BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Over 300 education stakeholders from across the Caribbean, including ministers of education, will gather in Jamaica this March to discuss teaching, learning, and assessment in the digital age in a first-time CXC conference.

In a press release on Monday, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) revealed that CXC  and Jamaica’s Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information have partnered to facilitate what it describes as a timely regional education conference and ministerial forum.

The inaugural CXC Regional Education Conference and Ministerial Forum has been endorsed by Minister of Education, Skills, Youth And Information Senator Dr Dana Morris Dixon who will be a keynote speaker during the four days of meetings.

“Jamaica welcomes this timely conference by CXC with our fellow educators from across the region.” said the minister.

“The goals of this regional meeting are in alignment with Jamaica’s TREND education strategy, where the use of ICTs within the education system is a key pillar to achieve our national goals for world class education and training, and a technology enabled society.”

To be held between March 16 and 19 at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in Kingston, both events, were originally set for October 2025 on Jamaica’s north coast but were disrupted by the passage of Hurricane Melissa.

“CXC is facilitating this meeting of the finest minds in Caribbean education at a time when the region is seeking to scale efforts to equip in-school learners with electronic devices, adapt to generative Artificial Intelligence, and embrace electronic-assessment and teaching via online modalities,” said CXC’s Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning.

Among the featured speakers and presenters will be Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, the chairman of CXC and deputy chair of council; Dr Marcia Potter, Dr Wayne Wesley, CXC Registrar, Professor Paloma Mohamed Martin, vice chancellor, University of Guyana; Dr Luz Longsworth, senior corporate director, Sandals Corporate University and former Principal and Pro-Vice Chancellor, UWI Global Campus, Alison Drayton, assistant secretary general- human and social development, Caricom, and from the Commonwealth of Learning, Professor Peter Scott, president and CEO and members of his team.