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Thousands of secondary and post-secondary students across the Caribbean will soon learn their official exam results for the 2026 May-June assessment cycle, as the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC®) prepares to launch the results release on Tuesday, 18 August 2026 from its host location in Anguilla.

In collaboration with Anguilla’s Ministry of Social Development, Education, Youth & Culture, CXC® will stage the official results unveiling ceremony at the Teachers’ Resource Centre, located within the Edison L. Hughes Education and Library Complex in The Valley, Anguilla’s capital. Unlike many previous in-person-only events, this year’s gathering will adopt a hybrid model that enables education stakeholders, school representatives, and members of the public to attend the event either in person or follow proceedings via a dedicated regional live stream, expanding access to the annual occasion across all Caribbean islands.

According to a formal press statement from CXC®, the event will bring together senior government officials, leading education sector stakeholders, school administrators, and regional media representatives to publicly release results for four of the council’s core qualification programs: the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination® (CAPE®), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate® (CSEC®), Caribbean Targeted Education Certificate (CTEC), and Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence® (CCSLC®).

Senior leadership from both the Anguillian government and CXC® will deliver key addresses during the ceremony. Shellya Rogers-Webster, Anguilla’s Minister of Social Development, Education, Youth & Culture, Library Services and Probation, will deliver the event’s feature address, highlighting the island nation’s focus on equitable education access and regional collaboration.

CXC Registrar and Chief Executive Officer Dr Wayne Wesley will take the stage to outline the regional examination body’s ongoing strategic initiatives, including a detailed breakdown of outcomes from the recently completed pilot phase of the new CTEC qualification. Following Dr Wesley’s remarks, Dr Nicole Manning, CXC’s Director of Operations, will present a comprehensive analysis of overall candidate performance across all 2026 May-June exams, calling out standout achievements and trends from this year’s cohort.

As the 2026 host nation, Anguilla is also using the occasion to showcase its local cultural and academic talent. The ceremony will feature a spoken word performance from Nevaiya Simpson, the junior category winner of the 2026 Malliouhana Poetry Competition, as well as musical performances from popular local pan musicians 1264IslandBoys, brothers Sharvin and Arvin Narine.

In its statement, CXC noted that the annual public results ceremony underscores the organization’s core mission: investing in the Caribbean’s long-term human capital development by celebrating the hard work and academic accomplishments of both students and teaching staff across the region. Following the conclusion of the official ceremony, all individual candidates will gain access to their personal exam results through CXC’s official digital platforms.

As the world marks the 136th anniversary of the birth of Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaica’s iconic national hero and foundational Pan-Africanist leader, commentator and educator Wayne Campbell is sounding a urgent alarm: modern Jamaican society has drifted dangerously far from the core values Garvey spent his life advancing, and systemic erasure of his philosophy from national education is at the heart of the country’s growing social crisis.

Garvey once famously observed, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Today, that metaphor has become a painful reality for Jamaica, Campbell argues. While the 2026 Jamaica boasts measurable progress in infrastructure such as expanded road networks and widespread digital connectivity, the nation has suffered deep social decay: rising selfish individualism, collapsing tolerance for others, eroding respect, and a fading sense of collective community that once bound the country together.

Born in Jamaica’s St. Ann parish on August 17, 1887, Garvey left formal schooling at 14 due to family poverty and entered the printing and newspaper trade, where he first developed his passion for political organizing focused on uplifting marginalized working-class Black communities. Frustrated by limited progress in local organizing, he traveled to London in 1912 for two years of study and reflection, where he refined his core ideology: Garvey argued that racial equality would never be gifted through integration; rather, it could only be earned through collective economic, political, and cultural success for people of African descent worldwide.

In 1917, he established the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) headquarters in New York to spread his vision of Black nationalism, centered on three pillars: global unity for people of African descent, pride in African cultural heritage, and full collective autonomy. Later, in 1929, he founded Jamaica’s first modern political party, the People’s Political Party (PPP). Though the party never won national power, it secured a seat on the Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation, cementing Garvey’s legacy as a trailblazer for Jamaican political organizing. He was also a pioneer of radical racial pride, coining the mantra “black is beautiful” nearly 50 years before it entered mainstream global discourse in the 1960s. He urged Black people to reject white supremacist narratives of inferiority, telling followers, “I am the equal of any white man; I want you to feel the same way.”

