PM gives top students lesson on Pre 1992

PM gives top students lesson on Pre 1992

Prime Minister Samuel Hinds used the National Education Awards on Thursday to speak about improvements in the education system since 1992 when his party came to office.

This annual ceremony recognises the best performers at all tiers of the education system including National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), Guyana Technical Education Examination, Carnegie School of Home Economics and Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE).  Recognised also are the most improved schools at all levels.

Delivering the keynote address at the ceremony, Prime Minister Hinds said “We in government feel rewarded and vindicated by your success. The environment within which you have had to study has been an integral part of your success. Since we of the PPPC, have been in office, we have been deliberately committed to making the investment that brought about the successes which Guyana now enjoys”.

The Prime Minister appeared to have been following the advice of Former President Bharrat Jagdeo who told a PPP rally recently that there is a need to educate the younger generation about what Guyana was like before the PPP came to office.

“Today when we are producing in real terms at level three or more times than which we did in 1992, and consequently have in real terms, three or more times as much to expend as we had in 1992, we are still producing at level of one-third of a number of our fellow sister Caricom countries, and one-tenth and one-fifteenth of what developed countries are producing and spending”, Mr Hinds said.IMG_4921

The Prime Minister did not talk about the development in the education system under the previous administration and the number of Guyana Scholars that were produced back then. Instead, he sounded as if he was at a political rally as he continued with his speech telling the top performers that “there have been concerns that our programmes designed to spread what we have more evenly across our country might be achieving too thin a spread, but we would rather reach more of our people than fewer. We of the PPPC favour and advocate growth from the widest base possible”.

This year, Guyanese students took five of the eight CSEC 2013 regional awards.

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand also acknowledged this when she addressed the gathering, noting that the ministry is fully cognizant that a partnership effort has to be credited for the students’ success.

 “These combinations of effort really allow us to bring out in our students the best they could be, and we celebrate here the many parents, the many teachers, the grandparents, the ordinary working people who would have put their best foot forward so we can celebrate… All of you who would have helped in any way, large or small I want to offer a sincere thank you,” she said.

The national 2013 awardees are as follows; NGSA – Best Performers-Salma Majeed-ISA Islamic Academy, 548 marks; Christian Pile-Mae’s Under 12, 547 marks, Navindra Persaud-Mae’s Under 12- 545 marks.

            In the CSEC category of Best Junior Secondary Performers the awardees are; Yogeeta Persaud-Anna Regina, Rafena Mustapha and armeshwarie Seodat of  Saraswati Vidya Niketan, and Zimeena Rasheed-Anna Regina Secondary.

            For the CSEC Best Senior Secondary School Performers, the awardees are; Cecil Cox, Phillipe Walker, Akeila Wiltshire and Akash Jairam, all of Queen’s College.

The Outstanding Performers, Carnegie School of Home Economics are; Luis Field-Garment Construction, Kimberly Baker-Commercial Food Preparation, Johnel Bourne-Catering and Hospitality, Carlyn Grahame and Alicia Mc Calman-General Cosmetology, and Kamalita Heeralall-Visual Arts (Craft Production and Design Division).

Outstanding Performers at the  Government Technical Institute are; Advanced Craft, Javin Armstrong-Elementary Certificate in Telecommunication, Technician Certificate-Michael Hunte-Technician Certificate in Electrical Engineering Part II, Technician Diploma-Colin Quintyn-Technician Diploma in Building and Civil Engineering, Business Diploma-Sheneza Moore-Ordinary Diploma in Commerce and Science Diploma-David Duncan-Ordinary Diploma in Science.

            For the Government Technical Education Examination, the awardees are; Basic Craft-Kemraj Ramcharran from the Essequibo Technical Institute-Basic Craft in Automotive Studies and from the New Amsterdam Technical institute, Craft Certificate-Tejpaul Thakoordine-Craft Certificate in Electrical Installation and Computer Science-Rashana Henry-Diploma in Computer Science.

            Other awards presented included the CSEC Best Science Performer (Guyana)-Cecil Cox and CSEC Best Performer, (Guyana) Yogeeta Persaud, while the awards for the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Best Performers are; Shalita Appadu-President’s College, Anuradha Dev, Deowatie Narine, Prashat Shivdas, Keleshwar Singh, Benedict Sukra, and Melodie Lowe, all of Queen’s College.

The Best Performer for 2012 and 2013, CAPE was awarded to Jonelle James of Queen’s College and the Best Graduating Student-CPCE (2010-2013) went to Veronica Jeffrey-Turkeyen Centre (Early Childhood.)

Most Improved primary School was Cumberland while Most Improved Junior Secondary School was given to Tutorial High and Most Improved Senior Secondary School to St Joseph High.

            The winners of the special awards for their outstanding CSEC performances 2013 were Yogeeta Persaud- Best Overall CSEC student, Cecil Cox-Overall Best CSEC Science Student, Sasha Woodroofe – Overall CSEC Best Business Education Student, Rafena Mustapha- Overall CSEC Best Humanities Student and Zimeena Rasheed-overall Best CSEC Technological/Vocational Education.

The CSEC and CAPE overall performers won scholarships at the behest of President Donald Ramotar to study at an educational institution of their choice. The beneficiaries are Yogeeta Persaud, Cecil Cox, Melodie Lowe and Jonelle James.

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