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A new library was opened on Saturday at the Mon Repos Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara. This was made possible through the efforts of ‘Spread the Words’, a group led by Ms. Laura Ryan. At the opening ceremony, Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said that the establishment of the library fits directly […]

Region One is expected to have a brand new secondary school within the next seven to eight months. This is according to the Ministry of Education, which yesterday signed contracts worth over $2 billion for the construction of the Kwebanna Secon-dary School in Barima/ Waini. The signing ceremony was held in the ministry’s boardroom in […]

In an effort to address the issue of space constraints, Minister of  Education, Priya Manickchand on Wednesday commissioned a new $85M wing at the St Winefride’s Secondary School. The new wing consists of classrooms which will be occupied by 135 students from Grades Nine and 11 and a Science laboratory. It was named after one of […]

Education Minister Priya Manickchand on Friday commissioned the new building for the Haslington Nursery School located in Region Four on the East Coast of Demerara. The cost to construct the new school totaled twenty-eight million, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand dollars ($28,129,000). Delivering the feature address, Minister Manickchand encouraged those parents present that they need […]

Pupils in Kokshebai, South Pakaraimas will no longer have to walk for miles to receive an education with the commissioning of a school in their village. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand along with Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, Nigel Dharamlall  commissioned the Kokshebai Nursery School on Tuesday during a visit to the Upper […]

There are likely to be “major changes” governing School Based Assessments (SBAs), Minister of Education Priya Manickchand said on Monday. “…Guyana is going to change the way we treat SBAs (school-based assessments). It can’t be just for the sake of doing them and it has to be done well and properly. “We have to have […]

Over 500 Christ Church Secondary students displaced by Thursday’s fire will take part in online classes until an appropriate facility can be found to house them. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, along with senior officers of the Ministry of Education (MoE), yesterday met with the teachers and ancillary staff of the school to discuss the […]

Officials on Friday afternoon turned the sod for a modern US$4.9 million College of Medical Sciences building, which will be constructed at the University of Guyana (UG). The facility will include a lecture theatre to accommodate 200 students, a fully-furnished skills laboratory and various specialized labs, such as anatomy, biochemistry, histology, and hematology. The college […]

The distribution of the ‘Because We Care’ cash grants is more than 90 per cent completed and according to the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, the process went “very smoothly.” “It was a very, very smooth process…It was very easy,” Manickchand told reporters on Friday. However, she pointed out that there were a few instances whereby some […]

Initially set for completion by May 2023, the new St. Rose’s High School is now expected to be handed over to the Ministry of Education in August. “I just came from there (the construction site). I was told that it should be finished by mid-August,” Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand told the News Room during a telephone […]