Tragically, Campbell argues, most of modern Jamaican society has failed to live up to Garvey’s vision. Deep-seated colorism remains pervasive: many Black Jamaicans still internalize the white supremacist belief that lighter skin is superior, leading to unapologetic skin bleaching even among school-aged children. Black hair is still policed in Jamaican schools, where students who wear afros as an act of self-representation face disciplinary action. Mothers still straighten their daughters’ hair to align with white beauty standards, a far cry from Garvey’s call for Black people to celebrate their natural appearance and heritage.

This erasure of Garvey’s ideology is no accident, Campbell contends. Garveyism is not taught in Jamaican schools, and civics education as a whole has been eliminated from the national curriculum entirely. This deliberate gap leaves young Jamaicans without historical context for the socio-cultural challenges they face today, a pattern that extends beyond Jamaica to the wider Caribbean and the Americas. Most recently, this trend has escalated in Florida, where Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has overseen a ban on African American studies in high schools, part of a broader global push to erase Black intellectual and activist history from public education.

This year’s 136th anniversary celebrations of Garvey’s birth have been underwhelming and limited almost exclusively to academic circles, a situation Campbell calls unacceptable. Most ordinary Jamaicans have to actively seek out information about Garvey’s life and work, as his legacy is intentionally locked away in obscure academic texts, while low reading rates across the country compound the problem of access.

Campbell argues that Jamaica stands at a critical crossroads. Rampant crime and violence, including a string of brutal attacks against children in recent months, has created a national emergency that demands a complete reset of the country’s socialization values. As the primary institution for shaping collective values, the national education system is the ideal place to start this reset. Campbell is calling for urgent policy action from the Jamaican government: integrate Garveyism into the National Standards Curriculum, make history education compulsory at all grade levels, and establish grassroots initiatives to bring Garvey’s legacy to students.

His concrete proposals include establishing Garvey clubs in schools where students can explore his teachings through interactive activities; distributing low-cost pamphlets outlining Garvey’s core values through government offices for widespread public access; hosting a national Marcus Garvey quiz for primary and lower secondary students; and creating a dedicated national Marcus Garvey Day in schools that centers social and cultural activities celebrating his legacy.

“if we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves,” Garvey once said. Campbell echoes this call, urging all Jamaicans to play a role in preserving Garvey’s legacy not just for the current generation, but for all future generations to come.

Thousands of Caribbean secondary school candidates will soon get their first look at their 2026 May–June exam performance, as Jamaica’s Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and National Excellence has announced a clear release timeline and critical access guidance for preliminary Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results.

In an official advisory published Monday, the ministry confirmed that all preliminary scores will go live to candidates via the internet at 12:00 p.m. Atlantic Standard Time on Tuesday, August 18. To avoid confusion and access issues, the ministry is urging both registered candidates and their families to make advance preparations to log into the results system ahead of the release date.

A key warning the ministry has emphasized is that candidates must only use official channels to retrieve their individual results, and should steer clear of unvetted third-party platforms or unofficial social media sources that may share incorrect or delayed result information. For candidates seeking step-by-step guidance on accessing their scores, the ministry has directed all inquiries to a dedicated instructional page: bit.ly/mycxc-results.

In a specific clarification that addresses common past access errors, the ministry added that candidates should not attempt to log into the main CXC organizational website, cxc.org, to pull up their personal results, as the results will only be hosted on the separate designated results platform.

The academic community in the United Kingdom is reeling from sudden tragic news: 41-year-old Jason Arday, a former professor at the University of Cambridge who recently stepped down amid public controversy over plagiarism allegations and questions about his professional background and qualifications, was found dead on Friday in south London, the university has confirmed.

First responders from local emergency services confirmed that Arday was discovered unresponsive at a residential address in Battersea, a district in the southern part of the capital.

Arday first rose to widespread public attention when he was appointed as a professor at Cambridge, marking him as the youngest Black scholar to hold a full professorship at the prestigious UK higher education institution. That appointment was widely celebrated as a milestone for racial diversity in elite academia, before a series of public claims emerged calling into question the integrity of his academic work and the validity of his stated qualifications. Last week, just days before his death was announced, Arday formally resigned his position at the university.

In an official statement released following confirmation of Arday’s death, Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Prentice expressed the institution’s deep sorrow over the loss. “We are desperately saddened to hear this tragic news. Our heartfelt sympathies go to Jason Arday’s family and friends at this incredibly difficult time,” Prentice said.

UK Education Secretary Lucy Powell also issued a message of condolence, echoing calls for respect for the privacy of Arday’s loved ones. “My heartfelt condolences are with his friends and family at this very sad time,” Powell said. “I urge people to give them privacy through this incredibly difficult period and to remember there are real people with loved ones involved.”

As of this reporting, no additional details about the circumstances surrounding Arday’s death have been released by law enforcement or emergency services.