Agri school 'campfire” cancelled at last moment

Agri school ‘campfire” cancelled at last moment

Jun 21, 2008 News

– alcohol sale cited

A traditional campfire graduation of the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) was cancelled last evening after it was found that alcohol was to be sold at the Mon Repos facility and that no approval had been given to host the activity.
Student organisers claimed that they had already spent some $500,000 to organise the event.
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Agriculture last evening, the Ministry learnt yesterday that the traditional campfire hosted by the students of the school among themselves has been planned and advertised to include a barbecue and ‘lime’.
“We understand that these advertisements were being carried on television and played in minibuses. The Administration of the Guyana School of Agriculture wishes to make it clear that no approval was given for the use of the school campus for a public activity of the sort.”
When the organizers were called in and told that no public activity of the kind would be allowed, they said arrangements were already in place, GSA said in the statement.
As a compromise, the organizers, which comprised of students, were told there must be no selling or consuming of alcohol on the campus if the event is to continue.
However, the organizers, the statement said, opted to call off the event.
Organizers had complained to this newspaper earlier in the day that they had spent a considerable amount of money and had hired two music systems with bars selling Banks products, among other drinks.
The GSA administration was not against the idea of the students holding the annual event among themselves and this was conveyed to the organizers, the statement explained.
“The fact that the majority of the students at this live-in institution are under eighteen years of age, and that the school is currently grappling with some serious problems concerning student behaviour on campus are of serious concern to the administration,” GSA stressed.
Also, Minister of Agriculture, Robert Persaud, under whose responsibility the school falls, has been very clear on his position with regards to these kinds of activities on campus, in light of the murder of a University of Guyana student on the campus recently.
“To those members of the public who may have been inconvenienced, the administration, on behalf of its student society, expresses its regret, and hopes that its position would be understood.”
A member of the event’s committee told Kaieteur News that the campfire has been a tradition for graduating students of GSA for almost 40 years.

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