With days to go before Trinidad and Tobago’s new school term opens in September, T&T’s main opposition party, the United National Congress (UNC) is expressing concern that the Government will not have measures in place to accommodate migrant children as previously promised.
This is according to the party’s vice-chairman Khadijah Ameen who made the comments at a press conference hosted by the Opposition in Port-of-Spain on Sunday.
“We are concerned that while we hear of a programme for migrant children we are concerned about the Government’s ability to implement that,” she said.
The issue of having migrant children in the primary schools of Trinidad and Tobago was first raised on July 13 by Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne who had said that the Government is looking to open the local education system to migrant children.
He was at the time attending a breakfast meeting hosted by United States Ambassador Candace Bond at the Hilton Trinidad.
Browne had also said that the Education Ministry was working with “key stakeholders” towards this integration, “ideally in the upcoming school year.”
