Guyana’s Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, has come out in condemnation of the torching of a Primary School in Region 10.
She says that no person in their right mind can argue that to burn bridges, block roads and burn schools constitute peaceful protest.
According to reports, arsonist(s) successfully managed set ablaze the ‘One Mile’ Primary School, in Linden at 03:00hrs this morning.
Manickchand has reported that the burnt out primary school houses some 830 students.
There are reports that two persons have been arrested in connection with the blaze.
Manickchand in her immediate condemnation of the burning of the school, says that “every peace loving person and citizen who recognizes education as a necessary tool for poverty alleviation must condemn the burning of schools immediately…There can be no ifs and buts and conditions…This is wrong, will affect our innocent children, will create grave hardship for all involved, and must be unreservedly condemned.”
Manickchand in her appeal said that “We are failing at the Ministry to understand how to burn a school could be determined to be an effective way to protest reform for the payment of electricity rates.…To burn a school is to remove the most necessary tool of poverty alleviation…To have burnt One Mile Primary is to attempt to condemn all the children attending that school to a life of poverty.”
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