Visiting the New Amsterdam Multilateral School (NAMS) yesterday, President David Granger said that over the next decade, efforts will be made to have a school in every village.
He had observed that of the 135 villages in Region Six, only 53 had primary schools which caters for about 11,000 students. “I want to see the day when every village has a school,” he said, adding that efforts will be made during the next decade to achieve this.
The president during a visit to the school yesterday also handed over a $1 million cheque to the NAMS as part of the National Endowment for Science and Technology (NEST) programme to boost the teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The school had topped the region with a 93 per cent pass rate at the recent Caribbean Secon-dary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
