President David Granger on Monday evening commissioned three new 35-seater buses, which will serve schoolchildren in the north and south areas of Georgetown under the ‘Boats, Buses, Bicycles plus Breakfast and Books’ or Five ‘Bs’ programme.
The President commissioned the buses at a ceremony held at D’Urban Park.
In an address to residents of Georgetown, who gathered at the venue, the President said: “We see education as the gateway to the good life. We see that by providing these buses, boats and bicycles that we will improve access to schools; we will improve attendance and in so doing, we see improved achievement. We want to see ‘A’ students and those are the ‘A’s we are working towards today [access, attendance and achievement]. We have made transportation easier for children and we want to create a more equal society so that they children in Mabaruma, Jawalla and Aishalton would have an equal opportunity to education as the children in Sophia, Industry or Cummings Lodge”.
The President said the buses will not just be transporting school children, but the future engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and pioneers.
