(Barbados Nation) For the first time since the start of the new school term on January 4, a full complement of teachers is expected back in the classroom at Alexandra School tomorrow.
Yesterday’s announcement by Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, which brings to an end the crippling strike by 30 unionized members of the school’s teaching staff, is welcome relief for some 800 students at the St Peter institution who have lost out on a total of 15 teaching days so far this year.
However, president of the Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU), Mary Redman, while promising the Prime Minister that “every minute” of teaching time would be made up, cautioned that impasse was far from over.
Redman, who has been adamant all along that principal Jeff Broomes must be separated from the school, pointed out that the return to work by her members was only Stage 1 of the corrective process.
“The fact that we have agreed to this means that we know what is to come, [but] I am not at liberty to say,” she told the DAILY NATION shortly after the Prime Minister’s announcement.
