In 2005, a coalition of private-sector organizations warned that The Bahamas’ existing education crisis would have a serious detrimental impact on the national economy by the year 2020 if immediate steps were not taken to put in place reforms. We have arrived in 2020 with critical educational challenges persisting. In its report titled “Bahamian Youth: The Untapped Resource”, the coalition said, “A general low level of academic achievement has individual, national and international consequences.” The coalition included the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce; the Bahamas Employers Confederation; the National Congress of Trade Unions; the Bahamas Hotel Association; the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union; the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association; and the Nassau Tourism and Development Board..

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