Julian Robinson, Opposition Spokesperson on Finance, Planning & The Public Service - FILE PHOTO
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The People's National Party has given a commitment to ensure that every Jamaican child becomes literate by the end of its first term in office, should it win the next general election.
This commitment has come from Julian Robinson, Opposition Spokesman on Finance and Member of Parliament for South East St Andrew.
His comment followed a report that, up to early this year, more than 70 per cent of Grade 7 students at Pembroke Hall High School were unable to read or were reading at or below Grade 3 level.
Mr Robinson is promising that the required resources will be provided for the early childhood and primary education sectors to address the issue, declaring that after the first term of a new PNP administration "every Jamaican child, who leaves school, will be literate, numerate, and can do some maths."
"What we're going to do is put the resources in basic and primary school education We're going to put the investment at the early childhood level, so that the children get the basics by the time they reach high school," he declared.
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