to promote Healthier Safer Tourism and the HST Stamp.
Virgin Atlantic becomes first UK airline to begin IATA Travel Pass live trials
Virgin Atlantic customers can now experience how digital health passes will help streamline journeys when the skies reopen, as the first live trials of the IATA Travel Pass by a UK airline commenced today.
The IATA Travel Pass is at the forefront of digital health pass solutions being developed, allowing customers to verify that they meet the health criteria needed to travel between certain countries, locate labs and present evidence of a negative Covid-19 test to the relevant authorities. Future updates of the app will also incorporate vaccine records. Using the app to create a digital ID, comprising a profile photo and linked to passport details, Virgin Atlantic customers are able to add their negative PCR test results for Barbados, taken at a participating lab within three days of departure.
With the information and flight details already loaded on to their Travel Pass, customers’ experience at Heathrow is swift and efficient, removing paper-based Covid-19 documentation with a digital ‘one stop shop’ to collect, store and verify documents in the secure app. When implemented more widely, digital health passes will help reduce check in times, make border checks more manageable and streamline customer journeys, with a Priority Virgin Atlantic Check In lane in place at Terminal 2 for IATA Travel Pass holders in the trial.
The one-month trial of the IATA Travel Pass is being run in close collaboration with the Government of Barbados, which is leading the way through its active involvement in the trial. Governments around the world are currently considering the Travel Pass to support the restart of international travel at scale. Virgin Atlantic continues to engage with the UK Government to enable the trial to expand and accommodate customers arriving at the UK border on Barbados-Heathrow flights.
“Our innovative trial with the IATA Travel Pass and the Government of Barbados supports a smooth and streamlined experience, helping our customers to fly safe and well and navigate new travel requirements from the palm of their hands.
“When international restarts at scale; rapid, affordable testing and effective digital proof of Covid-19 credentials based on global common standards will make journeys easier and provide greater confidence to book. We urge the UK Government to confirm that our customers can use digital apps and that these will be accepted at the UK border. The current paper-only-based processes will not be viable as customer numbers increase.
“With its vaccination programme progressing well, there is also a clear opportunity to designate Barbados ‘green’ as part of the UK’s risk-based traffic light framework, to enable safe travel. We welcome progress towards the resumption of travel from 17 May, but consumers and industry need greater clarity on the green list timeline, criteria and countries, in order to prepare effectively.”
Nick Careen, IATA’s Senior Vice President Airport, Passenger, Cargo, Security, said:
“A digital solution for health credentials is essential for travel while Covid-19 remains a risk. Managing the risk of importing Covid-19 cases using paper processes will be a hassle for passengers. It will be unmanageable for airlines, airports and border authorities. And it will leave the system vulnerable to fraud.
“The IATA Travel Pass trial with Virgin Atlantic and the Government of Barbados shows that governments can efficiently manage travel requirements with complete confidence in the identity of the passenger and the veracity of the travel credentials—importantly, avoiding long queues. As we continue the trial, we will maintain our engagement with the UK Authorities to demonstrate that the solution can deliver benefits at both ends of journey.”
Senator the Hon. Lisa Cummins, Barbados Minister of Tourism and International Transport said:
“COVID has taught us many things about how we transact business and those lessons include the reality that disruptive digital technologies are transforming our travel and tourism industry. We have to embrace technology that not only deals with the integration of travel and public health priorities but we also have to transform the entire travel experience and our airport experiences. The IATA Travel Pass and its globalization based on the important integration of the TIMATICS platform in our view represents an important plank in COVID era travel transformation. The pass treats to our dual imperatives of clear, transparent and unambiguous travel protocols and an investment in boosting traveller and local confidence.
“Barbados has recently published new travel protocols due for implementation on 8 May and is currently leading the Americas in an aggressive inoculation programme which has seen nearly 30% of our adult population vaccinated to date and aggressive management of COVID19. We have used geofencing technology in quarantine enforcement and online distribution of test results directly to mobile devices and this partnership with IATA is another layer of our COVID 19 management regime and we are looking forward to this trial.”
Recognising the importance to consumers that their personal health data is protected, IATA Travel Pass give users full control over how their personal information is shared, as the data is stored locally on their phone and not in any central database. The global interoperable solution is based on open-source standards, which means it can be used as a stand-alone solution, integrated into airlines’ own apps, or used in a modular way with other digital solutions, to provide passengers with a seamless travel experience.
