Issa takes successive governments to task over illiteracy

Hotelier Christopher Issa has warned that the country needs to improve the education system as it cannot continue to have schools graduating students, many of whom are unable to read.

Issa, chief executive officer of S Hotels Jamaica, made sweeping criticisms of successive governments for what he deemed an inadequate approach to national development as he pointed to the literacy issues still affecting cohorts of students across the island while addressing Webster Memorial United Church’s 85th Anniversary Stewardship Awards Ceremony on Saturday in St Andrew at which former ministers and members were honoured for dedicated service to the church.

He argued that the country gained nothing when its children, who are meant to lead future generations, are illiterate.