Just about 33% of school-aged children in Baramita, Region One attend school and many youngsters between the ages of 10 to 16 years work in the goldfields, Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Sydney Allicock has said.
“We have these young people who go, they already know about money, they already know about alcohol, so they go punting as you call it, so they ain got time for the school, they going and punt, get their money and go and buy their food, drink their liquor and next day they go back again,” the Minister told Stabroek News during
