Region 10 Councillors urge swift action on recommendations
Education CoI
One month after wrapping up a consultation with Education Commission Chairman Ed Caesar, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) Councillors are urging swift movement on the implementation of recommendations regarding issues which were discussed.
During a statutory meeting of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) last Thursday, Councillors were given the opportunity by the Regional Chairman, Renis Morian, to voice their expectations following the consultation. Councillor Charles Sampson, in addressing the Council, made a call for recommendations to be put in place, as it relates to the issues which he noted extended as far as schools in Sub-Region 2 (Berbice River).
Councillor Charles Sampson addresses the Council
“As far as I know, whatever was discussed, in terms of recommendation, I haven’t seen anything positive on the ground since then…those recommendations need to be quickly put in place along with some other administrative issues,” he noted.
However, the Regional Chairman has asserted that what the consultation sought to do was not to “take the recommendations and run with it”, but rather to take (other) recommendations from the 10 Administrative Regions and subsequently fashion a programme for education”.
At the same time, Morian told the Council that he would write to Caesar regarding the release of the programme.
He said, “Because what they would have garnered from us, our complaints and whatever – we want to know when the recommendations, or when a programme will come out to correct those anomalies and issues that we are faced with. So they will now have to come up with one document, how to address education in Guyana, in the Regions and that document is what we want to know: the way forward from the Ministry of Education in addressing the issues.”
During the consultation, teachers’ refusal to work in riverine areas, infrastructural and sanitary woes as well as understaffing and overstaffing were among the issues outlined by Councillors and Education Committee Chairman Denise Belgrave. The Education Committee Chairman had also documented several recommendations coming out of it.
