Education COI reveals…Ghost teachers lurking in the system – COI Chairman
Apr 29, 2017 – Kaieteur News
– Minister calls situation “high fraud”, “beyond powers of the Ministry”
Sometime ago calls were made for the Ministry of Human Services, now the Social Protection Ministry, to launch an investigation into allegations of an Old Age pension list fraught with ghost pensioners.
Photo: Mr. Ed Caesar (L) hands over the preliminary Education COI report to Minister Rupert Roopnaraine in the company of other members of the Commission.
However, a similar state of affairs has now been uncovered within the Ministry of Education.
Revelations in this regard were exposed by Mr. Ed Caesar, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry [COI], appointed by Government to investigate the education system. The COI was recommended by Senior Minister of Education, Rupert Roopnaraine. Continue reading →
“Destination” – Poem by Guyanese-Canadian Poet Janet Naidu
In commemoration of the centennial of the abolition of Indian Indentureship on March 12, 1917, my Poetry Corner May 2017 features the poem “Destination” by Janet Naidu, a Guyanese-born poet, writer, social activist, and life-skills coach. She migrated to Canada in 1975, at the age of twenty-two, where she obtained a BA in Political Science and Caribbean Studies from the University of Toronto and, later in life, an LLB from the University of London (UK).
With the abolition of slavery in 1834 and the end of the apprenticeship scheme in 1838, the mass exodus of ex-slaves from plantations across the British Empire created a dire need for a regular and reliable supply of labor. On May 5, 1838, the first group of about 400 Indian indentured laborers, on a five-year contract, arrived in British Guiana on the sailing ships, Whitby and Hesperus. By 1917, their numbers totaled over 238,000…
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