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Aug 14, 2014 News
The Guyana Society for the Blind (GSB) proudly unveiled their results for the 2014 Caribbean Secondary Certificate
of Education (CSEC) exams, yesterday.
Its top three performers are Rosemarie Ramitt who attained five Grade Ones; Odessa Blair with five Grade Twos and Vishaul Mohabir with three Grade Ones, one Grade Two and one Grade Four.
Ramitt,18, of Montrose village, East Coast Demerara wrote the maximum subjects offered and gained outstanding passes in English A, Human and Social Biology, Social Studies, Principles of Business and Office Administration.
The teenager said that she couldn’t believe it when she heard the news of her results. She said her dreams are to become a secondary school teacher and that her next course of action is to study English at the Cyril Potter College.
The other students – Odessa Blair and Vishaul Mohabir – also hope to further their studies at the University of Guyana (UG) and attain their Bachelor Degrees in Social Work.
The institute recorded an 82.4% pass rate with 10 students sitting the exam. This percentile is a remarkable feat as this is the first time a group of this size, consisting of visually impaired students, has written the CSEC examination electronically.
To prepare the students for exams the group was assisted by volunteer tutors; Vanessa Low-A-Che, GSB Executive Ganesh Singh and President Cecil Morris amongst others.
The students were assisted by the One Laptop Per Family programme. Azariah Azim, Deputy Project Manager, was responsible for producing the laptops which greatly helped the students in their studies.
Singh, the chief coordinator for the CSEC initiative, was immensely grateful for the support from the Ministry of Education which provided funding for the programme and Guyana Telephone &Telegraph (GT&T) and The Raj Foundation. The latter two for providing free internet and the appropriate computer equipment, respectively. He also thanked the media for drawing attention to the journey undertaken by the students.
“One of the things we want to highlight is that, these students didn’t have the limitless
resources that other students may have had… and yet they have accomplished so much,” is what Vanessa Low-A-Che had to say on the achievement of her class.
“These students represent a marked change in the possibilities for differently-abled individuals.” Singh hopes that “persons with disabilities become more common at the tertiary level in Guyana, and that we get used to seeing them in the workplace.”
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