THE Caribbean Region will today hear the names of the top students in the regions who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). The announcement will be made by Senior Assistant Registrar for examination development and production at Caribbean Examination Council, Dr. Gordon Haywood. This is according to Cleveland Sam, Assistant Registrar for public information and customer services at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).
The CXC will today be addressing various aspects of the examination offered in the region. The team comprises these officials: CXC registrar, Dr. Didacus Jules; Assistant Registrar of examination development and production and former Queens College student, Dr. Gordon Haywood; Susan Gilez; and Assistant Registrar for public information and customer services, Cleveland Sam.
The ceremony for the releasing of the results is expected to begin at 09.30 hours this morning at the International Conference Centre followed by a press conference, Sam explained. Education Minister, Ms. Priya Manickchand, and other senior education officials are expected to be present at the event.
The examination’s public information and customer service officer said that the releasing of the regional results started in 2010 in Jamaica while Antigua was the venue of last year’s release. The CXC official said that the initial plan last year was for the results to be released in Guyana but that did not materialise. He could not say what prevented those results from being released in this country in 2011.
Guyana was earlier this year approached by the CXC through the Education Ministry to be the host country for the releasing of the regional results and it was agreed that Guyana will facilitate the process. The country was given the first preference this year following its inability to host the releasing last year.
The Official said that the Caribbean Media Cooperation (CMC) has entered an arrangement with the National Communication Network to have the proceedings broadcast live through possibly the Caribbean. Contacted yesterday, two senior managers of the National Communications Network confirmed that this morning’s results release will be broadcast live around the country. One of the officials said that while plans are being made to have the broadcast uplinked to the Caribbean as it unfolds that was still to be looked at. The other manager however, said that while there is no definite word on the unlinking of the feed to the Caribbean during the release of the results it will be streaming live on the National Communications Network’s website.
The Caribbean Examination Council said that the move to release the regional results is part of the body’s stakeholder relationship management program where the council tries to connect with the critical stakeholders in a particular country. Sam said that in the case of Guyana the body has invited principals of secondary schools, persons who have served on the CXC panel, chief examiners,  and technical persons from the education ministry, as well as top awardees of the various examinations offered by CXC, and who live in Guyana.
Cleveland Sam said that today Guyana and the rest of the region will hear of the performance of the entire region at the various examinations offered by the council and the individual performance at each of the subjects. He said that Guyana was also chosen for the releasing of the results since the CXC body has 16 participating countries and all the activities and events of the council are rotated between the countries. He pointed to council meetings and art exhibitions and the releasing of the results of just a few of those events.
The move to have the releasing of the results broadcast live on national and possibly the regional linkage of the broadcast is being seen by the CXC body as an improvement from last year’s releasing in Antigua. If the National Communication Network is unable to create the live link up to the rest of the Caribbean during the releasing of the results, the company will produce and package the event which will be played as a delayed broadcast on Carib-Vision.