The letter in Kaieteur News captioned, “No Confidence in the Chief Education Officer”, July 3, 2013, is ill-founded, misdirected and borders on the absurd.  
Let me clearly state, as chief education officer I do not have, or ever had the power to appoint, promote, or as in this case, revoke an appointment of any teacher in Guyana.
Those powers rest solely with the Teaching Service Commission.

As such, all findings of the investigation conducted by the Department of Education were forwarded to the Secretary, Teaching Service Commission.
The writer/s of this baseless letter would have been made aware of all of the above if he/she/they had simply contacted my office on the matter. Furthermore, I have not spoken to anyone from or representing this supposed group of “parents” on this matter; not even Ms Minerva Munroe as stated in the letter. A few weeks ago I spoke with the regional education officer, Region # 10, with whom I have a wonderful working relationship, and assured her that the findings of her investigation have been forwarded to the Teaching Service Commission to be addressed.