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Teachers wave cane at govt.
The Island
|November 24, 2025
Trade unions representing school teachers and principals have resolved to launch a countrywide strike on 12 December. They accuse the NPP government of continuing to ignore their problems and trying to railroad them into accepting its educational reforms, which they have rejected as ill-conceived.
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The school system is already grappling with various delays, and a strike by teachers and principals will make an already bad situation far worse. But the government does not seem to care. It bellows rhetoric, casts aspersions on all who express dissent, and bulldozes its way through, apparently in the belief that its mandate has come not from the people but from another dimension. We have seen such juggernauts careen downhill, spiral out of control, crash and shatter into pieces.
This story is from the November 24, 2025 edition of The Island.
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