Almost half-a-year after promises were made to fix equipment for the Learning Channel in Aishalton, Region Nine which has not functioned since it was installed over three years ago, it is still to be made operational.
Aishalton teacher John Adams had raised the issue with President Donald Ramotar who was on a campaign visit to the Deep South Rupununi village on December 3 last year. Subsequently, after he heckled Ramotar, Adams was slapped by a presidential guard. Before the assault, Ramotar was recorded as saying “You don’t know anything about Jagdeo. If he been here, he might a slap you, coz [because] you stupid.”
The Office of the President had said that the recording would have to be authenticated, but Ramotar, during an
