Social cohesion is lacking in Mabaruma

Oct 08, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
Minister of Social Cohesion Dr. George Norton has a Social Cohesion officer working in the Mabaruma sub-region (Barima-Waini). But this officer currently does not engage in the promotion of social cohesion in the Mabaruma sub-region since she is a treasurer of the school feeding programme (SFP) of the Mabaruma primary school.
She was recently voted out and is not accepting the results of the elections and is refusing to step down. Can Minister Norton say when last a work evaluation of his cohesion officer in Mabaruma was being conducted?
I do not think this cohesion officer is serving any purpose at Mabaruma and an investigation urgently needs to be conducted by the Ministry of Social Cohesion so as to give justice to taxpayers’ money.
But as I was writing this short letter more information come in from Mabaruma which states that the Mabaruma Primary School is in a state of disgrace where the school currently lacks furniture and as a result the school children have nowhere to sit, only in the hot meals kitchen.
Further the school’s environment is disgraceful where grass and bushes may soon be found growing in the Mabaruma primary school. It seems that the Ministry of Education (MOE) does not have school inspectors. But if they do then the inspectors at Mabaruma are not doing the work they are being paid to do.
Further, the Ministry of Education (MOE) it seems, does not care about the management of the school feeding programmes (SFPs). I am receiving lots of complaints about the run-down state of these programme where corruption and accountability seem to be the order of the day in the Mabaruma and Moruca sub-regions.
The nutritional diet of their SFPs is not even been inspected by the Ministry of Education. I am of the opinion that the MOE doesn’t even know what is the main objective of these SFPs, hence its don’t care attitude towards these programmes.
The run-down state of these SFPs will have a negative effect on school children’s performance in schools. This is what the Ministry of Education needs to know, but unfortunately it does not know.
Yours Sincerely,
Peter Persaud

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