Kingston, Jamaica, 5 February 2021.- For Dr. Reynel Isalgué Isalgué, Head of the Cuban Education Brigade in Jamaica, the year 2020 posted an unprecedented challenge for teaching as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which determined the massive closure of face-to-face activities of educational institutions, a reality Jamaica could not escape from.
Dr Isalgué commented that even in the midst of this scenario, the 83 Cuban teachers who teach in Jamaica showed their ingenuity and commitment to teaching at all levels. During 2020, teachers from the Greatest Island in the Antilles in the neighbouring Caribbean nation communicated online with the 35,656 students comprising 1,164 teaching groups.
According to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s records, by mid-May 2020 more than 1.2 billion students at all levels of education, worldwide, had stopped having face-to-face classes at school. Of these, more than 160 million were Latin American and Caribbean students.