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Cap on CSEC subjects Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand criticised the proposal to limit the number of subjects pursuable by Guyanese students sitting the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) Examinations, dubbing the application a “threat by the Granger Government.” Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand   In an interview with Guyana Times, the Member of Parliament responded to […]

Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand criticised the proposal to limit the number of subjects pursuable by Guyanese students sitting the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) Examinations, dubbing the application a “threat by the Granger Government.” The former Education Minister is of the view that the threatened ban has “not been informed by sense, statistics or […]

Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand has described Government’s decision to impose the Value Added Tax (VAT) on private education as “senseless and unimaginative”. Manickchand told Guyana Times on Monday that the situation begged the question whether the David Granger-led Administration planned to stick with the promises it had made with respect to education. Under the […]

– dubs it “strangest bill ever” The controversial State Assets Recovery Authority (SARA) Bill 2017 has been labelled “poorly drafted” and the “strangest bill ever” by Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) and former Minister, Priya Manickchand. PPP/C MP Priya Manickchand Manickchand told the National Assembly on Thursday that the Bill not only undermined constitutional offices […]

Leading the debate from the opposition benches, People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Parliamentarian Priya Manickchand, told the National Assembly on Thursday that the Party was not against asset recovery and exposing corrupt politicians. As the second speaker on a list of 18, Manickhand laid out the opposition’s position on the State Asset Recovery Bill, just after Attorney […]

Former Education Minister Priya Manickchand is questioning whether the real reason the Government has taxed private education is because President David Granger believes there is education apartheid in Guyana. Granger, as Opposition Leader in 2013, said education delivery in Guyana was akin to ‘apartness’, another form of ‘apartheid’, and “we must avoid and avert the […]

Red House fiasco People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Member and Attorney Priya Manickchand has rubbished claims made by Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Basil Williams that the Conservatory Order requested by the Management Committee of the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) was refused. Last Friday, the local media was informed that Attorneys Anil Nandlall […]

Opposition Member of Parliament Priya Manickchand yesterday called on the APNU+AFC government to listen to the reactions of the people and withdraw the proposed 2017 budget, which she deemed shocking and unconscionable. Manickchand, who served as education minister from 2011 to 2015 and is now shadow minister for the PPP/C, told the National Assembly that […]

…brace yourself for what is about to come ‒ Manickchand Unconscionable, a waste of time and an exercise in futility were the reaction to the 2017 National Estimates by former Education Minister Priya Manickchand, as she made her presentation on the annual debate which got underway Monday in the National Assembly. Manickchand, a frontbencher in the […]