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SAGICOR Visionaries Challenge 2014, the second annual Sagicor Visionaries Challenge contest for secondary school students, was launched on Wednesday at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCRED), Battery Road, Kingston, Georgetown. The contest also aims to ignite interest among youth for innovation in STEM in an effort to build and integrate sustainable communities throughout […]

-Ministry of Education continues consultations The Ministry of Education, as a part of the Government’s $10,000 per child grant which was allotted in the 2014 National Budget, is currently engaging parents and guardians of school-age children on the most suitable way in which it can be issued. This grant is set to be available in […]

Education Minister Priya Manickchand came in for a second round of booing yesterday when she tried to rebuff criticism in the National Assembly over her recent attack on the former US Ambassador. APNU MP Africo Selman, addressing the Assembly under Standing Order (SO) 19, took Manickchand to task for remarks made a week earlier at […]

–playing nice is not an option in face of ‘gross interference’ EDUCATION Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday, in the National Assembly, defended the stance she took against former United States Ambassador Brent Hardt for his “frequent” and “repeated” utterances that went against diplomatic protocol. And she made it clear that leaders of Guyana have a duty […]

IN wake of the remonstrations by the intrepid Secretary to the Cabinet, Dr Roger F. Luncheon, consequent upon the ill-advised interventions of the former American Ambassador, H.E. Brent Hardt, in Guyana’s internal politics, particularly its municipal affairs, the Opposition elements sought to chastise the Government on the pretext that they were sanctimonious enigmas of Constitutional […]

–says former minister, Dr. Henry Jeffrey FORMER Minister of Foreign Trade, Henry Jeffrey, contends that former US Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt, has violated international law by becoming involved in the domestic affairs of Guyana. In his regular column published in the Stabroek News, under the headline ‘The US/Guyana debacle: Two wrongs, nothing right’, Jeffrey […]

MUCH has been said about the speech of the Hon. Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand at the U.S. Ambassador’s farewell reception on July 2, 2014. Regardless of the opinion taken on the Minister’s comments and the related issues, please permit the Women’s Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security to […]

– Opposition needs time to scrutinise further Although the second reading of the New Education Bill was initially proposed for today in the National Assembly, this much anticipated undertaking has been deferred.   According to Minister of Education Priya Manickchand the development represents part of her effort to honour a request from A Partnership for […]

…As Education Ministry continues national consultations     Parents of children attending public schools are likely to access the $10,000 grant that was assured by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, in the 2014 national budget, by mid-September. This disclosure was made yesterday by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, who spoke at a number of consultations […]

Parents of children attending public schools are likely to access the $10,000 grant that was assured by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, in the 2014 national budget, by mid-September. This disclosure was made yesterday by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, who spoke at a number of consultations in Region Two. The Minister, who was accompanied […]