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Estimates totalling $13.9 billion meant for the Ministry of Education were approved on Wednesday afternoon when the National Assembly met to consider the amounts. The process was not without a few verbal skirmishes, mainly between the two leading ladies in this area, Education Minister Priya Manickchand and APNU Shadow Education Minister Amna Ally. Contributions were […]

While Minister of Edu-cation Priya Manickchand boasted about the advancements made in the education sector, APNU’s shadow minister Amna Ally criticised spending in the sector, saying the nation’s children are not the real beneficiaries. The two squared off yesterday during the continuing debates on the administration’s proposed $220 billion budget, which the minister dubbed “holistic […]

The People’s Progressive Party, through its General Secretary (GS) Clement Rohee, has said that A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) reneged on an agreement in Parliament with respect to the ban that was issued and subsequently lifted on Minister of Education Pryia Manickchand.   Rohee made this observation after APNU decided to drown out her […]

…insists that she must apologise The Parliamentary Opposition yesterday retaliated against Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, when she again stood in the National Assembly to add her voice to the ongoing 2014 budget debates. As the Minister commenced her speech, members of the joint opposition, the Alliance for Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National […]

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– ‘We have matched our vision to the allocations in the sector’, says Minister Manickchand GUYANA’s education sector, taking the lion’s share of the 2014 Budget ($32.3 billion), has consistently made advances, but there is much more to do, according to subject Minister, Priya Manickchand.In the National Assembly, yesterday, she noted that focus on Guyana’s […]

A day after resigning as a Member of Parliament (MP) for main opposition APNU, Jaipaul Sharma yesterday said that he disagreed with Speaker Raphael Trotman’s justification for lifting a ban on Education Minister Priya Manickchand over comments she made that offended him. Sharma said Trotman did not give him a chance to complete his objections […]

Dear Editor, Having had the opportunity to meet Ms Priya Manickchand in the course of my attachment to NCERD, I concluded that she has a strong sense of justice and is totally dedicated to the protection of the children of the nation making efforts towards achieving the best for them in the education sector. She […]

Dear Editor, In the explanation of her refusal to apologise to MP Jaipaul Sharma, which we saw on Wednesday, the Minister of Education, Ms Priya Manickchand said that if she apologized she would be betraying the victims of rape and paedophilia: “I cannot abandon them just to keep the National Assembly happy,” she explained.   […]

EDUCATION Minister Priya Manickchand refuted claims made by several Members of Parliament (MPs) of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) that the 2014 Budget Theme is similar to the PPP party’s 2011 manifesto. She stressed that if that is the case, the Opposition should have no problem supporting the national estimates, as allocations therein are […]