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Teachers hauled before TSC for sex tapes

Nov 01, 2012 News

Head of Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, has said that several teachers have appealed to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) following the threat to dismiss them for engaging in acts in their private lives.
Videos began circulating of some teachers in sex acts, all in the privacy of their homes or in some private location and away from the classroom. In one case, a female teacher was engaged in a sex act with her paramour whose partner got hold of the recording and posted them on social media.
The Teaching Service Commission was asked to investigate the teachers for pornography.
Luncheon, following his weekly press briefing at the Office of the President yesterday, admitted that the matter is engaging the attention of government officials.
Kaieteur News understands that the teachers were identified on sex tapes but details remained unclear how the tapes became public.
According to a source close to TSC, the issue is before that body’s Disciplinary Committee and one teacher in Region Six has since been dismissed. However, her dismissal is being challenged.
Chairperson of TSC, Leila Ramson, during her World Teachers’ Day speech had sounded the Commission’s zero tolerance to such acts.
She had said that apart from appointing and promoting teachers, the TSC is also responsible for disciplinary action in the teaching profession. Ramson stressed that sexual offences, pornography along with the age-old issues of lateness and absenteeism warrant zero tolerance from that regulatory teaching body.
Recently, two female soldiers were reportedly sanctioned by the Guyana Defence Force because a video of them engaging in homosexual acts were circulated.
According to Dr. Roger Luncheon, he is unable to provide a comment on behalf of the Government because the issue has not been raised before the Defence Board, of which he is the Chairman.

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