Dear Editor,
The Marian Academy, thank God, has endured ten challenging years in our society and education system. I thank God because these are not easy times that we’re living in. And I can rest assured that this lone Catholic school in our country has been disseminating quality education for the past ten years.  

The Roman Catholic Church has a rich history of education in Guyana — so I’ve heard. The high standards, the achievements and scholarship have been the mainstay of Catholic education in Guyana prior to the government’s ownership of all schools. I read somewhere that Guyana’s education system was described as the ‘jewel of the Caribbean’ in the ’60s. So we had the top- notch education system in the region! 

Views concerning the government’s take-over of all private schools in the ’70s have been mixed over the past years. But I am convinced that our society, today, would have been a different one had there been a continuation of Church schools in the system.

Well, there’s always a distant hope out there — hope as was expressed in the words of Bishop Francis Alleyne at a special Mass to coincide with the 10th anniversary of Marian some time ago: “Imagine what else could be possible.”

Yours faithfully, 
Leon Jameson Suseran