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Ms Adriana Kandilige, the Eastern Regional Director of Education, has expressed worry about the shortage of teachers on the Dwarf Islands. Ms Kandilige has pledged the commitment of her outfit to ensure that more teachers are posted to the area as soon as the government�s embargo on recruitment is lifted. She was reacting to a report by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) Media Auditing and Development Tracking team about the acute shortage of teachers in schools on the Dwarf Islands with an average of a teacher per a school in almost all of the 62 schools on the Island. Mr Samuel Badu-Baiden, the District Coordinating Director, told the GNA that, the greatest challenge of the district was accessibility to the islands. He said due to the situation, development hardly reached the area because there was no proper means of transport on the lake and that even if at all development was sent there it always attracted huge extra costs. Mr Badu-Baiden said the assembly was doing all it could to develop the Dwarf Islands because it holds it one-third of the total population of the district.� He appealed to the government and other private entities or individuals to come to the aid of the district by providing a mini pontoon on the lake to transport resources to those on the Dwarf Island.