ABSTRACT
This chapter consists of seven relatively small fragmented but densely populated territories, extending approximately 400 miles longitudinally from Antigua-Barbuda to Grenada near Venezuela. The education system in the Anglo-Eastern Caribbean today results from the legacy of rapacious colonialism and historical inertia. It was never the intention of the metropolitan colonial powers to provide quality education for the masses as an illiterate and ignorant populace was easy to control, and was a source of cheap labour for the foreign-owned plantations and other economic enterprises. The World Bank in its economic report on the Caribbean considered these factors "a severe impediment to their economic and political modernization". To help meet the training needs in the Eastern Caribbean over the last fifteen years, the Organization for Cooperation in Overseas Development (OCOD) has been conducting numerous inservices aimed at improving and upgrading the teaching services both in the areas of content and pedagogy.
