Barbados to provide computers to schools

While virtually every government on the planet pays lip service to bringing its educational system into the digital world of the new millennium, there’s one — right here in our region — that’s actually doing something about it. The Inter-American Development Bank today announced that it would be lending Barbados the unprecedented sum of eighty-five million U.S. dollars to modernize its system of primary and secondary education to prepare students for the information age. The government of Barbados will be supplying ninety-six million dollars of its own to the project and the Caribbean Development Bank will throw in another thirty-one million. The seven-year project will gradually introduce computers into every one of the island’s classrooms as well as revamp the curriculum and retrain teachers.