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Family demands justice as police investigate alleged bullying of NGSA candidate
(Kaieteur News) – Disturbing details have emerged from the Edinburgh Primary School, East Bank Berbice, Region Six, involving two male students who reportedly beat a fellow male student at the close of day one of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) on Wednesday, leaving him nursing physical discomfort and trauma.
According to family members who spoke with this publication, the child was allegedly kicked about his body during an attack by the other two students in the school’s compound after the exams. His grandmother, Geetwattie Maywahlall, said she along with other parents and guardians were at the bus shed waiting to uplift their children just after 4:00pm.
“While we stand up there, we see children coming out. Next thing, me daughter see a fight, and she hollered, “look, is (the child) them beating. I see a child had something lashing he in his head, and one kicking he, like three kicks,” the grandmother recalled.
Edinburgh Primary School
The gate was locked, therefore herself and anyone could not have immediately intervened. Moreover, she stated that teachers present did not show urgency in deescalating the situation.
His mother said the disturbing incident was not an isolated one to Wednesday.
“My mother keep going to the class teacher, cause the class teacher is aware of the situation, and when she can’t deal with the matter anymore, she’ll take it to the HM.”
She pointed out that the headmistress would administer minimum and unsatisfactory punishment minimum which she believes do not amount to the severity of the acts committed against the child. In some instances, she noted that disciplinary actions, as determined by the headteacher, merely sees the two students accused of assaulting the child issuing written and oral apologies.
“Not one time was these children sent home, not one time was the matter reported to the Ministry of Education, nothing of that sort.”
Maywahlall explained that at the commencement of the Easter term, her husband called and told her that the child was bleeding through his nose. Uncertain about the cause, the child was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital. Concerns were raised when, on the following day, the child walked up to her with blood streaming from his nose.
“The day he come down midday, he showing me the tissue and he hand- ‘meh bleeding again’. I asked he ‘how yuh bleeding again?'”
The child explained that one of the boys struck him in the head with a book after objecting to him sitting among a group in class.
Equally concerning was the fact that no action was taken against the alleged perpetrator, leaving the grandmother and the victim’s family disappointed and dissatisfied. They said that the boy who reportedly carried out the attack was himself involved earlier in a similar incident and the headteacher flogged a pupil for hitting him. However, when a complaint was made, he was only told to apologise.
“I was not satisfied, because this child is not a fully healthy child, he got a head problem, and the teachers of the school are aware,” his grandmother expressed.
On Thursday, the attacked child was said to be fearful of sitting the exams, and also had complained of pain just below the back of his neck where he was reportedly kicked.
The family has made a complaint to the police in Region Six, for which Welfare Officials were also called in to investigate.
Police have confirmed that the parents and children involved were contacted at the Sisters Police Station, where a welfare official from the Juvenile Justice Department/Child Care was also engaged and spoke with the parties.
It was agreed that a meeting involving the parents, the child’s mother and the welfare officer will be held at the school on Monday May 4, 2026, at 09:00hrs.
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