SCORES of Essequibo parents, accompanied by Region 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam) Chairman, Mr. Devanand Ramdatt and Vice-Chairman Ms. Nandranie Coonjah, yesterday held a picketing exercise outside the Department of Education at Cotton Field, Essequibo Coast.The exercise is in protest of the Coalition Government’s discontinuation of the $10,000 school voucher programme that was started by the former PPP/C Government last year.
The parents were armed with placards that said, inter alia, “Minister of Education is a sell-out”, “Parents unite…uniforms for students, meals for students”, “Is this the change”.