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We seem to be a very liberal-minded nation in some respects!
Dear Editor,
Guyana seems to be full of surprises.
About the Irish-born young man who has been charged with “serious threatening behaviour”. Given his age, should he have been allowed such duties in the first place?
Born in late-June 1995 and working voluntarily with a British Charity in Guyana in August 2012 means that he was barely 17 years old when assigned as “a volunteer teacher”. A teacher of what, one wonders, having regard to the fact that the official school-leaving age in the UK is 16 years.
The official Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) conditions of service state that ‘as of December 2004, applications to volunteer (for work overseas) are accepted from people aged between 20 and 75, with at least two years’ experience in their field…………’. Elsewhere the minimum age for voluntary service overseas is believed to be 18 years, and 18 years is also the minimum legal drinking age, in very many countries.
Not only did we allow an under-18 to serve as a volunteer teacher but we allowed him to ‘consume a number of alcoholic beverages’ in public. We seem to be a very liberal-minded nation in some respects!
Geralda Dennison
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