With Covid-19 pre-departure testing requirements for international travel set to remain in place for now, in parallel to global vaccine distribution, the digital health technology gives clarity to customers to meet dynamically changing, route-specific travel restrictions and remove the guesswork to travel.
Cable & Wireless Communications stands with the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in the aftermath of La Soufrière eruption
In the immediate aftermath of the first major eruption of La Soufrière, Cable & Wireless Communications activated its emergency teams on the ground in St. Vincent and across the region to quickly respond to the needs of employees, their families, customers, and the broader community.
“Cable & Wireless Communications (C&W), parent company of Flow St. Vincent, stands in solidarity with the Government and the people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (“SVG”) during this most difficult time in the islands’ history. We have been heartbroken to see the images of the disruption of the lives of the people caused by the volcanic eruption. We are committed to doing everything we can to provide support for the relief and recovery of the people of SVG,” said, Inge Smidts, CEO of C&W.
C&W has been a longstanding partner with the Government and the people of SVG for more than a hundred years providing cutting edge telecommunications services and having facilitated the development of advanced technologies that have made SVG a formidable destination for doing business in the Caribbean.
Smidts continued, “We see the challenges of the people of SVG as our challenges, and we stand ready to do our part to help them through this terrible catastrophe.”
As a first matter of safety, the company evacuated 55 persons including 11 employees and their families into the green zone. Further, employees are being provided with water, food, masks, safety glasses, medical needs and beds, as well as additional relief supplies.
Given the impact of the crisis and the critical need for individuals to stay connected with friends and loved ones, the company provided the following:
We issued a $5 Mobile Top Up emergency credit to all our mobile prepaid customers on Thursday 8, April 2021 so that they could have the credit needed to stay connected to family and friends.
Allocated 1 gigabit (GB) of data free of cost to each account for the period April 9 to 11.
Allowed customers topping up online to get an additional 3GBs of data and 90 minutes for local on network calls and international calls.
Suspended late fees for all customers – this was done across the board no matter the location of the customer.
Suspended billing where customers have evacuated their homes or businesses.
Consistent with the Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation’s (CWCF) support to the impacted islands after Hurricanes Irma and Maria; The Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian; and Nicaragua and Honduras after Hurricanes Eta and Iota; the CWCF continues to be there for the communities and supporting them in their time of need. As such, the CWCF moved quickly to provide relief to the community in support of the National Emergency Management Organisation’s (NEMO) requests. So far, the CWCF has shipped almost 20,000 litres of water, which will help support 750 families, as well as 400 beds and linens to the island to meet the need in local shelters. Several NGOs are also arriving on the island to assist with relief efforts and the company has provided free devices and data connectivity to support them. Individuals or organizations wishing to provide assistance please consider making a donation at: https://app.mobilecause.com/vf/CWCF4SVG.
“Both C&W and the Cable & Wireless Charitable Foundation are committed to assisting the people of SVG. We extend our thoughts and best wishes to the Government and the people of SVG and pray that they will be safe and will emerge stronger from this crisis,” ended Smidts.
Date of Issue: 20th April 2021 TO: Media Editors RE: OFFICIAL OPENING OF NEW PIGEON ISLAND TRAIL WHEN: Thursday, 22nd April 2021 @ 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM WHERE: Pigeon Island National Landmark, Gros Islet
Information brief
The Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) will be hosting a ceremony to officially open an addition to the hiking trail on Pigeon Island on 22nd April 2021. The new trail was sponsored by the Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC). The ceremony will be hosted in the evening as part the SLNT’s traditional Solèy Kouche event in commemoration of World Earth Day. The 2021 theme for World Earth Day which is observed on 22nd April annually, is Restore Our Earth. In this regard, the Forest and Land Resources Division partnered with the SLNT to also plant trees along the trail as an activity in observance of World Earth Day.
News Opportunities:
1. Footages of Dame Pearlette Louisy and Managing Director of LUCELEC cutting the ribbon to open the new trail and planting trees;
2. Take away information from brief remarks made by speakers;
3. Interviews with representatives; and
4. Photo opportunities & cutaways of the trail stairs and tree planting
Your media House is invited to cover this event.
To ensure that the numbers of persons in attendance are in keeping with Covid-19 approved protocols, The SLNT would be grateful if you could let us know whether your organisation will be covering the event and the number of persons that shall be in attendance as part of your team. Please contact Ms. Adderla Francois at admin@slunatrust.org or 452 5005.
