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Sep 22, 2014 News
– Hughes
Chairman of the Alliance For Change (AFC) Nigel Hughes has made know the Party’s view that Guyana can only move forward in a powerful way if three critical areas of development are removed from political competition.
He said that the most important of those three areas is Education.
Hughes told this to the media at AFC’s most recent press conference held last Thursday.
At that forum, the Chairman said that his Party has plans to write to President Donald Ramotar and Opposition Leader, David Granger on the proposal.
Hughes disclosed that the AFC will be proposing that a panel of experts be tasked with developing an Educational programme for the next 15 years.
The parliamentarian said that this programme or strategy will be aimed at delivering to the people of Guyana a higher standard of education and a programme to ensure that Secondary School graduates are bi-lingual and technologically competent.
“We believe by doing this we would isolate the most critical plan for development from the rigors of political discussions and political competition. Irrespective of whatever political party is in office, the position of Minister of Education ought to be occupied by a person who is appropriately qualified for the position,”Hughes said.
The attorney-at-law said that this proposal is something that the AFC will be putting out soon and noted that the Party is willing to “embark upon this even before any talk of national elections.”
This Hughes said as he highlighted the lack of educational development in Region Nine.
He said that only one student from the village of Baitoon, Region Nine, made it to Secondary School following the last Secondary School Entrance Exam (SSEE).
Hughes told the media that all other students from the village go to advanced primary.
In late October, AFC launched its campaign for General Elections in Region Nine; visiting at least four villages in the Region.
Hughes, during the campaign, highlighted the fact that the students who sat Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams in that Region this year, also performed poorly.
However, the attorney-at law, declared that “it is no fault of your children. It cannot be that the children in Georgetown and Essequibo are smarter than those in Region Nine. It has to be that the human resources are not coming here.”
Hughes was equipped with an official Ministry of Education release of the CSEC results for the three secondary schools in Region Nine; Annai Secondary , Aishalton Secondary and St. Ignatius Secondary.
Annai and Aishalton Secondary Schools recorded a 25 percent pass rate. This means that, in two of the three schools in Region Nine, three out of four students are failing.
St. Ignatius barely scraped a 50 percent pass rate which means that one out of every two children who wrote CSEC at that school failed.
As Hughes addressed different gatherings in Region Nine, at villages such as Baitoon and Maruranau, he made it a point to note that the buildings housing the schools are “fine and dandy, but the results are not…So we have new buildings in which we are training our young people to fail.”
“Imagine 75 percent of the students failed. This is unacceptable. You guys cannot sit back and allow this,” said the AFC chairman.
Hughes told parents that if the AFC is to get into government, in addition to ensuring the existing schools get trained teachers, the Party will ensure that Region Nine gets a technical school.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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