BERMUDA: Letter - The education of our students cannot be reduced to labelling. After recently completing a total of 46 years in education - as a classroom teacher at primary and secondary levels, including a total of twenty-four years as a school administrator at primary, secondary and middle school, and more recently as an Education Officer, I am still incensed by the reference to our students in negative terms, name, 'thugs'. Full article

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: Afrikan Studies Klub to hold Black History Month Walk. The Afrikan Studies Klub (ASK) is holding a Black History Month Walk on Bob Marley's birthday, Friday 6th February. Full article

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: CHEVENING SCHOLARSHIPS NOW AVAILABLE. The Office of the Governor invites BVIslanders interested in postgraduate study in Britain to apply for a prestigious Foreign & Commonwealth Office Chevening Scholarship Award. The deadline for receipt of applications is Monday 23 February 2009. Full article

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: The beat goes on... Meet the Drummer Girl. The Virgin Islands is blessed with one of the most prolific and dedicated drummers. And guess what? It's not a male. Full article

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS: 11 high school students qualify for spelling bee semi-finals. Eleven of fifteen secondary school students have qualified to go on to the semi-finals in the 2009 Inter-School Spelling Bee contest scheduled for February 18. Full article

DOMINICA: 15 scholarships for Italy on the table. Dominican students may be able to pursue their studies in Italy. Full article

DOMINICA: Moving forward with creative arts in education. The development of creative arts education at the tertiary level is being taken to another height in Dominica and other parts of the region. Full article

DOMINICA: Moving forward with creative arts in education. The development of creative arts education at the tertiary level is being taken to another height in Dominica and other parts of the region. Full article

DOMINICA: Dominican student complains of ill-treatment in Venezuela. A Dominican scholarship student in Venezuela is calling on government to take quick action to resolve a situation which has left she and three other Dominican students expelled from the student lodging and seeking refuge in the college's gymnasium. Full article

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Juan Luis Guerra asks the Government to do more on health, education. Singer-songwriter Juan Luis Guerra yesterday asked the authorities to pay more attention to the health and education. “I think these are two aspects that need to be taken into account. I say it because of the work the Foundation 4-40 does in the Robert Reid Cabral hospital. There we must work more on the children’s health.” Full article

JAMAICA: 'Exams not the mark' - Expert says student behaviour better grade for teacher, school performance. MANAGEMENT EXPERTS are advising educators to stop regarding student achievement in external examinations as the only means of measuring teacher performance. Full article

JAMAICA: Second Chance - Scholarships for 148 students. In these increasingly challenging economic times, 148 students from secondary schools across the country have received financial assistance through the efforts of a Kingston-based company. Full article

JAMAICA: EDITORIAL - Education challenges require creative thinking. Very much in the fashion of his predecessors, Roger Bent, the president of the Guild of Students at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, (UWI), wants the Jamaican Government to do more for Jamaican students who attend the UWI. Full article

JAMAICA: Teen to be charged with girl's murder. A 17-year-old second-year student of the Brown's Town Community College is to be charged with murder following intensive police investigations into the death of a teenage girl of Mount Edgecombe, Runaway Bay, Thursday evening in Brown's Town, St Ann. Full article

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: ‘Protect yourself,’ Academy students urge in HIV jingle. Using the beat of popular TI’s (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.’s) song “Live Your Life,” St. Maarten Academy students launched their catchy “Protect yourself” HIV/AIDS awareness public service announcement (PSA) jingle on Tuesday. Full article

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: Sixty out-of-school children registered. Two days into the process to document out-of-school and undocumented youngsters, some sixty children have been registered, Interim Education Department Head Claudette Forsythe-Labega said Tuesday. Full article

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: 230 begin second semester at university on high note. University of St. Martin’s (USM’s) second semester of the academic year 2008-2009 was opened officially last night with some 230 students enrolled to pursue degree programmes and with the importance of higher education in propelling St. Maarten in her new constitutional status being underscored. Full article

NETHERLAND ANTILLES: Anchoring pupils to a school bench won’t work. Rounding up undocumented students and placing them in a classroom is not the solution for the mammoth problem of compulsory education. This would only compound an already challenging issue. Full article

ST LUCIA: RBTT Young Leaders Launched. RBTT launched its annual Young Leaders project Wednesday, under the theme: “The Green Revolution: Global Challenge; Regional Responsibility; National Focus.” Full article