New Guyana School complex points to growing investment in private education

The new school

Alfonso de Armas Mitchell and his wife Margarita have come a long way from twenty-one years ago when they first came to Guyana where he had been offered a job as a Marketing Executive with the Subryanville-based French firm, Amcar, that packages and exports Heart of Palm. Both lifelong educationists, their first investment in the sector came less than two years after they arrived here, a privately-run school for thirty students that occupied part of their Eping Avenue home.

Expansion over time saw the New Guyana School occupy premises in Brickdam and subsequently in Middleton Street, Campbellville. Today, the