Students on the East Bank of Demerara are set to receive a top-notch education when construction on the new $1.2 billion Kaneville Secondary school concludes.
Over 1000 students from Kaneville and surrounding communities will be able to attend the school when the 11-month construction contract is completed.
The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, turned the sod for the revolutionary school during a site visit on Wednesday.
The undertaking comes as part of the government’s response to overcrowding at schools in Region Four.
The ministry is also constructing a secondary school at Prospect as well as expanding and upgrading scores of schools on the East Bank of Demerara.
The heavily populated Diamond Secondary school is also earmarked for expansion.
Minister Manickchand said that schools are stretched beyond capacity because the ministry has been retaining more children in the education system and offering them study options from a vast selection of subject areas.
She further detailed the government’s plan to address the issue of overcrowding in a timely manner and to prioritise the comfort and education enhancement of Guyana’s future minds.
“We’re extending significantly the other schools on the East Bank, extending and rehabilitating at large sums. But we still need this large secondary school and the secondary school at Prospect so that we can accommodate all our children,” the minister said.
Aside from developments in Region Four, the ministry continues to enhance educational facilities along the East Coast and far-flung communities in the hinterland.
Schools along the East Coast, including Hope Secondary and Annandale Secondary, are earmarked for upgrades in the near future.
Several schools are being constructed in Region Eight, Nine and other hinterland regions.
All of these interventions are in keeping with the government’s promise to deliver universal secondary education to every community in Guyana.
“Wherever it is in Guyana that needs a secondary school, wherever children need a secondary school…that would offer them a full secondary education, we’re going to be there serving you because that is the promise of the President Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali’s administration,” the education minister said. (Department of Public Information)
