“Ignorant” is how MP Richard Lewis describes Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s criticism of an Information Technology (IT) textbook that he co-authored.
Browne has implied that Lewis’ text received preferential treatment under the United Progressive Party Administration and asked whether the book had been put out to tender.
However, Lewis has rejected these implications, saying the information Browne put out about the textbook shows his ignorance.
Lewis tells the public that he is an author – not a bookstore –and that his textbook was recommended by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) for use in the curriculum, just like texts published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pearson Longman, and others.
However, the MP says the prime minister could not be suggesting that these international publishers go through the tender process to provide particular textbooks recommended by CXC when the textbooks can be procured only from these sellers.
Whether bookstores submit bids to the Board of Education (BOE) to purchase his textbook is irrelevant in his case, the MP says. What is required, at the end of the day, is that the bookstores or the Board of
Education is required to procure the text.
He says it is also very sad that the prime minister has such contempt for local authors and others who earn their money legitimately given that he has denigrated the CXC-approved textbook as being
“third-rate.”
“Unlike the printing of many thousands of copies of my textbook since 2001, which represents actual value for money,” Lewis tells Browne, “we still have no evidence that this suspicious [rental]
arrangement with your son is anything but another creative enrichment scheme.”
Accordingly, he concludes, “perhaps [the prime minister] only has respect for creative enrichment.”
Ironically, Lewis’ textbook was introduced into the IT curriculum under the Lester Bird Administration, when Rodney Williams, the current governor-general served as minister of education.
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