We are quite concerned with the delay in the results of the 2020 CXC exams in Guyana

Feb 04, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

We the undersigned reside in and around the Greater Toronto Area and are quite concerned with the delay in the results of the 2020 CXC exams in Guyana.
Our interest in education and democracy, in our country of birth, goes back many years. We can probably start from our childhood days but 1992 is a significant time as it marked the year Democracy returned to Guyana and a groundswell of goodwill and support from overseas Guyanese found expression for their homeland in many ways.
One lasting endeavour was the countless efforts aimed at providing the system with money materials and manpower to the learning institutions there. This was fully appreciated by parents, teachers, and students always with the active cooperation and guidance by then Minister Dale Bisnauth.
Beneficiaries included the Ministry of Education, University of Guyana and hundreds of schools some of us attended as children mostly in the country areas where no organised alumni existed. Geoff DaSilva, Harry Hargesh, Jerome Khan, are only a few names among the hundreds who were actively involved and can testify to this fact. Even our late friend Randy Depoo who was then attached to the US Embassy here and who before his passing initiated the bold petition asking the USA to impose personal sanctions against the 2020 election riggers, participated. Some even took the magnanimous step of adopting their schools and continue to assist even today. Anthony Trevor Subryan who was recently recognised for his work by the Guyana Consulate personally donated computers with a lab to the children of Bath Settlement at an event where the Minister of Education was present.
We were dragged back into action after the last elections and either initiated or joined thousands of others all over the globe supporting the Foreign Diplomats and other friends of democracy insisting on a fair and transparent election results a process that took five long months.
A recent letter by Swami Aksharananda (SN January 29) has now raised our concerns for the children, who with the sacrifice of teachers and parents, braved COVID-19 to prepare for and write their exams the results of which have not yet been declared by the Ministry. We are not aware of the difficulties facing the Ministry but surely any further delays would be prejudicial to the students whose future plans may have to be put on hold for an uncertain period of time.
Among our group are also persons who have a personal interest in these matters as they support the students, either by way of financial and other material means. As such, they await their results to arrange admittance to University or College etc. not just in Guyana but abroad.
These students may not be old enough to vote, may not have a union to speak for them, and those who should, including their parents, seem to prefer to be silent even though so much is at stake. They do have access to the internet however and are quite savvy with face book and other means to reach friends and supporters across the seas but hopefully their results will be forthcoming soon.
Some may prefer to see the wealth of the country in oil and gas, sugar, gold etc. but we know that the future is an educated population now sitting in the classrooms. The principles of democracy cannot claim to be effective in a country struggling with varied standards of justice, unless an educated populace has the ability to make intelligent and informed choices about who will govern them.
Any further delays in declaring the results will constitute unfairness to students, their parents, teachers, overseas guardians and sponsors who assisted them. Finally, the country still looking for skills and educated persons will be inflicting harm on itself. We look forward to a public explanation by the investigators and an early resolution of this issue.
We thank Swami Aksharananda for bringing this matter to the public attention and pledge our continued support to SVN for the excellent results consistently produced by this private Hindu School.
Yours truly,
Ramnarine Sahadeo, Omesh Sharma, C. Persaud, N. Singh, R. Sukhoo, T. Mangal, V. Teekah, N. Persaud,
M. Sookdeo and other concerned Guyanese.

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