The $17,150 USD grant will fund equipment to strengthen the network, rebuild existing monitoring sites and provide back-up equipment for this ongoing event. As a result of this investment, new communication and ground deformation equipment will now be added to those already deployed, increasing the UWI-SRC’s capacity to understand the volcano’s eruptive processes and provide advanced warning of hazardous activity to the Vincentian population in the future. The UWI-SRC Director Dr. Erouscilla Joseph says the additional equipment will help scientists to “better monitor the volcano that caused approximately 10,000 residents to evacuate.”
La Soufrière began erupting effusively in late December 2020, with little detectable precursory activity. Since it was first observed on December 27, a new lava dome had grown steadily; encircling the dome left behind after the 1979 eruption. On April 9, 2021 the eruption entered an explosive phase, covering most of mainland Saint Vincent and neighbouring Barbados in ash. This volcano is the most active in the Eastern Caribbean chain, having erupted in 1718, 1812, 1814, 1902, 1971 and 1979. The most explosive eruption during the historical period occurred in 1802, claiming an estimated 1600 lives.
The UWI Seismic Research Centre expresses its gratitude to CCRIF for its timely intervention. This gesture is only the latest instance of collaboration involving CCRIF and the UWI-SRC who have worked together in the past on various disaster risk reduction and response projects in the region. CCRIF was formed in 2007 to assist Caribbean governments in limiting the financial impact of devastating natural hazards. The Cayman Islands based institution offers earthquake, tropical cyclone and excess rainfall insurance policies to Caribbean and Central American governments.
The Imperative of Foreign Direct Investment for Caribbean Countries
Deodat Maharaj
Citizens of the Caribbean are fully aware of the challenges we face. They know that governments across the Region are financially stretched which has been further accentuated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our citizens also know that we have limited access to either Overseas Development Assistance or concessional financing from global financial institutions and that our options are limited in accessing finance for business development. Our people are clear on what they want – a brighter future for themselves and their children. More specifically, those with whom I speak have an overwhelming interest in either getting jobs or preserving the ones they have so they can take care of themselves and their families.
We, at the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) also recognize these constraints and hear the voices of our Caribbean people. The question is how as a Region, can we emerge from this stranglehold. For us, the solution is obvious – attracting increased levels of local investment and foreign direct investment (FDI). Governments and other stakeholders across the Caribbean must have a singular focus on steering investment our way. To achieve resilience and economic transformation we need to significantly ramp-up and draw investment to our shores.
But first, we must understand the trends and challenges so we can position ourselves accordingly. Globally, there has been a decline in FDI flows, with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development reporting a 42% decline in global foreign direct investment in 2020 in its January 2021 Report. The same report went on to note that one of the most affected Regions is Latin America and the Caribbean which saw a decline of 38% in investment inflows from external sources. On the other hand, Asia and Africa witnessed declines of only 18% and 4%, respectively. Further weakness in FDI flows is expected for the rest of the year and for our countries, if we continue with business as usual, the future will be a dim one. The outlook for the tourism sector continues to be pessimistic. The World Tourism Organization reports that travel experts surveyed are expecting a return to pre-pandemic levels only by about 2023 (Jan. 2021 report). Therefore, sitting and waiting for tourists to return in the numbers of yesteryear or for global prospects to drive up our export earnings cannot and will not lift us out of this economic quagmire. This is why, increasing local investment and getting foreign direct investment to our shores is most critical.
For the Caribbean to be successful in attracting investment, new thinking in these unprecedented new times is required.
Firstly, we cannot continue to compete with each other as individual investment destinations, given our limited resources and populations. This approach cannot achieve the scale required to attract serious money our way. In view of this, we at Caribbean Export are working closely with the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA) to support our countries in preparing investment projects that can be packaged and promoted as ‘regional’ proposals with more than one country being promoted as an investment destination for a specific venture. This gives much needed scale, and the pooling of resources helps a wider group of countries.
Secondly, we need to focus on investment that can help propel a new economy, driven by climate-friendly business and digitalization. The world is going green and embracing digitalization and so must we. Therefore, we need to make a concerted effort to bring companies to our shores that are at the forefront of green technologies in areas such as solar and wind. This means an investment approach that is targeted and forensic in focus.
