St. Martin News Network - B.U.T HOSTS CARIBBEAN UNION OF TEACHERS EXECUTIVE MEETING 4TH-5TH DECEMBER.

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The Bahamas Union of Teachers is proud and honored to host the fifty delegates attending the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Executive Committee Meeting 4th – 5th December 2009 at Walkers Hall, Bethel Avenue. The delegates will arrive on Thursday 3rd December from twenty one Caribbean nations stretching from Bermuda in the North to Suriname in the South. They will include Mr. Roustan Job, President (Trinidad & Tobago), Dr. Adolph Cameron, Secretary General (Jamaica), other officers of the CUT, and Mrs. Virginia Albert-Poyotte, Education International (EI) Regional Coordinator for North America and the Caribbean (St. Lucia). The CUT rotates the venue of its Executive Committee Meetings between the member countries. This is the second time that the BUT is hosting this prestigious meeting in ten years. The items on the agenda include:
• Disaster Preparedness & Mitigation Workshop
• Collective Bargaining and ICT Workshops
• Assistance to Haiti
• Les Harris Cricket Competition
• Reports: Secretary General, Financial, Vice Presidents, Units, EI Regional Report, and Status of Women's Committee Reports.

The Caribbean Union of Teachers is a member of EI and it is the regional trade union body for teachers' unions in the Caribbean. The BUT is a member of EI through its membership in the CUT. The CUT Secretariat is located at the Jamaica Teachers Association headquarters, Kingston, Jamaica, and its motto is "Each for All - All for Each." The BUT has a history with the CUT dating back to the days of Bro. A. Leonard Archer, Past President. The 15th President of the BUT, Mr. Kingsley Black was First Vice President of the CUT (2003-2005), and the 32nd biennial Conference of the CUT was hosted by him in August 2005.

At the CUT 34th Biennial Conference which was held in Grenada in August, 2009, Sis Adeltis Bain-Stubbs was re-elected to serve as a member of the CUT Status of Women's Committee, a position she has held for more than six years. Sis Belinda Wilson, BUT President, was appointed to the Sporting Committee, and Bro. Stephen Mcphee, Secretary General, BUT, was appointed to the Finance and Public Relations Committees. Sis. Helena Cartwright, Past Secretary General, was also awarded for her service to the CUT Status of Women's Committee at the CUT 34th Biennial Conference. She was a long standing member of the Status of Women's Committee.

The Bahamas Union of Teachers has planned and prepared to treat our special guests to a great Bahamian experience before they leave on Sunday, 6th December. Their itinerary includes:
• Friday, 4th December, 2009 – Bahamian Breakfast (8a.m.,), Opening Ceremony (9:30a.m.), Business Sessions, Christmas Concert, H.O. Nash Jr. High (7p.m.), BUT New Providence District Social (8:30p.m.)
• Saturday, 5th December – Bahamian Breakfast, Business Sessions, Visit to Junkanoo Shack, Tour of Historical Sites, Tour of Atlantis, Paradise Island, Bahamian 'Lime' – visit to local entertainment night spot.

Again, the BUT is proud and honoured to host the Caribbean Union of Teachers Executive Committee Meeting in Nassau, the capital of the most beautiful country on the planet for the second time in ten years. We'll do our best to demonstrate to our brothers and sisters from "Yard", Barbados, Trinidad and rest of the Caribbean why "It's better in The Bahamas." "Unite and Build!"

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