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The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) has revealed that 30.8 per cent of persons in Guyana condone – approve or understand – violence against women, a recent LAPOP report said and Shadow Education Minister Priya Manickchand has expressed concern that the responsible Ministry is silent on the matter. According to the LAPOP report, Americas […]

Government has come in for some harsh flogging by People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Member of Parliament (MP) Priya Manickchand who last Thursday criticised it for backpedalling on its promise of inclusive governance and its continued “inaccessibility”. Her criticism came in light of the recent revelation regarding the change of format of the examination paper for […]

THE Ministry of Education, through its planning unit, has begun training for private schools in Region 4, and commenced training in Region 6 on Wednesday. According to a statement from the ministry, the programme is intended to update its database on private schools and to conduct a series of training sessions with them, so that they […]

Responding to a recent claim by the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) that eligible teachers have been waiting for years to receive agreed duty-free concessions, Education Minister Priya Manickchand has said a miscommunication is to blame and both the ministry and the union share responsibility for the situation. Despite claiming that her ministry’s relationship with the […]

“WE are a peaceful party, but we will not be bullied. Mark your ‘X’ next to the cup, and reject that sort of bullyism,” Senior Member of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Priya Manickchand declared as she urged thousands of persons at Bath Settlement to vote for the PPP/C.Manickchand told Party supporters that the only […]

Female politicians are becoming increasingly popular across the globe. Guyana certainly has its fair share of these outstanding women whose efforts in their influential capacities have not gone unnoticed. Among such women in Guyana, is Priya Devi Manickchand. Her training as a lawyer, from all indications, has had immense influence on her role as a […]

—Elisabeth Harper dubs it ‘unacceptable and an affront to women’  Sexist, disrespectful, vulgar and stupid were some of the adjectives used by Minister of Education,   Priya Manickchand, in a Facebook post to describe the utterances of her colleague Minister, Dr. Bheri Ramsaran. Dr. Ramsaran who holds the portfolio of Minister of Health, was recorded […]

PEOPLE’S Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) Region 5 Representative and Education Minister Priya Manickchand has noted that the party’s campaign materials, such as PPP/C flags, posters and billboards, were completely destroyed, ripped down or tampered with over the last 18 hours throughout Region 5 (Mahaica-Berbice). “This thuggery and bullyism speaks of intolerance for freedom of expression […]

The Ministry of Education in collaboration with Basic Needs Trust Fund (BNTF) commissioned the Number 77 Nursery School complex recently at Number 77 Housing Scheme, Corriverton, Berbice.   The project was completed in seven months and cost $82.3M, making it Berbice’s 57TH Nursery school and the nation’s seventh such Nursery school complex that was constructed […]

Education Minister Priya Manickchand has declared that persons who have expressed concern over Clinton Urling’s move to the PPP are all Blue Caps supporters and the organisation is “anti PPP” and she is convinced that the supporters are also “Anti-PPP” On the same day that the founder and former Chairman of the Blue Caps youth […]