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MEMBERS of the Parliament's Social Services and Public Administration Joint Select Committee (JSC) examined the issue of "elitist schools" and who could benefit from their existence.

JSC chairman and Independent Senator Dr Paul Richards said one of the beneficiaries could be an unknown group of people who had been described as "the textbook mafia."

He made the comment during a public inquiry which the committee held with some education stakeholders at the Red House, Port of Spain on February 21.