36 CARICOM teachers complete training in Spanish

spanishGeorgetown: Thirty-six educators from across the Caribbean completed a two-week basic training course in Spanish, as a second language for teachers.

Thirteen teachers from Guyana participated in the training course.

The exercise was conducted by two professors from the national pedagogy university of Mexico, Elin Emilsson and Yolanda Villasenor.

The participants received their certificates during a ceremony at the ocean view hotel where the course was also conducted.

Director of foreign policy and external relations, Caricom, Valerie Alleyne-Odle congratulated the teachers and the Mexican government for the initiative.

She described it as one of several such programmes facilitated by the Spanish speaking country which began more than a decade ago.