Education

Four 13-year old boys were this week charged with setting fire to the St. Angela’s Roman Catholic Hostel at Karasabai and remanded into State care at the Juvenile Holding Centre, police said. The law enforcement agency said an order was made for them to evaluated by a competent court-appointed doctor. The case was postponed to 13th July 2023 at the ...

The new Christ Church Secondary School, which is expected to be completed by next January,  would include a fire prevention system, the Ministry of Education announced. The seven contracts includes one awarded toA. Ograsein & Sons General Contracting for the installation of fire prrevention units at a value of  GY$6,759,000.00. The Special Projects Officer in the Ministry, Mr. Ron Eastman ...

The Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has said that it would be meeting with teachers over the next weeks to consider a number of proposals by the Ministry of Education including salaries, licensing of teachers and a housing revolving fund. “Given the areas mention, the Union will within the next two weeks engage you our members with a view to have ...

President Irfaan Ali on Saturday night indicated that his People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) was depending on the now GY$40,000 cash-grant per child to take away control of the Linden Town Council from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) for the first time at the June 12 Local Government Elections. “If those parents whose children benefit from this policy of ...

Four boys on Thursday confessed to burning down part of  the St Angela’s Girls’ Hostel at Karasabai, South Pakaraimas, Rupununi earlier in the day after they were chased away by the caretaker, police said. None of the 19 students between the ages of 11 years and 16 years old was injured. “All the female students were able to make it ...

The Mahdia Secondary School student, who was badly burnt in last week’s dormitory fire, has undergone her first of many surgeries in a New York hospital, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Tursday. He said the 13-year old girl, who was flown out of Guyana aboard an air ambulance on Saturday, successfully underwent surgery earlier this week and her prospects ...

The death toll in the fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School on Tuesday increased by one, bringing the total number of children who perished to 20, a senior health sector official said. The 14 -year old girl, Sherena Daniels, succumbed in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) to injuries to her respiratory ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Friday welcomed President Irfaan Ali’s announcement that there would be a commission of inquiry into the burning to death of 19 children in the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School but demanded that the  opposition and other relevant stakeholders be involved in crafting the terms of reference and picking the panel. “Such a commission must ...

President Irfaan Ali on Thursday night announced that a Commission of Inquiry would be held into last Sunday night’s fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School that killed 18 schoolgirls and one boy. Addressing a night of remembrance in Lethem,  the southern Guyanese town near the border with Brazil, to mark Guyana’s 57th Independence anniversary and mourn the ...

Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn on Wednesday said fighting the fire at the dormitory of the Mahdia Secondary School was not hampered by water shortage but firefighters received the report late from someone who drove to the fire station there. He said the late notification of the fire department was compounded by the fact that the fire quickly ripped through ...