CXC Digital Examinations Help Candidates Navigate Venezuela Flight Crisis

The Caribbean Examinations Council’s digital assessment technology has proven crucial in helping candidates affected by recent flight cancellations due to the Venezuelan situation continue their January 2026 examinations without disruption.

Dr. Wayne Wesley, CXC’s Registrar and CEO, revealed during a press conference in Kingston on Wednesday that the organization was able to utilize its e-assessment and hybrid e-assessment strategy to facilitate affected candidates during the ongoing January examination period.

The digital approach is part of CXC’s broader modernization plan. “It is our intention to offer all examinations digitally and, in the context, digitally in the next three to five years,” Dr. Wesley said.

The January examinations, which commenced Monday and will conclude on January 29, are being sat by over 10,000 candidates across the region using the digital and hybrid formats. Thursday’s timetable included English B Paper Two and Human and Social Biology Paper Two.

Following the January session, CXC will begin preparing to serve over 100,000 candidates who will sit more than 600,000 CSEC and CAPE subject entries in the traditional May-June examinations.

“The work at CXC never stops,” Dr. Wesley said.

He emphasized the organization’s commitment to its mission, stating: “We provide globally recognized certification services to advance the futures of learners of all ages. We have been executing this mission for over 50 years as a treaty organization of CARICOM.”

Dr. Wesley expressed confidence in the value of CXC credentials, noting that “the people of our region value the work of CXC. They have accepted with certainty that our world-class credentials open definitive pathways to higher learning and the world of work.”