Linked to the emphasis on the ‘new economy’, is the leveraging of technology in key sectors such as agriculture. The Caribbean is one of the most food insecure regions on the planet, and this has been more eloquently demonstrated by COVID-19. A new emphasis on agriculture is required. However, this time around, it has to be about using technology to take Caribbean agriculture forward into the 21st century where our young people also see it as a viable business opportunity. This is precisely why Caribbean Export, in partnership with the CAIPA has identified Agrotech or Agriculture Technology as a priority sector for us in the Region. It connects all the dots in helping us to become more food secure; treats agriculture as an entrepreneurial activity; and as one Region we can offer the scale required for larger investors.
We at Caribbean Export recognize that innovation is imperative for our survival and must be central to our regional investment promotion strategy. As a matter of fact, we have already engaged the services of an alternative finance adviser with experience in raising capital across emerging and frontier markets for entrepreneurs and SMEs with high growth potential. We intend to fast-track support to the packaging and promotion of regional investment projects and focus on steering investment to sectors that are vital to what will be the new economy whether by focusing on Agrotech, digitalization or the climate-friendly investments.
We are acutely conscious that the future of our Region and the prosperity of our people ride on the actions we take now for business to be a driver and central player in advancing a transformational agenda for our Region. At Caribbean Export, we intend to do just that, with the attraction of local and foreign investment being a central pillar of our work in the years ahead.
Caribbean Examinations Council® (CXC®) Statement On The 2021 Regional Examinations
The Caribbean Examinations Council® (CXC®) is cognisant of the many challenges across the region at this time including the debilitating impact of COVID-19 on all areas of society, and all stakeholders operating within the education sector, coupled with the explosive volcanic activity on La Soufrière in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
CXC® stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in St Vincent and the Grenadines at this time, and all our stakeholders across the region affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, CXC® stands ready to listen and to engage in dialogue with our critical stakeholders across the education landscape.
CXC® also recognises that some candidates across the region, based on their particular circumstances, may not be ready for assessment during the June/July 2021 examinations cycle.
Given these circumstances, CXC® has reduced the SBA requirements by as much as 50 per cent in some subjects. This information is outlined in the SBA Student Handbook: Treatment of Syllabuses and School-Based Assessment for the Administration of Examinations, published and posted on the CXC® website and shared via social media in November 2020 and February 2021.
In addition, CXC® will share the Broad topics to be assessed on Paper 02 for CSEC® and CAPE® subjects with the Ministries of Education for distribution to all candidates on 10 May 2021 (5 weeks before the start of the examinations), for subjects where such details are not already available in the syllabus. Candidates are however reminded that the entire syllabus is assessed on Paper 01.
Following extensive consultations with regional Ministries of Education, CXC® has also implemented a facility for candidates to defer sitting examinations and submitting School Based Assessments (SBAs), until the January 2022 (CSEC®) or the May/June 2022 (CAPE®, CSEC® and CCSLC®) examinations cycle.
Accordingly:
I. SBA scores can be transferred for use in the next examination sitting, where the subject is offered.
II. The rules pertaining to the reuse of SBA scores for resit candidates remain unchanged.
III. Candidates may also:
– submit a new SBA
– delay submission of SBAs until the chosen sitting
IV. For the first time, CXC® will accept SBAs in January 2022 for candidates deferring to sit examinations for subjects offered in that period.
The granting of the deferral will be managed by the principal, for in-school candidates, and by the CXC® Local Registrar, for private candidates. Candidates should indicate an intent to defer from the June/July 2021 examination cycle by 1 May 2021. There will be no fee charged for the deferral of examinations.
The deferral procedures were shared directly with all Ministries of Education and Local Registrars from across the region on Friday, 26 March 2021 and Friday, 9 April 2021 and communications placed on the CXC® website: www.cxc.org
In preparation for exams, students can also access a range of examination related resources via www.cxc.org/student-central/.
As we all do our best to manage in these uncertain times, CXC® continues to collaborate with regional Ministries of Education and other stakeholders to ensure the safety and well-being of all stakeholders, and that the administration of examinations does not disenfranchise the region’s students.
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NOTES TO 2021 TIMETABLE
1. **Indicates a common paper.
2. The time indicated on the Timetable includes:
(i) Reading Time.
(ii) 10 minutes Reading Time and 10 minutes to “warm-up” on the computer prior to the start of the examinations for Electronic Document Preparation and Management Papers 2 and 3/2.
