How important is geography?
Marjorie Henry, Contributor The summer holidays are over, and it is back to school again. As the expression goes – ‘free paper bun’! For some of you the holidays were too short to get done all the things you wanted to do. For others, they were just too long and oh how you longed to be back at school! Well, regardless of what you thought of the duration of the holidays, a new school year has started and there is academic work to be done. With the new academic year comes the start of another series of Study Guide lessons in geography. The lessons that make up the series are intended to assist students in their preparation for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams. These are students who are now starting grade 10 (fourth form) and grade 11 (fifth form). Welcome to all of you and, in particular, those of you who are reading the lessons for the first time. Some readers may have sat the subject in the last examinations and were successful. To you I offer my heartiest con