Minister urges Aranaputa to take advantage of internet access

Leona DaSilva

Minister of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes has urged the residents, teachers, and students of Aranaputa in the Rupununi to take advantage of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services which will be brought to the village.

According to the Department of Public Information (DPI), this charge was delivered as a community outreach continued in Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo (Region Nine) on February 16, 2018.

“If you have a student here [Aranaputa] that wants to do Biology but you do not have a Biology teacher, that student could connect to any classroom, Queen’s College, the Bishops’ High, any of the schools in Georgetown and do the same class and to be able to do the same exam and get the same certificates we encourage as part of the education process”, she said, according to DPI.

She said that