3. Starting times for all centres within a territory are 0900 hr and 1300 hr. If at any centre the number of candidates is greater than can be accommodated in one session, the Local Registrar may arrange to administer the examination in two or more sessions, ensuring that suitable arrangements are made to preserve the integrity of the examinations.
4. French, Portuguese and Spanish Oral Examinations (Paper 3) in each territory will be conducted during the period 1-16 June in accordance with the Local Registrar’s schedule.
5. The Practical Examination in Physical Education and Sport (Paper 2) in each territory will be conducted during the period 1 – 25 June in accordance with the Local Registrar’s schedule.
6. Visual Arts: A common paper containing all options will be issued. Candidates will be required to choose two Production Papers from the Options below:
(i) Drawing
(ii) Painting and Mixed-media
(iii) Graphic and Communication Design
(iv) Printmaking
(v) Textile Design and Manipulation
(vi) Sculpture and Ceramics
(vii) Leathercraft
(viii) Fibre and Decorative Arts
Candidates must select for the final examination those two options for which SBA assignments have been done.
The Test Paper is to be handed to candidates on Wednesday, 2 June. The examination must be completed during the period 16 June to 2 July.
All of the Options are 6-hour papers and should be divided into two
(2) 3-hour sessions with a break of not less than 1 hour between
sessions. These two sessions need not be held on the same day.
All candidates will be required to submit a Reflective Journal. This must be submitted at the same time as the Production pieces.
7. All Paper 1 examinations are multiple choice in format except that in Visual
Arts. The Paper 1 examination for Physical Education and Sport will consist
of a Multiple Choice component and a structured component.
8. The Practical Examination in Music (Paper 2) in each territory will be
conducted during the period 14-25 June in accordance with the Local
Registrar’s schedule.
9. Attention is drawn to the rule that silent non-programmable scientific
calculators may be used in the following examinations:
Additional Mathematics
Agricultural Science DA Papers 2 and 3
Agricultural Science SA Paper 2 only
Chemistry
Economics
Geography
Industrial Technology: Building and Furniture
Industrial Technology: Electrical and Electronic
Industrial Technology: Mechanical Engineering
Integrated Science SA
Mathematics – Papers 2 and 3/2
Office Administration Papers 2 and 3/2
Physics
Principles of Accounts
Principles of Business Paper 3/2 only
Technical Drawing Paper 2
10. The use of geometry sets (mathematical instruments) is permitted in Biology
Paper 2, Geography Papers 1, 2 and 3/2, Mathematics Papers 2 and 3/2, and
Social Studies Paper 3/2.
11. Information Technology Paper 2: this subject will be offered at General
Proficiency level only. It is not a practical examination – no computer
workstations will be required.
12. The Alternative Paper (3/2) to SBA in Biology, Chemistry, Integrated Science
and Physics is a practical examination – laboratory facilities will be required.
13. Candidates taking the Technical Drawing Paper 2, CAD Option, on 16 June
should be given additional time for printing at the end of the examination.
14. Candidates will be required to have earphones/headphones for the Paper 01
examination in Theatre Arts.
15. The Alternative Paper to SBA (Paper 3/2) must be written by private
candidates who opted not to complete the SBA assignments. Papers 1 and
3/2 must be written in the same session with a 15-minute break between
them except in cases of the science subjects, Mathematics, English A and
English B where the papers are administered on different days. Paper 1 must
be written before Paper 3/2. Papers 1 and 3/2 in these examinations have
been scheduled as follows:-
(i) Social Studies – 17 June
(ii) Principles of Accounts – 21 June
(iii) Economics – 29 June
(iv) Principles of Business – 1 July
(v) Office Administration – 2 July
(vi) Theatre Arts – 5 July
(vii) Information Technology – 6 July
(viii) Electronic Document Preparation and Management – 9 July
(ix) Caribbean History – 13 July
(x) Additional Mathematics – 14 July
(xi) Geography –15 July
16. Industrial Technology Paper 1 is a common paper to all three options:
Building and Furniture, Electrical and Electronic, and Mechanical
Engineering. The Paper 2 is a separate paper for each of the options.
Candidates are permitted to register for all three options at any one sitting.
17. Candidates who register for English A Paper 3/2 and English B Paper 3/2
during the same sitting will be required to write only one examination since
both papers will be offered as a common examination.
C&W has been a longstanding partner with the Government and the people of SVG for more than a hundred years providing cutting edge telecommunications services and having facilitated the development of advanced technologies that have made SVG a formidable destination for doing business in the Caribbean.
