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The school feeding programme is necessary

Aug 12, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
A full stomach helps children concentrate better on their lessons. But not every family can afford three square meals for their children each day.
The school feeding programme, in which a meal or snack is provided by the school daily for each child, is an excellent way to channel vital nutrition to children.
When school attendance is low, even one meal or snack per day will motivate children to attend school, and parents also will be motivated to send their children to school. The school feeding programme implemented by the government is critical to Guyana’s development because the improved attendance attained through it, means that more of our children will be educated. The estimated $800 million school feeding programme, designed by the government to improve students’ attendance and performance, has already been proven successful, since students’ attendance have already significantly improved in the regions where this initiative is undertaken.
Education is critical to social and structural development in society. It helps people to build communities, allows them to live healthy and productive lives, empowers women, and allows countries to enjoy sustained economic growth. The school feeding programme is a wonderful way of ensuring this.
Rachael Bakker

eMagine? Not in Kitty

Dear Editor,
It isn’t news to anyone that GT&T recently launched their upgraded Internet service; it was promoted with much glitz and carried by all major newspapers and television news programmme, they blanketed the various media outlets and street corners with huge banners, billboards, television ads and what not.
But here’s my question to GT&T: what happened to Kitty? According to GT&T the service is available to anyone in the greater Georgetown area and its outskirts, elsewhere in coming months. Kitty has been getting abysmal service for quite some time. The service is supposed to be 1 megabit per second, in the evenings people in Kitty are lucky to get even 0.10 megabit per second, according to GT&T technicians the area suffers from congestion. If this is the case then it should be on top of someone’s agenda at GT&T to provide proper service to the area, it’s a residential area and playing games, accessing popular sites like YouTube or even e-learning is virtually impossible.
I suppose all the service is meant for is browsing. Those same ads on the television promote doing the various things I mentioned as the pinnacle of their service. These things work yes, but in such a degraded manner it’s like we were back in 2000 when dialup was the standard for most homes. I like many other people got my DSL service so I could benefit from what the rest of the world already benefits from, but I can’t.
I have personally made several calls to GT&T’s technical lines for about one month, only to be greeted with no help.
I have several other friends in the area that use the service and it affects them too, so I am positive it’s a widespread problem. It has been one month since they launched the service and claimed success – for whom?
Sunildev Birbal

Guyana’s big tent is not blowing in the wind

Dear Editor,
Big-Tent politics allows broad coalitions and just as tents are not meant to be permanent they allow for individual political parties and other stakeholders groups to get under at all stages of construction.
Alliances don’t necessarily happen spontaneously; sometimes they have to be forged. Forging a coalition is a process that can take weeks or it can take months. What is important in Guyana’s case is that the process has begun. Late comers should be no less welcome or important than early birds. The tent is big because it can accommodate all who decide to come, when they decide to come – the good, the bad and the ugly. Guyana’s big tent is not blowing in the wind, it is under construction.
F. Hamley Case

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