President Donald Ramotar said it is imperative that the international community examine the issue of intellectual property rights and the cost of textbooks which remain a challenge for developing countries.
The president told the UN Secretary General Global Initiative on Education Meeting that while it is essential that both boys and girls be given access to education, developing countries are in danger of being left behind due to the prohibitive costs. “This is something that the international community will have to look at, in order to ensure that developing countries are not left behind as far as quality is concerned,” he said.
Ramotar told the meeting that Guyana has the highest number of nursery school enrolments in the Caribbean,
