Dear Editor,
I refer to the open letter to the Minister of Education published in the “Sunday Stabroek” supported by persons described as Concerned Citizens and Guyanese Educators of the “Old School” on the issue of banning corporal punishment in all its forms as administered to children by teachers and parents under the guise of discipline.
The publication of the letter affords me the opportunity to return to this matter on which I have previously made contributions in your newspaper. Your readers may recall that in my correspondence to your newspaper I adopted the position that Guyana and other Caricom States had ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child without reservations and, therefore, they were obliged under international law to give effect to the articles of the Convention.
