Minister of Education and Technical and Vocational Training, the Hon. Glenys Hanna Martin revealed on Monday that the National School Breakfast Program has been expanded.

Some 20,000 students in 115 schools will now be able to take advantage of the program that started in 2023. Minister Hanna-Martin said, “this is a program that has grown exponentially. It began with eight schools, four New Providence, four in the Family Islands, and it’s now in all public pre-primary, primary and all aged schools and most specialty schools.”

The program is also having a positive economic impact on its vendors. According the Minister Hanna Martin, the National School Breakfast Program has served nearly one million meals since inception.

The education minister also commented on calls to install air conditioning in public school classrooms. She said, “we cannot expect instruction to be carried out effectively and we any degree of comfort by teachers or students in very hot classrooms.”

According Hanna Martin her ministry along with the Ministries of Works and Family Island Affairs and Finance have partnered to explore place air conditioning units in classrooms.