Success in education resulted from partnership

Part of the gathering at the ceremony (GINA photo)

Education Minister Priya Manickchand extended felicitations to the outstanding performers at this year’s local and regional examinations, and to their parents and teachers, asserting that the ministry itself cannot create successful students but it depends on partnerships with parents, teachers and communities.

“These top students being celebrated here today are really representations of the new Guyana that we have before us, that we can justly celebrate,” she said in her address at the National Awards Ceremony held yesterday at the National Cultural Centre.

“You are at an extremely exciting point in the country’s history. Guyana is just ready for takeoff. We are poised for so many good things. We are positioned to have so much happen. You are the children, the people of tomorrow. You can take our country and fashion it in the way you would like to see it. You get to decide what Guyana’s tomorrow looks like. You get to decide what