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Gros Islet District, Saint Lucia. Coordinates. 14°05′N 60°58′W / 14.083°N 60.967°W / 14.083; -60.967. Part of. Caribbean Sea. Rodney Bay is a town and bay located in the Gros Islet District on the island of Saint Lucia. Gros Islet is one of the ten districts in the island. It can be found on the northwestern coast of the ...
14 May 1980. Right to Organise. 14 May 1980. Trade unions in Saint Lucia first emerged in the 1930s. The St Lucia Teachers' Association was established in 1934 as a professional organisation. [2] Following the formalisation of collective bargaining on the island in 1938, the Saint Lucia Workers' Co-operative Union was founded in 1939. [3][4]
St. Mary's College is an all boys school. The Girl's Vocational School is an all girls school. Ave Maria Primary and RC Boy's primary are the all girls and all boys primary schools respectively. Saint Lucia's first secondary school, St. Joseph's Convent, was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny in 1854.
ITUC. The Saint Lucia Workers' Union (SLWU) is a general trade union in Saint Lucia and the first union in the country. Originally founded in 1939 as the Saint Lucia Workers' Co-operative Union, the union was renamed in 1956. Many of St Lucia's political parties have emerged from the union. By the late 1960s, the SLWU claimed 2,500 members.
Education in St Lucia is compulsory between ages 5 to 15. St Lucia has achieved universal primary education, and universal secondary education. School hours are normally from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with secondary schools starting at 8 a.m. and ending at 2:30 p.m. There are approximately 74 primary schools in St Lucia, and 23 secondary schools. [4][5]
Saint Lucia[9] is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. [10] The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra; these were names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs (respectively), two Amerindian peoples. [11] Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the ...
Pigeon Island (Saint Lucia) Pigeon Island is a 44-acre (180,000 m 2) islet located in Gros Islet in the northern region of Saint Lucia. Once isolated from the country in the Caribbean Sea, the island was artificially joined to the western coast of mainland in 1972 by a man-made causeway built from dirt excavated to form the Rodney Bay Marina.
The Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) is a federation of teaching trade unions in the Caribbean. Its affiliated unions are: Anguilla Teachers Union. Antigua & Barbuda Union of Teachers. Bahamas Educators Managerial Union. Bahamas Union of Teachers. Barbados Secondary Teachers Union. Barbados Union of Teachers. Belize National Teachers Union.